MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[ArmingtonCave]

Concur.  This season has actually gone way better than I expected.  And just think, only one senior on the team. 

[David Collinge]

Concur.  This season has actually gone way better than I expected.  And just think, only one senior on the team. 

Seconded.  And I think this is one of the keys to the continued success of the program.  It seems like every season there's a great deal of balance among the classes, so that every year has senior leadership and experience as well as freshmen getting playing time and building good careers.  No year is a rebuilding year, because there's always 6-8 experienced guys coming back, spread across the three years.  When you only have to replace one or two key components each year, you can have eight straight 100-win classes, as goscots pointed out.

[ScotsFan]

I feel the same way wsf.  I really feel that Wooster may have already been playing with house money starting last night.  Friday night, they looked a little tight.  Like they were feeling the pressure of winning that first game because they were a pretty heavy favorite.  But last night, they looked like a completely different team.  They were loose and they just seemed to have more confidence and that confidence just continued to grow as they continued to build their lead.  That is until that 15 second near collapse in the final minute and a half of the game!

Now the question is, can Wooster use this 'nothing to lose' mentality and translate that into a road playoff win?  As seinfeld pointed out, it's been quite a while since Wooster last won a true road game in the NCAA tournament.  Another way to look at it is that Wooster is due to break that streak.  They have been close to doing it in their last 3 attempts which include a 2 point loss on a last second basket at Capital last season, a 3 point loss at Transy at the end of the 2005-06 season and that heart-breaking one point loss at Albion to end the 2004-05 season.  It would be nice to see Wooster on the other end of one of those close finishes and Friday would be a good start!   

BTW, speaking of streaks, the last 2 times Wooster has made the round of 16, they have gone on to advance to the Final 4.  So, it would be great to see the Scots break their 6 game tournament road game losing streak while maintaining another streak of getting to Salem once they make the sweet 16! 

[seinfeld]

I see that Wooster has a link up for Live Video and that Guilford does appear to offer Video for free so I guess I'll be resigned to watching it on my computer.  Maybe I'll hook up the laptop to my flatscreen and watch the game on the bigscreen.   

If the video is as small as it was this weekend from Guilford, you are going to need a magnifying glass to go with the big screen tv. The video window was tiny, about half the size you normally get from Teamline.

[goscots]

BTW, speaking of streaks, the last 2 times Wooster has made the round of 16, they have gone on to advance to the Final 4.  So, it would be great to see the Scots break their 6 game tournament road game losing streak while maintaining another streak of getting to Salem once they make the sweet 16! 

Wooster lost to JCU in the elite 8 game in 2004

[hasanova]

I see that Wooster has a link up for Live Video and that Guilford does appear to offer Video for free so I guess I'll be resigned to watching it on my computer.  Maybe I'll hook up the laptop to my flatscreen and watch the game on the bigscreen.  

If the video is as small as it was this weekend from Guilford, you are going to need a magnifying glass to go with the big screen tv. The video window was tiny, about half the size you normally get from Teamline.

I've watched Guilford's feed several times this season - you can expand it to full screen.

[bufordscot]

Let's quit lowering expectations with the "house money" and "better than expected" comments 

GO SCOTS!!

[ScotsFan]

Let's quit lowering expectations with the "house money" and "better than expected" comments 

GO SCOTS!!

Just because we feel that way doesn't mean we are lowering our expectations which is what I'm assuming you are insinuating?

I just think it's kind of refreshing for Wooster going into tournament games as the hunter rather than the hunted.  Even though I said that Wooster seemed to be playing with less pressure on Saturday night vs. Friday night, I also feel that Wooster came into that game on Saturday night with a bit of a chip on their shoulder as well.  I know the players read this site and see how no one was predicting that they would advance past Whitewater.  Wouldn't Wooster advancing to the Sweet 16 even though no one was predicting them to get past WW in the 2nd round constitute doing better than expected? 

And now the same things are being said about Guilford.  IMO, there's nothing wrong with being the underdog (i.e. playing with nothing to lose) with a chip on your shoulder and continuing to prove all the doubters wrong.

[seinfeld]

Let's quit lowering expectations with the "house money" and "better than expected" comments 

GO SCOTS!!

Why? Are the players looking at the board and now suddenly think they aren't good enough to be here?

[imderekpoe]

I've got my plans made for the weekend!  Anyone else making the trip south??

[ScotsFan]

I've got my plans made for the weekend!  Anyone else making the trip south??

My family's headed south to Baton Rouge to visit friends over my kids' spring break, so I won't be making the trip to tobacco road.

[David Collinge]

I think it's safe to say that no team in D3 would not be an underdog playing Guilford on Guilford's court.  That's no disrespect to Wooster.

[sludge]

I think it's safe to say that no team in D3 would not be an underdog playing Guilford on Guilford's court.  That's no disrespect to Wooster.

Lone, possible, shocking, curious exception on a bad day might be Eastern Mennonite.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I think it's safe to say that no team in D3 would not be an underdog playing Guilford on Guilford's court.  That's no disrespect to Wooster.

Lone, possible, shocking, curious exception on a bad day might be Eastern Mennonite.

Just because they won by 27 doesn't mean they weren't the underdog going in!

[David Collinge]

I think it's safe to say that no team in D3 would not be an underdog playing Guilford on Guilford's court.  That's no disrespect to Wooster.

Lone, possible, shocking, curious exception on a bad day might be Eastern Mennonite.

Just because they won by 27 doesn't mean they weren't the underdog going in!

...or that they wouldn't be the underdog in a rematch.