MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WAlum]

Denison 3 at the buzzer to beat Wabash 65-62. What is happening to the 'Bash?

[ScotsFan]

Crazy finish in Granville.  Down by 3, Denison's Jim Leffew drilled a trey and was fouled.  He made the and-1 to give Denison the one point lead with 4 seconds to go.  Then Mike Garabedian fouled Brian Shelbourne giving him a chance to win the game for Wabash at the line.  But Shelbourne only made one of two and with two ticks of the clock remaining, Jim Leffew nailed his 5th triple of the game for the winner for Denison.  

Wabash is officially done in the race for the regular season title with this loss IMO...

BTW, Wooster is now up 9 on the pups with five and a half to play...

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 70  Hiram 64

Wooster's Top Scorers:  Nathan Balch 20, Ian Franks 13, Josh Claytor 10, Bryan Wickliffe 9

Hiram's Top Scorers:  Babjide Eniola 16, Chris Roberts 11, Aaron Stefanov 9

Scots had too many turnovers tonight 15 which made this a close game.

Wooster is now 20-0, 11-0 NCAC

Congratulations to Coach Steve Moore and his staff on 15 consecutive 20 win seasons!

[Li'l Giant]

Ugh. That is all.

[WAlum]

1. Wooster 11-0, 20-0
2. Wittenberg 9-1, 14-5
3. Ohio Wesleyan 8-3, 12-8
4. Wabash 8-4, 16-4
5. Hiram 4-7, 10-10
6. Kenyon 4-7, 8-12
7. Denison 4-8, 7-14
8. Allegheny 2-10, 5-15
9. Oberlin 1-11, 2-19

Kenyon @ Witt?

[wooscotsfan]

Kenyon vs. Wittenberg was postponed today and will be played at a later date.

Oberlin gets a road win tonight at Allegheny by 72 to 68 score.

[ScotsFan]

Scots had too many turnovers tonight 15 which made this a close game.

To add to that, the Scots gave up too many offensive rebounds which also made this a close game.  I don't know what the final tally was but I think the pups had something like 17 offensive boards in this game?  I know they had around 20 more shot attempts so when you combine the turnovers with the offensive rebounds given up by the Scots, they are very fortunate to come away with this victory tonight.

[ScotsFan]

Oberlin gets a road win tonight at Allegheny by 72 to 68 score.

What??? 

[David Collinge]

Crazy finish in Granville.  Down by 3, Denison's Jim Leffew drilled a trey and was fouled.  He made the and-1 to give Denison the one point lead with 4 seconds to go.  Then Mike Garabedian fouled Brian Shelbourne giving him a chance to win the game for Wabash at the line.  But Shelbourne only made one of two and with two ticks of the clock remaining, Jim Leffew nailed his 5th triple of the game for the winner for Denison.  

That's a lot of end-to-end action for four seconds (really, two seconds, from 0:04 to 0:02)!  Wish I could have seen it.

[David Collinge]

The first two games mentioned in the poll are approaching, so I've locked the voting.  I'll immortalize the results, and we'll see if any of them came true.

OWU over Wabash, 1/26 -- 8 votes -- OWU 87, Wabash 76
Allegheny over Wabash, 1/15 -- 7 votes -- Wabash 80, Allegheny 58
Hiram over Wooster, 2/3 -- 6 votes -- Wooster 70, Hiram 64
Denison over Wooster, 1/15 -- 3 votes -- Wooster 72, Denison 64

Thanks for participating!

Looks like I picked a decent quartet of potential upsets, with one coming true and two others being close.  And the fourth one, the blowout, of course was the one I picked.  

[David Collinge]

Crazy finish in Granville.  Down by 3, Denison's Jim Leffew drilled a trey and was fouled.  He made the and-1 to give Denison the one point lead with 4 seconds to go.  Then Mike Garabedian fouled Brian Shelbourne giving him a chance to win the game for Wabash at the line.  But Shelbourne only made one of two and with two ticks of the clock remaining, Jim Leffew nailed his 5th triple of the game for the winner for Denison.  

That's a lot of end-to-end action for four seconds (really, two seconds, from 0:04 to 0:02)!  Wish I could have seen it.

Ohhhh!  It wasn't with 2 seconds after all, it was a GENUINE BUZZER BEATER.  Video from DU available here.  It was a 35-footer, undefended.

[smedindy]

This is THAT game. The game each year where Wabash lets it guard down and loses to one of the bottom three of the league.

[David Collinge]

The Kenyon/Wittenberg doubleheader, originally scheduled for Wednesday and postponed to this evening, has again been postponed.  The women will now play tomorrow at 5:30pm, while the men's game is still TBD.  (I don't know why it wouldn't also be played on Friday, given that Kenyon has an off day on Saturday and Witt is home for Allegheny.)

So they finally dotted the t's and crossed the i's and settled on a Friday make-up date:

Kenyon at Wittenberg, 7:30pm -- video, audio, and live stats -- Game 2 of a re-re-scheduled W/M doubleheader (women at 5pm)

[ScotsFan]

Crazy finish in Granville.  Down by 3, Denison's Jim Leffew drilled a trey and was fouled.  He made the and-1 to give Denison the one point lead with 4 seconds to go.  Then Mike Garabedian fouled Brian Shelbourne giving him a chance to win the game for Wabash at the line.  But Shelbourne only made one of two and with two ticks of the clock remaining, Jim Leffew nailed his 5th triple of the game for the winner for Denison.  

That's a lot of end-to-end action for four seconds (really, two seconds, from 0:04 to 0:02)!  Wish I could have seen it.

Ohhhh!  It wasn't with 2 seconds after all, it was a GENUINE BUZZER BEATER.  Video from DU available here.  It was a 35-footer, undefended.

I was just going by what the livestats were saying during the game David (while trying to keep an ear on the Wooster game at the same time I might add  ).  I should have been more specific in that Denison was inbounding the ball with approximately 2 seconds remaining when Leffew hit his shot at the buzzer for the win.

Thanks for the link for the buzzer beater BTW.  Wabash has now been on both ends of the buzzer beater treatment this year having won with a buzzer beater as Derek Baily nailed a triple to beat Kenyon on the road earlier in the year and of course, they were on the short end of the stick tonight.  Lest we forget, Wes Smith also had a just miss on a 3-pointer that would have give Wabash another buzzer beater win vs. Wooster as well.

[David Collinge]

I was just going by what the livestats were saying during the game David (while trying to keep an ear on the Wooster game at the same time I might add  ). 

No criticism intended!  Believe me, I know what that's like, being chained to my computer for NCAC action.  Sometimes I try to follow as many as six games at once.  I know that LiveStats is frequently misleading when it comes to describing the actual action. 

I immediately thought of Wabash @ Kenyon too.  All the more reason for me to wonder why nobody did anything to prevent the shot.  Sure, it was a prayer, but why not have a defender at least guard him loosely instead of everyone sagging back to the arc?