MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wooscotsfan]

Mr. Ypsi -- good point.

If the NCAA tourney selection committee once again uses the need to minimize travel costs as the key factor for setting brackets, we could have an absolutely brutal sectional this year (example: Illinois Wesleyan, Wooster, Wittenberg and Hope all in the same sectional)! 

Let's hope that they balance the sectional brackets better this year but I am not counting on it! 

[David Collinge]

Keep in mind that the tournament field has expanded to 59 teams.  I think the days of having a sectional with Wooster, Wittenberg, Albion, and JCU all crammed together are gone.  Now we can look forward to a sectional with Wooster, Wittenberg, Albion, JCU, Hope, B-W, Calvin, Bethany, Behrend, ....   

[Mr. Ypsi]

Keep in mind that the tournament field has expanded to 59 teams.  I think the days of having a sectional with Wooster, Wittenberg, Albion, and JCU all crammed together are gone.  Now we can look forward to a sectional with Wooster, Wittenberg, Albion, JCU, Hope, B-W, Calvin, Bethany, Behrend, ....   

Just as long as IWU isn't in there!  I think we're on our way to earning a sectional with CalTech, Maine Maritime.... Or at least with Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe!

PLEASE no more second round games with #2 Hanover or #2 WashU (it's usually just not fair to Hanover or WashU!! - though Hanover certainly put the kibosh to that LAST year - perhaps the problem was they weren't ranked high enough).

[waterboy]

Just posing a question.

Does anyone really know if Cooper even applied to Witt?

You can't get rejected if you don't apply.

It'd be pretty funny if everything everyone has argued about over the past couple days was not even an issue to begin with.

[ScotsFan]

If the NCAA tourney selection committee once again uses the need to minimize travel costs as the key factor for setting brackets, we could have an absolutely brutal sectional this year (example: Illinois Wesleyan, Wooster, Wittenberg and Hope all in the same sectional)! 

Until the NCAA proves otherwise, I'm not going to hold my breat and think that it will be any different.  BTW, those 4 you listed would make for an epic FINAL FOUR, and yet we might have to settle for an epic SECTIONAL.

[WooMan#1]

This poll is a joke.  We crushed witten****.  Their guards are terrible, thats why they never go far in the tourny, and never will.   There #20 at best

[petewitt54]

A few comments about the academics
-- The whole academic card, seriously amazing that a newspaper would write garbage like that.  Of course, i have little faith in most newspapers!  However, it is kind of convenient that the source is just a "university official."  Don't you think if you wanted to add credibility to your point/story you would want to have a named source, unless there was reason you couldn't be named (For example, Deepthroat)...HMMMMM it has gotta make you wonder though.  And let's be careful about the whole giving Coach Brown credit for being so respectful after the game.  He does have a bit of a track record of displaying a completely different behavior (rather disrespectful) to Wooster players, coaches, scorekeepers, and fans.

Well, well, well, nothing like a good Witt-Woo game to get things stirred up.  First of all, whoever wrote that post has never been in a heated rivalry before.  Have you never said something you didn't mean?  Ever gotten lost in a competitive moment?  And what are this track record you speak of?   I played in 11 Witt-Woo games and don't really remember anything horrible, outside of an isolated shouting match.  Either something happened that I don't know about or someone has some very thin skin.  I know Coach Brown can get fired up, but he has the utmost respect for Wooster's program.  How could you not? 

The big question to me is why was it played so early in the year?  What made the schedule change.  In years past the first Witt-Woo game wasn't played until late January.  I think that playing the game this early adversly affected the Tigers, because of their lack of ecperience at the wing.  Wooster is very deep on the perimeter, and Witt is playing with a new group of people.  Witt had trouble  dealing with the pressure Wooster's perimeter players were putting on them.  We couldn't even look to throw the ball inside because the pressure was so good.  But when it did get inside, Russ and Borchers had a field day.  I can't wait until Feb. 4th.

You also have to give credit to Wooster's players for playing so hard.  Not that Witt didn't play hard, but the loose balls that Woo came up with late in the game were what lead to Cooper's bomb.  That kid has some serious stones to can a shot like that.  That was incredible.   

Another observation: watching a Witt-Woo game in unbearable.  I thought I was going to have an aneurysm.  Playing wasn't anywhere close to being as stressfull.  I don't know if I'll be able to handle another one of those. 

Well, thats all from my end.  My first Witt-Woo game as a spectator didn't go as I would have liked it, but thats why we play twice.  Oh and to the kid who sits behind the scorer's table, your suits will never even come close to looking as good as Coach T's.  GO TIGERS!!   

[petewitt54]

This poll is a joke. We crushed witten****. Their guards are terrible, thats why they never go far in the tourny, and never will. There #20 at best

Wow, what class.  I also like the "Sh*t on Witt" cheer. I thought it was clever.

[WooMan#1]

At least we cheered. Your fans looked asleep. Maybe that is why your team couldn't get anything up besides your big guy.

[WooMan#1]

witt hasn't fielded a decent team in the last 5 years.  They act like there a premier program but every year they choke.  There coach dress's like a clown, and there players are about as atheltic as wooster dance team.  Also, any retard could get in their school, that is why they all make subs for a living after they graduate.

[smedindy]

Wow, Wooman, you make Witt sound like Hiram (no offense Terriers).

You may want to touch up the spelling and the grammar, lest you be proof that Wooster is lowering its academic standards recently. 

[waterboy]

Wooman,

I think you need to chill out.  Witt is a premier Div. III program.  No one with any genuine basketball knowledge would deny that.  You don't get 1,500-plus wins by magic chief (which is also 200 more than Wooster I might add). 

They haven't fielded a decent team in 5 years, eh?  Well, that's funny considering they beat Wooster twice last year and have practically owned the regular season series over the past five years, not to mention beating numerous ranked teams and making the NCAA Tournament year in and year out. 

BTW, I doubt Pete Walker is making subs.

[WooMan#1]

pete walker, ha.  I remember that joker.  Your right, he's probably picking up my recycle bin every Tuesday, since his fellow alumni could not get him on at subway.  Witt makes the tourney then proceeds to lose in the first round year in and year out. Yeah, it's a real stellar program.

[David Collinge]

If you look at WooMan's email address, I think you'll see he has some issues he needs to work out.   

I wish those of us who look at this great rivalry with mutual respect for its participants could drown out those who refuse to leave the well-worn, tiresome (and generally inaccurate) academic card alone.

Pete, always good to have you here.

[earlhamalum]

I'm starting to feel the love in here.  Maybe with Wooman1 around my post will get some Positive Karma. 

Petewitt54- I don't think scheduling has anything to do with it.  Both those teams circle those dates when the schedule comes out.  Heck I never liked playing Wittenberg Two Wednesday in a RoW (exception when we took TWO from Witt 99-00), but I believe we played them back to back Wed. all four years.

Try to say PETEWITT four times really fast... starts to sound like BEAT WITT.

Billypilgram-  I will keep in mind about going to Richmond on Monday the 19th.  If all works out i'd love to make the trip with you.