MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[woosterbooster]

Former Wooster player Tim Vandervaart is now an assistant basketball coach at Mt. Union.  It might help their program if they can find a way to squeak one more year of eligibility out of him. 

[woo91]

If you're interested in listening to Wooster head coach Steve Moore talk about the upcoming season, listen in at 11 AM! http://woo91.wooster.edu

[woo91]

...aaaaand the podcast is up! Let me know what you guys think! Some nice quotes from coach in there. A real pleasure to interview.

http://i.mixcloud.com/CtDbN

-WOO 91

[woosterbooster]

Another great job by you guys at WOO91.  Thanks for doing this; I'm already looking forward to this next one!

[David Collinge]

Friday games:

Pitt-Bradford at Allegheny
Marygrove vs. DePauw (at Case Western Reserve)
Anderson vs. Ohio Wesleyan (at Wooster)
Defiance at Wooster

[pennstghs]

Good luck tonight Witt volleyball, shooting for a national championship run. First up is Cal Lutheran at 8:00 p.m. It helps that Witt is the second highest ranked team remaining at 4th nationally, but by Witt beating #1 Calvin and Washington U. #2 losing, their chance of winning has significantly increased.

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 35  Defiance 30

Wooster is being led by Jake Mays with 9 points and Xavier Brown with 8 points.  For Defiance, the leading scorers are Mason Roth with 10 points and Logan Wolfrum with 7 points.

Scots shot 48% in the half and held Defiance to 40%

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Ohio Wesleyan 79  Anderson (IN) 64

In the opening game of the Al Van Wie Rotary Classic, the Bishops notched the win vs. their HCAC opponent.

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 91  Defiance 67

Wooster dominated the 2nd half.  Scots had 4 players in double figures tonight.  Freshman point guard Xavier Brown led with 18 points, Ryan Snyder added 15 points, Justin Hallowell had 14 points and freshman Kenny Deboer chipped in 11 points.  Very impressive that two frosh were among the top four scorers.

Defiance was led tonight by Mason Roth with 14 points and Anthony Brown with 12.  Wooster held Defiance's leading scorer to only 7 points on 3 of 10 shooting.

Wooster shot 56% from the floor and held Defiance to only 39%.  Scots won the boards 45 to 27.

GO SCOTS!

[David Collinge]

It was a good night all around, with 4 double-digit victories:

Wooster 91, Defiance 67
OWU 79, Anderson 64
DePauw 98, Marygrove 67
Allegheny 79, Pitt-Bradford 53

NCAC non-conference record: 6-5

Saturday games, many involving HCAC teams:
Point Park at Allegheny
Hanover at Denison
DePauw at Case Western Reserve
Notre Dame (O) at Hiram
Kenyon vs. Methodist (at Marietta)
Earlham at Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan vs. Defiance (at Wooster)
Calumet at Wabash
Anderson at Wooster

[woosterbooster]

I'm going to wait until after Saturday night's game before putting forth an early analysis, but after tonight's dismantling of Defiance, it appears that Wooster has retooled nicely.  Despite a poor night shooting from the arc, and a sloppy few minutes after building a comfortable lead, all went pretty darned well.  But let's see how they come back in twenty-four hours against a team that surely will want a piece of them after last year's rout.

[smedindy]

Big day for Wabash. A home win in football and a home win in hoops. Wabash defeats Calumet College of St. Joseph 63-54. Aaron Zinnerman led Wabash with 16. Derek Bailey added 15.

From the roster, AJ Sutherlin is no longer with the program.

[Wabash2011]

The Wabash Brian Shelborne had 11 as well. Nice opener for Wabash, should be multiple scoring options on the floor all the time.  Looks like an 8 man rotation shaping up with the 4 seniors, Casey Oetting, Jordan Surencamp, Pete Nitsick and Colton Cragin (please excuse spelling ).

[David Collinge]

Pretty good night overall:

Point Park 91, Allegheny 89
Hanover 64, Denison 62
Oberlin 76, Earlham 58
Hiram 84, Notre Dame (Ohio) 73
Wabash 63, Calumet Col. 55
Kenyon 79, Methodist 77
Ohio Wesleyan 82, Defiance 78 (OT)
DePauw 76, Case 59
Wooster 70, Anderson 54

That's 7-2, bringing us to 13-7 on the season.

Oh, and Wabash's football team advanced in the playoffs, the OWU men's soccer team has reached the Final Four, and the Wittenberg women's volleyball team is in the national championship match!

[David Collinge]

If the Al Van Wie/Rotary Classic was in fact the NCAC/HCAC Challenge, the NCAC was the hands-down winner with a 4-0 mark. OWU played a very shaky game tonight but still managed to grit out an overtime victory over Defiance, while Wooster played good defense all night and good offense in spurts, dumping Anderson by a score that was not indicative of how much in doubt the game really was. In fact, Wooster still had two starters and two key reserves on the floor at the final whistle; uncommon for a 16-point victory.

All-tournament team:
Brock Morrison, Sr., Anderson
Logan Wolfrum, Jr., Defiance
Andy Winters, Jr., OWU
Xavier Brown, Fr., Wooster
Matt Fegan, Sr., Wooster
Justin Warnes, Sr., Wooster--Defensive MVP
Tim Brady, Sr., OWU--Overall MVP