MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[fantastic50]

That year Transy advanced, they were the host site as well!  That said, Wooster's fans should be well represented though.  Last weekend at the NCAC championships at OWU, it looked as though at least 40% of the crowd were Wooster fans!  And that's counting a large student section of OWU students.

On Saturday, the Scot fans easily outnumbered the the OWU crowd, but that game was only a little over an hour away.  It's four or five hours' drive from Wooster to Hanover.

[woolax]

Last year Wooster fans traveled fairly well to Washington DC for their first and second round games at Catholic and that distance was over 7 hrs. Hopefully a similar contingent will make its way to Hanover this coming weekend.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Last year Wooster fans traveled fairly well to Washington DC for their first and second round games at Catholic and that distance was over 7 hrs. Hopefully a similar contingent will make its way to Hanover this coming weekend.

I love that you'd describe it as "fairly well."  There were a ton of Wooster folks there, maybe 150.  Lancaster Bible had a two hour trip and might've had 200.  I was duly impressed given the distance, although, from my conversations, the chance to tour DC was a big draw for many.

[Wooster Booster]

I knew I needed Silverlight to watch the video.  I already have it. The website gives no option that I can find to watch the video if you already have it.  I tried installing it again, and it tells me, correctly, that I already have it.  But I see no way to watch the video.  God****ingdamn these DIII schools.

[Wooster Booster]

This has really ticked me off.  I can't be that stupid to not be able to get to the video.  There is just no link on the video page to actually see the video.  Unbelievable.  All day I've been waiting to watch this.

[WooClone15]

This has really ticked me off.  I can't be that stupid to not be able to get to the video.  There is just no link on the video page to actually see the video.  Unbelievable.  All day I've been waiting to watch this.

I couldn't get it to work, so I've just been listening to it on the radio. Everything needs to improve in the second half. Our defense has not been great, and we couldn't hit anything early in the first half

[WooClone15]

Good job by Wooster fighting back to only make it a 2 point game going into half time

[zander]

Good job by Wooster fighting back to only make it a 2 point game going into half time

[zander]

Good job by Wooster fighting back to only make it a 2 point game going into half time

try clicking on smart phone user. It worked for me on the desk top

[WooClone15]

Good job by Wooster fighting back to only make it a 2 point game going into half time

try clicking on smart phone user. It worked for me on the desk top

Thanks, I tried that but it still didn't work, so I just listened to it on the radio.

And crap, Wooster could just never get over the hump.

[Wooster Booster]

Good job by Wooster fighting back to only make it a 2 point game going into half time

try clicking on smart phone user. It worked for me on the desk top

I had tried that earlier and it didn't work.  After seeing your post I tried it again and it did.  Thanks for the info, I got to see the last few minutes.

Appreciate it, though, Hanover, you incompetent slackers.

[woolax]

Wooster couldn't  overtake North Central, coming within one with eight minutes left, but North Central just seemed to make timely threes at every turn. Also while Fanelly had 23 pts, only two other starters even reached double figures, and as a team Wooster shot 4-18 for 22% from 3. Disappointing end to the season. Good news I guess is they return three of five starters, with Fanely and  Davis graduating.

[fantastic50]

Davis and Fanelly are the only seniors.

[AndOne]

Wooster couldn't  overtake North Central, coming within one with eight minutes left, but North Central just seemed to make timely threes at every turn. Also while Fanelly had 23 pts, only two other starters even reached double figures, and as a team Wooster shot 4-18 for 22% from 3. Disappointing end to the season. Good news I guess is they return three of five starters, with Fanely and  Davis graduating.

Two of the major points of North Central's game plan were to harass Fanelly as much as possible, and to prevent dribble penetration and easy layup baskets. Worked pretty well as, while he did have 23 points, he committed NINE turnovers. In effect then, he gave many of those 23 points back in the form of lost possessions. Also, preventing the penetration forced Woo into all those outside shots on which they were successful only on a low percentage of their attempts.

While he doesn't have 800 wins, Cardinals coach Todd Raridon does have just short of 500. He is one of only two D3 coaches in the country who has taken two different teams to the Final Four. He has been around quite awhile, and usually has a few good tricks up his sleve.

[ScotsFan]

I felt like NC's first possession of the 2nd half set the tone for how this game finished.  NC had 4 offensive rebounds and it looked like Wooster's players were standing in cement as NC outhustled them to every one of those rebounds.  And then it culminated with a NC basket.  In the end, NC ended up with 14 offensive rebounds that led to 17 second chance points.  Credit to Wooster to keep it close, but you're not going to win many games when you're giving up that many offensive rebounds.   Oh and it didn't hurt that NC was 10-22 from deep compared to only 4-22 for the Scots.