MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[bufordscot]

Don't know much about Wooster's recruiting, other than they have a guard named Jimmy Orie coming from a tiny school in Pittsburgh. He scored a lot, but it is hard to tell much when you are playing at the Class A level.

Thanks for the recruiting update seinfeld.

He's a good size guard at 6'3".  The following quote from that Post Gazette q&a makes me think he could be more in the mold of Ian Franks:

Q:  Are you more of a scorer or shooter? A:  A scorer. When my shot is not falling, I tend to try and get to the hoop and get to the foul line. I tend to get a lot of points from the foul line.

I like the sound of that answer!

His shooting form is very similar to Tom Dinger.

[ScotsFan]

Don't know much about Wooster's recruiting, other than they have a guard named Jimmy Orie coming from a tiny school in Pittsburgh. He scored a lot, but it is hard to tell much when you are playing at the Class A level.

Thanks for the recruiting update seinfeld.

He's a good size guard at 6'3".  The following quote from that Post Gazette q&a makes me think he could be more in the mold of Ian Franks:

Q:  Are you more of a scorer or shooter? A:  A scorer. When my shot is not falling, I tend to try and get to the hoop and get to the foul line. I tend to get a lot of points from the foul line.

I like the sound of that answer!

His shooting form is very similar to Tom Dinger.

Now, if he can only score like Tom Dinger... 

[wooscotsfan]

Seinfeld - thanks for the recruiting news on Jimmy Orie

Here is another Wooster recruit that I found with some sleuthing:

Sam Runner 6'7" Post
Morgantown High, West Virginia

Runner averaged 15.4 ppg his senior season and he was West Virginia Class AAA All State Second Team

GO SCOTS!

[wooscotsfan]

Here is one more Wooster recruit - Kyle Koski, a Guard from Mayfield High (large school in Cleveland area)

Kyle Koski 6'0"  17.1 ppg  Northeast Lakes All District Division I Third Team

[seinfeld]

Runner needs to put some meat on those bones. 6'7" but only 185 pounds. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxghvqJco3s)

Another couple of recruits:

Scott Purcell - http://www.journal-news.com/hamilton-sports/sports-headlines-687248.html
http://www.gclsports.com/bkPlayerStats.aspx?player=94826

Bryce Agler - Dad is the head coach of the Seattle Storm of the WNBA
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/womens/news/story?id=5140053

[David Collinge]

Kenyon has a new head coach, and he looks like he may be a good one.  His name is Dan Priest, and he's been the head coach at Hendrix College for the past six seasons, turning an 0-23 program into a competitive one in the SCAC.  He's a graduate of Ohio Northern and has previous coaching experience at Hanover, Ohio Dominican, and briefly at Indiana State and Miami (OH).  Welcome to the NCAC, Dan, and best of success with the Lords!

Kenyon press release
D3Hoops.com press release
Hendrix press release

[seinfeld]

Well, the NCAC has its 10th member again. A hint, it begins with the letter "D" and ends with the letter "W".

Now, you may be a little skeptical of this claim since I don't have a link or anything to point people to, but that's because it won't be officially announced until next week. But as sure as I was the funniest guy on tv during the 1990s, this is a done deal. The improvement over what Earlham was bringing to the conference in terms of overall strength is welcome news to teams like Wooster, Witt, Wabash, OWU, etc. The NCAC representative in the tournament has been hurt several times by the lack of schedule strength the conference has had in recent years.

[sac]

They would make the NCAC top 4 a nice race in basketball every year at the very least.


Wooster, Witt, Wabash, D----W and Ohio Wesleyan is a pretty nice collection of programs.

[wooscotsfan]

Seinfeld - thanks for the heads up on the new 10th member of the NCAC! k+

This new member makes a lot of sense for several reasons:

1. Strong Academic Reputation and Excellent Fit with the NCAC.  D____W also has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter which seems important to some NCAC Presidents.

2. Huge Rivalry with Wabash - don't they play games for some Bell?!    Actually, this will mean that the NCAC will now include two of the strongest D3 rivalries (Scots-Tigers, Little Giants-Tigers)

3. D____W must have grown tired of paying travel costs to 8 other states for athletic teams.  Indiana to Texas is a long hike for an athletic contest.

4. D____W is also in the old GLCA along with 7 other NCAC schools

5. NCAC loses an Indiana college, replaces with a stronger Indiana college ...which helps scheduling weekend road trips in sports like basketball.  Allegheny now has a 2nd opponent when they make the weekend trip to Hoosierland.  Seinfeld made a great point about improving the schedule strength of the NCAC as well.

Looking forward to the formal announcement next week!

[seinfeld]

D----W will be joining the NCAC for the 2011-12 season. Football is still up in the air about clearing the schedules in time for the 2011 season. I'm guessing it's going to be 2012 for football.

[seinfeld]

10 a.m. EST, on cue, is the announcement from the NCAC:

http://northcoast.org/news/DePauwtoNCAC.html

[David Collinge]

I'm sure we'll be ditching the full round-robin now and going back to the Big Trip Weekends: DPU/Wab to Hiram/Gheny and vice versa.  Might be a nice advantage for Gheny (or Hiram) to have single games with both Indiana powers every year, while the traditional top dawgs (Woo, Witt, OWU, Wabash, and now DPU) all have to face each other twice every season.

[sac]

I'm actually pretty excited about DePauw joining the NCAC, there's little doubt this brings a pretty solid athletics program in to the conference/region.

The number of marquee matchups on the schedule in basketball alone just went up by about 8 annualy.

[Gregory Sager]

I'm sure we'll be ditching the full round-robin now and going back to the Big Trip Weekends: DPU/Wab to Hiram/Gheny and vice versa.  Might be a nice advantage for Gheny (or Hiram) to have single games with both Indiana powers every year, while the traditional top dawgs (Woo, Witt, OWU, Wabash, and now DPU) all have to face each other twice every season.

... meaning, I take it, a single round-robin that's two games short of a double round-robin. In other words, sixteen-game slates consisting of two games apiece against seven of the other nine NCAC teams, and single games against the other two, right? A simple substitution of DePauw for Earlham and a return to the status quo?

Anybody want to make the argument for a full double round-robin regardless of the inclusion of DePauw into the NCAC schedule (i.e., an eighteen-game NCAC slate)? Just curious.

[David Collinge]

... meaning, I take it, a single round-robin that's two games short of a double round-robin. In other words, sixteen-game slates consisting of two games apiece against seven of the other nine NCAC teams, and single games against the other two, right? A simple substitution of DePauw for Earlham and a return to the status quo?

Yes, that is what I mean, although I'd describe it as "status quo ante," since there is a different schedule in place for the 2010-11 season.  For the women, thanks to Wabash, it will be a full (double-)round-robin, with two of the long weekend trips each year: Hiram and 'Gheny to Witt and DePauw (tough weekend!) and vice-versa.  Still this would be a 16-game conference schedule as DPU's inclusion returns the NCAC to a 9-team league for the distaff hoopsters.