MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Urban For Prez]

Wittenberg is up big on Denison, 92-65, with three minutes left to go.  Amazing stat(s) of the day: Sam Collins and Scott Masin combined to go 15 for 15 from the field.  Masin scored 21 and Collins added 19.  Masin is shooting an astounding 67 percent from the field this year.  I thought he would be good, but he has exceeded my expectations. 

Wittenberg will travel to Thomas More to play the Saints in a week.  It's a shame they aren't having a better year; I assume Coach Brown scheduled the game believing they would be a quality non-conference opponent.

[woosterbooster]

DeBAUER?  PURSE-ell?  "Thorpe MIGHT BE the leading scorer on Wooster?"  Don't these two-bit idiots have ANY notes in front of them?  Not a chance.  Too busy formulating their stupid opinions to do even the tiniest bit of actual research.  Not to pick on Wabash, it's this way across all of DIII, including Wooster, with the exception of WQKT's Mike Breckenridge.  Totally amateurish, with no seeming desire to even approach professionalism.

Mike Breckenridge is an exception, with very few peers nationwide (Rochester and Whitworth come to mind as having professional announcers.) We're SO lucky to have him here. But even WQKT is not entirely immune; the halftime news reader thought Wooster was playing a team called "Wuh-BASH."

Yeah, there is no doubt that that guy is somebody's nephew.  Listening to him try to read is painful.

[ohiofan1954]

how did #22 for Denison do today? He was big draining threes against capital that helped bring the big red back Thursday night.

[WooMix]

A win is a win and I accept them all but that first half of the Wooster/Wabash game was ugly to put it lightly. The second half was slightly better but as we saw today, Wooster must figure out how to attack the zone quickly if we are to remain among the leaders in D3 basketball. Had Wabash matched Wooster from the charity stripe, we might be having a different conversation today.

[smedindy]

Meanwhile...

Ohio Wesleyan outlasts Hiram in OT 69-67. Hiram had a six point lead with just under four to go but didn't score again in regulation. Tough Terrier loss.

[wooscotsfan]

Wooster faces a strong team tomorrow night in Phoenix when they will play NAIA D1 Westmont College from California.  The Westmont Warriors are 8-2 on the season and have now won 7 games in a row after a 1-2 start.  Included in their 7 game win streak are victories over the only two D3 teams (Claremont Mudd Scripps & Pomona) that they have played.

Westmont is outrebounding their opponents by +13 per game due to their front line of 6'9", 6'7" and 6'5" players so Wooster will have to hit the boards hard.

Westmont Starters:
6'0" Billy Keller  9.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg
5'9" Brendan Hill 3.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg
6'7" Chris "CJ" Miller 18.3 ppg, 6.9 rpg
6'9" Daniel Carlin 10.6 ppg, 8.4 rpg
6'5" Jason Ritchey 12.2 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Westmont Key Reserves:
6'4"  Mantas Drungys  7.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg
6'4"  Kyle Gordon  5.4 ppg, 2.2 rpg
6'3"  Nate Marsing  4.5 ppg, 2.3 rpg
6'3"  Jared Wilson  3.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg

GO SCOTS!

[Titan Q]

Wooster faces a strong team tomorrow night in Phoenix when they will play NAIA D1 Westmont College from California.  The Westmont Warriors are 8-2 on the season and have now won 7 games in a row after a 1-2 start.  Included in their 7 game win streak are victories over the only two D3 teams (Claremont Mudd Scripps & Pomona) that they have played.

Westmont is outrebounding their opponents by +13 per game due to their front line of 6'9", 6'7" and 6'5" players so Wooster will have to hit the boards hard.

Westmont Starters:
6'0" Billy Keller  9.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg
5'9" Brendan Hill 3.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg
6'7" Chris "CJ" Miller 18.3 ppg, 6.9 rpg
6'9" Daniel Carlin 10.6 ppg, 8.4 rpg
6'5" Jason Ritchey 12.2 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Westmont Key Reserves:
6'4"  Mantas Drungys  7.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg
6'4"  Kyle Gordon  5.4 ppg, 2.2 rpg
6'3"  Nate Marsing  4.5 ppg, 2.3 rpg
6'3"  Jared Wilson  3.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg

GO SCOTS!

I'm interested to see how this one turns out.  Most matchups with NAIA D1 teams are tough, but especially those against a strong program like Westmont, from a strong NAIA D1 league.  Wooster vs Westmont on a neutral court sounds like about a "pick 'em" to me.

Then Wooster faces NAIA D1 #6 Arizona Christian the next night.  If Arizona Christian is really one of the best 10 teams in NAIA D1, the Scots are probably a 7-8 point underdog in that one.

These are great games but I'm not sure the D3 population here will recognize it.  It seems like most on the boards here either, a) don't know much about NAIA basketball, or b) kind of look down on it for some reason.  I wish we had more cool D3 vs NAIA matchups like these.


http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=209338061

[woosterbooster]

Ok, yeah, so Westmont's bringing in Billy Keller.  Figured they might pull something like that.  Dude was tough, but he's gotta be in his sixties by now.  Thorpe can handle him.

[wabashsid]

Wooster Booster --- If Westmont brings Artis Gilmore or Dan Issel off the bench to play with Keller, the Scots could have some trouble.... 

[woosterbooster]

Is anyone able to get the video feed of Westmont and Wooster?   I can only get the Live Stats, and even that's screwed up.  The level of incompetency in the workforce in this country is at an unbelievable level.

[GoRed]

It's coming in fine for me.  Ten minutes left and Westmont up 38-31.

[GoRed]

Since 38-31, Westmont forgets how to shoot and hang onto the ball, letting Wooster go on a 15-1 run.  Game is pretty much over with two minutes left.

[sac]

Is anyone able to get the video feed of Westmont and Wooster?   I can only get the Live Stats, and even that's screwed up.  The level of incompetency in the workforce in this country is at an unbelievable level.

Works fine for me, maybe your perceived incompetency isn't where you think it is?

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 53  Westmont 47 

Nice win by Wooster over a 8-2 NAIA D1 squad.  Scots played some good defense and were able to score down the stretch to notch the win.  Xavier Brown led Wooster with 21 points and Doug Thorpe added 8 points.  Scots were outrebounded by 11 but held Westmont to 15 of 40 shooting from the floor.

Wooster is now 8-0.  Tough opponent tomorrow night in Arizona Christian which is undefeated and ranked #6 nationally in NAIA D1, as Titan Q noted.

GO SCOTS!

[woosterbooster]

Is anyone able to get the video feed of Westmont and Wooster?   I can only get the Live Stats, and even that's screwed up.  The level of incompetency in the workforce in this country is at an unbelievable level.

Works fine for me, maybe your perceived incompetency isn't where you think it is?

The video did not work for the first ten minutes or so of the game, then it came on.  Shortly before it came on, they ran a trailer saying they were having technical difficulties then followed that with another apologizing for the delay.  So, I'm quite sure my perception of the incompetent party was correct.