MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[pennstghs]

yeah no kidding-i have an exam tomorrow but you know its a slow week on here when we're talkin about syracuse and rutgers football haha.

here's a discussion question for everyone.....

1 - what is the best environment you have ever been in attending a college sporting event?

come on that should raise my karma lol

[division3hoops]

For me, hands down Witt/Woo Triple Overtime at the HPER 2 years ago.  The gym was packed - oversold. The temperature was up there and both teams put up huge plays.  That was definitely the most fun game I have ever attended in my lifetime.  If I could give you Karma pennstghs I would....Great Question!

[uknowme2]

1 - what is the best environment you have ever been in attending a college sporting event?

The Witt/CoW overtime game was amazing.  It was everything that you want and more in a college basketball game.  Rivals, overtime, packed house,etc.  Can't beat it. 

A close second to me was the Ohio State/Michigan game this year.  Unbelievable.  And I didn't have to pay too much to enjoy it in person.  All the drama leading up to that, not to mention the mass quanities of beer before and after the game. 

But #1 Witt/CoW overtime.

[David Collinge]

By the way, while I'm thinking of it, Wooster's James Cooper is sitting on 990 career points coming into this weekend's game against Cedarville.  If/when he scores 10 more points, he'll become the 30th player in Fighting Scot history to reach the 1000 point plateau.  Tom Port reached this milestone last season (as did Kyle Witucky), and currently has 1340 points in his career.  Tim Vandervaart (841) needs to average just under 9 ppg over the next 18 games to reach 1000 during the regular season. 

[ScotsFan]

For me, hands down Witt/Woo Triple Overtime at the HPER 2 years ago.  The gym was packed - oversold. The temperature was up there and both teams put up huge plays.  That was definitely the most fun game I have ever attended in my lifetime.  If I could give you Karma pennstghs I would....Great Question!

Was that the game they had to keep stopping play to wipe up the condensation that was forming on the court because it was so hot in the gym?

pennstghs,

Are you talking DIII spoting events atteneded or just sporting events attended in general.  If we're talking in general, I'll have to go with last year's Michigan/Penn St. game in AA where Chad Henne hooked up with Mario Manningham for the winning TD with no time left on the clock.  To see the PSU fans go from celebration to sheer disbelief in just a few minutes was absolutely priceless!!!

As for my best DIII experience, unfortunately, I wasn't in attendance for that triple OT gem down in Springfield so I'm going to have to say James Cooper's game winning trey last year vs. Wittenberg has to rank up there.   But I'm going to go with the 2003 playoff game vs. JCU where Rodney Mitchell buried an off balance jump shot while driving in the lane with time running out to lift the Scots to a 77-75 win in what was the beginning of their run to Salem that season!  I think that was about as loud as I've ever heard Timken when that shot went in!

[ScotsFan]

i think with the new 12th game added you see hoards of these "easy" games being scheduled

Yeah.  This just shows how the presidents of these DI institutions are all just a bunch of hypocrites.  They can add a meaninless 12th game which ends up being a glorified scrimmage for most of the 'big-time' programs, yet, they don't want to take away from the class time of their football players by having a tournament?!  I wish they would just quit using the loss of class time as an excuse and just come out and say it's all about the almighty dollar!

[pennstghs]

well scots fan since there's nothing much else to talk about this week we can go ahead and discuss both overall and division 3

my best environment for a college sporting event would either have to be the 3OT wooster/witt game or i dont know if scots fans remember but when i was younger i attended the NCAC championship game between wooster and witt and greg rustad was fouled with little or no time remaining and made 3 free throws for the win-that was pretty cool

overall though i would have to say that the wittenberg-amherst final four game was pretty cool. just to see all the witt fans that made the 6 hour trip and have witt come back from a deficit to win in the final minute of the game and the feeling afterwards of holy crap we're playing for the national championship-we wont discuss what happened 24 hours later though.....

[Vanilla24COW]

Penn...Basically the Tigers didn't show up to play early in that game and there were a few questinable calls that went against Witt and Bill, needless to say he didn't respond real well the first technical and was assessed a second and thus the campus police escort....as far as the NCAC championship game between Woo and Witt and the "Rustad Incident" that was in 2002 and I have yet to see the official that called that foul at any game (college, high school or junior high) since, for the record i believe there were 2.1 seconds left

[ScotsFan]

Just think, if Wooster had pulled off that NCAC championship game back in '02, they'd be in the midst of an 11 year postseason streak and counting.  Would anyone happen to know who currently has the longest active post-season streak going?

[kiltedbryan]

As for my best DIII experience, unfortunately, I wasn't in attendance for that triple OT gem down in Springfield so I'm going to have to say James Cooper's game winning trey last year vs. Wittenberg has to rank up there.   But I'm going to go with the 2003 playoff game vs. JCU where Rodney Mitchell buried an off balance jump shot while driving in the lane with time running out to lift the Scots to a 77-75 win in what was the beginning of their run to Salem that season!  I think that was about as loud as I've ever heard Timken when that shot went in!

I wasn't there for either of those, but I think the quietest I've ever seen Timken was after a Wittenberg player ran the length of the court and banked in a game winning 3-pointer to win the conference tournament.  All the Wooster fans were just stunned- already on our feet in celebration, we were left to just stand there.  I'm guessing this game was in the mid-to-late 90s, because it was certainly well before I entered college.  Anyone able to offer further details on this (admittedly bad)memory?

[division3hoops]

ScotsFan - That was indeed the game they had to keep stopping to wipe the floor.  Players were slipping all over and the concession stand ran out of water! There were so many people in that gym, that there was a standing room only against the wall underneath the basket.

[bufordscot]

1 - what is the best environment you have ever been in attending a college sporting event?

come on that should raise my karma lol

Can't help you with the Karma however;  In December of 1969 Wooster, led by Tom Dinger, played Kenyon, led by John Rinka at Wooster.  In the age before the 3 point line, Dinger scored 40 and I believe Rinka scored 46.  Although Kenyon prevailed 118-112 it was a great game before a packed house.  My best Division 3 experience.

[petewitt54]

Scotsbrod- Matt Croci hit that bank three.  Coach Brown has the tape and showed it to us a couple times.  It was in '92 I believe. 

VanillaCOW-  In '02, Matt Smith left his feet.  We had called a 1-4 flat play, so Greg could go one on one with Smith.  As Greg was going to the hole he head faked at the three point line and Smith jumped to contest.  Greg leaned in and drew the foul.  Thats a foul 100% of the time.  I was on the floor when that happened, and Rustad's fling at the basket almost went it.  I stood at the free throw line and couldn't watch.  After he made the free throws, Wooster came down and Brian Carlisle, who I was guarding, set a ball screen on Antwaan Reynolds and I switched.  Being sure I was going to get scored on, I said some prayers.  By the grace of God, or my spectacular on ball defense, Reynolds dribbled off his foot.  The ball rolled to almost half court and he threw one up in desperation.  I swear it took 10 minutes for that ball to get to the rim.  That shot hit the front of the rim and it was pandemonium. 

As for the best game I played in, it would have to be Witt at Wooster in 2002 for the conference title.  We had lost at Wabash and Wooster had lost to us.  It was back and forth through out the game and in the second half with about 14 min to go, Wooster took an 12 point lead, Kevin Longley then dunked all over Blake Mealer, we got it to nine with about 4 min to go, and Rod Emmons hit a three and Rustad had a four point play in the corner right in front of Woo's student section.  We should not have won that game.  We ended up beating Woo three times that year.  That was an amazing season.

The bast game I have been to is a tie.  Jan 1, 1995 Louisville vs. Kentucky, Freshman Samaki Walker drops Louisville first ever triple double with 14 points, 10 rebounds, and a school record 11 blocks.  I was about 5th row behind the basket.  I was in 7th grade and remember it like it was yesterday.

The second is this years OSU/Michigan game.  I don't need to explain to anyone about that game, but before the game in the rotunda, I asked my then girlfriend to marry me (she said yes).  Best game ever.  We also got a chunk of the field after the game.

[David Collinge]

Congratulations on the engagement, Pete! 

I'll be interested to see what response (if any) Vanilla24COW has to your account of the events of that game. 

[kiltedbryan]

Scotsbrod- Matt Croci hit that bank three.  Coach Brown has the tape and showed it to us a couple times.  It was in '92 I believe. 

Wow, that was a lot longer ago than I had thought.  Thanks for the info, petewitt.