MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[DarkSide-D]

Let's go Scots, Sh!t on Witt!

[smedindy]

I don't get that at all hoopsfan. It's rather beneath him to comment on such spurious accusations - why should he? It shouldn't have been printed - period - was all that needed to be said.

[jscwittfan]

And, Coach Brown may have in fact said the rumor was false, but the writers could have just decided not to print that, as it would have made their angle look bad.

[oldwittfan]

I do not quite get the reaction of some of you Wooster fans to Bill Brown.  Those who know him know he would not be the source of the original story.  If anything he is too strait and narrow.  What has he ever done to lead you to be so critical of him except coach teams that beat Wooster about half of the time? 

By the way, there was a good story in today's Springfield News-Sun about James Cooper's relationship to one of his high school coaches and his academic success in college.  After all, that is what D3 is supposed to be about.  Perhaps the paper is doing a little penance.

[jscwittfan]

Just got back from the HPER Center . . . it is NUTS.

For anyone who has been there, and know the layout of the HPER, you'll know how long this is.  The line for tickets started in the main lobby, went up the ramp, wrapped around the old gym, up the stairs, and around the corner back to where the football and lacrosse offices are.

And, much like we speculated, people said they were buying tickets just to resell them.  Insanity all around!

Thank goodness I'm working the games tonight . . .

[pennstghs]

yes the HPER Center is nuts i jsut got back as well. THe line is long and isn't slowing down anytime soon. Even if there are nowhere near 2,000 people the majority of the people in line are buying multiple tickets. This is unfortunate for Wooster fans because i honestly don't see how there are going to be any seats leftover for the crowd that they'd want to be in attendance.

[David Collinge]

It'd be unfortunate if Wooster fans made the long drive and were turned away; for that reason, I think it's good if are some scalpers getting involved.  But I wonder if that will happen. 

Last season, diehardfan drove out from the DC area and rendezvoused with me at Denison, where we attended the Wabash/Denison game (which also went into double OT; we saw 5 overtimes that day).  We then drove to Springfield, hoping that we'd be able to get tickets even though it we didn't get there until about a half hour before gametime.  There wasn't anything else we could do, since I couldn't get advance tickets at Wooster (just like this year, and every road game every year, or so they told me).  I spent a lot of time being worried and frustrated-in-advance that we had done all that driving and still might be shut out.  But as it turned out, there was no problem;   the line was short, I got the tickets, and even though the game was reported as a sellout, there were empty spaces in the bleachers all around us.  Of course, there weren't noon ticket sales last year, and Wittenberg wasn't #1 (the matchup was #1 Wooster vs. #5 Wittenberg), so it could be different this year.

I'm just glad this game is in a 3,000 seat arena and not in some traditionally dinky D3 gym. 

Looking forward to another great game tonight.

[woosterbooster]

Yesterday I talked to a Mr. Frank Knorr, who is a member of the Wooster Downtown Rebounders, an organization that supports Scot basketball.  He told me that after two phone conversations with the Wittenberg athletic director, he was eventually told that they would be setting aside 300 tickets for Wooster people.

The Rebounders bus, which is sold out, is leaving Wooster at 2 PM. Their plan is to stop around Columbus for a meal then continue on to Springfield.  Frank told me they expected to arrive around 6 PM.

I'm not sure how they arrived at the number 300, as they only have one bus going down.  But, there is also at least one student bus making the trip, maybe more.  I'm imagining that those people will also be able to get tickets from the Wooster allotment.

For the sake of the people making the bus trip, I certainly hope that this agreement works out.

[DarkSide-D]

To any Witt fans (or Scots fans),

How is the ticket situation handled when Woo plays host?  Does Witt get a select number of tickets to sell to their students, or is it like today's game, drive to the gym and hope like hell you get a ticket?

Given the implications of the game every year (even when it's not about #1 and #2 nationally), I would think the AD's would work together and sell some tickets at both schools.  Of course, that is in a perfect world.

[witt4ever]

Yesterday I talked to a Mr. Frank Knorr, who is a member of the Wooster Downtown Rebounders, an organization that supports Scot basketball.  He told me that after two phone conversations with the Wittenberg athletic director, he was eventually told that they would be setting aside 300 tickets for Wooster people.

The Rebounders bus, which is sold out, is leaving Wooster at 2 PM. Their plan is to stop around Columbus for a meal then continue on to Springfield.  Frank told me they expected to arrive around 6 PM.

I'm not sure how they arrived at the number 300, as they only have one bus going down.  But, there is also at least one student bus making the trip, maybe more.  I'm imagining that those people will also be able to get tickets from the Wooster allotment.

For the sake of the people making the bus trip, I certainly hope that this agreement works out.

They better eat fast, as the snow is moving in fast.

[woosterbooster]

I don't know how it works at Wooster; wish I had asked when I spoke to them a few days ago.  I do know that the visiting fans always seems to sit in the area behind the visitors bench (except during the preseason four-team tournaments, when it's a free-for-all), which is on the side of the court where the seats are reserved (numbered) seats.  But whether a certain number of tickets have either been sent to the opponents box office or are held at Wooster especially for them, I don't know.  I would hope so.

[wooscotsfan]

#1 vs. #2 for the first time ever!  Should be a great game tonight.  A few key factors will probably determine the winner.

1. Which team shoots the higher percentage from the floor?
2. Which team wins the rebounding battle?
3. Which team makes more three pointers?
4. Which team has the fewest turnovers?

My guess is that tonight's winner will probably execute better in at least 2 or 3 of the 4 areas that I listed.

For Wooster, let's hope that Tom Port can play some significant minutes tonight and help Vandervaart defend the lane/rebound against Witt's strong front line.  The Scots will also need to nail some three pointers if they hope to come out on top this evening.

GO SCOTS!!

[witt4ever]

While listening to the Wittenberg women's game at Allegheny, Sean Golden, the announcer for the game, just said that the tickets for tonight's game sold out in 30 minutes.

[jscwittfan]

I know they sold out fast, but it wasn't in a half hour.  I was in line for a half hour, and I got there at 12:15.  I could see an hour, but not 1/2 hour.

Side note - they just announced they will broadcast the game on TV on Witt's campus (Witt has a little-used TV feed for channel 4 on campus).  It will only be available on TV to the dorms and some of the apartments, and will use WUSO's radio feed for commentary.

[woosterbooster]

Side note - they just announced they will broadcast the game on TV on Witt's campus (Witt has a little-used TV feed for channel 4 on campus). It will only be available on TV to the dorms and some of the apartments, and will use WUSO's radio feed for commentary.

Dang.  I wish they were sending the video feed out over the net.