MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

ScotsFan · March 05, 2007, 01:07:13 PM

Quote from: David Collinge on March 05, 2007, 12:44:32 PM
With the way Wooster is playing of late, I don't think the team will be fazed by playing hither or thither. What rankles about the site selection is the effect on the fans, not the team.

I totally agree. Wooster seems to be on a mission since the post-season started. The fans are the ones getting burned in this whole selection process! I thought that attendance was supposed to be one of the critera in determining a host. Wooster by far outdraws all of the other schools in this sectional. So it's no secret that Wooster might bring a good following no matter whrere the games are played. So what's the NCAA do??? The award the sectional to the school with the smallest gym, thus limiting the opportunity for many Wooster fans who might have made the trip to not make the trip at all because there were no tickets available.

As I said on the E8 board today, it would be nice to see the officials at Fisher do the right thing and make Friday a 2 session affair clearing the gym between the 2 games! They wanted to host the sectional so badly, now let's see them put forth a little extra effort that goes along with hosting a sectional and make friday's event 2 sessions to accomodate more fans from down here Ohio way!!! And don't tell me it can't be done, because didn't Albion do it 2 years ago when they hosted the sectional?

Pat Coleman · March 05, 2007, 01:08:24 PM

ScotsFan:

Attendance is not the be-all and end-all. How many games has Wooster hosted in the last few years? Rotation of sites is also on that list, is it not?

Just a thought.

AndersDY · March 05, 2007, 01:19:57 PM

Just ask a West Michigander about the first weekend: I wouldn't hold your breath on that split session...

But I hope this talk that C.O.W. is on a mission is right. I need at least one team to give me a reason to trek to Salem next week, and the Scots don't have UWSP standing in their way.

Go Woo

seinfeld · March 05, 2007, 01:27:25 PM

Why was St. John Fisher picked over Brockport St. to host? Brockport St. was ranked No. 1 in the East Region rankings.

http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/polls/rankings/diviii

David Collinge · March 05, 2007, 01:33:28 PM

Brockport lost in their conference tournament; Fisher won theirs. In the SuperSecret^TM final rankings, Fisher was quite likely the East #1.

smedindy · March 05, 2007, 01:36:58 PM

Obviously, those final rankings are on a 'need to know' basis. Which means no one "needs" to know...

FisherDynasty · March 05, 2007, 02:42:07 PM

This has been taken from the Fisher Website:

"The St. John Fisher College Cardinals will host the NCAA Division III Championship Sectional semifinals and finals this Friday, March 9 and Saturday, March 10. On Friday night the College of Wooster Fighting Scots (27-3) will take on the John Carroll Blue Streaks (21-9) at 6 p.m. and the Cardinals (24-5) will face off against the SUNY Brockport Golden Eagles (24-5) at 8 p.m. The winner of each game will play Saturday night at 7 p.m..

Tickets are general admission at the following prices:
$7 for adults
$4 for senior citizens/students with ID/children
Children under 2 are free

Presale tickets will be available Tuesday, March 6 from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. and Wednesday, March 7 from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. in the Athletic Department main office in the Student Life Center. Presale tickets are for Friday night only, and separate tickets must be purchased for the 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. games. Tickets for Saturday's games will go on sale Saturday night at 6 p.m."

From reading that I dont think too many fisher and bport fans will be buying tickets for the game before so Wooster and JCU fans should be able to get their tickets.

David Collinge · March 05, 2007, 02:50:18 PM

Split session...that's excellent. I'm not quite sure from reading the tournament handbook how many tickets Wooster and JCU will get. Ticket distribution for split session games not involving the home team are not discussed directly in the Handbook. No matter how it shakes out, though, it can't mean fewer and probably will mean substantially more tickets available to Wooster for presale, perhaps as many as 600. I'm anxiously waiting to hear what the Wooster ticket office is going to do.

Also, note that there is no presale at all for Saturday games. That means that someone as crazy as me can go to Rochester, stand in line to buy a Saturday ticket on Friday at 6, then even if I can't get into the gym Friday, I can go to the hotel and listen to Mike Breckenridge or Pat Coleman and hope that my Saturday ticket is a Scots ticket.

Thanks, FisherDynasty.

Pat Coleman · March 05, 2007, 02:52:45 PM

Games at 6 and 8 but separate sessions?

sac · March 05, 2007, 02:57:14 PM

must not be anticipating a big JCU or Wooster contingent.

They'd be wrong..........the JCU band takes up 50 tickets by itself.

They brought a lot of people to Albion 2 years ago, as did Wooster.

Pat Coleman · March 05, 2007, 02:58:57 PM

Called to check, they are indeed clearing the gym between games. Once the gym is clear, 30 minutes go on the clock.

I'd guess that gives us a real start time of 8:25 or 8:30.

Pat Coleman · March 05, 2007, 03:00:34 PM

Quote from: David Collinge on March 05, 2007, 02:50:18 PM
Also, note that there is no presale at all for Saturday games. That means that someone as crazy as me can go to Rochester, stand in line to buy a Saturday ticket on Friday at 6, then even if I can't get into the gym Friday, I can go to the hotel and listen to Mike Breckenridge or Pat Coleman and hope that my Saturday ticket is a Scots ticket.

You are crazy.

diehardfan · March 05, 2007, 03:01:40 PM

Hey guys, I just thought I'd pop in to let you know about a little project we did. A group of around 40 posters banded together and created a Unofficial Guide to the 2006-2007 NCAA Tourney, that contains a team-by-team breakdown of the teams in the tournament. This is especially cool given the fact that the official NCAA guide gives you very little insight into the teams, and nearly all of the previews in the Unofficial Guide were made by fans of the team.

The website is: http://wheatonhoops.googlepages.com/ncaatourney and on that website you can find browsable information, as well as a 19 page printable PDF document. This was updated as of this morning.

While I doubt that we'll ever get any posters to submit information for the 11 teams that did not submit previews, it does include previews from 48 of the 59 teams in the tournament, and all of the teams in the Sweet Sixteen. I hope you check it out and enjoy the content!

If there are any corrections or content additions you would like to me, please submit them to me by PM. Thanks!

David Collinge · March 05, 2007, 04:02:33 PM

Quote from: sac on March 05, 2007, 02:57:14 PM
must not be anticipating a big JCU or Wooster contingent.

They'd be wrong..........the JCU band takes up 50 tickets by itself. They brought a lot of people to Albion 2 years ago, as did Wooster.

Just the opposite; because they expect Wooster and JCU to travel well, they have to have the split session so we don't have to compete with the locals for scarce seats. This decision in effect doubles the size of the gym for Friday's games.

I'm a little worried about the JCU band, as much as I love 'em. I would hope that their presence is deducted from the JCU seat allotment and not a general reduction spread among all teams. For a number of reasons, I hope the Scot pep band won't be present. They weren't at the regional, so I don't expect them at the sectional. Anyway, Wooster will be on spring break, and in my day the Symphonic Band went on tour for spring break.

kiltedbryan · March 05, 2007, 04:08:55 PM

Quote from: David Collinge on March 05, 2007, 04:02:33 PM
I'm a little worried about the JCU band, as much as I love 'em. I would hope that their presence is deducted from the JCU seat allotment and not a general reduction spread among all teams. For a number of reasons, I hope the Scot pep band won't be present. They weren't at the regional, so I don't expect them at the sectional. Anyway, Wooster will be on spring break, and in my day the Symphonic Band went on tour for spring break.

I don't know if JCU will be on break; but Wooster definitely will be and there will not be a pep band from Woo at the sectionals. I learned while I was on campus this past weekend that two things worked against having a pep band for the first and second round games. First, not enough students were available (as the week before spring break, it's a big midterms week on campus), second, the additional restrictions on when the pep band could play would have significantly limited the band's impact anyway.