MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[woosterbooster]

And I expect the Presidents will give the Lords all they can handle.

You have to love it when a basketball game is also a contest between two systems of government.

Quick, get the Student Princes and the Diplomats and make it a tourney!

Searching unsuccessfully for some "Anarchists" to disrupt the basketball proceedings, I came across this list of nicknames.

http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/

[Li'l Giant]

Searching unsuccessfully for some "Anarchists" to disrupt the basketball proceedings,

Idaho's Vandals might suffice.

[David Collinge]

Capital 80, Wittenberg 56...ouchie
Allegheny 82, P-SUNK 44
Denison 78, CWRU 70...very nice
Wabash 68, Hanover 55

Kenyon leads W&J at the half 38-29

No report from Hilbert yet.

[GoRed]

Big Red only missed one shot in the last six minutes.  At one point, they hit four consecutive threes - two consecutive from Tiberi and one each from Garabedian and Leffew.  Most importantly, they hung tough the whole game again.  Hale and Farmer both had solid games again. 

It appears Coach G. has found a formula and is using all his weapons.  PLEASE DON'T CHANGE A THING!  With games like the past two under their belts, increased confidence can take this team places.  The NCAC will still be a tough road.  But right now they look good enough to take the UAA Championship!

[GoRed]

Did I mention they were out-reboounded 38-27? 

[David Collinge]

Kenyon goes wire-to-wire and drops W&J 75-67.  Democracy sucks, bloodlines rule!

Still no report from Hilbert.

[fsant]

Oberlin after being down 19 pts in the second half lost in 3 Overtimes

Heartbreaker

[David Collinge]

Thanks, fsant.  That's a bitch, though.  I see now that the score was 85-83 (3OT).

NCAC goes 4-2 which ain't bad, even if there's no joy in a couple of places.  We're now collectively 17-12 on the season.  It occurs to me that two reasons our non-conference record is improved might be that a) we don't have Earlham dragging us down to the seafloor, and b) we now have Earlham to beat up on.  

Wednesday's lone game features Bluffton traveling to Hiram, 6pm -- live stats.

[fsant]

Scotsfan called it ..... Long bus ride   .... Oberlin didn't get it together until the second half

[ScotsFan]

Scotsfan called it ..... Long bus ride   .... Oberlin didn't get it together until the second half

Yeah.  I don't know much about Hilbert, but I figured the road trip alone would give Hilbert an advantage.  Turn the tables and have Hilbert come to Oberlin and it's a different story.  Nice to see the Yeomen fight back though!  Tough loss but at least they showed some fight!

Well, it wasn't the 6-0 sweep I was hoping for but 4-2 is still pretty damn nice! 

What the hell is up at Witt?  Penn, any insights to share?  I realize they're playing shorthanded without Cooper and he should be a welcome addition now that football is over, but still.  I didn't think Cap was 24 points better than Witt, with or without Cooper?!

[pennstghs]

I"m not too sure what is up with Witt so far this year. I know Capital is going to be improved as they returned a lot from last year but an 0-2 start isn't how I envisioned the season starting out. Last night it looked like Capital just dominated the second half after a contested first half.

I think that Cooper being out hurts, but Josh McKee being out so far hurts even more. Mckee will be back December 4th at Allegheny for the conference opener and Cooper probably not til January I've been told cause of injuries but that's not set in stone.

They've obviously been hurt by lack of defense as coach brown alludes to in both articles from both losses as giving up 90 and 80 in two games is not WIttenberg basketball. Hoping to outscore teams will just not get the job done. Defense creates offense in fact.

I haven't been able to watch or be at either of the first two games this year as they've both been road games. In fact, Witt doesn't have a home game until December 20th. Plus my basketball officiating schedule is somewhat hectic so I'll try to see what I can uncover.

[David Collinge]

I don't know how it falls to me, of all people, to point this out, but Wabash's Wes Smith (the favorite in our POY poll) is absolutely tearing it up so far this season.  He's averaging nearly 24 ppg in the first four Wabash games (all victories), is connecting on 57% of his shots, and has recorded 14 steals and 19 rebounds.  This hot start was noticed by the Conference office, who gave him the inaugural Player of the Week award, even if his exploits have (temporarily) escaped the notice of this board.  (Where are all of your compadres, anyway, smeds?)

[smedindy]

Probably still hung over following the Monon Bell game!

[Li'l Giant]

I'm around. I haven't totally gotten into the hoops yet. I'm easing into it.

Wabash is doing as well as they are because of Wes and DC is right, he's "tearing it up".

This is the LGs best start since 1997 and that's not totally gone unnoticed by all of us. I'm also excited about this weekend's tourney at Wabash. I hope Wes and the team continue playing this well.

[Duster72]

I'm fired up about the LG's hot start...but have only ever posted on the football board and was scared to pop my cherry over here.