MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Wabash2011]

Preseason early look at Wabash, they are going to be solid.  Two good freshman, I see wabash starting 4 seniors...and by the way, they all can score, just did not need to with Wes taking most of the shots.

[rebounder club 03]

  Hallowell will be huge this year for Wooster.  We have enough returning players who received minutes last year to beat anyone.  Also have heard that four of the freshmen X. Brown, T.J. Bretz, E. Pannell and K. DeBoer all look really good.  Perhaps they will earn a few varsity minutes if their defense is up to Coach Moore's standards?

[WAlum]

Wooster and Witt will still end up at the top of the league.  OWU, DePauw, and Wabash are all right there and could jump into the top 2.  It should be a competitive year in the NCAC.  Denison has some talent to surprise and make the top 4 as well. 

[ScotsFan]

Wooster and Witt will still end up at the top of the league.  OWU, DePauw, and Wabash are all right there and could jump into the top 2.  It should be a competitive year in the NCAC.  Denison has some talent to surprise and make the top 4 as well.

I just get the feeling with Wooster that we might get off to a bit of a rough start like we saw this team do 2 years ago.  Wooster struggled to find a rotation that worked and players struggled to figure out where they fit in over the first 9 games of the season and the result was that Wooster was just 5-4.  However, things came together just before the Holidays and Wooster finished the season winning 20 of their last 22 games and making it to the Sweet 16.

I just foresee similar growing pains for this team as they figure out who is going to step up and where players are going to fit in and as Moore figures out the rotations that work the best.  But I also see this team figuring a lot of that stuff out by the time conference play is full go.  I just feel that streak of 7 straight conference championships might be in jeopardy this year.

[rebounder club 03]

Wooster may start a bit slow with the loss of the three seniors.  As the season goes on though,  I expect our boys to finish strong and perhaps suprise some by making the tournament.

I am telling everyone that Hallowell wil be an AA this year and that will be huge for Wooster! 

[woosterbooster]

Wooster is going to have to come up with a team leader this season.  Three leaders have graduated, all accomplishing that important, and sometimes mysterious, attribute in different ways.  Of the returning players, none have yet come close to indicating that they can fill those shoes.  We'll just have to wait and see if that happens.

Where is Justin attending these meetings?  On campus? 

[rebounder club 03]

  I hope Justin doess all his AA work on the court.  LOL  You are correct,  Wooster has lost a lot of leadership.  Only time will tell who steps up this year as a leader/leaders.  It will happen though and Wooster will have a good chance to bring home another NCAC title!

  We have Hallowell and Fegan who are both seniors with a ton of minutes under their belts and I think that is where Wooster's leadership will come from.

  If what I am hearing about the four freshmen I mentioned in a past post is true and with all the returning players from last year,  not only is this year going to be a good one,  but the future of the program looks bright too.

  We all know coach Moore is an excellent coach and after a few games the Scots will be off and running. 

[ScotsFan]

Hey rebounder.  Just wanted to welcome you to the board. 

I definitely think Hallowell has shown glimpses that he can step into that leadership role for the Scots.  I just think about that national semi-final game vs. Williams and he was the one showing the most fire and spirit even when the Scots were down big.  I thought he showed some good leadership traits in that game.

[rebounder club 03]

  I thought he  did too. Franks was such a strong leader last year along with Wickliffe that Justin didn't need to step up.  This year will be different for him and I am sure he will step into a strong leadership role.

  Glad I found this board.  Nice talking about Wooster basketball.   We will have a strong team this year and with the recruits we brought in this year Wooster is set for a while. 

  Will it be the same team as last year,  maybe not,  but Wooster will be there in the end.

[pennstghs]

I"m ready for the season to start, hope to have good things from Witt. We know they have a ton coming back, but who will step up with the perimeter play is the big question.

[smedindy]

Wabash roster sans freshmen:

http://sports.wabash.edu/roster.aspx?path=mbball

[wooscotsfan]

Aaron Dorksen of the Wooster Daily Record has some comments about Scots basketball in his weekly column which can be found
at this link:  http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/5113595

Dorksen mentions that Coach Moore is optimistic about the upcoming season.  The three freshmen who are mentioned in the article as standouts are Xavier Brown, Evan Pannell and Kenny DeBoer.  There is also an explanation of why Wooster is traveling to D1 Bradley University for an exhibition game.  Geno Ford, the former Kent State coach, is now coaching Bradley and the Wooster coaches have a good relationship with Ford.  Many Wooster fans will recall that Coach Ford had his Kent State team play an exhibition game at Timken in 2009 to honor Doug Cline's late son, Corey.

[smedindy]

Preseason Top 25 is out!

http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2011-12/preseason

The highlights for the NCAC:

Wooster #9
Wittenberg #11
Wabash - ORV - #47

[David Collinge]

Geno Ford, the former Kent State coach, is now coaching Bradley and the Wooster coaches have a good relationship with Ford.

Geno also coached at Muskingum, where his father Gene is now the coach.

[Wabash2011]

Wabash roster not posted yet, there will be freshman and possibly one freshman starter.  I really hope everyone continues to overlook Wabash.  To have Witt and Wooster in the top 25 without Wabash....very interesting.  They will start 4 seniors and if no one pays attention, prepare to be surprised.