MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[BogeyMan]

If Kenyon lost to Capital and Albion I believe they have two losses in region.

[David Collinge]

If Kenyon lost to Capital and Albion I believe they have two losses in region.

Yes; wsf's list was prepared while the Kenyon/Capital game was still in progress.

[wooscotsfan]

If Kenyon lost to Capital and Albion I believe they have two losses in region.

Yes; wsf's list was prepared while the Kenyon/Capital game was still in progress.

Thanks David!  That will teach me not to prepare lists while games are in progress! 

[David Collinge]

Hey, you missed this one, too, you good-for-nothing.  Just because it hadn't started yet is no excuse:

Hiram 74, Baldwin-Wallace 72 -- a real nailbiter, this one went back and forth down the stretch and was decided on a buzzer-beating putback by Chris Meyer.  Meyer ended up with 16, complementing Deon Milton's 16 and Hassan Muhammad's 22.

NCAC composite: 24-18.

[David Collinge]

A couple of Monday games:

Frostburg St. at Allegheny, 7pm -- live stats
Waynesburg at Oberlin, 7:30pm -- video and live stats

[pennstghs]

not that it really matters but Witt's in-region record should be 1-1 as IU-East is an NAIA school and Rochester (NY) is out of region correct? I think Rochester is in the East Region, not Great Lakes.

Regardless, hopefully getting McKee back and starting NCAC play will bring new energy to the Tigers.

[David Collinge]

Wes Smith is threatening to take the POTW trophy home and just leave it there.

[wally_wabash]

Wes Smith is threatening to take the POTW trophy home and just leave it there.

Ah, the rare repeat POTW winner.  The league will get around to spreading the love, but it's hard to ignore what Wes did at the Pete Thorn over the weekend and against whom he did it. 

Wabash has enjoyed the home floor for five of their first six games so far.  This week the LGs will hit the road at DePauw and at Hiram.  Let's see if the mojo from last weekend can fit on the bus. 

[Li'l Giant]

I hope they can draw from the road game at Hanover. The Panthers didn't roll over and made a run the LGs withstood. They know they can do it, just need to get it done. Wabash Always Fights!

[David Collinge]

Allegheny continues to stumble through their early season schedule, losing at home tonight to Frostburg St., 75-67.  The Gators were outscored at the line by 15 points, overcoming a 45% shooting evening.  Three Gators reached double figures, led by Devone McLeod's 16.

Oberlin is trailing Waynesburg by 8 with 9:14 left, which in and of itself is not terribly meaningful.  It gains meaning when you consider that the Yeo were behind by 31 points with 4:54 left in the first half.  This is a fabulous comeback that can be viewed with the video link posted above.
UPDATE: Unless the Oberlin campus is much bigger than I remember, the Yeomen don't have the long-bus-ride excuse for this one.  They just flat-out stunk for the first 15 minutes, during which they were 1-for-18 from the floor and scored just 6 points, two of them on technical free throws following an overly theatrical monster dunk from Waynesburg's Jeff Young.  The Yeo woke up and played pretty well the rest of the way (I'd have said "very well" but for stupid turnovers and missed free throws), closing to within 8 and hitting 22 of 43 shots to finish the night at 38%.  But when the dust settled, Waynesburg was a wire-to-wire 89-70 winner.

A dud of an evening leaves the conference at 24-20 for November, with conference play set to get underway on Wednesday.

[wooscotsfan]

not that it really matters but Witt's in-region record should be 1-1 as IU-East is an NAIA school and Rochester (NY) is out of region correct? I think Rochester is in the East Region, not Great Lakes.

pennstghs - my source for the in-region records that I posted was the schedule/results page for each team as listed on this D3Hoops website!  If you go to Witt's schedule page, you will see Rochester listed with a black dot designating it as an in-region game for Witt.

However, after reflecting on your point, I can think of no reason why Rochester would be an in-region game.  Rochester is outside the 200 mile limit (from Springfield) for in-region games and the State of New York is not in the same "Administrative Region" (NCAA groups States) as Ohio.  So, either there is another explanation that I am missing or there is an error on the Witt schedule page that shows Rochester as an in-region game?

[KnightSlappy]

So, either there is another explanation that I am missing or there is an error on the Witt schedule page that shows Rochester as an in-region game?

It's an error, and Witt isn't the only team that has one. There are many team pages that list non-d3 games as in-region. I think Pat usually takes a gander through and manually fixes regional games that are in error, but I know he's been busy with the site upgrade and such, but I'm sure it's coming in the future.

[wooscotsfan]

So, either there is another explanation that I am missing or there is an error on the Witt schedule page that shows Rochester as an in-region game?

It's an error, and Witt isn't the only team that has one. There are many team pages that list non-d3 games as in-region. I think Pat usually takes a gander through and manually fixes regional games that are in error, but I know he's been busy with the site upgrade and such, but I'm sure it's coming in the future.

Thanks KnightSlappy!  I always appreciate the excellent work you do on regional rankings (Pool C Board) k+.

[DadofBashWarrior..]

Congrats to Wabash being ranked 13th...I may be wrong but is this not the first time Wabash has been ranked in basketball in the last 6 years???

[wally_wabash]

Congrats to Wabash being ranked 13th...I may be wrong but is this not the first time Wabash has been ranked in basketball in the last 6 years???

Oh yeah. You've got to go waaaaay back to the Tabor/Estelle/Latham years to find a ranked Wabash team. That's all the way back to when D3hoops.com had the old parquet background! Old school right there.