MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Mr. Ypsi]

David, knowing your loyalty, it is a pretty safe bet that you are picking Kenyon for 7th and Denison for 8th!  But other than 'bash and OWU for 3,4 and 'gheny and Earlham for 5,6, I don't know you well enough to decipher the order.

Be careful making that bet, Chuck.  You know what happens when you ASSUME:  You make an ASS of the University of Michigan (Eastern)!   

Brilliant variant on the traditional 'make an ASS of U and ME'!  Applause!

But I still bet I'm right!

[blindwatchmaker]

2:59 left Witt 55 ONU 52

[earlhamalum]

Sounds like that one is going to be a DOG-Fight until the end

[blindwatchmaker]

Witt taking control- 90 seconds left- Witt 61 ONU 52

[blindwatchmaker]

Witt wins by 11,  65-54 Borchers and Russ lead the way for Witt with 22+ each. 

[David Collinge]

Big, BIG win for Witt, especially if Russ was playing at half speed as Witt4ever seemed to be suggesting.  This game may have ramifications for tournament seeding in March.

[earlhamalum]

Any word on who did well for Witt??

[woosterbooster]

I listened to the first half of the game over the net.  Hard to tell with just audio, of course, but it seemed sloppy.  Witt had opened up a lead of 22-12 and seemed about to really take control when ONU ran off 9 in a row.  Still, you had the feeling that Wittenberg would win, that the tools were there if they really needed them.

It's a sorry state of affairs when you feel as if you have to root for Wittenberg so as to further the position of Wooster, the NCAC, etc. Turns the stomach a bit.  Now, if they'd been playing JCU...

[David Collinge]

WooBoo--applause for the Diner quote. 

The press release from Witt suggests that it was a fairly ugly game with the turning point being ONU's foul trouble along the front line.  As I noted earlier in the week, they had a height disadvantage, and with their bigs out and Russ healthy, the Tigers were able to take advantage inside in the last 10 minutes to overcome poor shooting and secure the win.

Here's the box score.

Witt shot just 42%, but held ONU to a pathetic 31% on the night.  Russ had 22 on 9/13 shooting (2/2 from the arc!) in 28 minutes; Borchers had 21 (11/14 from the stripe) to go along with 11 boards.

[woosterbooster]

WooBoo--applause for the Diner quote.

Thanks!  Still one of my favorite flicks, and just saw it again recently in high def on the HDNET movie channel.

David, can you (or anyone else) please tell me how to edit posts in this forum?  I've looked and looked, but can't see how to do it.  Thanks in advance.

Jack

[David Collinge]

In the upper right-hand corner of your post there may be boxes labelled "quote," "modify," and "delete."  "Modify" is the one you want...except I think you need to reach a certain level of seniority to have the ability to modify.  I don't think 33 posts is enough; it's probably more like 100.

[smedindy]

You know, Witt played 10 players, and Russ and Borchers didn't play 30 minutes. OMG! The coach is WACK!!! 

[woosterbooster]

In the upper right-hand corner of your post there may be boxes labelled "quote," "modify," and "delete."  "Modify" is the one you want...except I think you need to reach a certain level of seniority to have the ability to modify.  I don't think 33 posts is enough; it's probably more like 100.

That must be it; I only have the "quote" box.  That's weird, not allowing newbies the edit or delete option.  You'd think we'd have more need for them, not less, being relative bozos and all. 

Jack

PS - Is there any chance that DIII baseball might be added to his forum?

[Mr. Ypsi]

In the upper right-hand corner of your post there may be boxes labelled "quote," "modify," and "delete."  "Modify" is the one you want...except I think you need to reach a certain level of seniority to have the ability to modify.  I don't think 33 posts is enough; it's probably more like 100.

That must be it; I only have the "quote" box.  That's weird, not allowing newbies the edit or delete option.  You'd think we'd have more need for them, not less, being relative bozos and all. 

Jack

PS - Is there any chance that DIII baseball might be added to his forum?

Pat had too much trouble with 'newbies' altering posts after the fact, or 'hit-and-run' deletions.

As to d3 baseball, you could of course discuss this in your thread (in CCIW Chat we discuss EVERYTHING!), but check-out Pat's end-note for the odds of d3baseball.com!

[ScotsFan]

Wow, a lot of talk in here since my last post.  First off, congrats to Witt (you don't know how hard that was for me to say ) on a well earned victory over ONU.  Just a note to the Wittenberg SID on the writeup for Witt.  ONU lost to defending OAC "tournament" champs BW.  Not to defending OAC "regular season champs", JCU as it states in the writeup.  But anyways, Witt gets a solid win that pitted two of the region's (and more specifically the OAC's and NCAC's) best against each other.  Nice to see the NCAC get another notch in their belt with tonight's win.

Witt4ever, I seem to recall you making the following statement:

Wittenberg will probably lose against ONU since  Russ has not practiced or ran for over a week and Witt has not played for 10 days, great scheduling.

From which I made the following reply:

witt,

I wouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly about Russ not playing.  From what I read in that article, Russ is progressing just fine with his ankle sprain and I would be surprised if he didn't play against the Bears.  He may not start, but that guy is such a competitor, it seems Coach Brown would have to strap him down to keep him out of a big game like the one on Tuesday.  Even a 70% Russ is better than no Russ.  And judging from how he played on it last Saturday when he came back into the game, I would say he will play on Tuesday.

And as for Witt not playing in 10 days, it sounds like its a good thing for them.  The 10 days off gave Russ some healing time for his ankle.  If they would've had this game any earlier, it sounds as if Russ definately wouldn't have been able to go, but with the extra time off, at least there's a chance Russ can contribute.  Also, OWU has had 2 pretty grueling games in the last week (a 2 point loss at home to BW and a win in OT at JCU).  How much will they have left in the tank?

In reading the box score, I see that Mr. Russ was somehow able to play 28 minutes tonight, which so happens to be 3 minutes fewer than the 31 minutes he played in the Wooster game.  Those 31 minutes included the time he went to the bench (almost 3 minutes) to be treated for that ankle injury.  My point is, the 10 day layoff may have been just what the doctor ordered for Witt and Russ more specifically.