MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[GoRed]

Louisville is easy if you remember that it has only two syllables and that there is no vowel sound in the second syllable.

Like "Gran vul"?

[sac]

As I walked into Timken I asked an old man and his wife how they pronounced Wooster, even though I already knew.  He seemed rather serious about it being pronounced Wus-ster.


He and his wife once lived in Cheboygan, Michigan while he was serving on the Coast Guard ice breaker Mackinac.  Funny the things you learn from people in a small minute or two conversation.

[David Collinge]

Louisville is easy if you remember that it has only two syllables and that there is no vowel sound in the second syllable.

Like "Gran vul"?

You mean that little college town just outside Nerk Ahia? You betcha.

[wally_wabash]

Bit of a palate cleanser for Wabash tonight as they host Illinois Tech.  If you're scoring at home, that's an in-season home and home with IIT (Wabash won 69-35 in November at IIT) and I'm not really sure why, but such is life.  It's not really about SOS for Wabash this year in any case.  Big game at Denison on Saturday...Wabash is going to have to win a couple of these league games away from home to stay in the top four. 

[smedindy]

IIT needs games, and maybe they made an offer Wabash couldn't refuse!

[wally_wabash]

Halftime in the 'Ville: Wabash leads IIT 39-15.  The outcome tonight probably wasn't going to be in doubt, but I'm looking to see if Wabash cleans some things up from the weekend, turnovers specifically.  LGs had 26(!) vs. Hiram and 16 vs. Allegheny.  Just four through the first 20 minutes tonight.  Also looking to see if Wabash keeps it up in the second half.  They really had flat second periods in both games over the weekend.  I expect a big second half here- IIT is already way overmatched and they've already got two players with three fouls, one with four, and I'm not sure what kind of quality is still on the bench for them.  No real surprise here, but Wabash's leading scorer is Daniel Purvlicius with 11 points.  He's having an excellent season. 

[smedindy]

They have a player named Colt Scroggins now. We need more Colt Scroggins....

(I'm surprised he's not a LAX player...)

[wally_wabash]

Five weeks until Wabash's first lax game! 

It's 62-20 now, under 6 to go.  Wabash is deep into their bench now and this thing has devolved into Wabash chucking 3s over the IIT zone.  Pretty efficient work from the first 8-10 for Wabash which was the objective tonight.  On to Denison Saturday!

71-25 is the final just to complete the thread.  Everybody got a good sweat in, nobody got hurt.  Solid evening of work for the LGs. 

[David Collinge]

Elsewise,
at Wooster 77, Kenyon 63
at OWU 75, Wittenberg 63

[sac]

Elsewise,
at Wooster 77, Kenyon 63
at OWU 75, Wittenberg 63

5 more losses and Witt clinches a losing record for the first time since 1956.  4 if they don't make the NCAC tournament and win it.

[Ohigy]

I looked at the Witt schedule and they still have Wooster twice, DePauw twice, and OWU once.  That is shocking for a team picked second in the pre-season. They are Witt and could turn this thing around and go on a winning streak at any time.

[ohiofan1954]

Five weeks until Wabash's first lax game! 

It's 62-20 now, under 6 to go.  Wabash is deep into their bench now and this thing has devolved into Wabash chucking 3s over the IIT zone.  Pretty efficient work from the first 8-10 for Wabash which was the objective tonight.  On to Denison Saturday!

71-25 is the final just to complete the thread.  Everybody got a good sweat in, nobody got hurt.  Solid evening of work for the LGs.

Thought I saw on Denison's lacrosse schedule Wabash was making a visit this year. Great to see Wabash is joining the lacrosse revolution. Good luck 4/18 in Granville. Going to see the Little Giants today against Denison.  When I think of these two playing I still remember the player for Denison scoring 7 points in 5 seconds a few years back. Sorry Wabash fans but still one of the greatest moments I have seen in sports.

[woosterbooster]

Wait a minute.  When Wally said it was five weeks until Wabash's first lacrosse game, I thought he was referring to the start of the season.  He meant the first match EVER?  A brand new program?  Wow.  Good luck to them!

However, I'd thought the LAX revolution had been over for several decades.  In looking at last year's NCAC standings, it turns out that Allegheny doesn't have a team either.  I had no idea.  I mean, beer pong preceded lacrosse as a sport at these two schools?  Yikes.

[woosterbooster]

Is anyone getting any sound at all from the Oberlin-Wooster non-contest?  Video is fine, but either the announcers failed to show up or yet more technical incompetence has shown its head.  Unbelievable.  Scots up 9-0.

[Eco-manblue]

Wooster has a million dollar team and dime store video/audio system.    No audio today and at one point the video looked like it was literally melting down!  They've consistently had problems over the past four or five years and while it's somewhat improved (crisper picture), the technical snafus happen way too often.  Wabash, for example, has a much better system, camera angles, etc. 

Anyway, the Scots played tough today against a very scrappy, aggressive Oberlin team.  Very physical game with seemingly lots of fouls (have to review the box score as there was no audio to follow the foul situation).  Both teams never let up, and Woo pulled away at the end to finish 91 to 71.  Glad to see the Scots getting their offensive output into the nineties. 

From what I've seen, at this point in the season, the NCAC teams are bringing their best/most intense game against the Scots.  I was worried about a let up or lag period between the Moses Hole Tournament and the second OWU game, but the mid-season conference play so far is more intense and competitive than I would have predicted.