MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[division3hoops]

A couple things:
Wooster cut down the nets after winning the conference (the OWU game), the conference tourney (again OWU), the sweet 16 (centre) , and the elite 8 (brockport)!

Wooster Booster -
I know Scott Van Horn very well.  Both him and Marty Bidwell (Sr.) were mentally and physically exhausted after the game!!  Scott didn't even have the energy to clap his hands  We were contemplating calling the squad for the both of them!!!   Hate to see what the final four is going to be like for them.  Are you planning on coming??  By the way, I've met you.  You could probably figure out easily who I am.

[Pat Coleman]

The second round, not the sweet 16.

Don't know if I've seen too many second-round net cuttings. Oh well.

[division3hoops]

Sorry you are right about that!  It was the second round!

[division3hoops]

Oh Pat - didn't know if anyone mentioned anything to you, but you did a good job with the National Anthem at the sectional.  Couldn't believe it when I heard them announce your name!

[woosterbooster]

Wooster Booster -
I know Scott Van Horn very well.  Both him and Marty Bidwell (Sr.) were mentally and physically exhausted after the game!!  Scott didn't even have the energy to clap his hands  We were contemplating calling the squad for the both of them!!!   Hate to see what the final four is going to be like for them.  Are you planning on coming??  By the way, I've met you.  You could probably figure out easily who I am.

I don't figure out anything very easily.    Scott, I hope, knows that I was only teasing him.  As it sounds like you probably know, he and Super Marty Sr. sit right behind me at the Wooster home games.  Good guys, both of them, even if they continually avoid my counsel about laying off the refs.      Did Scott down a garbage plate right before the game? 

I'm pretty sure that I'm heading to Salem, it's just that I hate making such a long drive by myself.  The guys that I usually go to the games with won't be going, so I'll have to figure something else out.

[division3hoops]

I called Scott and told him about it, he got a really good laugh and actually wanted me to get on and reply to you!!  Good luck with getting them to lay off the refs!   
Hope you can figure out a way to Salem because we need you to get there...the more Wooster fans the better!
On the road again....

[WooMix]

I'm pretty sure that I'm heading to Salem, it's just that I hate making such a long drive by myself.  The guys that I usually go to the games with won't be going, so I'll have to figure something else out.

The last time Wooster made it to Salem, the college provided two buses (or was it just one?) for us.  The subsidized cost was $55 then for the bus (round trip), tickets to all games, and hotel (for the duration of our stay there).  I'm pretty sure they will do the same thing again.  So maybe you wanna check with the guys in the Armington Physical Education Center if you want to have some company.

[WooMix]

Just out of curiosity, is Brockport's Sherod Harris as good as Cooper?

[David Collinge]

Just out of curiosity, is Brockport's Sherod Harris as good as Cooper?

Just one man's opinion:

Both Harris and Cooper have a miraculous touch shooting.  Harris' shot looks a little better than Coop's strange off-the-shoulder shot, but its no more or less effective.  Harris is better at driving to the hoop, but Coop's fadeaway shot makes up for it.  Harris is a couple of steps quicker, which means he's more likely to steal the ball.  Coop is the better defender (believe it or not) and a much, much better rebounder (Harris is only 5'9" after all.)  I'd probably give a slight edge to Coop based on these factors.

But the technical foul on Harris was just huge, and that's the kind of thing that Cooper doesn't do.  Harris was getting under the refs' skins all night, and had been talked to on several occasions about it (Pat pointed out elsewhere that one ref told the B'port coach that Harris had been warned three times.)  I don't know if that's just part of the way he always plays, or if something about the game or refs was bugging him, but in that situation you just have to play under control.  Cooper keeps his cool, and at least this one time, Harris didn't.  And was it ever costly.  Wooster went from down four to (after the seven-minute lapse) tied and with the Woo crowd absolutely on fire; Wooster never trailed again.

[fpc85]

Any thoughts on the game...dont know much about wooster but i hear they are an excellent team...what are the keys to win for wooster?

[oldknight]

Congratulations to the Woo Scots for advancing to Salem. When I saw your team hand Calvin's Knights' their heads at Mose Hole in December I announced on the MIAA board that I thought Wooster was a Final Four team. After a few anxious weeks awaiting the final verdict on Vandervaart's injury, Wooster made me out to be prophetic--whether one with or without honor I'll let others judge, but at least a prophet. Good luck to the Scots this weekend. I'll be rooting for you.

[woosterbooster]

Coop can either destroy a guy or he can't.  Usually, but not always, he figures that out in the first few minutes of the ballgame.  There have only been 2 or 3 guys in the last couple of years that could contain him.  I had feared that Harris, with his quickness, might be one of them.  But when Coop began scoring early, you knew he was going to have a big night.

Coop is not at all quick.  With the possible exception of Evan Will, I think all of the other players in Wooster's eight-man rotation are quicker.  He's just remarkably skillfull with both his ballhandling, fakes, and shot.  He could probably turn the corner on King Kong in a phone booth, and if he couldn't, he'd get the big ape into the air, shoot over him, and draw the foul.  

If he was a half-step quicker, and just a little bigger and stronger, I'd bet some NBA teams would give him a look.

[David Collinge]

Any thoughts on the game...dont know much about wooster but i hear they are an excellent team...what are the keys to win for wooster?

I suggest you start with diehardfan's excellent tourney preview document, which you can find here:
http://wheatonhoops.googlepages.com/ncaatourney

Now, I admit that I wrote the Wooster section, so all you're really getting is my opinion, but at least it's a starting point. 

[Li'l Giant]

Now, I admit that I wrote the Wooster section, so all you're really getting is my opinion, but at least it's a starting point. 

Not that a Hall of Famer's opinion should be given the soft sell.

I wish I remembered more about the game Amherst played against Trinity here in SA back in December. What I remember is they can shoot the lights out, played pretty physically and were really quick.

Should be an awesome game. Good luck, again, to Wooster.

[ScotsFan]

If he was a half-step quicker, and just a little bigger and stronger, I'd bet some NBA teams would give him a look.

My dad and I were discussing what a nice player Cooper is and he mentioned that if only he were about 4 inches taller, imagine how deadly he would be.  And my response was thank goodness he's not, because if he was, he wouldn't be playing for Wooster right now!