MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[sac]

Wabash 53  Albion 51
no boxscore yet

Was at this one, not the prettiest game I'll see this year.  Albion led most of the way all of the way but could just never pull far enough ahead.  Wabash kept themselves in it with some really good and timely 3 point shooting(5-9 2nd half).  Down the stretch they played their best defense of the day and kept Albion from scoring on several trips.

Up 7 with 6 to play, Albion had two straight trips with turnovers while Wabash scored at the other end, really gave Wabash the chance to steal it, which they did.  Wabash really came to life the last 5 minutes after Fr. Daniel Purvlicis' dunk to pull within 3.  Different team those last 5 minutes.

Wabash was the sloppier team most of the day(relatively sloppier), kind of a strange game since they seemed to really pull it together the last quarter of the game.

The boxscore will say Wabash won it on a jump shot but it was more a tip from 5 feet away off the backboard.  Albion's last shot to win was actually a pretty good look from maybe 25 feet or more.
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Wabash's starting 5 played the bulk of the game.

Ross Sponsler was the most impressive looking Fr, he played well today.  Fr. Purvlicis had a little trouble with a couple of Albion's bulkier F's. Wabash played without 6-7 C Kasey Oetting(injury, on the bench) and Houston Hodges who apparently didn't make the trip to Albion with an injury.

[smedindy]

Hodges is still recovering from football, I bet. Andy Walsh is the backup QB but Hodges played DB, WR and returned punts this year. He may have taken a day off after the Monon Bell game to rest up.

Here's yer box score:

http://sports.wabash.edu/boxscore.aspx?id=506

[woosterbooster]

I've not yet seen Wooster play live, but caught the video replay of most of their game against Adrian.  It had little resemblance to Wooster basketball.  Very sloppy.  Disorganized.  Poor shooting.  Steve Moore, Doug Cline, and company have some serious work to do in order to turn this group into a contender.

Doug Thorpe is injured and his return will help.  But the freshmen played like freshmen, and unfortunately so did the sophomores.  Even with Thorpe, who can shoot it, the outside shooting will not be what it once was.  The gap between where Wooster is now to having organized ball movement is huge.  Wooster now goes on the road for a long stretch, and we'll see if they can learn some things before returning home.

[smedindy]

We got a few games goin' on tomorrow before the teams get their turkey on. Still too early to get a read on some teams.

November 20

CWRU (1-1) @ Denison (2-1) - Denison looks to be starting out this year the same way they ended last year - competent and dangerous at times.

Wittenberg (2-0) @ Capital (1-1) - Lost amid the hubbub of the Old Tigers' stirring win over Heidelberg in football was how well the hoops team played this weekend. Witt looks like a team built for the long haul.

Carnegie - Mellon (0-2) @ Allegheny (2-0) - Sure, the first game was a win against one of those Pittsburgh branch campuses that are sub-optimal in hoops, but the Gators beat a legit OAC team also and a 3-0 start will put them more than halfway to last season's win totals.

Grove City (1-1) @ Kenyon (1-1) - You got me on this one. Grove City beat an OAC team (John Carroll) and lost to Wells, who lost to PSU - Behrend by a boatload. Kenyon beat perennial weak-sister Keuka (who is in the same conference as Wells) and lost to Rowan. Flip a coin? (BTW - Wells' nickname is "Express".)

Wooster (1-1) @ Baldwin - Wallace (1-0) - Oh, the rending of garments and the donning of sackcloth and ashes has already started for Wooster fans, since they had the temerity to lose to an MIAA team not named Hope or Calvin.

[WAlum]

Denison by 10+.
Capital by 10+.
Allegheny by 3.
Kenyon by 5.
BW by 3.

[sac]

Fr. Daniel Purvlicis

I've been thinking about this name since I saw it on a recruiting twitter last spring.  It occurs to me this is a rare last name that seems to have not enough vowels and too many vowels all at once.

carry on.

[KnightSlappy]

Fr. Daniel Purvlicis

I've been thinking about this name since I saw it on a recruiting twitter last spring.  It occurs to me this is a rare last name that seems to have not enough vowels and too many vowels all at once.

carry on.

Also it looks like it could be pronounced Perv-lick-us.

[sac]

Fr. Daniel Purvlicis

I've been thinking about this name since I saw it on a recruiting twitter last spring.  It occurs to me this is a rare last name that seems to have not enough vowels and too many vowels all at once.

carry on.

Also it looks like is could be pronounced Perv-lick-us.

According the Albion sound system its  Dangarbble  Pergarbblegarbblegarbblegarbbleus

[Pat Coleman]

Fr. Daniel Purvlicis

I've been thinking about this name since I saw it on a recruiting twitter last spring.  It occurs to me this is a rare last name that seems to have not enough vowels and too many vowels all at once.

carry on.

Also it looks like is could be pronounced Perv-lick-us.

According the Albion sound system its  Dangarbble  Pergarbblegarbblegarbblegarbbleus

+1

[smedindy]

Fr. Daniel Purvlicis

I've been thinking about this name since I saw it on a recruiting twitter last spring.  It occurs to me this is a rare last name that seems to have not enough vowels and too many vowels all at once.

carry on.

Also it looks like is could be pronounced Perv-lick-us.

According the Albion sound system its  Dangarbble  Pergarbblegarbblegarbblegarbbleus

I heard the exact same thing the last time I was on the Red Line in DC.

[woosterbooster]

Oh, the rending of garments and the donning of sackcloth and ashes has already started for Wooster fans, since they had the temerity to lose to an MIAA team not named Hope or Calvin.

I call 'em like I see 'em.  It wasn't the result, it was the visual message.  Watching them play hurt my eyes.  Maybe it wasn't them, but the fuzzy 1950's image that Clear Picture produces.  We'll know soon enough.

[GoRed]

Denison down 26-25 to Case Western at the half. 

[GoRed]

The Big Red fall to Case 69-56.

[pennstghs]

Wittenberg defeats Capital 66-54 to pick up another big road win and start the season 3-0. Let's go Witt!!

Unfortunately, its going to be a while until I can see the "new" Tigers in person as my officiating schedule conflicts with pretty much every home game and for the first time in probably 7 years I cannot make the Wooster game at home. Maybe the away game?

From what I've seen from boxscores is Witt is a pretty balanced team this year and even though they graduated a lot, they still play that sound Wittenberg defense making it hard for teams to score against them.

[smedindy]

Witt are the "Old" Tigers since they were in the league first!