MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WooMix]

I just got T'd up by my neighbor for screaming.  I humbly apologized.  Meet me in Salem people!

[DLP]

good lord..i can't take many more games like this. i'm going to die young...or get an ulcer. or both. but, it'll be worth it....


WOOHOO!

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 94  Brockport State 87  OT

Wooster was led tonight by James Cooper who had an unbelievable performance with 34 points!   Cooper was clutch in the Overtime! 8)

Tim Vandervaart had 17 points, Brandon Johnson had 13 points, Tom Port had 12 points (12 boards) and Devin Fulk chipped in 10 points.

Brockport State was led by Sherod Harris with 26 points and Brandon Williams with 21 points.

Wooster is now 29-3    Next up is Amherst in the Final Four!!!

Wooster goes to Salem, Virginia!

GO SCOTS!!

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Washington University 58  Hope 55

So, the Final Four is now set:

Washington University vs. Virginia Wesleyan (Defending Champs!)
Wooster vs. Amherst

GO SCOTS!!

[pennstghs]

CONGRATS TO WOOSTER ON THE FINAL FOUR INVITE

Yes a Wittenberg fan can show congratulations. Its almost deja vu of last year with A NCAC team vs Amherst and VA. Wesleyan in the other game. I am almost one step closer to a perfectly predicted final four.

Amherst will be a good matchup for Wooster as they play very very similarly.

[jscwittfan]

Congrats indeed to the Wooster folk.  The recaps sounded like another just classic game.

And, to all of the Wooster fans (probably more geared towards the newer ones), a piece of advice.  Having gone to the Final Four last year, let me tell you this: if you can go, GO!  It is a great atmosphere, and you are guaranteed some great basketball.  Hopefully for you guys, things will work out better for you than it did for us, but even though it didn't, I watched some of the best live basketball I ever had.

And nice pick-up pennstghs - the first thing I noticed was the fact that Wooster may have the same exact matchups as Witt did last year.

[billy_pilgrim]

Well done Wooster....

Well done.

[David Collinge]

I second the advice.  The Final Four is a great event, a real celebration of D3 hoops.  I was going to go anyway (for the third straight year), but now it will be that much sweeter.

And yes, Moneyball, Doug was definitely pumped.  How'd you guess? 

That was the best basketball game I've seen since the 3 OT classic at Witt a couple of years ago.  Brockport was one of, if not the, best team Wooster faced all year.  It took everything the Scots had to give to pull it out.  Congratulations to both teams.

See you in Salem!

[woosterbooster]

Congratulations Wooster, and good luck in Salem!!

My hat is off to James Cooper.  There are times when you want to put him over your knee, but so often in the big games when other players are struggling Coop just takes over.  He's done it against Wittenberg and he did it again last night.  What a performance, nearly flawless, when the Scots needed it the most.  Sectional MVP, and very well deserved.

Just an innocent question for Scott Van Horn.  Wooster has just won the sectional, everybody in the stands is ecstatic, and you look like you've just had a two-foot put rim out.  What's up? 

http://arkski.com/~jwood/celebration.jpg

[goscots]

I'll add some more thoughtslater this wek but the quick hits from this weekend (Also posted on the SJF Sectional board):

Brockport State: They were a very very good basketball team, as good as any team Wooster has played this year. Then I heard that they return all their starters!  The D3 pollsters need to think about putting them in the Top 10 in the preseason poll next year.

St. John Fisher as a host: Early in the week there were many comments about the fact that Wooster should have hosted, but the fans came anyway and although not technically a sellout the essentially full gym created an electric atmosphere. I also think the 'road trip' really added to the weekend as fans had a chance to gather after the game to celebrate, something that would probably not happened if it was in Wooster.

Officiating: In short, nothing short of excellent. Yes there was the 15 minute delay to sort out the technical and there are always some calls we would not agree with, but the officials were fair and consistent, all you could ask for.

The Wooster Scots: What can you say - down double digits in both games but showing the heart to come back and win both times. They are a very deserving Final Four team.

The Final Four: A very good set of teams that I'm sure will create a grat set of games this coming weekend.  Salem here we come!!!!!!!

[wooscotsfan]

My hat is off to James Cooper.  There are times when you want to put him over your knee, but so often in the big games when other players are struggling Coop just takes over.  He's done it against Wittenberg and he did it again last night.  What a performance, nearly flawless, when the Scots needed it the most.  Sectional MVP, and very well deserved.

I will second that point of view!  James Cooper played an incredible game last night and was absolutely clutch in Overtime.

Consider that Cooper scored 34 points total and 9 of those points were in the critical Overtime period.  As a team, Wooster had 13 points in OT and James Cooper was responsible for 9 of them!

Great to see Wooster back in the Final Four!

GO SCOTS!

[wooscotsfan]

Here is the link to the Daily Record story on Wooster's great win over Brockport:
Scots back in the Final Four

[bports]

Congrats on a good win last night wooster. As bad as i feel Bport returns there top 13 players next year. As far as the polls go , they are fun for the fans to talk about but they are a joke. Bport was receiving a few votes for one week this year. They ended up26-6 won 14 in a row many of those were in blow out fashion, and beat several teams that at some point were receiving votes. Bport has a pretty good history of sending teams to the playoffs also. With that said it was a great game last night.

[woosterbooster]

For Wooster fans planning on going to Salem, is it best to wait and get tickets from The College of Wooster so as to be in their seating section?  Or, if you call the Civic Center, will they put you in the Wooster section if you ask?  I'm assuming that seats are reserved.

[wooscotsfan]

Here is the link to the Rochester newspaper story on Wooster's win:
Brockport bounced

The article notes that Wooster is the winningest team in NCAA basketball (at any level) since 2000.  Scots are 209-31.