MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[woosterbooster]

Kudos to the Cal Baptist announcers, who are really excellent.  Impartial and knowledgeable.  Wooster now with a 5-point lead.

But, after a Lancer timeout, they go on a 6-point run, all on silly easy baskets inside.  Brandon Johnson has been on the sidelines for a while with four fouls.

[division3hoops]

Wooster Booster - How is the Live Video Feed???  Can you actually see clearly what is going on and who the players are??

[woosterbooster]

The video is pretty blurry, as it usually is.  I can recognize Evan Will and his red hair, but that's about it.

[division3hoops]

HA!  That's funny.
Talking about hair, I am pulling my hair out with all of these fouls!!!

[woolax]

Wooster down by 11pts with about 5 mins to go. Shots not falling for Wooster

[woosterbooster]

Wooster a 6-point run, cutting the lead to 5, and they have the ball.  They're still giving up weirdly easy baskets inside, but Baptist has had what looks like a lot of nice bounces on the rim.  The Scots look energized now, though, and maybe poised to pull this one out.

[woolax]

80=84 Wooster still down with 1:20 left

[division3hoops]

Big 3 by Coop.  Scots down 86-83

[division3hoops]

90-86 Cal Baptist with 20 seconds left to go and the ball

[Ryder16]

uh oh.... looks like woo will get its firstb blemish, at least it is out of conference, out of state, out of region, out of division, almost out of the country

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Cal Baptist 94  Wooster 89

Wooster was beaten by a big NAIA Division I team tonight.  Wooster hung in this game and only trailed by 3 points with one minute left before the Lancers made the clinching free throws.  Scots were led by Tom Port with 21 points, James Cooper with 20 points and Devin Fulk with 15 points.

Cal Baptist was led by big 6'9" Andrew Bruckner with 24 points, 6'7" Mark Roussin with 19 points, Junior Denson with 18 points and Jemell Swafford with 13 points.  6'9" Andrew Bruckner is 270 lbs and is a Division I transfer from UC Irvine.  Wooster had no answer for the big guy.

Wooster is now 9-1.  Next up is Ohio Northern on 12/29.

GO SCOTS!

[MoneyBallSTL]

Just watched the live stats and text play-by-play and it seemed like the Scots couldn't buy a rebound off a free throw miss. It must've happened 4 times in the final 2 minutes. It's gotta be hard to box out 6'7" and 6'9" but it sounds like there HAD to be some over-the-back calls missed. Anyway, it's tough to win 'em all, and many of the Scot teams of the past few years have faltered once around X-mas time and still managed to rack up a lot of conference and NCAA hardware, let's hope this team does the same!! Happy holidays from Bob Wilcoxen!!

[old_hooper]

This was not a good loss.  Cal Bap is a middle of the row GSAC team.  It is always tough to go on the road and win  2,000 miles away from home but this should have been a Scots win.  If this was to either Concordia Irvine or Azuza Pacific which are the top of the league it would have been a difference.  Cal Bap may finish 4th or 5th in league.  Have to say this will probably not help the Scots maintain the #1 ranking.

[wooscotsfan]

Old Hooper -- "not a good loss"

I completely disagree with that viewpoint.

Please explain to me how ANYONE on Wooster was going to grow in size to 6'9" and 275 lbs so they could defend Andrew Bruckner, a DI transfer who led Cal Baptist with 24 points.  Tim Vandervaart and Evan Will were physically outmatched in the paint.

For your info, Coach Moore pointed out on the post game radio show that Wooster had no way to defend Bruckner and that was a key factor in this game.

GO SCOTS!

[old_hooper]

wooscot...all do respect, if that is what lost it for the Scots so be it.  All Cal Baptist official losses (4) all had smaller post players as well.