MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Ohio Wesleyan 94  Illinois Wesleyan 85     Game played AT Illinois Wesleyan

Hmmm....I wonder if Mr. Ypsi considers this to be a significant road win for the NCAC??!!  

[David Collinge]

Denison acquitted themselves quite well at D1 Davidson today, dropping an 83-70 decision. The Big Red canned 15 three-pointers, allowing them to play two close halves (trailed 45-37 at the break) against the 4-0 Wildcats. Davidson's leading scorer on the afternoon, with 23, was DU alum and assistant coach Chris Sullivan's younger brother Brian. The win was Davidson's Bob McKillop's 500th in his career.

Elsewhere, Hiram bested Otterbein (Wednesday), unbeaten Wittenberg topped Millikin at Rhodes College in Memphis, and Allegheny (drumroll please..........) lost, this time to Behrend by 13.

Non-conference 26-16, 25-13 vs. D3, 26-10/25-7 excluding Allegheny.

[David Collinge]

Final:  Ohio Wesleyan 94  Illinois Wesleyan 85     Game played AT Illinois Wesleyan

Hmmm....I wonder if Mr. Ypsi considers this to be a significant road win for the NCAC??!!

Two words: Jack Sikma.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Final:  Ohio Wesleyan 94  Illinois Wesleyan 85     Game played AT Illinois Wesleyan

Hmmm....I wonder if Mr. Ypsi considers this to be a significant road win for the NCAC??!!

Two words: Jack Sikma.

You're forgetting that Pat is now chastising me for referencing Keelan Amelianovich too often!

I had hoped to attend the OWU @ IWU game earlier today (it is sorta on the way home from Thanksgiving), but I was out-voted.  Assuming my presence would not have changed the outcome (probably a safe assumption ), that at least preserves my record of only personally witnessing ONE Titan loss in any sport in the last 45+ years.  (Admittedly, that is only a total of 12-14 bball and fball games. )

wsf, pretty sure that is a significant road win for the NCAC - how significant depends on whether IWU is as good as I hope or as mediocre as I fear!

[David Collinge]

Wittenberg falls from the ranks of the unbeaten, dropping a nailbiter to Simpson, 69-67, in the championship game of the Rhodes College tournament, just down the street from where I used to live in Memphis. (But I digress.) OWU is now the last undefeated NCAC squad, but if they can get by Wooster at home Wednesday, they may stay unbeaten for a good long time.

Elsewhere Oberlin trounced Earlham, Kenyon trounced Muskingum, and DePauw, uh, lost to Rose-Hulman. A 2-2 day brings us to 28-18, 27-15 vs. D3, unless I'm very much mistaken.

[zander]

Denison acquitted themselves quite well at D1 Davidson today, dropping an 83-70 decision. The Big Red canned 15 three-pointers, allowing them to play two close halves (trailed 45-37 at the break) against the 4-0 Wildcats. Davidson's leading scorer on the afternoon, with 23, was DU alum and assistant coach Chris Sullivan's younger brother Brian. The win was Davidson's Bob McKillop's 500th in his career.

Elsewhere, Hiram bested Otterbein (Wednesday), unbeaten Wittenberg topped Millikin at Rhodes College in Memphis, and Allegheny (drumroll please..........) lost, this time to Behrend by 13.

Non-conference 26-16, 25-13 vs. D3, 26-10/25-7 excluding Allegheny.

Chris played and graduated from Witt not Denison

[David Collinge]

Oops. Of course that's right. Sucks to get old. I did, however, get the other part right.

[David Collinge]

Wabash beat the snot out of someone called Boyce College last night, 80-31. The Bulldogs are a USCAA team, so that moves us to 29-18 but doesn't push the peanut on the vs. D3 racetrack.

Tomorrow Wittenberg puts their week-old sole possession of first place on the line in the first full night of NCAC play. The highlight is, of course, Wooster's trip to Delaware to face the #6 Bishops, but only slightly less intriguing are the matchups of Denison at DePauw, Wittenberg at Wabash, and Kenyon at Oberlin, while Hiram at Allegheny is intriguing in its own pathetic way. (Good thing there's no Gator fans around anymore to smite me.)

[zander]

I'll take all the teams on the road for tomorrow.

[wally_wabash]

Wabash beat the snot out of someone called Boyce College last night, 80-31. The Bulldogs are a USCAA team, so that moves us to 29-18 but doesn't push the peanut on the vs. D3 racetrack.

Boyce did take Capital to overtime at Sewanee's tournament, so take that for what little it might be worth.   

Looking forward to a big one at Chadwick tomorrow night vs. Wittenberg.  Going to be a big test for what has turned out to be a very young Wabash team this season.  Should be a fun season inside the league this year.  Looks like we have some nice depth of quality here. 

[ScotsFan]

Well, I guess the NCAC is blowing the lid right off as far as lid lifters go for the first full night of conference action with the top 4 teams in the media poll all going against one another on night one...

[David Collinge]

Taking into account pointlem's miscast vote, Mr. Ypsi has gutted out a plurality in our little election with 7 votes, as the anti-Ypsi forces split their votes between zero (4 votes) and less than zero (5). Thanks to all for participating in our peaceful demonstration of democracy in action.

[gordonmann]

It's someone's birthday so I hope Wooster wins for his sake.

[WooClone15]

Taking into account pointlem's miscast vote, Mr. Ypsi has gutted out a plurality in our little election with 7 votes, as the anti-Ypsi forces split their votes between zero (4 votes) and less than zero (5). Thanks to all for participating in our peaceful demonstration of democracy in action.

Even though I voted for zero, I'd like to think I'm not anti-Ypsi. I just don't think any of our opinions really matter all that much (or whatever the actual wording was), but I still think his points are pretty good

[Mr. Ypsi]

Thanks, WC15.  I missed seeing the poll, so didn't even get to participate in my own demise!

Happy Birthday, Memphis.