MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[TigerFan_1973]

Transy on top Wooster at bottom of these halftime stats.

TEAM NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament 2nd Round TEAM
TEAM PERCENTAGES CURRENT PLAY-BY-PLAY ACTION TEAM PERCENTAGES

Field Goal %:    56.3

3 Point %:    50.0

Free Throw %:   100

TEAM STATISTICS 

Turnover Points:    7

2nd Chance Points:    8

Bench Points:    8

Turnovers:    6

Steals:    2

20:00 [WC] 33 Tom Port Leave Game
20:00 [WC] 24 Devin Fulk Leave Game
20:00 [WC] 22 James Cooper Leave Game
20:00 [WC] 20 Kyle Witucky Leave Game
20:00 [WC] 10 Brandon Johnson Leave Game
20:00 [TU] 34 Brock Jones Leave Game
20:00 [TU] 22 Ryan Atwell Leave Game
20:00 [TU] 14 Adam Cole Leave Game
20:00 [TU] 4 Tyler Smithhart Leave Game
20:00 [TU] 3 Marc Bain Leave Game
0:00 Half Time
0:00 [TU] Def Rebound
0:00 [WC] 22 James Cooper 3Pt Attempt
0:05 [WC] 10 Brandon Johnson Enter Game
0:05 [WC] 30 Andy VanHorn Leave Game

Field Goal %:    54.8

3 Point %:    53.3

Free Throw %:    90.9

TEAM STATISTICS 

Turnover Points:    12

2nd Chance Points:    2

Bench Points:    24

Turnovers:    4

Steals:    3

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Transy 91  Wooster 88

Good effort by the Scots but they couldn't beat the home team, Transy, on their floor.  Congrats to Transy on a very well played game.

Wooster was led by Devin Fulk with 23 points, Tom Port with 17 points, Tim Vandervaart with 16 points and James Cooper with 12 points.  Marc Bain led the Pioneers with 30 points.

Wooster finishes the season at 26-4. 

Big Congratulations to Kyle Witucky on a great career as a 4 year starter for the Scots!

[jscwittfan]

Final:  Transy 91  Wooster 88

Darn.  I was really looking forward to Witt-Woo IV.

Oh well, at least Wooster can head into the offseason knowing they will almost all be back next year.

Now, all that's left to say is go Witt!

[dren]

witt update?

[witt4ever]

Wittenberg 78
Baldwin-Wallace 60

Kenny Brady leads the Tigers with 20 pts., 18 pts in the first half.
The Great Dane adds 18pts. and  Daniel Russ 12 pts, playing only 4 minutes in the first half with 2 fouls early.

Pat Denbow and Gregg Hill both added 8 pts.
Another great night for Jack Hemenway with 7pts.

The Tigers shoot 55% from the field while holding the Yellow Jackets to 39 %.

Jackets shoot poorly from the 3pt line.

Tori Davis led BW with 26pts.
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Wittenberg                    BW
29/53 55%    FG%          20/51 39%
10/22 46%    3-pt           5/19    26%
10/15 67%    FT%           15/16  94%(Davis shoots 12/13)
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Wittenberg's Press Release:

http://www.d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=55635

[TigerFan_1973]

Is anybody out here?

I've got the fourth game in the Section on at Mississippi College vs. Maryville.

[ScotsFan]

Congrats to Transy.  I didn't think with Wooster up 7 at the break and the pace in Wooster's favor that the Pios had a chance.  They really stepped up their defensive effort in the 2nd half forcing the Scots into way too many to's in the 2nd half and Wooster allowed WAY too many 2nd chance baskets.  One question I had was coming off a missed Transy ft with under 20 seconds left, why did Wooster not burn a time out at least to get James Cooper back in the game?  I heard that Cooper and Fulk were waiting to come in barring a Transy make on the ft attempt, so I figured, after the miss and ensuing Wooster rebound, the Scots would call a t.o. to get their best offensive player back into the game to at least give a better chance to tie the game and send it to o.t.? Instead, Witucky is called for travelling and the rest is history.  Oh well, as a diehard Cubs and Indians fan, the "Wait until next year" mantra is very familiar in my vocabulary.   There is definately a LOT to look forward to for next season, however if everyone comes back for Wooster as I look for any sort of silver lining following yet another tough post season loss.   Throw in a couple of highly touted recruits that Moore seems to always get, and the future is definately bright at Wooster.  Sorry it had to end so soon this season, but as with the Cubbies and the Tribe, "There's always next year!!!"

Congrats to Witt as well.  They are looking STRONG!  Good luck next week against Hope. 

Finally, congrats to Kyle Witucky on one of the finest carreers ever by someone suiting up for the Black and Old Gold!  I mean, all he did was come in as a freshman, take over the starting PG position following in the footsteps of Antwyan Reynolds (who was a pretty damn good PG at Wooster) and made every start for 4 seasons and led the Scots to an astounding 109-14 record over his 4 year carreer including a 3rd place finish in the national tournament and an Elite 8 appearance in that run!!!  By far, one of the best runs over a 4 year carreer by anyone who ever suited up in the Black and Old Gold!  You will be missed Kyle!!!

[ScotsFan]

Now, in following with my love for baseball, I will be turning my attentions to the COW Baseball team which will be getting their season started next weekend!!!  Hopefully, they can live up to the hype of being preseason #1!  We'll find out soon enough as they have dates with #5 Rowan on the 15th and 18th of March on their Spring Break outing in FL.  I'll still be keeping an eye in here on how Witt is doing, but my main focus now shifts to the diamond, unfortunately.

[hope1]

what are witts   teams strengths  just wondering to tell the hope fans about witt and the players   witt is going to run into a really strong hope team

[smedindy]

Well, there goes my pick 'em! 

[ScotsFan]

witt is going to run into a really strong hope team

I think you could say the exact same thing in reverse...

[smedindy]

There may be a couple of surprises in the Sweet 16, but no one is a dog of a team that is left.

[ScotsFan]

Looking back over the stats of the Wooster/Transy game, and there are 2 tell tale stats that stuck out as to why Wooster lost this game.  One is 2nd chance points.  Transy outscored Wooster 15-5 in 2nd chance points.  This was really noticable in the 2nd half.  Also of note was points off turnovers.  Transy scored 28 points off of Wooster turnovers.  Wooster played a virtual flawless 1st half, but followed it up with a pretty forgettable 2nd half which cost them the game.

[ScotsFan]

Well, there goes my pick 'em! 

My brackets were blown to hell tonight too btw!   Although, I still have 1/2 of my final 4 still alive.  My finals participants were both ousted tonight though???

[imderekpoe]

Congrats to the Scots on another great season.  Too bad that it had to end tonight, but they were just outplayed in the 2nd half.  Transy really picked up the defense and the Scots didn't seem to have any kind of answer.  And nothing could stop Bain from scoring from all over the floor for Transy!

As in any close game there were so many things that could have changed the outcome, but I think that the Scots were out-hustled on the board and didn't help out enough on defense which resulted in too many easy buckets when Transy made their final run.  There were some questionable calls - most notably the travel on Witucky near the end of the game, but I wouldn't say that the refs cost the Scots the game.  Transy just did a great job of taking the Scots out of their game in the 2nd half.  If they play like they did tonight, they could go pretty far.

Thanks to Kyle for a great 4 years.  It would have been nice to see him hit the 3 to tie it at the end of regulation, but good defense by the Pioneers kept him well out of his normal range.