MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

smedindy · January 28, 2006, 10:49:31 PM

Oh, and I think we have a record set today.

Freshman Brian Maloney got credit for TWO games played by the Oberlin stats crew. Congrats to Brian! It must have been that hard work in the research labs this summer. Thank goodness the Campaign initiative for more faculty / student research collaboration was funded

That way we can have two-two-two Brian Maloneys out there. Geez, now if we could only have done that for Josh Estelle and Joe DesJean!

earlhamalum · January 28, 2006, 11:09:29 PM

Smedindy- Josh Estelle, I have not heard that name for a while, I couldn't think of his first name for the life of me. That kid could score, he had a Sweeeeet Shot! I liked that 99-00 season squad, and Seniors Josh Estelle, Brian Lathom, and I believe DesJean would of been a freshman with Brady Claxton.

SPeaking of Poor Stat taking... go to this site, http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=260128004find out what is wrong with it. *hint James Thomas

goscots · January 28, 2006, 11:22:42 PM

Earlhamalum

I like Brandon Miller and have been impressed each time I have seen him play. His talent, athleticism and size allow him to play just about any position. He certainly should receive consideration, but with the second round of the NCAC just starting I might be a bit early to start the POY talk. I would like to see a few players once more.

smedindy · January 29, 2006, 12:09:28 AM

Earlham alum - I didn't notice anything except he got one minute and one rebound. They must have fixed it. What was the issue??

wally_wabash · January 29, 2006, 01:33:21 AM

Oh my...if we could have had two Estelles we might have been able to get by Chicago in '97 and '98. That would have been fun!

Li'l Giant · January 29, 2006, 02:47:30 AM

Quote from: DenisonFan on January 28, 2006, 08:39:18 PMAgain, Ghiloni plays 12 guys and we had no chance. End of story.

I bet Oberlin would love to have the luxury of having 12 players available in a blowout loss. Get some perspective, man.

ScotsFan · January 29, 2006, 02:51:25 AM

EA,

In response to your post regarding Brandon Miller, after seeing him on tape tonight against Wooster, I wouldn't object to having Miller at least in consideration for NCAC POY. With that being said, with what you said about your boy Keaton regarding Miller as possibly one of the best D3 players in the country, I would have to defer to 2 players in our own region who I would vote ahead of Miller in Brandon Crawford from Albion and Tori Davis from BW.

As for NCAC POY, James Cooper is making it pretty hard not to put his name as a frontrunner for that award so far this season. I mean, all Coop did for Wooster tonight was score 20 points while going 9-11 from the field!

Miller's a nice player, but the fact that he plays for the EC might hurt his chances in getting the NCAC POY, especially if Cooper continues to produce like he has the past week or so. You would think that since Port's injury, teams would focus more on Cooper, making his shot selection more difficult. Instead, he has seemingly thrived as the focal point of Wooster's offense. In the 3 games since Port has gone down, Cooper is an incredible 31-44 from the field which is over 70% shooting from the field! These #'s would be impressive from a low post player, let alone a shooting guard that Cooper is! Of course, this is whithout arguably Wooster's best player on the floor, which almost makes his numbers even more impressive. Those numbers have to warrant some consideration for NCAC POY. Not to mention the fact that Cooper the current league leader in ppg. Miller is a nice player, but from what I've seen, Cooper is the better candidate for NCAC POY so far this season.

imderekpoe · January 29, 2006, 08:30:08 AM

BrandonMiller had a great game yesterday, but what happened to the rest of the team? I've usually been critical of Miller for playing too selfishly, but it seemed that yesterday there was no choice. It looked like nobody else wanted to have anything to do with playing Wooster and Miller was forced to play 1 on 5 just about every trip down the court. That he put up 32 points with no help speaks volumes about the talent that kid has.

Another unbelievable performance by James Cooper. He seems to be getting better and better each week and had been just about unstoppable since Port went down. The biggest surprise yesterday seemed to be when he finally missed a shot about halfway through the 2nd half! Also note that he had as many rebounds as anybody from Earlham did!

And another solid performance by Marty Bidwell. While he didn't score much, he made some great assists and rebounds, and played solid defense.

And finally - maybe the best fast break of the year with Brandon Johnson and Evan Will making great passes to each other down the court resulting in a sweet reverse layup (with a foul) for Johnson.

The Scots should have a relatively easy time on Wed (home against the Gators), then the big one next weekend in Springfield!

Go Scots!

imderekpoe · January 29, 2006, 09:48:30 AM

Reported attendance figures from yesterday's NCAC games:

Wabash at Oberlin: 121
Allegheny at Kenyon: 225
Hiram at OWU: 391
Wittenberg at Denison: 875
Earlham at Wooster: 1422

ScotsFan · January 29, 2006, 09:56:56 AM

Quote from: imderekpoe on January 29, 2006, 08:30:08 AM

And finally - maybe the best fast break of the year with Brandon Johnson and Evan Will making great passes to each other down the court resulting in a sweet reverse layup (with a foul) for Johnson.

What made even better was how it started. Miller was breaking out for a possible breakaway and what looked to be a possible dunk, when Johnson came out of nowhere to streak behind Miller and intercept the pass. He then turned back up the floor and derek described the rest of the play pretty well.

That was a pretty nice crowd at Timken considering it was an afternoon game and it was as nice as it was yesterday. I was surpised the attendance was as high as it was.

pennstghs · January 29, 2006, 10:28:42 AM

another good win for witt yesterday at dension. i admit i was feeling a little timid about that game but once i heard witt was ahead big at the half i was at ease. a big game this wednesday at earlham because the game before the wooster game is alwayas a tough one, but with this game being on the road i think its even tougher. hopefully witt can take what they learned the first time and cause more havoc for earlham.

earlham guys? is the game environment going to be worth my "long" journey over to richmond? or should i not even bother.

earlhamalum · January 29, 2006, 12:10:46 PM

smedindy- yeah they changed it... they had him listed twice.. 1) as DID NOT PLAY COACHES DECISION! then 2) his name again right above it as ZERO across the stat line with 1 minute being played. I was suprised by seeing a NBA Box Score wrong... but it looks like they fixed it!

NCAC never good at picking awards.. LOL just saying that because I think Brandon Crawdford was NCAC new comer of the Year over Brandon MIller... At least one Brandon Stuck around in the NCAC for four years!

DenisonFan · January 29, 2006, 04:46:28 PM

Quote from: Li'l Giant on January 29, 2006, 02:47:30 AM
Quote from: DenisonFan on January 28, 2006, 08:39:18 PMAgain, Ghiloni plays 12 guys and we had no chance. End of story.

I bet Oberlin would love to have the luxury of having 12 players available in a blowout loss. Get some perspective, man.

What are you talking about? Is it my fault Oberlin has 8 guys.
Ghiloni went deep into his bench and when the smoke cleared it was game over. If the first string is having problems stopping Witt. Why would he think the third string can do better?

Get some perspective.......that doesn't even make sense.

David Collinge · January 29, 2006, 04:50:50 PM

Quote from: DenisonFan on January 29, 2006, 04:46:28 PMIf the first string is having problems stopping Witt. Why would he think the third string can do better?

Get some perspective.......that doesn't even make sense.

Wow, it's a good thing you're not the coach.

smedindy · January 29, 2006, 05:49:28 PM

Well, to be honest, he could have played five players and when the smoke cleared they were out of it.

It seems like when Witt went on the 20-4 run over the last 13 plus minutes of the first half, Ghiloni tried his usual suspects.

Is it his fault Gognat, Izzo, Eberst, Krantz, Shea and McMahon did nothing, whilst Hern and Danny Boy led Borchers grab six boards and Russ score 11?

Funny, Witt played 11 guys in the first half and they did just dandy.

BTW - Minnesota shook things up and started two walk-ons against IU today. That worked out - if I was coaching and we scored just 13 in the first half I'd probably banish everyone in the second half and play the kids that worked hard in practice - or just play the freshmen to get them 20 good minutes of experience. What do you have to lose, you certainly couldn't do worse than 13 in the first half.