MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wally_wabash]

Word around the intertron is that Earlham is pulling out all the stops tonight.  As this game is positively huge for both teams, Earlham is calling for both a "Pack the House" night AND a whiteout.  Underpinning the importance of fan support in Richmond is the promise of an iPod giveaway for students who comply with these requests.  This will truly be the stiffest test of the season for Wabash...Wooster and Witt are positively JV compared to the power of free iPods. 

Good luck and Godspeed, Little Giants.   

[Li'l Giant]

This will truly be the stiffest test of the season for Wabash...Wooster and Witt are positively JV compared to the power of free iPods. 

I don't know about you, but I'd wear white and try to scam one of those iPods if I were an enterprising Wabash student.

[pennstghs]

i would probably consider that same plan of attack. a point of concern for witt if hill cannot play, man how do we seem to be missing a key player right before OWU.....

[WillieBrown]

Just flew back to springfield from vegas. Didnt have as good a week as Barkley did but enough to live comfortably for next few months and a new flat screen tv courtesy of the colts covering 7.  Anyways, The early line is having Witt at a 4 point favorite at home, and I'm taking the Tigers I don't think its going to be as close as the experts think. Tigers by 8-12 but the score will not show how much we dominated the game.

[pennstghs]

i agree with you willie-wow that's a first haha-should be a good turnout tonight by the witt faithful i think.

[TigerFan_1973]

I'm looking forward to watching the video of the Witt - OWU game tonight.

Go Tigers!

[Superfoot Wallace]

Wish I could watch, but alas no internet on the homefront.  Expect Ill get a final over my cell phone, but would appreciate some updates throughout.

Thinkin bout playing some hoops myself tonight.  Could always go out to the loft of the barn and burn some free throws but havent swept the guano away lately.  Maybe its time to test the rehabbed foot and ankle a little bit in a fullcourt pickup.

best regards,
fianchetto bishop

[earlhamalum]

If I left now, I would make it to Richmond in time for the Wabash Game, but after this weekend travels and money spent I think I'll just listen to it online.  An inside connection of mine at Earlham... okay my girlfriend who's a senior said there was some buzzz around campus today about the game.  Hopefully the White_Out and the Ipod brings some of the student body who normally wouldn't attend the game.   Hopefully Earlham can shoot about 18% better then what they did against Kenyon on Saturday.  (not like 46% is asking to much... yes as a team they shot 28% for the game... OUCH)

Good Luck to all teams tonight, and GO EC

[ScotsFan]

The NCAA Regional Rankings are finally out and here is how the GL Region shook out:

Rank	Team	Overall Record	Regional Record
1.	Lake Erie	20-1	16-0
2.	Wooster	18-3	13-2
3.	Wittenberg	18-3	13-3
4.	Hope	17-2	10-2
5.	John Carroll	14-7	13-5
6.	Ohio Northern	16-5	11-5

Not really much of a surprise.  It still makes me ill to think that Lake Erie is going to more than likely come out of this region as the top ranked joke!  Thankfully, their gym is too small to be considered for a secional host.  Wooster and Wittenberg have got to be virtually even with one of each of their two losses being to each other.  The only difference is that Wooster's only other regional loss is to GL #6 ONU by 7 which is a bit of a better loss than 22 point beatdown Witt suffered to OWU.  And as for Hope, they just haven't played anyone of significance to get their QOWI where it needs to be.  They have to pretty much hope for another loss by Witt and then see Witt knock off Wooster again in the NCAC tournament or vice versa with someone knocking off Wooster and then Wooster beating Witt.  And then there's John Carroll who could still make some noise if they happen to win out.  They would stand to gain some big QOWI points if they were to win out and go on to win the OAC tournament as well.

Here is a link to the rest of the Regional Rankings released today if anyone is interested:

NCAA Regional Rankings

[Mr. Ypsi]

The correct regional record for Hope is 10-1, not 10-2.  If and when the NCAA corrects the error, that may alter 2-4 in the rankings.

[TigerFan_1973]

The Tiger network is on the air!

Greg Hill is starting for the Tigers.

[TigerFan_1973]

Witt 13 -6

[TigerFan_1973]

We've got video, but the audio has gone out.

24-20 Witt

[TigerFan_1973]

OWU takes the lead 27-26.  Witt 28-27.

[TigerFan_1973]

Bishops 32-28.