MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[earlhamalum]

WoW this was the game of the week. 

OWU missed the 2nd free-throw attempt with 9.1 seconds left with a 2 point lead.  Junior Markous JeWett gets the rebound goes the length of the court, drove middle to Collins who kicked it to Senior Tyler Stewart in the corner for THREEE!! as time expiered.  Earlham Wins by 1!  Nice Win EC. 

I'm just wondering if COOPER for WOOSTER had 4 fouls, would the NCAC Ref's call 5 on him with 3 minutes to go in a tight game?  This is twice in a row getting in foul trouble and doesn't get the Respect he deserves. 

But EC played real well together, and other guys stepped up big in O.T.

[CentralOH]

Congrats to the Big Red - they pickup up a W this afternoon at 'Gheny.  81-78 after leading by 16 in the second half according to the Allegheny website.

Way to go Big Red.

[WooMix]

Interesting game summary of the Wabash/Wooster game on the Wabash website.  Least informative piece I have seen in a while.  No mention of any Woo players.  Interesting reporting I must repeat.

[blindwatchmaker]

Witt crushes Hiram 83-41... ouch.  No write up as of yet.   

[smedindy]

Woomix -

That's the usual kind of writeup on our site. It's for our alumni base, and really, there wasn't much to say about the game. IT seems rather par for the course when I check at other sites around the NCAC. 90% of the commentary, or more, is about their particular school.

[DenisonFan]

GO BIG RED!!!
Two road wins in a row!!

Hodgkinson had 23, Hern 21. 

Again we got some good looks from the outside shooters.  That opened things up.

Great win on the road.  The Gators can be tough on their home floor.

[blindwatchmaker]

Witt won the battle of the boards by 40 (62-22).  Poor pups.

[blindwatchmaker]

Smeds-

Is Wabash always that loud at home games?  Not a huge venue but it sounded like the place was rocking even when Woo was strating to run away. 

[witt4ever]

Witt won the battle of the boards by 40 (62-22).  Poor pups.

3/4 of the Tigers' rebounds were their own shots. 

Kenyon 89
Oberlin 52

[CentralOH]

Denison played 8 guys double figure minutes and 7 played 20+.  Also nice to see solid contributions from Shea McMahon and Jordan Krantz with 15 and 11 pts. 

[DenisonFan]

Not to be negative at all.
But if I am Chris Eberst I would be pissed.

Last game he plays 13 minutes and goes 3 of 3 from down town.

Today, 1 of 2 and only plays 4 minutes in the first half and never gets back in the game.    Excuse me, what does a guy have to do.  I feel bad for Chris.

Instead, Ghiloni plays John Ward who does nothing.   

That is poor bench management.  Period.  Eberst is a very good shot.  PLAY HIM.

Hodgkinson is 9 of 10 in the first half and the second half they never give him the ball.  Again, what do they do at half.  Seems to me that you may want to stick with what is working.  Instead, they do a 180 and go a different direction.  Hodgkinson is 2 of 4 in the second half.   I will say Hodgkinson sat most of the second half but it is just confusing when you sit and watch what this coaching staff does.

Just my opinion everyone.  Don't jump all over me. 

WE WON!!!

[imderekpoe]

Just back from my first-ever trip to Crawfordsville...

First of all, what a great game by the Scots.  They had the usual long stretch in the first half where they couldn't buy a bucket, but besides that they played a phenominal game.  I was surprised that the Scots had such an easy time of things.  I'm guessing that wasn't Wabash's best game, and it was made worse by the outstanding effort that the Scots put forth.  The 2nd half was easily one of the best of the season for the Scots.  Cooper and Vandervaart especially were unstoppable, as Wabash just didn't have an answer for anything that the Scots threw at them.

While the crowd wasn't huge, the acoustics of Chadwick really enhance the crowd noise.  And kudos to the Wabash student section for staying for the whole game - and on their feet cheering.  However, there were also several poor taste comments coming from the same students as Fulk was down on the court.

Things looked bad for Fulk as he was helped off the court putting no wieght at all on his right knee.  He spent most of the 2nd half at the end of the bench by himself several seats away from the rest of the team.  However, with a few minutes left he was walking around with barely a limp, so I'm guessing that he'll be OK, but might take Wed off.  Its unlikely that he'll be needed against Hiram.

[imderekpoe]

And I've gotta agree with Smeds - the refs were down to the usual NCAC standards.  Not that the game was called unfairly, but because they were so inconsistent you had no idea what was going to be called and what wasn't.  Not that I'm expecting every call to be correct at this level, but you'd think that they could at least be fairly consistent.

[smedindy]

It's not normally THAT loud - against Kenyon the stats crew won't need headsets. But it can rock and roll even with just 500 people in there.

Against DePauw, Wooster and Witt it gets very loud.

[David Collinge]

For those of you who are interested in the top of the rankings, you may be interested in the following scores from today's action:

Losses in the top 15:
at Elmhurst 72, #5 IWU 64
Trinity (Ct) 88, at #8 Amherst 85 (OT)
at Roanoke 72, #11 Hampden-Sydney 63
at Millikin 59, #12 North Central 58
Virginia Wesleyan 78, at #14 Randolph-Macon 65

Close wins in the top 15:
#4 Albion 74, at Alma 71
#10 Augustana 73, at Carthage 70
#15 WPI 73, at Springfield 67

Blowout wins by #1 Witt, #2 Hope, and #3 Wooster, as well as #6 Lawrence, #9 York (Pa), and #13 B-WC.