MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wally_wabash]

The catfight in Greencastle is tied at 23-23 at the half.  Tight game through the first 20 minutes as both teams have each led by only 4 points.  Second half just underway now. 

40 minutes not enough in Greencastle.  Tied at 53-53 going to OT.

They're just going to keep going at DePauw.  61-61 after the first OT.

And it's all over in Greencastle. DePauw finishes off Wittenberg 79-74 and they'll advance to play OWU.


Meanwhile, Wabash is up early on Allegheny 17-11 with 14:04 left in the 1st period.   

At the half in Crawfordsville, Wabash leads Allegheny 33-25. 

Strong open for Allegheny in the second half.  The Gators have tied the game at 41-41 with 13 minutes to play. 

Trading buckets....Wabash leads 51-50 with 8:48 to play.  Big moment here as Oetting looked to roll his ankle pretty severely.  Return is questionable I'd say. 

Squeaky bum time in C'ville.  We're under one minute to play, Wabash is at the line leading 63-60.  We're in a Gator timeout. 

68-60 now with 20 seconds to go.  Kyle Aiton capped his big night with a steal and runout to give Wabash a 66-60 lead a moment ago.  Wabash looking good to advance right now. 

And that's a final from Chadwick.  Wabash defeats Allegheny 69-60. 


Wooster is up 29-9 on Denison and I'm calling that one over. 


Nearing halftime, OWU is up 46-34 on Oberlin.

54-39 OWU at the half.  Bishops scoring points in bunches which is what they do.  They shot 20(!!) free throws in the first half.  Egads. 

Oberlin had been hanging around, but OWU is now out to a 70-51 lead with under 10 minutes to play.  I don't think Oberlin has the offense to get that back. 

83-66 is the final from OWU.  Weekend hoops at Branch Rickey is official. 

[David Collinge]

Wooster scored the first 10 points of the game, and led 24-5 with just over 5 minutes gone. I guess they didn't like losing at home to Denison.

[sac]

Witt/DePauw in double-overtime

http://portal.stretchinternet.com/depauw/portal.htm?eventId=203368&streamType=video

[David Collinge]

OWU has a 54-point half, while Wooster rings up 62. The best defense is a good offense.

[sac]

DePauw 79  Wittenberg 74  2OT

The DePauw color man put the caper on this one by reminding us all "its hard to beat a team 3 teams in the same season"

[David Collinge]

OWU has a 54-point half, while Wooster rings up 62. The best defense is a good offense.

...then, of course, it takes Wooster 3:45 just to get on the board after halftime.

[Gregory Sager]

DePauw 79  Wittenberg 74  2OT

The DePauw color man put the caper on this one by reminding us all "its hard to beat a team 3 teams in the same season"

[kiltedbryan]

Realize I've basically been demoted to a lurker this year (lots of other life activities functioning as distractions!), and realize that Witt's impending losing season has been well noted throughout the year, but still wanted to put my own two cents on how incredible Witt's consecutive non-losing season streak has been.

Witt ends this year at 10-16 (.384). As noted, Witt's most recent losing season was 1955-1956. So, the 2014-15 season is literally the first losing season Witt has had since the creation of the Interstate Highway System (June, 1956), the re-election of President Eisenhower (Nov, 1956) and the launch of Sputnik (Oct, 1957). Just mind-boggling to me that Witt's run essentially predates the Space Race.

This Scots fan gives a tip of the cap to the arch-rivals; that's one hell of a run of success.

[David Collinge]

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Scots, 106-68.
Wooster will next try to avenge a loss to Wabash, who is putting the finishing touches to Allegheny as I type this.

[wally_wabash]

The home teams held serve tonight.  Friday's semis are set:

#3 Wabash vs. #2 Wooster
#4 (but #10 in our hearts) DePauw vs. #1 OWU

Should be a great weekend in Delaware. 

[David Collinge]

So, the 2014-15 season is literally the first losing season Witt has had since the creation of the Interstate Highway System (June, 1956)

So what you're saying is, the last time the Tigers had a losing season, Springfield was just a podunk town in the middle of nowhere, instead of today, when it is a podunk town in the middle of I-70.

I kid, I kid. Good thoughts, and I share the sentiment and congratulations to Wittenberg.

[kiltedbryan]

So, the 2014-15 season is literally the first losing season Witt has had since the creation of the Interstate Highway System (June, 1956)

So what you're saying is, the last time the Tigers had a losing season, Springfield was just a podunk town in the middle of nowhere, instead of today, when it is a podunk town in the middle of I-70.

I kid, I kid. Good thoughts, and I share the sentiment and congratulations to Wittenberg.

Actually, Springfield is a arguably more podunk now. Mid-1950s population was somewhere around 80,000 residents, but by the 2010 census that had fallen to about 60,000.

[wally_wabash]

Here's some food for thought...if you're hosting the conference semis/finals, why wouldn't you want to play the first game on Friday?  You get an extra couple of hours of rest, you can sit and watch the next night's opponent when you're done, you avoid going really late if the first game stretches out through an overtime or two.  If I were coaching the top seeded team, I'd want those extra couple of hours in my pocket when I'm looking at a tough back-to-back. 

[smedindy]

I don't know how BIG of an advantage that is; compared to how they used to do the Regional, Semi-State and State Finals in Indiana, where you played two games on Saturday. (10A and Noon, I think) and then the final at 7 or so. If you went OT or 2OT in game two, well, forget it...

[woosterbooster]

So, the 2014-15 season is literally the first losing season Witt has had since the creation of the Interstate Highway System (June, 1956)

So what you're saying is, the last time the Tigers had a losing season, Springfield was just a podunk town in the middle of nowhere, instead of today, when it is a podunk town in the middle of I-70.

I kid, I kid. Good thoughts, and I share the sentiment and congratulations to Wittenberg.

Totally agree.  Congrats to Wittenberg on a losing season.  Ahem.