MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[earlhamalum]

I'm sorry but WOOSTER is FLIPP'N GOOD.  They will hit you from all angels at anytime. 

[billy_pilgrim]

You know I'd never give up on them.

I got to thinking, I think senior day is today because next week is mid-semester (really 1/3 semester break) and there is a chance for a better crowd. I think there is some other community day thing going.

I'll start some updates in a bit.

[David Collinge]

It's Senior Day at Wooster, too (as discussed earlier), even though the Scots have a home game remaining (oddly, it's Tuesday against Kenyon; I'm not sure why.)  The reasoning is that the families of the seniors (Witucky and Agler) have a better chance of getting to a Saturday game.

[WooMix]

Woo took the foot off the gas or Wabash played well in the 2nd half?

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  #1 Wooster 95  Wabash 71

Wooster had 6 players in double figures today led by Tom Port with 17 points, Devin Fulk with 14 points, Tim Vandervaart with 13 points, Kyle Witucky with 12 points, James Cooper with 10 points and Andy Van Horn with 10 points.  Scots made 13 three pointers today.  

Wabash was led by Andrew Zimmer with 15 points and Gary Simkus with 13 points.

Wooster is now 22-1, 14-0 NCAC.    Wooster wraps up the host team advantage for the NCAC tournament.

GO SCOTS!!

[David Collinge]

Woo took the foot off the gas or Wabash played well in the 2nd half?

It sounded to me like both teams took their foot off the gas in the 2nd half, and just played 20 minutes of glorified scrimmage without much intensity.  I wonder what the Wabash take is on this question.

[billy_pilgrim]

Halftime in R-Town:

Earlham 32,
OWU 25

Earlham playing inspired, before a larger than normal EC crowd. OWU led 23-19 when I got a phone call. No real idea of what happened other than Earlham pulled ahead.

Two notes:

Markous Jewett surpassed the 1,000 point mark, while Brandon Miller passed board favorite Nathan Stoops for 9th place in all-time scoring.

Matt Shirer leads OWU with 9.
Jewett with 8 to lead Earlham. Miller has 7 and 4 rebounds.

[woolax]

I guess Wabash Doesn't always Fight!!

[jscwittfan]

Well, they at least fought more than Hiram . . .

[woosterbooster]

The Wabash players never quit trying, never quit fighting.  They just don't have the talent to compete with Wooster at this point.

[billy_pilgrim]

8:11 left in Richmond...

Earlham 53,
OWU 47


Earlham led by as many as 17 early in the 2nd half.....but OWU has slowly crept back into it

[ScotsFan]

I'd say DC's take on the 2nd half was about spot on.  Both teams were pretty much going through the motions in the 2nd half.  I wouldn't necessarily say that Wabash played better.  

One thing for sure, Wooster played about flawless in the 1st half.  It went from a tight game (12-10 or somewhere in that vicinity) to double digits in what seemed like an instant.  And before you knew it, the lead was 30!  I guess it was another unharmonic convergence.

One other thing I thought I would mention, since Kyle Witucky's poor shooting was brought up in here recently, I think he is finding his touch again.  He has hit 9 treys in the last 2 games on 15 attempts.  Not a good sign for opposing defenses...

[kiltedbryan]

One other thing I thought I would mention, since Kyle Witucky's poor shooting was brought up in here recently, I think he is finding his touch again.  He has hit 9 treys in the last 2 games on 15 attempts.  Not a good sign for opposing defenses...

I agree ScotsFan.  As someone who was critical of his shooting earlier, it's been great to see him making more shots.

[billy_pilgrim]

Oh no.........


Deja Vu all over again

Earlham hits only 1/2 FTs up by 2

OWU hits a 3 with 10 seconds to go......tie game

EC misses two shots just before the buzzer

OT in Richmond: 65-65

[David Collinge]

Kyle Witucky is 44/105 (.419) from beyond the arc this season.  His free throw percentage (.605) sucks, but his long-range shooting is statistically just fine.  (Even prior to his recent 9/15 run, he was at .389, which is good if not great.)

As a team, Wooster is shooting a blazing .451 on three-point attempts this season.  Devin Fulk is hitting an unreal .551 (49/89) after going three for three today.  Andy Van Horn went 2/2 today to push him over the 50% mark (29/57, .509), and James Cooper is closing in on it (45/93, .484), despite going just 1 for 3 this afternoon. 

There's been a fair amount of hand-wringing about what will happen to Wooster in a game where the shots aren't falling.  When you have three regulars hitting with that kind of frequency from the arc (plus Witucky's .419 and Tom Port at .427), I'd say you're pretty well insulated from a complete collapse in three-point accuracy.