MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WooClone15]

Well crap. Still, that was a good game

[David Collinge]

Wittenberg 82, Wooster 77 (OT)...they couldn't do it.

1. OWU...7-1
2. Wooster...6-2
3. Hiram, Wittenberg...5-3
5. Kenyon, Oberlin...4-4
7. Denison...3-5
8. Allegheny, DePauw, Wabash...2-6

[bufordscot]

Can't remember Wooster playing as bad as they did the first 16 minutes of the second half yet still got ot to OT. Not sure how 9 players can all go stone cold at the same time but it happened. Did Jordan Stock get injured? He only played 13 minutes. Oh well, keep fighting.

[hotdawg]

I think Witt did a great job controlling the pace for most of the game. Wooster sped up the game with full court man to man denial late in regulation. Witt seemed to tighten up due to the pressure of Wooster Defense (and maybe the pressure of seeing a lead dwindle). I was surprised Wooster didn't keep the full-court pressure on to start the OT period... instead they elected to play Witt straight up from the half-court. Great win Witt.

[David Collinge]

Oberlin 81, Illinois Tech 61
I believe this is the final non-conference game of the season, and I forget whether we're counting IIT as D3 or not (I believe they are a provisional), but the final tally is 45-25 overall.

[Gregory Sager]

Illinois Tech is a second-year provisional member of D3, so that game does not count towards Oberlin's overall D3 record. This is actually the third year that IIT has been in the provo pipeline, but the school was held back a year by the D3 Grand Council of Ruling Poobahs because the previous IIT AD slipped up in a few places. Had IIT been a third-year provo, that game would've counted towards the D3 record of the Yeomen.

[David Collinge]

Wooster 89, Allegheny 60
Wittenberg 78, Kenyon 70
Wabash 80, DePauw 75
OWU 81, Oberlin 69
Hiram and Denison in a barnburner..scratch that, an 18-0 DU run in crunchtime put an end to that
Denison 77, Hiram 61

1. OWU...8-1
2. Wooster...7-2
3. Wittenberg...6-3
4. Hiram 5-4
5. Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin...4-5
8. Wabash...3-6
9. Allegheny, DePauw...2-7

[wally_wabash]

Gritty, gutty rivalry win for Wabash last night at Chadwick Court .  Down 10 early in the second half, Wabash chipped away at the DPU lead until finally taking the lead for good with 90 seconds left on a Johnny Jager three point play.  Jager had 31 in the game to lead all scorers and I'm psyched about this kid's last 3.5 seasons at Wabash.  Really fun player. 

Looking ahead to the second half, I think Wabash probably needs to turn that 3-6 around to 6-3 over the last half of the league season which gets the LGs up to 9-9 and 9 wins might be enough to get up to #4.  Going to have to do some work on the road to get there (last three games are @Denison, @DePauw, and @Kenyon), but it's not too crazy to find six wins in these last nine for Wabash I think. 

[bufordscot]

Looks like Wooster will live and die with the 3 pointers.  I was glad to see Balser start last night.  As much as I like Stern's hard-nosed defense you need to get more offensive production out of a starting guard than he's been providing.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[bufordscot]

Scots have a lot of perimeter talent. Good win without Fanelly. Anyone have any idea what his situation is? One of the announcers implied he didn't show up which would be hard to believe.

[Ruysdael]

In the post game show Coach Moore indicated that Dan Fanelly was sick. 

[bufordscot]

In the post game show Coach Moore indicated that Dan Fanelly was sick.

thanks

[David Collinge]

Wooster 73, DePauw 56...a little blown away by the terrible season the Tigers are having
Oberlin 71, Wabash 54...Oberlin sweeps the LGs; Wally has pointed out on many occasions that the Yeo have Wabash's number
OWU 82, Denison 76...another close one, but it'll look like a line drive in the boxscore
Hiram 92, Kenyon 74...big time bounceback, especially since KC has been playing pretty well lately
Wittenberg 67, Allegheny 52...gotta win these games to keep pace, and Witt did without too much difficulty

1. OWU...9-1
2. Wooster...8-2
3. Wittenberg...7-3
4. Hiram...6-4
5. Oberlin...5-5
6. Denison, Kenyon...4-6
8. Wabash...3-7
9. Allegheny, DePauw...2-8

[wally_wabash]

Oberlin 71, Wabash 54...Oberlin sweeps the LGs; Wally has pointed out on many occasions that the Yeo have Wabash's number

Not sure how you go from the kind of clutch second half to win your rivalry game on Wednesday to laying this kind of egg 72 hours later.  LGs couldn't buy a bucket and now everything I said earlier about getting six wins in the back half of the league season is pretty much caput.  Kinda had to have that home game vs. Oberlin to make that happen.  Ah, the joys of young team inconsistency. 

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