MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

One of the many pluses of the former two Wooster websites was the ability to click through on any of the opponents on the schedule to get to their own basketball web page.  Presto, that nice function no longer exists.

Yeah, I liked that feature, and am sorry it is gone.

I see that Kodey Haddox, the NCAC Newcomer of the Year in 2007-08, has returned to Kenyon for his senior season.  He had 20 points tonight to lead the Lords to a season-opening win over Grove City, 83-76 (OT).  Uros Vasiljevik also hd 20, and Marcus Healey added 19, including 5 of 7 from the arc.  Congratulations to Coach Dan Priest for his first win in his Kenyon career!

[ScotsFan]

One of the many pluses of the former two Wooster websites was the ability to click through on any of the opponents on the schedule to get to their own basketball web page.  Presto, that nice function no longer exists.  And, they've completely eliminated mention of the non-Wooster tournament games (and, hence, the times)  Again, style over substance, and I don't even care for the style. 

Totally agree!  Guess we have to do it the old fashioned way and copy & paste the school in google... 

They don't even have a season outlook this year on the website announcing all the promissing newcomers and such?!   

[woosterbooster]

One of the many pluses of the former two Wooster websites was the ability to click through on any of the opponents on the schedule to get to their own basketball web page.  Presto, that nice function no longer exists.  And, they've completely eliminated mention of the non-Wooster tournament games (and, hence, the times)  Again, style over substance, and I don't even care for the style. 

Totally agree!  Guess we have to do it the old fashioned way and copy & paste the school in google... 

They don't even have a season outlook this year on the website announcing all the promissing newcomers and such?!   

But it's all shiny and stuff, with gold glitter and the smell of licorice air freshener!

[David Collinge]

Wittenberg falls at IU-East, 90-84, despite a huge 26 pt., nine rebound game from Clayton Black.

[pennstghs]

Question: where did Matt Croce from kenyon go to? did he resign and take a job elsewhere or was he forced out?

[David Collinge]

Question: where did Matt Croce from kenyon go to? did he resign and take a job elsewhere or was he forced out?

Matt Croci resigned to devote more time to his family.  He is not coaching anywhere this season, to my knowledge, but neither was he forced to resign.

[David Collinge]

OWU fought back from a large early deficit to tie the game with about 13 minutes to go, but faded down the stretch and fell to Albion, 66-57, at Branch Rickey.  The Bishops could only hit 34% of their shots, buried just one of 12 from the arc, committed 19 turnovers, and missed 8 free throws.  On the bright side, they forced 19 turnovers, and grabbed 18 offensive rebounds.  Marshall Morris had 16 points and 9 boards, while Tim Brady could only muster 10 points on an icy 4/15 shooting night.

[sac]

Wittenberg falls at IU-East, 90-84, despite a huge 26 pt., nine rebound game from Clayton Black.

Interesting score.......noted, IU-East is now 7-0, 6 nobodies but hold a win over D2 NAIA II Union College in Kentucky (which may be another nobody).

[Gregory Sager]

Wittenberg falls at IU-East, 90-84, despite a huge 26 pt., nine rebound game from Clayton Black.

Interesting score.......noted, IU-East is now 7-0, 6 nobodies but hold a win over D2 Union College in Kentucky.

Union (KY) is NAIA D2, sac.

[sac]

Wittenberg falls at IU-East, 90-84, despite a huge 26 pt., nine rebound game from Clayton Black.

Interesting score.......noted, IU-East is now 7-0, 6 nobodies but hold a win over D2 Union College in Kentucky.

Union (KY) is NAIA D2, sac.

right you are.

[David Collinge]

FYI ghs, here's a post from March--

http://www.d3jobs.com/show/vYebyblr
No official announcement yet, at least none that I've seen, but my sources tell me that Matt Croci has decided to step away from basketball for a bit and, accordingly, has resigned his position at Kenyon.  This is a guy who's been an NCAC hoops guy for much of his adult life, including four years as a player at Wittenberg which earned him a spot on the NCAC 20th Anniversary team.  Under his leadership, the Lords have moved up to become a competitive program year in and year out, bringing in the kind of talented student-athletes that Kenyon's men's hoops hasn't enjoyed since the days of Jamie Harless.  The NCAC and Kenyon College will miss his contributions, and I hope you'll all join me in wishing him the best of success and happiness.

--and a follow-up from May--

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

[David Collinge]

Those of you looking at the OWU/Albion box score (or, in fact, the OWU roster; or, for that matter, the POY poll above) may notice the absence of Pat Pellerite.  Pellerite, who earned all-conference honors for each of his two seasons in Delaware, has transferred to a non-D3 school for personal, non-basketball-related reasons, and I wish him the best.

[ScotsFan]

They don't even have a season outlook this year on the website announcing all the promissing newcomers and such?!   

Ask and ye shall receive...     

2010-11 Season Outlook

Better late than never I guess... 

[woosterbooster]

This weekend's schedule at Wooster:

Saturday

Women's Nan Nichols Tournament Semifinals

1 PM - SUNY Geneseo vs Trine
3 PM - Thiel vs Wooster

Men's Al Van Wie Classic

6 PM - Miami-Middletown vs The University of Northwestern Ohio
8 PM - Cincinnati Christian vs Wooster

Sunday

Women's Nan Nichols Tournament Finals

1 PM - Consolation Game
3 PM - Championship Game

The Van Wie Classic has been reduced to a one-day event.  Still, the first game might be interesting.  Northwestern is 0-2, but both were tough losses to strong opponents.  They were beaten by last year's NAIA champions, the University of St. Francis, 79-70.  And, they dropped a tough one to Mt. Vernon Nazarene, in overtime, 83-78.  They feature two local players, senior center Kyle Gillette of Loudonville and freshman guard Nate Bolyard of Orrville.  Bolyard is averaging 28 points a game in the young season while Gillette is at 13 ppg and 10.5 rpg.

Miami-Middleton is currently 1-2 with the losses coming to local schools Walsh and Malone.  Their schedule claims that they are playing at Cincinnati Christian tonight at the same time that that school is supposed to be here playing Wooster.  We'll see how that works out.

[Pat Coleman]

One of the many pluses of the former two Wooster websites was the ability to click through on any of the opponents on the schedule to get to their own basketball web page.  Presto, that nice function no longer exists.  And, they've completely eliminated mention of the non-Wooster tournament games (and, hence, the times)  Again, style over substance, and I don't even care for the style. 

Totally agree!  Guess we have to do it the old fashioned way and copy & paste the school in google... 

They don't even have a season outlook this year on the website announcing all the promissing newcomers and such?!   

You could use our schedules.

I can speak from some experience on this -- transitioning a website over to a new platform is a ton of work and when we did this the past couple of months, it didn't leave me the amount of time I would have liked to do other things on the site. So D3hoops was pretty quiet in October and early November, preseason All-Americans were late, we barely did season previews at all, etc.