MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WoosterFAN]

The superbowl is in 5 hours and I have Pittsburg!!
But here is some Sunday Wooster-Wittenberg coverage:
From the Wooster Daily Record:
http://www.the-daily-record.com/article.php?pathToFile=/articles//sports/&file=_sports1.txt&article=1&tD=
From the Springfield 'fish wrap':
long link

Now we have possible NCAC Tourney match up to look forward to and obsess about.  When is the last time the Scots beat Witt three time or vice versa?

[David Collinge]

Now we have possible NCAC Tourney match up to look forward to and obsess about.  When is the last time the Scots beat Witt three time or vice versa?

Wittenberg won all three meetings in the 2001-02 season.
http://athletics.wooster.edu/mb/news/2005-06/woo-witt_rivalry.pdf

[Pat Coleman]

I wish we could put out a 20K or 32K stream but we're limited by what we can dial up and in an old gym like Wittenberg, 10K was what we had to settle for. Usually I'd go 12 or 16.

23 year old facility old? I'm ancient then.

What accounts for Wooster's crystal clear broadcast?

Luck?

Hey man, I tried four times to connect to the internet and the best I got was 33.6. Considering one of the times I got 9800 (which was state of the art in 1992) I had to go with what I could get.

You'd be surprised what a difference old phone lines makes, seriously. A few crackles on a line doesn't have much impact on the radio but on a dial-up internet connection it's a huge deal. Up until about the mid-1990s phone lines didn't have to meet that kind of standard so it's not surprising that buildings from that era don't.

What accounts for their broadcast is different equipment.

[David Collinge]

The D3hoops.com/Broadcast Monsters broadcast might not have been as "crystal clear" as WQKT's, but it is very listen-to-able (I'm inventing this word right now, and may use it later in Scrabble. )  I don't imagine that Witt fans are looking to relive the experience right about now, but Wooster fans who attended the game or listened to WQKT should definitely check out the archival broadcast by Pat and Lenny.  It is very good.

[WoosterBNel]

My reaction to the game
1.) Witt had no plan for the pick and roll, which i was personally embarassed about. There is NO excuse for setting one high screen and getting Tom Port among others a wide open three from the  top of the key.

2.) 9-12 from three in the first half silenced the crowd and did not let Witt get off to a good start and have Wooster on its heels. Witt plays best with a lead being able to take the air out of the ball and feed it to Russ and Borchers.

3.) Cooper is good

Lets not get rediculous here. 9-12 from 3 in the first half is crazy/something that  won't happen again this year. As a Witt fan I am really not scared about possibly facing this team in the NCAC and NCAA tourney. Hopefully coach brown will get some kind of solid defense plan from this tape and be ready to pull out a win at Wooster for the conference tourney.


PS. Live by the 3, Die by the 3





PSS. I just thought I'd like to let everyone know that a lot of gambling websites are giving out free money today. Just put some money in an account and put it all on Seahawks +4 today. Bryan Nelsons lock of the day.

[woosterbooster]

No wonder I can never win at Scrabble, I've never drawn a hyphen from the letter bag...

The D3hoops.com broadcast was fine.  I did have trouble with the pregame talk, as there was lots of loud background noise/static.  During the game, that was gone.

I've been checking out the undefeated team, Lawrence, who while ranked #3 on D3hoops is the top-rated team at Massey, by a long shot.  Their rating of 1.465 tops second-place Wooster's 1.003.

Lawrence is a forward-oriented team, with a preseason All-American in Chris Braier who scores 15.7 a game, grabs 12.9 boards, and in addition leads the team with 78 assists and 42 steals.  Their second-best player is the other forward, Kyle MacGillis, at 14.2 ppg.  They seem to play center by committee, and also give four guards lots of minutes.  

Playing the 16th toughest schedule in DIII (according to Massey), they score 80.8 and give up 65.3.  Defensively, they're very tough against threes (.299), maybe a little susceptible in the middle.

I've created them for a computer simulation and have them going against Wooster.  At the half, Wooster leads, 40-32, but hasn't controlled the tempo as they were able to do against Wittenberg. I foresee a close finish.  

[ScotsFan]

Lets not get rediculous here. 9-12 from 3 in the first half is crazy/something that  won't happen again this year. As a Witt fan I am really not scared about possibly facing this team in the NCAC and NCAA tourney. Hopefully coach brown will get some kind of solid defense plan from this tape and be ready to pull out a win at Wooster for the conference tourney.

PS. Live by the 3, Die by the 3

Well, Coach Brown had the chance to come up with some kind of solid defensive plan after the 1st meeting when they gave up 34 points above their defensive average.  Whatever he came up with didn't work last night as Wooster again matched that effort putting up 34 more than the 52 Witt gives up on the season.  Witt hasn't come close to slowing Wooster down in the 1st two meetings, so what makes you think, if they happen to meet up again down the road, that things will be any different?  And don't give me the 9-12 excuse.  Wooster cooled off big time in the 2nd half and yet they were still able to keep Witt at bay.  One thing that can't be overlooked is that Witt has shot the ball extremely well in both meetings as well.  They have played about as good as they can from the offensive end, and they still can't get over on the Scots.  Something to think about...

By the way, I would expect that we will see Wittenberg's athletic director control fans a lot more than is true at Wooster where the students seem to get uglier and more profane each year.

I wasn't able to attend last night, but judging from goscots' 5th observation, it sounds like the Witt students can be taken off the pedastal that you put them on owf.

[smedindy]

Using MOV, Lawrence is first, but with a .975 rating, compared to Witt's .961 (which will change, not doubt when the new ratings come out). Lawrence's SOS was 22nd.

[smedindy]

I think I may have a speculative guess on why Miller did not start for Earlham. He got a "T" in his last game.

Some coaches yank the "T" offender out of the game immediately. I remember one high school coach had a rule that if you got a "T" you had to sit for a full quarter. His son got one and his butt was on the bench for the next eight minutes.

Perhaps that's Justis' rule, you get a "T" - you don't start (or you miss your first sub rotation in).

[bigkrapper]

Out of curiousity since i was not able to , Anyone want to let me know what the Witt fans were chanting in the second half that has a few of the posters a bit upset?

[wooscotsfan]

PS. Live by the 3, Die by the 3

Actually, Wooster is the #1 three point shooting team in D3 through 2/4 games.  

Wooster has made 225 of 504 three pointers for a terrific 44.6%.

What makes this stat so impressive is Wooster's depth in 3 point shooting.  The Scots have 6 guys (including 4 of their starters) who have made 20 or more three pointers each this year.  4 of the 6 shooters (Cooper, Port, Witucky, Fulk) have each made 35 or more three pointers this year.  Van Horn and Johnson are the 5th and 6th players each with more than 20 made.

It is very hard for an opponent to defend the three point shot when Wooster usually has 3 or 4 players on the floor at any time who can hit the shot.  Moreover, the Scots are so unselfish that they swing the ball to whoever is open for the best shot.

WoosterBNel -- everyone on this board knows that you are a Witt supporter so you might want to change your poster name.  

[goscots]

Speaking of three's:

I thought the ref's as good a job as any crew I have seen in a league game this year. The only really blown call was the 3 from Brady in the corner in the second half. The shot clock had clearly hit "0" before Brady even cocked his arm for the shot. Maybe because it was so loud they ref's didn't hear the horn, but the official in front of the scorers table should have seen it.

The stat's also show Vandervaart as missing a three. Umm, I don't think he has taken a shot outside the lane all year.

[woosterbooster]

Every shot that I've seen Vandervaart take has been from under the shadow of the basket.  When the Scot radio broadcast mentioned him putting up, and making, a seven-footer, I was in shock. 

[imderekpoe]

Out of curiousity since i was not able to , Anyone want to let me know what the Witt fans were chanting in the second half that has a few of the posters a bit upset?

During the longest drying-the-floor break the student section broke out into "F___ you Wooster".  At the end of the game they were giving the one-finger salute as the filed past the Wooster crowd.  Very classy. 

[David Collinge]

Wow!  That's mighty low.  I wonder what would have inspired such a display?  I certainly hope that Wooster students don't behave that way when Wooster loses to Witt at home. 

It's good to have an intense rivalry, but that's too intense.  It's just a game, after all.