MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[billy_pilgrim]

I'll blame it on the two bookend years of my higher education, which were spent at Big Ten institutions...plus those places had cable television where I'd see such movies.

Meanwhile, Earlham didn't allow cable in the dorms, so I read my Latin books and Norton Anthology of Poetry into the wee hours of the morning.

[Mr. Ypsi]

smed,

I confess to being very familiar with 'Mighty Ducks 2' (not to mention 1 and 3 - can't recall if there was a 4)!  Of course, I have the classic excuse - kids!

(Though with some shame I also confess that I liked the movie. )

[woosterbooster]

I nominate Wooster's Bryan Nelson as the DIII Hoops All-Decade First Team center.

[David Collinge]

Denison's schedule has been posted on their new website.  As the Big Red enter the Post-Dan era (with both Dan Hodgkinson and Dan Izzo gone to graduation), they've taken on a fairly ambitious schedule, one which may delay their return to respectability.  Denison has the full compliment of nine non-conference games on their slate, but an astonishing 8 of them are on the road (4 away, 4 neutral.) 

The Big Red start the season in St. Louis at Webster University, where they will play HCAC powers Hanover and Transylvania in the Sodexho Classic.  Returning to Ohio, they'll travel to Painesville to play Lake Erie (it seems like LEC is playing a lot of NCAC schools in this, their final year of D3 ball) and then join Kenyon, Capital, and Muskingum in the annual NCAC/OAC Challenge.  Their first and only non-conference home game will be against Washington & Jefferson in late November.  The Big Red end the year in New York at NYU's Holiday Tournament, where they'll meet the host Violets and then either John Jay or Drew.  Denison starts their NCAC schedule (apart from an early December trip to Meadville) with Wittenberg and Ohio Wesleyan, teams they will face only once this year.

All in all, it looks like a 10-win campaign would be a triumph for the young Granvillians.

[smedindy]

Denison is the Coppin State of D-3? 

It should be interesting to see the Big Red. Will they embrace defense? Who will provide scoring? Will their fan(s) post on this board??

[David Collinge]

Oberlin announces 4 recruits for the class of '11. 

[Vanilla24COW]

Looks like quite the class, hopefully they pan out and can help balance the competiveness of the league a little

[smedindy]

I've been impressed with Cavaco's work at Oberlin thus far - considering what he had to start with there.

[David Collinge]

Here's the schedule lined up for those new Oberlin recruits.  Compared to some of the other NCAC schedules, this one is kind of blah (season-opening trip to Philadelphia; six non-conference games against teams generally in the bottom half of the Great Lakes Region; Wooster and Wittenberg out of the way by Jan. 5), until you get to Jan. 12:

January 12     at Yale University     2:00 p.m.

How cool is that?  I hope it's a home-and-home contract, as I'd love to see a Yale-Oberlin game without having to go to New Haven in January.

[smedindy]

Yale - Oberlin should be a College Bowl matchup, no?   

[Pat Coleman]

Here's the schedule lined up for those new Oberlin recruits.  Compared to some of the other NCAC schedules, this one is kind of blah (season-opening trip to Philadelphia; six non-conference games against teams generally in the bottom half of the Great Lakes Region; Wooster and Wittenberg out of the way by Jan. 5), until you get to Jan. 12:

January 12     at Yale University     2:00 p.m.

How cool is that?  I hope it's a home-and-home contract, as I'd love to see a Yale-Oberlin game without having to go to New Haven in January.

Other than the Villanova "we must cleanse ourselves" game at Redlands a few years ago, I can't say when the last time was a D-I team played in a D-III gym, which is unfortunate -- that would be cool.

[tyrone]

Do any other NCAC teams have a D-1 exhibition this year?

[David Collinge]

Do any other NCAC teams have a D-1 exhibition this year?

I believe I've seen all of the schedules except Earlham, and I don't recall seeing any other D1 games.  I could be wrong.

And the Oberlin-Yale game is not an "exhibition," it's a full-fledged counts-in-the-record regular season game (at least the Oberlin schedule makes no mention otherwise).

[smedindy]

Yale has it listed as a regular season game, between a trip to Longwood and the last game before their Ivy League lid-lifter against Brown.

Yale is 1-0 against Oberlin. Last year they beat Allegheny 98-55 in the season opener, breaking Allegheny's three game winning streak against the Elis. Of course, the last game was in 1906.

Are they just working through the NCAC?

[wooscotsfan]

Wooster has finalized the opening round matchups for the Al Van Wie & Mose Hole Tournaments:

Al Van Wie Tournament  11/16
Otterbein vs. St. Thomas (MN)
Wooster vs. Farmingdale State

Mose Hole Tournament  12/28
Mt. Union vs. Notre Dame (OH)
Wooster vs. Wesley

GO SCOTS!