MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[fantastic50]

Tickets ($6 for adults, $3 for students/kids) go on sale at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon.

[wooscotsfan]

Wasn't weather also a factor in the attendance last weekend?

I wonder how much of the "problem" was unsold tickets allotted to Wittenberg.

Good luck to the Scots tomorrow!

Seems to me that Wooster generally has large support in the community and maybe less from the student body.  With all the high school tournament action last weekend, I would think that also would have had an impact.  Should be interesting to see how attendance is this weekend.  I don't know how well Grove City and Defiance travel, and its a long way for UWW fans.

I'm just hoping that I can make it Friday night!  I'm in Philadelphia this week and my flight is scheduled to get in to Columbus at 5:30.  Of course, "scheduled" is the key word.  I don't think that I've ever had a flight leave Philly on time!

Grove City only managed to draw 650 fans to their conference tournament championship game that they hosted.  So, they will do well to get 100 to 150 fans over to Wooster.

Defiance only drew ~850 fans to their last home game so they will be doing well to get 200 to 250 fans to Wooster.

Wisconsin Whitewater drew 950 fans to their conference tournament championship game vs. Stevens Point.  Given their travel distance, they might have 100 to 150 fans tops?

So, Timken should have plenty of available seats tomorrow night.  Someone can have my seat too since I will unfortunately be at home tucking my 4 year old daughter into bed and tuning into Mike Breckenridge on WQKT.    My family responsibilities translate to only one basketball game per weekend so I am saving my "pass" hopefully for the 2nd round Saturday game.

GO SCOTS!

[rabriggs]

Grove City only managed to draw 650 fans to their conference tournament championship game that they hosted.  So, they will do well to get 100 to 150 fans over to Wooster.

Grove City has a short winter break (Thursday-Sunday) that coincided with the tournament semifinals and finals. Thus, about 85 percent of the students were gone from campus. Plus, Thomas More did not bring a big throng of people due to geography. The weather was not great either as quite a bit of snow fell the day before and in the morning.

I think you'll see quite a few Wolverine fans in Wooster Friday night. It is my understanding that SGA has lined up a bus for students and there are also a lot of Grove City alums in the Akron-Canton-Massillon area. Weather is supposed to be good for traveling and it's only a 2-hour ride, all on main roads.

[countyroad]

I'm just hoping that I can make it Friday night!  I'm in Philadelphia this week and my flight is scheduled to get in to Columbus at 5:30.  Of course, "scheduled" is the key word.  I don't think that I've ever had a flight leave Philly on time!

Good luck with that.  How about the price increase on the CMH-PHL flights?  U.S. Airways has the only direct flight to PHL now that Southwest did away with that route so naturally they raised their prices.  I flew out there twice in the last month and got lucky on delays. (cross fingers).

[ScotsFan]

Wasn't weather also a factor in the attendance last weekend?

I wonder how much of the "problem" was unsold tickets allotted to Wittenberg.

Seems to me that Wooster generally has large support in the community and maybe less from the student body.  With all the high school tournament action last weekend, I would think that also would have had an impact.  Should be interesting to see how attendance is this weekend.  I don't know how well Grove City and Defiance travel, and its a long way for UWW fans.

Weather may have been a factor Friday but even then, most of the snow had ended by 1 or 2 and travelling back forth to Medina I can say the roads were 10X worse at 9am Friday morning than they were when I was coming home Friday evening.  And as for Saturday, I would say the weather wasn't much of a factor at all.  As far as the Witt crowd is concerned, they seemed equal to or bigger than the game that was played 2 weeks prior in Timken that drew almost 2900.

And wrt the high school tournament action, they always seem to be competing with the high school tournament this time of year and it hasn't hurt the numbers in years past.  And speaking of tournament action, Wooster (no big surprise) is already done.  However, two local high schools (Triway and Waynedale) will be squaring off at Wooster HS at 6 tomorrow evening for a sectional final.

It will be interesting to see what the attendance figures are this weekend.  On the one hand, ticket prices are $4 less than they were last weekend, but on the other hand, more than likely there won't be too many students as today marks the start of spring break for the COW.  Hopefully, seeing as how it's been a while since Wooster has actually hosted an NCAA tournament game, the community will make a better showing than they did last weekend!

[ScotsFan]

I'm just hoping that I can make it Friday night!  I'm in Philadelphia this week and my flight is scheduled to get in to Columbus at 5:30.  Of course, "scheduled" is the key word.  I don't think that I've ever had a flight leave Philly on time!

Good luck getting to Wooster tonight derek!  I'll be thinking of you with an image of you in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" as you try and make your way from Philly to Wooster this evening.     Be safe!

Someone can have my seat too since I will unfortunately be at home tucking my 4 year old daughter into bed and tuning into Mike Breckenridge on WQKT.    My family responsibilities translate to only one basketball game per weekend so I am saving my "pass" hopefully for the 2nd round Saturday game.

I know the feeling.     Only I've got 3 girls (twin 6 year olds and a 4 year old).  Fridays are usually game night in our house, but I've also started to take my girls with me to a couple of games this season as well.  I asked them yesterday if they would mind pushing game night back to Sunday and go watch the Scots instead and I got a resounding YES!     So we'll be there!   

[John Gleich]

Wisconsin Whitewater drew 950 fans to their conference tournament championship game vs. Stevens Point.  Given their travel distance, they might have 100 to 150 fans tops?

And from what I understand, there was a large contingent of Pointer fans there as well (1/3 maybe?).  UWSP draws the best at home in the WIAC and and travels the best as well.

[sac]

It was a long time ago, but Whitewater was at the 1996 sectional at Wittenberg and they had a very small handful of fans there.

I remember it because Gustavus Adolphus had a nice group of about 150-200 and Hope brought well over 500.  It seemed weird they were so underrepresented

[ArmingtonCave]

I am kind of annoyed to not be going to the game tonight, my son has some Chorus competition in Copley at 7:30.  Oh well.  If we win I will definitely be there tomorrow.

Go Scots.

[GoRed]

Good luck tonight Wooster fans.  Go NCAC!

[seinfeld]

Dupree Mitchell, who made the game-winning shot for UWW, is a 2004 high school graduate who was the AP Wisconsin state player of the year in high school, and went to Valpo. Now he is at his fourth school, UWW. The shot he hit at the end no one else in Div. III would make, IMHO.

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:4xAp9jBAknYJ:www.royalpurplenews.com/news/2010/02/17/Sports/Fletchers.Long.Road.Traveled-3872852.shtml+dupree+fletcher+rufus+king&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

[John Gleich]

Dupree Mitchell, who made the game-winning shot for UWW, is a 2004 high school graduate who was the AP Wisconsin state player of the year in high school, and went to Valpo. Now he is at his fourth school, UWW. The shot he hit at the end no one else in Div. III would make, IMHO.

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:4xAp9jBAknYJ:www.royalpurplenews.com/news/2010/02/17/Sports/Fletchers.Long.Road.Traveled-3872852.shtml+dupree+fletcher+rufus+king&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

That's Dupree Fletcher...  Dustin Mitchell was the WIAC POY this season and is UWW's 6'9" stud.

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 29  Grove City 20

Wooster shot a low percentage in the half but they did hit 6 three pointers and they outrebounded the Wolverines by a 21 to 16 count.  Wooster's defense also forced 10 turnovers by Grove City.  

Scots are being led by Brandon Johnson with 6 points, Matt Fegan with 6 points and Justin Hallowell with 5 points.

Grove City is being led by Brett Matson with 8 points.  Wooster's frontcourt held Grove City's top scorer Andy O'Keefe to only 3 points in the half.

[WooHoopsntrack01]

Decent half.  Didn't shoot the ball particularly well, but we'll be ok.  Barring anything crazy, game will go to the SCOTS.  GCC looks nervous and just doesn't have the athletes to compete at the level where the SCOTS- who seem to be in a diff gear tonight!!- are playing.

GO SCOTS!!!

[David Collinge]

Of interest to Wooster fans: St. Thomas is one-and-done as they are ousted by Anderson.