MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half: Wooster 26  Hiram 26

Neither team shot well in the half with Wooster at only 34% and Hiram at 31%.  The Terriers did make 4 three pointers while the Scots were 1 of 13 from behind the arc.

Wooster is being led by Kenny DeBoer with 8 points.  Alan Sheppard is leading Hiram with 13 (3 three pointers).

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 68  Hiram 63 

Wooster was led by Jake Mays with 13 points, Kenny DeBoer with 10, Xavier Brown with 10 and Doug Thorpe with 10.

Hiram's top scorers were Alan Sheppard with 22 points and Aaron Stefanov with 16 points

Scots won this game despite making only 10 of 30 free throws. 

Wooster has beaten Hiram twice this season which OWU and Witt were unable to achieve.   Coach Moore noted on the post game show that Wooster's defense won this game as they held Hiram to only 34% shooting.

Wooster is now 17-2, 10-0 NCAC   Next game is Denison at home on 1/30

GO SCOTS!

[fantastic50]

The Scots survive three Hiram chances to tie the game in the closing seconds on 3-point attempts. Wooster sealed it by making a pair of free throws. It wasn't pretty, but it's a win.

[goscots]

10-30 on FT's and 4-18 on 3's - wow. Those are games that can show the fortitude of a team. On the good side Wooster had only 8 TO's.

Looking forward to Wednesday as coach Moore is now at 699 wins (and the senior class is at 99 wins).

[imderekpoe]

The Scots survive three Hiram chances to tie the game in the closing seconds on 3-point attempts. Wooster sealed it by making a pair of free throws. It wasn't pretty, but it's a win.

And that's pretty much the key to the Scots dominance the last several years. They win the games they should.

[woosterbooster]

The Scots survive three Hiram chances to tie the game in the closing seconds on 3-point attempts. Wooster sealed it by making a pair of free throws. It wasn't pretty, but it's a win.

And that's pretty much the key to the Scots dominance the last several years. They win the games they should.

True.  But another way to look at this is that they won a game that they shouldn't (have).  Geeze-Oh-Pete!  20 free throws missed!  Why, my grandmother...

[smedindy]

Standings as of now:

Wooster 10-0
OWU 7-3
DePauw 6-4
Wittenberg 6-4
Denison 5-5
Hiram 4-6
Kenyon 4-6
Allegheny 3-7
Wabash 3-7
Oberlin 2-8

[ohiofan1954]

wow, kenyon has two big games this week, hiram and depauw. I am going to the depauw game. Shouuld make for a interesting saturday. A little bit of swimming and diving, with basketball at kenyon followed at mt. vernon nazarene added. Maybe the lords can repeat the success of the football team this year.

[imderekpoe]

Standings as of now:

Wooster 10-0
OWU 7-3
DePauw 6-4
Wittenberg 6-4
Denison 5-5
Hiram 4-6
Kenyon 4-6
Allegheny 3-7
Wabash 3-7
Oberlin 2-8

Looks like the coaches did a pretty good job in their pre-season poll this year.
1. Wooster
2. OWU
3. DePauw
4. Wittenberg
5. Wabash
6. Denison
7. Kenyon
8. Hiram
9. Allegheny
10. Oberlin

[ScotsFan]

So, with 20 missed ft's is it fair to say that Wooster might be spending a bit of time at the ft line this week in practice?  Good grief, that was one of the worst ft shooting performances I've seen in my life?!  Not too often that you see a team go 10-30 from the charity stripe and still come away with a win.

Still, it was a win and now Wooster enjoys what appears to be an insurmountable 3 game lead with 6 games to play including home dates with Witt and OWU.   

[ohiofan1954]

guess I shouldn't be so hard on otterbein with their problems at the line. It seems like it wasn't that long ago if you wanted to see good ft shooting you had to go to a d3 game. For some reason it seems that d3 has lowered themselves to d1 level at the line the last couple of years.

[bufordscot]

The Scots survive three Hiram chances to tie the game in the closing seconds on 3-point attempts. Wooster sealed it by making a pair of free throws. It wasn't pretty, but it's a win.

And that's pretty much the key to the Scots dominance the last several years. They win the games they should.

True.  But another way to look at this is that they won a game that they shouldn't (have).  Geeze-Oh-Pete!  20 free throws missed!  Why, my grandmother...

While I'm not willing to call this Scot team great, I would say that winning the games you should and winning a share of the games you shouldn't is the mark of a really great program.

[sac]

guess I shouldn't be so hard on otterbein with their problems at the line. It seems like it wasn't that long ago if you wanted to see good ft shooting you had to go to a d3 game. For some reason it seems that d3 has lowered themselves to d1 level at the line the last couple of years.

The median in D3 is around 68 this year the average will probably be just over 69%.   8 teams in the OAC shoot over that number, including Otterbein.  The NCAC appears to be positively dreadful at the line with only 2 teams over what will be the avg.  The D3 average was a touch over 69% last season.  FT shooting in the college game has leveled off in recent years and has come up 2% points from the early/mid 90's.


The NCAA keeps lots of historical trend stats.
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/stats/m+basketball/trends.html

[woosterbooster]

Sac: I put up 10,000 posts.
Wooster Booster: Nobody can put up 10,000 posts.
Sac: I done it, right here.
Wooster Booster: My boy says he put up 10,000 posts, he put up 10,000 posts.
Scotsfan: Yeah, but in how long?
Sac: A hour.

[sac]

Sac: I put up 10,000 posts.
Wooster Booster: Nobody can put up 10,000 posts.
Sac: I done it, right here.
Wooster Booster: My boy says he put up 10,000 posts, he put up 10,000 posts.
Scotsfan: Yeah, but in how long?
Sac: A hour.

I'd have 12,000 but the refs suck.