MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[smedindy]

Of course, for us there's the Wabash national title in 1982. Thanks Pete!

[ScotsFan]

Thanks for the answer Greg.  To think, if it wasn't for that 'lean in' (sorry, but that's how I remember it too) Wooster might be working on the longest active post-season streak in DIII. 

And since we're on the topic of that '01-'02 season, if I recall, that was Mark Borland's aka 'The Hair', last season for the Tigers.  Does anyone know what happened to him?

Witt used reserved seating tickets this year but still didn't tear them upon entry.

That's true, they did not.  Which might go a long way towards answering why the aisles in the student sections on both sides of the stands were full of people all game long. 

Maybe this is because the students chose not to sit where their assingned ticket was located.  I remember during the radio broadcast, Mike Breckenridge kept referring to the crowd as not being near capacity and he guestimated it to be around 24-2500 at best.  When I saw the actual attendance #'s posted on Witt's website I thought to myself, how could Breckenridge be so off?  But with this talk of the student sections overflowing, I'm guessing it had to to with the students leaving their assigned seats and cramming into their respective student sections?  Just a guess on my part.

[Ryder16]

scots fan, I was there and I can tell you thats exactly what happened, many of us go to our assigned seats to find we were around a bunch or older citizens... which did not bode well for chant starting... or even just talking to your friends about the game.... so we wriggled around the gym a little bit

[ScotsFan]

There were 3 NCAC teams in action last night and they went a respectable 2-1 in thoses games.

Allegheny - 49
Thiel - 42

Hiram - 97
Grove City - 92
(2 OT)

Wilmington - 76
Oberlin - 65

'Gheny had a closer than expected result.  Hiram has surprisingly put together a 2 game winning streak and has Thiel next so it's a very real possibility that the Pups could be looking at a 3 game winning streak!!!   And the Oberlin loss was closer than I would have expected as well vs. an OAC opponent.  All in all, a pretty good showing for the NCAC last night.

[David Collinge]

You just beat me to it, SF!  Also there was a game on Monday:

Grove City 76, Kenyon 70

[ScotsFan]

You just beat me to it, SF!  Also there was a game on Monday:

Man, what has happened to Kenyon?  The 1st week of the season there was a real buzz going on about the Lords and all of their promissing young talent.  Then they get swept in the NCAC/OAC challenge (although I wouldn't consider those bad losses).  But then they strung together 3 solid wins @ W&J (picked to finish 2nd in the PrAC), Allegheny (who has since knocked off OWU) and Case, only to now lose 2 in a row to the EC and Grove City at home?  I guess, youth will be served.  Maybe these sorts of letdowns will go away as this Kenyon team starts to mature.

[Li'l Giant]

Of course, for us there's the Wabash national title in 1982. Thanks Pete!

Since I was 5 years then I'll have to rely on the historical record for that one.

If I can insert a great game I was in attendance for here it would be the 1997 ICAC tournament title game at Rose-Hulman. The game was won by a last second shot by Chad Tabor. Great game all around, great result, and all in that nasty airplane hanger RHIT used to play basketball in.

[sac]

I'm a little late to the party but I'll add my favorite D3 moments.(sorry so long)

Obviously being a Hope fan, any game with Calvin is memorable, but there have been simply to many to single out one.  Last years thriller up at Calvin that was capped with a 3 pointer with 2 seconds to play by Fr Caleb Veldhouse was an amazing display of intense basketball from the tip.

My personal favorite though was in the MIAA tournament Championship of 2002.  Hope had limped into the MIAA tournament having blown the championship with back to back losses to Calvin and Albion to finish 8-4, losing out to Calvin's 9-3, Hope had led the MIAA standings for about 5 weeks.

They were wounded and down, struggled mightily to sneak by Kalamazoo in the semi-finals, winning with FT's on a controversial call at the end of the game.  Now were faced with beating Calvin on their home floor, they beat Calvin by 2 at home and had lost by 14 at Calvin just one week earlier.

Hope trailed by as many as 17 in the first half, and managed to cut the lead to 11 by the break, the Fieldhouse at Calvin was going nuts.  In the second half Hope turned the tables and ralied to out score Calvin 45-27 fueled by the emotional lift of Hope's own student section and the 50/50 crowd that day.  Don Overbeek had a monster game for Hope with 23 points and 11 rebounds.  Somewhere early in the half there was a stretch of back-to-back-to-back 3's that lit the fire.

Not many thought Hope could pull it back together to win that game.


Hope's NCAA tournament run of 1998 collectively was pretty amazing to witness.  Hope had lost their AA forward Dave Muhlenberg a few weeks earlier to injury.  They were 20-2 when the injury occured and immediately lost to Alma 66-65, Alma's only win over Hope in something like 25 years.  Hope lost the MIAA tournament Championship on their home floor to Albion, the first MIAA team to do such a thing.  They were struggling.

The NCAA tournament began and Hope was still ranked high enough within their region to get a host game and beat Allegheny 80-66.  Hope then hosted the sectional and destroyed 1 loss Christophyer Newport 81-64 leading 45-16 at the half, and handily beat John Carroll 84-66 also led big at the half in that one.  Hope did all this at home in their "backup" gym with just 1250 seats all temporary bleachers.

The good fortunes continued in Salem when they whipped Wilkes 81-61 before running into UW-Platteville who were just beginning their run of titles.  It was an unexpected run after the injury and the struggles at the end of the year but one we won't forget in Holland for a long time.  No games with drama but the determination that team showed was simply incredible......I've never seen another team more focussed on a goal than that one.

[sac]

Here's one a little more relevant to this board.......

The 2005 NCAA tournament game at Albion against John Carroll.  Albion had won their midweek game over Wooster in shall we say controversial fashion (sorry to bring up old wounds) after dominating the first half and a furious Wooster rally  in the end.

John Carroll brought a lot of fans to Albion and they were loud and boisterous and combined with Albion's loud and boisterous students and the accoustical equivalent of a large closet it was a pretty charged atmosphere inside Kresge.

What makes this memorable is not what I saw but what I missed.  JCU put together a 2 minute rally at the end of the game led by Brandon Mimes that looked like they had stolen this game from the Britons.  If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed it, the rally itself was enough to make it a memorable game.

With just a couple seconds remaining and trailing by two, Albion got the ball to Michael Thomas who took a couple dribbles and lauched a prayer from near mid-court............the ball bounced off the back of the iron and straight up in the air.  It was at this point that my head went down feeling Albion had lost this game........but something happened.........I looked up and people were running around the gym crazed going nuts, I was suddenly surround by people who could only mutter "Oh my God" over and over.  Mr Thomas' shot had gone in.  Albion won 80-79.

[pennstghs]

also of note with that game-that was the year that john carroll barely survived making it that far after surviving the 2OT game against witt in the second round-i forget his name but the coaches son on jcu-made this impossible rainbow 3 to tie it with a little time to go to send it in OT-that just had to cap off our heartbreaker year after losing to wooster and then jcu in multiple overtimes.ugh.........

[woosterbooster]

Next week, Wooster is in southern California for a two-game swing.  The second of the two, Wednesday night against California Baptist, will have live video available from the California Baptist website.  Go to the webpage below, and I was told that some time before game time the link to the video should activate.  The price for a single game is $6.95.

http://www.cbulancers.com/liveEvents/liveEvents.dbml?SPSID=37637&SPID=3077&DB_OEM_ID=8100&;

[billy_pilgrim]

Make it two wins for Earlham as they beat Rose tonight, 70-62 in Richmond and reclaim the Mutchner Cup.

Four Quakers in double figures, led by LaRon Henry with 15. Neil Collins had 11 points and 10 rebounds from the point guard spot.

Earlham is tantalizingly close to me at Franklin on Saturday, but I won't be going. But, someday I will actually see the Quakers play and give my full opinion on this team.

[wally_wabash]

Mmmm...delicious karma...

http://d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=4392&scoreboard

[drt]

Still the digs about ticket prices at the HPER.  $8 = 2 Lattes +/- .  < 2 packs tobacco products.  3 (?) beers just about anywhere, if you're lucky.  Where else can you get three quality hours of entertainment for that price.  Have you bowled lately? You remind me of the people who walk past a club saying, "$2 cover?  C'mon, the place down the street is $1."  Get real, when drinks are $3.  Tell me, are you a teacher, or perhaps a civil servant?

[drt]

Oh, and yeah, jump on the free video
Wait, I get it, your Wooster education has given you the leg up on a minimum wage job...
Sorry for the sarcasm.  My SO says I am very talented in that area.
My point is, if you are as big a fan as you say you are, then why the gripe about what is really an insignificant amount of $'s to attend what is really a quality product?
I know, I'll be ignored, because I'm an infrequent poster.  The point is, you are whining about something for no good reason, other than to run down Witt.