MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

This is why we had a separate board for the Woo/Witt in-game updates.

If anyone is looking for the regular discussion, it left off on page 154.

[earlhamalum]

Earlham down 68-64 with 30 Sec.

[earlhamalum]

Sorry D.C. just got home... i'll stop

[WoosterFAN]

Earlham needs a guy to work stats for their broadcast...need specifics and box score reset every once in awhile.

[WoosterFAN]

Sorry, DC we got worked up.

[David Collinge]

I'm not asking you to stop, just letting folks know where the main thread is.

[earlhamalum]

I'm throwing in the Towel... Earlham missed a lay-up after Coffey Missed his 2nd Free-throw...  Gzzz we gave this game to wabash... well not gave just didn't have the BALLS to hit the shots to win the game  WABASH WINS

[Li'l Giant]

Great game. What a huge win by Wabash. Earlham fought hard. Man, what happened to their freethrows? Those missed FTs were huge. Great win by the Little Giants. Wabash Always Fights!!

[earlhamalum]

I'm so frusterated right now...  We gave Wabash this game.  I wasn't there... but it sounds like if we had the balls to hit some FREE-Throws Wabash isn't in this game... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh ahhh...  I'll check the Stats later... But i'm Angry... BY THE WAY HIRAM... I liked my ODDS, and the out-come wasn't even close agaist WOOSTER

[wally_wabash]

What a great comeback for Wabash.  Wabash trailed by 10 in the second half.  Then Simkus took over, Wabash got a series of stops and worked their way back into it.  Earlham missed just enough free throws to allow Wabash to tie and then Wabash controlled the OT.  Not the prettiest win, but easily the biggest win of the season for Wabash.  

Earlham still controls their own destiny for fourth place.  Win out, and they'll edge Wabash by a game for fourth place (assuming Wabash is unable to knock off Wooster or Witt).  If Wabash can beat either of other W's, Wabash will host Earlham on the 21st.  

[billy_pilgrim]

The more things change.......

Earlham has absolutely blown a great opportunity to finish 3rd in this league this season. Free throws alone cost them games against Wooster and Wabash. 2nd half collapses cost them games against Denison and Wittenberg.

Tonight may have been the most disheartening of all. They took control, led the entire second half and then just couldn't hit a shot (especially free throws) with a chance to win it.

Credit to Wabash, they do always fight. Once it went to OT, it was over. Hmm....Kyle Coffey. I had this strange gut feeling that he would come back and kill us in the end.

Blah. You're in the hole now EC....you better win out if you even want a chance to host.

I can't even get upset. They have zero audacity, so why should I get upset?

[wally_wabash]

In other NCAC action....

Allegheny 86, Oberlin 55

And Denison/Kenyon have not posted a score yet.

[woosterbooster]

I thought the Wooster-Hiram game was at least cleanly played.  Pfouts (the guy who injured Port) actually started, and was of course boo'd, but it really didn't seem that bad.  He was boo'd for the rest of the game whenever he checked in, but it never got distasteful.  Maybe that was partially due to a smaller than normal crowd.

At the end of the game, when the players shook hands, I was watching to see what would happen with Pfouts.  He was near the back of the Hiram line, tapped a few coach's and player's hands, but before he got anywhere near Port, who was near the back of the Wooster line, he was gone.  Disappeared into the locker room. That was disappointing. 

A couple of apologetic or at least sympathetic words from him and both he and Port would have immediately felt better, and I'm sure that Port would not have given him any grief, considering that he's now playing again and Wooster got a big win.

[kiltedbryan]

Another note on the Wooster game:

With the 22-44 record-setting effort from three tonight, the Scots also set a new team mark for three pointers made in a season.

On the year, the Scots are now 247-548 (.451)  The old mark was 245 made three pointers, set by the '02-'03 final four team.

The Scots are also on track to set a new 3 FG percentage mark.  Their previous high was .437 (100-229) in the '89-'90 campaign.

Additionally, the Scots now have four players with 40! threes or better:
Faulk (46)
Cooper (44)
Port (41) (3-4 vs. Hiram)
Witucky (40) (5-8 vs. Hiram)
and two more with over 20:
Van Horn (27)
Johnson (24)

[wally_wabash]

One last final....

Kenyon 82, enison 70.

That's not a typo.  Kenyon shot 58.5% in this game...there is officially no D in Denison.