MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[diehardfan]

Wooster Booster... you can call the Salem Civic Center and order them directly if you want... they do have reserved sections for each team now that the field is set. I have no idea how it works... obviously Wooster gets a lot of the seats in their section directly, but I don't know if they are the best ones or how that works.

[diehardfan]

The number for the Civic Center, incidentally, is 540-375-3004. One of the many nerdy D3 numbers in my phone.

[Pat Coleman]

Brockport didn't prove they were a rankable team until this weekend. What do you want us to do?

Important note: Sherod Harris (you know, the guard with all the points) only has one semester of eligibility left. He won't be there when the season starts next year.

[earlhamalum]

Congrats to the NCAC... i mean WOOSTER (players and coaching staff) for representing the NCAC in THE Final Four!  Good Luck

[earlhamalum]

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

Glad we could help!

[woosterbooster]

Glad we could help!

Lol, thanks!  Contributions by Oberlin, Hiram, and Allegheny are also much appreciated. 

[WooMix]

My cousin asked, "how many times in total along the way do they get to cut down the nets if they win it all?"  I think four (winning the league, NCAC tournament, elite 8, championship)?  Am I correct?

[Li'l Giant]

Just got back in from a weekend out of town. Great job, Scots! Good luck in Salem.

[Pat Coleman]

My cousin asked, "how many times in total along the way do they get to cut down the nets if they win it all?"  I think four (winning the league, NCAC tournament, elite 8, championship)?  Am I correct?

I haven't seen too many (maybe any?) teams cut the nets down after clinching the regular-season top spot.

[woosterbooster]

I might be wrong, but I think Wooster cut the nets down after beating Centre to make the Sweet Sixteen.

Here tell, and this is a very suspect rumor, that Oberlin cuts the nets down every time the varsity downs the J.V. in a scrimmage... 

[bports]

Pat you are 100% wrong harris sat the 1st semester this year because he only had 3 semesters left. He has a full year left next year.

[Pat Coleman]

To answer some of the burning questions from last night's game:

Elapsed time from the whistling of the technical foul to the sinking of the last associated foul shot: 7 minutes, 43 seconds.
Elapsed time between whistles on the five-second call on Tom Port at the end of regulation: 5.397 seconds

[Pat Coleman]

Pat you are 100% wrong harris sat the 1st semester this year because he only had 3 semesters left. He has a full year left next year.

You'd better tell Coach Whitmore. He is the one who told me otherwise. There was a foul-up with full-time/part-time status at Harris' junior college.

Don't bother to post your message on the other two boards I responded to you on. You are the one who is wrong.

[Stout survivor]

Since UWSP is out I am pulling for Wooster.  We played them last year and they are a great team (made 17 3's on us, too big inside i think  )

They seemed to have both outside and inside balance it will be interesting ro read what you all have to say about their matchups this weekend.

[ScotsFan]

I just wanted to add my congratulations to the Scots on getting back to Salem!!!   I was in no shape to post last night! I think that picture of Andy's dad in the stands is about how I felt once the final horn sounded!

I must say, I wasn't feeling too good about the Scots' chances the way Brockport came out to start the 2nd half.  When Wooster came out to score the 1st five points of the 2nd I was thinking, here's the run we've been waiting for.  But then the Eagles responded with 6 unanswered of their own to push the lead back to 12 and I began to wonder how Wooster would get over on this team the way they were scoring.  Well, they finally did get that elusive run and looked like they were going to take control only to see Brockport come stroming back forcing what seemed like the longest 1:08 in history.  First Vandervaart misses 2 ft's.  When that happened, I thought it was over as Brockport had the ball with the shot clock off and everyone knew Harris would be taking the last shot to win the game for the Eagles.  Luckily for Wooster, he missed!!! 

And then it became the James Cooper show in OT as he outscored Brockport by himself in the extra period 9-6!  It sure is nice to have a player like that who you can pretty much count on when you absolutely need a basket!

One area of concern heading into next weekend for the Scots has to be their FT shooting!  They were absolutely atrocious from the line last night!  If they shoot their season average from the line, the game doesn't even go into overtime!  And it wasn't just last night's game.  They didn't shoot too well from the line Friday either!  They can't expect to keep winning these games with poor free throw perfomances!  Eventually it could end up costing them as it almost did last night! 

To answer some of the burning questions from last night's game:

Elapsed time from the whistling of the technical foul to the sinking of the last associated foul shot: 7 minutes, 43 seconds.

I was wondering about this myself as goscots noted the break in his post as being 15 minutes and Coach Whitmore noted in the D&C article that it was a 20 minute break.  I'm sure it seemed that long to those in attendance, but I was thinking to myself as I read the accounts of the break that it didn't seem that long.  Thanks Pat for clearing the air on that one!