MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wooscotsfan]

Final: Wooster 75  Adrian 50

Wooster was led by Justin Hallowell with 13 points, Justin Warnes with 11, Josh Claytor with 10 and Jake Mays with 9.

Scots made 10 three pointers and won the boards 50 to 31.

Wooster is now 5-0.   Next game is Wittenberg at home on Wednesday.

GO SCOTS!

[Wabash2011]

Wabash shoots 71 percent in the second half.  Nice, nice game from Austin Hawn. Great senior leadership, not panicking and just staying after it.  These guys believe in each other, they are fun to watch.  Is Hale injured? Has he always shot left handed?

[smedindy]

Results from Saturday:

Non-Conference:

Wooster 75, Adrian 50 - as recapped above

CWRU 80, Hiram 78 - Jamaal Watkins had 31 points and 10 rebounds but it wasn't enough. Alan "Astronaut" Sheppard (probably not his nickname, but what the heck) added 20 off the bench.

NCAC now 28-18 vs. non-conference and 1-3 vs. CWRU.

Conference:

Wabash 71, Denison 65 - as recapped above

Wittenberg 69, Oberlin 57 - I was expecting more of a beat-down, but the Yeomen hung around never falling behind by more than 17. Five Tigers in double figures, led by Josh McKee and Eric Brandt with 12. Josh Merritt led all with 24.

DePauw 60, Kenyon 59 - These Tigers came storming back from a nine-point deficit to nip the Lords. Tommy Weakley hit two three-pointers in the last minute for the win. Barry Flynn led DPU with 14 points and 10 boards. Julian Pavlin's 15 paced Kenyon, while Barry "Fawn" Lebowitz added 14 (and maybe a trip to see Otis Day & The Knights).

Ohio Wesleyan 82, Allegheny 70 - The Bishops sprinted out to a 51-26 halftime lead (fed by a 28-0 run) and then coasted home for the win. Tim Brady led OWU with 26, while Brandon Smith had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Gators. OWU shot just 10-22 from the line. The Gators benched their starting five to start the second half and the second unit provided a spark. The writer of this piece should have read the entire recap.

[Schwami]

OWU has reached the men's soccer national championship match by blitzing Montclair St. 4-0 in the semis. Tomorrow the Bishops will play for the title against the winner of tonight's Oneonta St./Calvin semi.  http://backtheredandblack.owu.edu/

Here's a video of highlights from the sectionals last weekend at OWU. Take notice of Travis Wall's brilliant GWG against Ohio Northern. Worth watching the video just for that.

Congrats to OWU on winning the D-III men's soccer championship today, 2-1 against Calvin!

[Gregory Sager]

DePauw 60, Kenyon 59 - These Tigers came storming back from a nine-point deficit to nip the Lords. Tommy Weakley hit two three-pointers in the last minute for the win. Barry Flynn led DPU with 14 points and 10 boards. Julian Pavlin's 15 paced Kenyon, while Barry "Fawn" Lebowitz added 14 (and maybe a trip to see Otis Day & The Knights).

He would've scored more if it hadn't been for that kiln accident.

[smedindy]

Excellent showing for the NCAC all around:

Football Quarterfinals
Women's Volleyball Champs
Men's Soccer Champs
Top 15 in Nationals in Cross Country

did I miss any?

[Schwami]

DePauw 60, Kenyon 59 - These Tigers came storming back from a nine-point deficit to nip the Lords. Tommy Weakley hit two three-pointers in the last minute for the win. Barry Flynn led DPU with 14 points and 10 boards. Julian Pavlin's 15 paced Kenyon, while Barry "Fawn" Lebowitz added 14 (and maybe a trip to see Otis Day & The Knights).

He would've scored more if it hadn't been for that kiln accident.

Yeah, I feel real bad about that --- guess there's only one thing to do --- ROAD TRIP!

[WAlum]

Wittenberg 69, Oberlin 57 - I was expecting more of a beat-down, but the Yeomen hung around never falling behind by more than 17. Five Tigers in double figures, led by Josh McKee and Eric Brandt with 12. Josh Merritt led all with 24.

DePauw 60, Kenyon 59 - These Tigers came storming back from a nine-point deficit to nip the Lords. Tommy Weakley hit two three-pointers in the last minute for the win. Barry Flynn led DPU with 14 points and 10 boards. Julian Pavlin's 15 paced Kenyon, while Barry "Fawn" Lebowitz added 14 (and maybe a trip to see Otis Day & The Knights).

Ohio Wesleyan 82, Allegheny 70 - The Bishops sprinted out to a 51-26 halftime lead (fed by a 28-0 run) and then coasted home for the win. Tim Brady led OWU with 26, while Brandon Smith had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Gators. OWU shot just 10-22 from the line. The Gators benched their starting five to start the second half and the second unit provided a spark.   

Witt vs Oberlin - the tigers were ready to blow it open several times but just couldnt get er done.  Oberlin is better than they have been but I still thought Witt would win bigger. The Tigers are still looking to find a deep ball threat with Sullivan now graduated and helping coach the Big Red.

Depauw vs Kenyon.  GReat finish for the new NCAC Tigers.  DePauw struggled this week, beating a winless Earlham by 4 and Kenyon by 1 but they found a way to get 2 wins.   Can they get it going soon?

OWU vs Allegheny - Sorry but you got bad info on this game as I watched some online between football games. The Gators didnt bench their starting five to start the second half.  I only watched the end of the first half and the start of the second half.  the Allegheny site and box shows the Gators bench outscored the bottom of the OWU bench 19-3 in the last five minutes. So OWU was up 79-51 with 5 minutes to go.

[smedindy]

That's what the Allegheny recap implied in the first few graphs, and I know that's been a tactic many coaches have used.

To wit:

"Second-year head coach Jim Driggs implemented a radical change to Allegheny's lineup in the second half on Saturday, and the shake-up nearly paid off against conference powerhouse Ohio Wesleyan, which withstood a tremendous rally by the Gators en route to an 82-70 victory at Branch Rickey Arena"

"Trailing 51-26 to start the second half, Driggs looked outside his normal group of starters to provide a spark for Allegheny's struggling performance." -

But I should have read on:

"Leading 79-51 with just over five minutes to play, the Gators young guns showed tremendous character by dominating the OWU bench down the stretch. DiBernardi buried back-to-back three's to ignite a 19-3 run to close out the game, while Allegheny orchestrated 10 fast-break points."

Ooperdy. My bad.

[woosterbooster]

But I love the "To wit:".  Haven't seen one of those around here in a long time.

[imderekpoe]

Well, seeing as the game is at Adrian, that in and of itself should make things interesting.  The state of Michigan has not been too kind when the Scots make the trek up north to play MIAA foes. 

After a quick look over Wooster's past seasons, I count that Wooster is 0-4 in their last 4 trips up north dating back to the 96-97 season.  Three of those four losses were in the NCAA tournament starting at Hope in that 96-97 season and including losses at Calvin and at Albion.  Wooster lost 2 seasons ago at Albion in their only regular season loss in the streak.

I may have missed some games in reviewing the Scots history in Michigan, but the last win that I found was 12/14/1973 when they beat Adrian 63 - 49.  Before yesterday they had lost their last 8 up north going 0 -3 at Calvin, 0-2 at Albion, 0 -1 each at Kalamazoo, Hope and Oakland.

[woosterbooster]

I may have missed some games in reviewing the Scots history in Michigan, but the last win that I found was 12/14/1973 when they beat Adrian 63 - 49.  Before yesterday they had lost their last 8 up north going 0 -3 at Calvin, 0-2 at Albion, 0 -1 each at Kalamazoo, Hope and Oakland.

Clearly this is why Steve Moore has not been offered the job at Ohio State. 

I missed the Scots game on the radio yesterday (Norwayne-Kenton took precedence!).  Steve Moore, in today's Daily Record, mentioned that Adrian was a little short-handed.  The DR did nothing to explain this comment.  Was this mentioned at all during the broadcast?

[wooscotsfan]

I may have missed some games in reviewing the Scots history in Michigan, but the last win that I found was 12/14/1973 when they beat Adrian 63 - 49.  Before yesterday they had lost their last 8 up north going 0 -3 at Calvin, 0-2 at Albion, 0 -1 each at Kalamazoo, Hope and Oakland.

Clearly this is why Steve Moore has not been offered the job at Ohio State. 

I missed the Scots game on the radio yesterday (Norwayne-Kenton took precedence!).  Steve Moore, in today's Daily Record, mentioned that Adrian was a little short-handed.  The DR did nothing to explain this comment.  Was this mentioned at all during the broadcast?

Coach Moore was referring to the fact that Adrian played without 2 players who were projected as starters this season - Dennis Mason and Wesley Reed.

They might have narrowed the final margin but their presence likely would not have changed the outcome.  Adrian is not a tall team even with the two missing players and Wooster dominated the boards 50 to 31 yesterday which was a key factor in the game.

[sac]

Sean Gallant is Adrian's tallest player, he did play yesterday and his stat-line was  0 points, 3 rebounds, and 1 turnover in 32 minutes.  Coming into yesterday he had been playing well and was the #2 leading scorer and leading rebounder.


What missing Dennis Mason and Wesley Reed does is make them younger and not nearly as good on defense.  Mason might be the best defensive player in the MIAA, Reed was their #2 scorer from last year.

Last year Adrian gave up only 57 points per game, so far this year 68.   Part of that is they've increased their offensive production with some of the new players so they probably feel less of a need to get in a back alley brawl to win.  For Adrian to win yesterday they had to keep the score in the low 60's, not sure if those two guys would have made that much of a difference for them.

[Wabash2011]

Question for Big Red Fans....watching D Hale against Wabash shoot everything left handed Saturday, when did he change to shooting left-handed? Or is he injured? I went back and watched some film and he definitely shot right handed in past years.  Just curious....