MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[DenisonFan]

I'm curious, how does Whitewater play D3 when they are that huge.  Heck, their senior class has as many students as Denison has total.  That to me doesn't seem real fair. 
I don't know who decides who plays what division.

Having a gene pool of 10,000 vs 2400, seems the chances are you may get a few better players from a school of 10.000.

[earlhamalum]

DF- good point.

Also Good Luck to the W's this weekend.  Hope both teams will be around to talk about NexT WeeK!

[woolax]

Is Wooster broadcasting the game vs Macon tonight? or is thier another broadcast location on the Net?

[sac]

 I've created an updates page for Great Lakes teams.  Lets try and keep the conference pages clean.

Thanks in advance.

[woosterbooster]

I just called the Wooster radio station and they're broadcasting the game on the FM station.  However, the girl who I spoke with has no idea if it will be webcast, and no one else was there who would know. I'd be surprised if it's not, though.

[David Collinge]

Is Wooster broadcasting the game vs Macon tonight? or is thier another broadcast location on the Net?

Wooster is on the air and on the net.  Click HERE for the WQKT broadcast.

[WooMix]

Wooster is not playing well at all.  They were shooting seriously horrible in the first half.  If this kind of play continues, the second half might signal the beginning of the end for them.  Randy Macon up by 6 with 39 points.  Cooper burried one of his trademark last second shots to give us a respectable score.

[woolax]

Sounds like Wooster is turning it back on NOW!!

[Gregory Sager]

I'm curious, how does Whitewater play D3 when they are that huge.  Heck, their senior class has as many students as Denison has total.  That to me doesn't seem real fair. 
I don't know who decides who plays what division.

Having a gene pool of 10,000 vs 2400, seems the chances are you may get a few better players from a school of 10.000.

Student population size is completely irrelevant, DenisonFan. UWW recruits its players, just as do NCAC teams. It doesn't select them from the student body at large.

If student population size was relevant, Duke would annually be among the worst teams in the country, and they'd lose every ACC game by 25 points.

[TigerFan_1973]

I'm curious, how does Whitewater play D3 when they are that huge.  Heck, their senior class has as many students as Denison has total.  That to me doesn't seem real fair. 
I don't know who decides who plays what division.

Having a gene pool of 10,000 vs 2400, seems the chances are you may get a few better players from a school of 10.000.

I just accidentally found out through a bad link that Notre Dame plays Division III women's volleyball.

It's all a matter of scholorships and money, not student body size.

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 84  Randolph Macon 70

Wooster gets a first round NCAA tourney win!   Wooster was led by Tim Vandervaart with 23 points, James Cooper with 20 points and Tom Port with 14 points.  Phil Hawley had 20 points to lead Randolph Macon

Wooster played a much better second half after terrible shooting (37%) in the first half of this game.  Scots also hit all the key foul shots down the stretch.

Great games by Vandervaart and Cooper to led the Scots tonight.  Vandervaart got RMC's big men, Phil Hawley, in foul trouble and he fouled out with ~6 minutes left in this game.

Wooster is now 26-3.   Next up is the winner of Transy-Bethany, tomorrow night!

GO SCOTS!!

[kiltedbryan]

Final:  Wooster 84  Randolph Macon 70

Wooster gets a first round NCAA tourney win!   Wooster was led by Tim Vandervaart with 23 points, James Cooper with 20 points and Tom Port with 14 points.  Phil Hawley had 20 points to lead Randolph Macon

Wooster played a much better second half after terrible shooting (37%) in the first half of this game.  Scots also hit all the key foul shots down the stretch.

Great games by Vandervaart and Cooper to led the Scots tonight.  Vandervaart got RMC's big men, Phil Hawley, in foul trouble and he fouled out with ~6 minutes left in this game.

Wooster is now 26-3.   Next up is the winner of Transy-Bethany, tomorrow night!

GO SCOTS!!

Listening to the post-game show on WQKT (Wooster radio) and Mike Breckenridge notes that Wooster was 21-21(!!) from the foul line in the second half.  (It should be noted it was after a 3-8 effort in the first half.)

21-21

That's how you win tournament games.

[woosterbooster]

Going in, I had been pretty worried about this game.  A tough opponent in an opening game, on the road, after a tough loss to Wittenberg in the tournament.  But they pulled it out.

Wooster went 4-25 from behind the arc, yet still won. Scary, but that's  actually a really good sign if you're capable of doing that.  First half, 3-8 from the free throw line, second half, 21-21. Amazing.

I have a lot more confidence in them winning tomorrow.  It would be nearly impossible to shoot that poorly from long range again, so any improvement would be a big positive.  And you can be sure there will be.

[David Collinge]

I just accidentally found out through a bad link that Notre Dame plays Division III women's volleyball.

It's all a matter of scholorships and money, not student body size.

There's lots of Notre Dames out there, including one in Ohio of which you may be thinking.  The more famous Notre Dame University, of South Bend, IN, plays Div. I volleyball.  http://und.collegesports.com/sports/w-volley/nd-w-volley-body.html

If student population size was relevant, Duke would annually be among the worst teams in the country, and they'd lose every ACC game by 25 points.

Duke's undergraduate enrollment is 6244 (Fall 2005).  Wake Forest's undergraduate enrollment is 3857 (2004-05).  Duke would still kick Wake's butt. 

[TigerFan_1973]

There's lots of Notre Dames out there, including one in Ohio of which you may be thinking. 

You are right, of course.  That broken link and all, I got excited and posted before thinking ...