MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

I guess I picked the right year to escape from Ohio.  Enjoy the snow, folks! 

Wednesday's games:

Denison (6-8) at Oberlin (2-12), 7:30pm -- Live everything -- It's Hawaiian Night at Oberlin!
Earlham (1-13) at Kenyon (2-12), 7:30pm -- Live everything
Hiram (8-6) at Allegheny (10-4), 7:30pm -- Live stats
OWU (8-6) at Wooster (13-1), 7:30pm -- Live everything plus live alt.audio
Wabash (10-4) at Wittenberg (10-4), ~8pm -- Live everything -- Game 2 of a doubleheader; women vs. Earlham at 6pm

[pennstghs]

live after the Witt game, the complete game wrap up from a biased Wittenberg fan.

Hopefully a large and boisterous crowd shows up for this utterly important battle tonight. The women will clinch the conference before the men's game with senior night activities in between

[ScotsFan]

Well, if it wasn't for Tim Brady, this game would be over.  Brady has 15 of the Bishops 20 points as they trail by 7.

Now Mike Evans is doing his best Justin Hallowell impression with a 5-5 effort from deep!    Wooster has made 10 as a team so far in the first half and lead by 15!

And now Wick is starting to have his way inside and the Bishops are in trouble.

[wooscotsfan]

Mike Evans on fire for the Scots with 5 three pointers and 15 points in the half!

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 57  Ohio Wesleyan 41 

Scots were very hot offensively in the half shooting over 60% and hitting 11 three pointers!

Wooster is being led by Mike Evans with 15 points (5 three pointers), Ian Franks with 12 points and Bryan Wickliffe with 10 points.

Ohio Wesleyan's top scorers are Tim Brady with 20 points (including a dunk) and Pat Pellerite with 7 points.

[ScotsFan]

Go figure.  Mike Evans doesn't miss from deep in the first half and at the end of the half, gets the ball under the basket and misses an eaaaaaaasy bunny for what I believe was his first miss of the night.  

As wsf notes, the Scots are firmly in control of this one in what was a very quick first half!  

Wooster could not have asked for a better start to a game following Saturday's lousy performance!  

Witt and Wabash to set to tip in a few minutes BTW...

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 94  Ohio Wesleyan 78  

Wooster shot well tonight and made 15 three pointers to notch the easy win.

Scots were led by Ian Franks with 19 points, Mike Evans with 15 points, Brandon Johnson with a season high 14 points and Nathan Balch also with 14 points.  Mike Evans got a cut on his face early in the 2nd half and did not return.

Ohio Wesleyan was led by Tim Brady with 26 points, Brent Pleiman with 13 points and Pat Pellerite with 11 points.

Wooster is now 19-5, 14-1 NCAC.  Next up is a road game at Earlham.

GO SCOTS!

[wooscotsfan]

2/17 NCAC Final Results:

Wabash 72  Wittenberg 69  big road win for the Little Giants
Allegheny 80  Hiram 75
Kenyon 60  Earlham 41
Wooster 94  Ohio Wesleyan 78
Denison 73  Oberlin 62

[ScotsFan]

Nice bounce back win for the Scots tonight.

Evans is the latest to join the MASH unit for Wooster.  I guess he really did want to be like Hallowell.   Only, his injury is eye related.  I lost WQKT's radio feed just as Coach Moore was doing his post-game interview.  Hopefully it's nothing serious with Mike.

In other news, Witt is up 9 at the break over Wabash, 43-39.

And in a game of GL Region significance, Hope's stay atop the regional rankings appears to be a short-lived one.  The Flying Dutchmen fall at Adrian 73-68!

Also, Heide is giving JCU all they can handle as the Student Princes just hit a trey with 16 seconds remaining to cut the JCU lead to 2 with 16 seconds left.

Corey Shontz makes two big ft's and the lead is back to 4.  And Heide comes right back with a layup to make it a two point game once again with 9 tics remaining.

And Shontz comes up clutch again for JCU making 2 more.  JCU foul with one second remaining and the Blue Streaks are going to escape yet again...

[wally_wabash]

Wabash comes back from a 13-point deficit and defeats Wittenberg 72-69!  Tremendous second half by the Little Giants.  Following the Wooster loss, Wabash HAD to have at least this game and probably the game at OWU as well.  They got it done.  Great, great job by these guys.  WAF!!

[bashbrother]

Great college basketball game.... the 3's were falling tonight.

Little Giants need to finish off the reg. season with a victory and the 2nd seed is theirs.

Congrats to Witt on a great game.

[wooscotsfan]

Current NCAC Standings with 2/17 Results:

1.  Wooster 14-1
2.  Wabash 11-4
2.  Allegheny 11-4
4.  Wittenberg 10-5
5.  Ohio Wesleyan 8-7
5.  Hiram 8-7
7.  Denison 7-8
8.  Kenyon 3-12
9.  Oberlin 2-13
10. Earlham 1-14

[smedindy]

Wow, congrats to the LGs! In the driver's seat for #2 seed. Well done.

[smedindy]

Oh, and guess what??

WE GOT THE BELT^TM! Witt won it from Wooster and we have it now.

The Bell and the Belt^TM in one academic year!

Nothing can top that.

[wally_wabash]

Oh, and guess what??

WE GOT THE BELT^TM! Witt won it from Wooster and we have it now.

The Bell and the Belt^TM in one academic year!

Nothing can top that.

An automatic bid to the NCAA tournament would top that.  

Well, the belt part anyway.  It's very hard to top owning The Bell.