MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[kiltedbryan]

Epic NCAA tournament heartbreak for the NCAC tonight.

Great effort by both Wooster and DePauw, great season to watch in the league.

[bufordscot]

Was Steve Moore checking texts there? Did you guys catch that?

Maybe the Browns general manager is at the game??

I didn't see him checking his phone this game, but I thought I had seen that at a game earlier this season.  Seems somewhat out of character for him.

Definitely looked like he was checking his phone when he left the court at halftime. 

[MrsBethG]

Was Steve Moore checking texts there? Did you guys catch that?

Maybe the Browns general manager is at the game??

I didn't see him checking his phone this game, but I thought I had seen that at a game earlier this season.  Seems somewhat out of character for him.

Definitely looked like he was checking his phone when he left the court at halftime.

Coach Moore was setting a timer/stopwatch on his phone. He does this at halftime to be sure he knows how much time is left before 2nd half when in the locker room with his team. Not checking texts

[David Collinge]

So Xavier Brown was named to the all-NCAC first team (for the fourth year, by the way, becoming just the second ever 4-time first teamer, joining Travis Schwab) and the D3hoops.com all-Region second team. Congratulations. But.....now, I freely admit that I have not been paying close attention this year like I have in years past, but were these honors well-deserved? I know he had good numbers when all was said and done, but during the season it seemed to me as often as not that he was either a non-factor or even a disappointment in games. Just how far off base am I?

[imderekpoe]

So Xavier Brown was named to the all-NCAC first team (for the fourth year, by the way, becoming just the second ever 4-time first teamer, joining Travis Schwab) and the D3hoops.com all-Region second team. Congratulations. But.....now, I freely admit that I have not been paying close attention this year like I have in years past, but were these honors well-deserved? I know he had good numbers when all was said and done, but during the season it seemed to me as often as not that he was either a non-factor or even a disappointment in games. Just how far off base am I?

I'll admit that I was just as surprised as you with Brown's post-season awards. There were certainly times that he took over games, but he didn't play with nearly the consistency that he'd had in the past.

[Mr. Ypsi]

So Xavier Brown was named to the all-NCAC first team (for the fourth year, by the way, becoming just the second ever 4-time first teamer, joining Travis Schwab) and the D3hoops.com all-Region second team. Congratulations. But.....now, I freely admit that I have not been paying close attention this year like I have in years past, but were these honors well-deserved? I know he had good numbers when all was said and done, but during the season it seemed to me as often as not that he was either a non-factor or even a disappointment in games. Just how far off base am I?

I'll admit that I was just as surprised as you with Brown's post-season awards. There were certainly times that he took over games, but he didn't play with nearly the consistency that he'd had in the past.

I suspect it may have been partly reputation/lifetime achievement award.  He was (deservedly) a pre-season AA, but I thought he was surpassed on his own team by Dan Fanelly.  (Kind of how on UWW, KJ Evans was the pre-season AA, but Quardell Young emerged as the PoY candidate.)

[Pat Coleman]

So Xavier Brown was named to the all-NCAC first team (for the fourth year, by the way, becoming just the second ever 4-time first teamer, joining Travis Schwab) and the D3hoops.com all-Region second team. Congratulations. But.....now, I freely admit that I have not been paying close attention this year like I have in years past, but were these honors well-deserved? I know he had good numbers when all was said and done, but during the season it seemed to me as often as not that he was either a non-factor or even a disappointment in games. Just how far off base am I?

I'll admit that I was just as surprised as you with Brown's post-season awards. There were certainly times that he took over games, but he didn't play with nearly the consistency that he'd had in the past.

I suspect it may have been partly reputation/lifetime achievement award.  He was (deservedly) a pre-season AA, but I thought he was surpassed on his own team by Dan Fanelly.  (Kind of how on UWW, KJ Evans was the pre-season AA, but Quardell Young emerged as the PoY candidate.)

I was puzzled on what to do with him on my all-region ballot. I think I might have had him somewhere around 10th-11th. Definitely seemed like he was less of a factor. But he also has name recognition, to be sure, which probably helped him with voters.

[David Collinge]

The honors keep rolling in for OWU. Congratulations to Nate Axelrod, the D3hoops.com national Rookie of the Year!

[sac]

Wittenberg schedule:  Wittenberg schedule:   http://www.wittenbergtigers.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/schedule
The 4th team at the Zimmerman Classic will be WashU.  We'll all be looking forward to that WashU vs Earlham game.

DePauw schedule:  http://depauwtigers.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/schedule
highlight at WashU's Lopata Classic:  WashU, Johns Hopkins and Pomona-Pitzer
Tampa shootout:  Coast Guard, Trinity, Tx. Buena Vista

[sac]

Wabash schedule:  http://sports.wabash.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

[imderekpoe]

There were some updates in the Wooster Daily Record this morning on the Scots recruits for this year.  I didn't want to copy and paste as they require a subscription, but here's the list of newcomers:

Eric Bulic, 6-7, Brunswick
Jordan Stock, 6-5, Massilon
Simon Texidor, 6-1, Cleveland Villa Angela-St Joseph
Mitch Balser, 6-1, Centerburg
Reece Dupler, 6-1, Hebron Lakewood

Alex Baptiste: 6-7 transfer from Cincinnati State

[wooscotsfan]

There were some updates in the Wooster Daily Record this morning on the Scots recruits for this year.  I didn't want to copy and paste as they require a subscription, but here's the list of newcomers:

Eric Bulic, 6-7, Brunswick
Jordan Stock, 6-5, Massilon
Simon Texidor, 6-1, Cleveland Villa Angela-St Joseph
Mitch Balser, 6-1, Centerburg
Reece Dupler, 6-1, Hebron Lakewood

Alex Baptiste: 6-7 transfer from Cincinnati State

Yes, Sports Fans - Outstanding recruiting class for the Scots.      Dupler, Texidor and Stock are definitely the All Ohio headliners in this class!

Reece Dupler 6'2" Guard  All Ohio Division II  Third Team 19.5 ppg
Rated as the #50 Player in Ohio by Prep Hoops Ohio.  Played on the same AAU Team as Carlton Bragg (Kansas D1 Recruit)

Simon Texidor 6'2" Guard  All Ohio Division III  Honorable Mention  13.9 ppg
Rated as the #84 Player in Ohio by Prep Hoops Ohio.  Played on the same Cleveland VASJ High School Team as Carlton Bragg.  Team won the 2015 State Division III title

Jordan Stock 6'4"  Forward/Wing  All Ohio Division I  Honorable Mention  20.7 ppg
Rated as the #116 Player in Ohio by Prep Hoops Ohio.  Scored over 1,100 points in his career at Massillon High School

Here is a link to the Prep Hoops Ohio 2015 Basketball Rankings that list Dupler, Texidor and Stock:  http://www.prephoopsohio.com/2015-rankings

6'7" Alex Baptiste looks like a very nice transfer for a Post Player based on an internet video.  Eric Bulic from Brunswick was listed as 6'5" on the Brunswick HS Basketball website so not sure if he has grown or if the Wooster Daily Record misprinted his height?

One other commit not mentioned in the WDR article: Hunter Coia, 5'11" Point Guard from St. Petersburg, FL,  19.2 ppg last season (shot 70% from the floor)

[imderekpoe]

Wooster still hasn't posted the entire schedule for the upcoming season, but this year's Mose Hole Tourney will include Marietta, Mt. St. Joseph and Pitt-Bradford.

[wooscotsfan]

Wooster still hasn't posted the entire schedule for the upcoming season, but this year's Mose Hole Tourney will include Marietta, Mt. St. Joseph and Pitt-Bradford.

imderekpoe -thanks for the Mose Hole participants.    I also found on the internet that Wooster is playing St. Mary's (MD) Seahawks in a Puerto Rico Tournament on December 19th.  Wooster usually plays a second team when they go to Puerto Rico and I have not located that opponent yet.

Also, the Wooster master calendar shows the Scots hosting Skidmore College on Saturday afternoon November 21st in the Al Van Wie tourney.  The calendar does not list any Friday 11/20 game(s) (yet) so it is not clear if the Al Van Wie tourney will be 4 teams or only 2 teams this year.  By the way, Skidmore returns most of their team from a squad that won 20 games and went to the NCAA tournament 2nd round last season.

Wooster will likely play only 7 non-conference games and 18 NCAC games for a regular season schedule total of 25.  So with the 2 Mose Hole opponents, St. Mary's and Skidmore, we are only missing 3 non-conference opponents.  Any other posters have the missing 3?

[Pat Coleman]

Wooster is also playing Salisbury the day after the St. Mary's game.