MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WooMix]

Final score from Timken:

Wooster 92 - 66 Transylvania

[woosterbooster]

Ok, with Williams out, if Wooster wins tomorrow have their chances of hosting increased?  It would either be two New York schools travelling to Ohio or two Ohio schools travelling to New York, or so it seems.

[wooscotsfan]

Just got back from Timken where I watched Wooster dissect the Pioneers.

This game was essentially over at the half as Wooster played very tough defense and held Transy to only 32% shooting in the first half while the Scots were on fire with 60%.

Wooster was led tonight by James Cooper with 21 points, Tom Port with 19 points (5 of 6 behind the arc), Brandon Johnson with 17 points and Tim Vandervaart with 9 points.

As a team, Wooster made 9 of 16 three pointers tonight (56%) and also won the rebound battle by a 35-25 count.

Wooster is now 26-3.  Next up is Centre tomorrow night in 2nd round

GO SCOTS!

[wooscotsfan]

Ok, with Williams out, if Wooster wins tomorrow have their chances of hosting increased?  It would either be two New York schools travelling to Ohio or two Ohio schools travelling to New York, or so it seems.

Wooster Booster -- Williams getting knocked out probably increases Wooster chances of hosting a sectional but St. Lawrence (Canton, NY) is still a problem because their campus is 512 miles from Wooster (over 500 miles and the NCAA is supposed to pay for airline travel which they try to avoid at all costs).

If Wooster wins tomorrow and Brockport State beats St. Lawrence (a tough task on St. Lawrence's home floor), I think that there is a very high probability that Wooster would host the sectional.  Brockport State is within 500 miles of Woo.

If Wooster and St. Lawrence both win tomorrow, the sectional may go to Rochester or Cleveland since both sites would be less than 500 miles for all 4 teams in the sectional.

[wooscotsfan]

Actually, there is one other potential complication in my dream hosting scenario because I just realized that Plattsburgh State knocked off Rochester tonight.   Plattsburgh, NY is also well over 500 miles from Wooster.  

So, Wooster may need BOTH Brockport State (beating St. Lawerence) and St. John Fisher (beating Plattsburgh) to garner wins in order for the Scots to host a sectional.  SJF has the easier task because they are playing at home vs. Plattsburgh tomorrow.

So, Go Wooster, Go Brockport and Go St. John Fisher!  

[goscots]

Using a quick mapquest of just the cities

St. John Fisher (Pittsford NY)   316 miles from Wooster
Plattsburgh State (Plattsburgh NY)  634 miles.

Brockport State (Brockport NY) 305 miles
St. Lawrence (Canton NY)   512  miles (under 500 for JCU)

So Wooster is rooting for St. John Fisher and Brockport State Saturday

[David Collinge]

Let's take it as granted that Wooster can only host the sectional if it includes both St. John Fisher and Brockport St. (since both Plattsburgh and Canton are more than 500 miles away).  The question then becomes who gets the nod?  This is from the last QoWI run, through Saturday's games:

4   10.818   1   Lake Erie   0.955 (21-1)   25-2
15   10.423   2   St. John Fisher   0.808 (21-5)   22-5
19   10.296   3   Brockport State   0.815 (22-5)   23-5
27   10.091   2   Wooster   0.909 (20-2)   25-3
31   10.040   3   John Carroll   0.720 (18-7)   19-9

Lake Erie is the clear choice, but they haven't got the appropriate gym.  The other 4 are within 500 miles of each other, so any could host without a flight.  JCU looks like the 4th choice.  Wooster had the better win %, but Fisher had the better QoWI.  Not knowing anything at all about their facilities, my guess would be Fisher would be the higher seed and would host.  Another plus would be that both Fisher and Brockport would be local, and I'm sure the NCAA would like that (travel cost savings plus attendance boost.)

If either Fisher or Brockport loses, but not both, then the one who wins will host the sectional almost for sure.  If they both lose, then there is no scenario where a flight is avoided (since Plattsburgh is so far away from Ohio), so my guess would be JCU (if they win) or St. Lawrence (if Lake Erie wins)--these are the one-flight locations (Plattsburgh flying to Cleveland, or Wooster flying to Canton.)

The more I think about it, the less likely it seems that Wooster will host the sectional with a win.  But cheer up; I'm practically always wrong about stuff like this. 

In the meantime, we still have to beat Centre tomorrow night.  First things first.

[wooscotsfan]

Here is the link to the Daily Record article on Wooster's win last night:
Wooster routs Transy

[WooMix]

This is a geeky/neat trick for those watching and listening to the Wooster games online.

If you have two computers connected to the internet, one connected directly through the ethernet and the other one connected wirelessly to the same network, you might be in luck.  The game video on the computer that is connected directly to the ethernet will be about 15 seconds faster than the one connected to the wireless.  The same goes for the radio feed as well. So there is your chance for instant replay!

I tested this theory at my friend's house and it worked.  Please try it and let me know if it works for you.

[Ralph Turner]

This is a geeky/neat trick for those watching and listening to the Wooster games online.

If you have two computers connected to the internet, one connected directly through the ethernet and the other one connected wirelessly to the same network, you might be in luck.  The game video on the computer that is connected directly to the ethernet will be about 15 seconds faster than the one connected to the wireless.  The same goes for the radio feed as well. So there is your chance for instant replay!

I tested this theory at my friend's house and it worked.  Please try it and let me know if it works for you.

Great job!

The videofeed from Woo is great tonight!

Woo by 19;  66-45 6:19 minutes left.   

[WooMix]

Here is a link to prove my point above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOOamOZSAg

It turns out that the time difference between the two video feeds was about 12 seconds today.

[WooMix]

Final from Timken Gymnasium:

Wooster 73 - 56 Centre

For a team highly touted as a defense stalwart, I expected better from Centre.  This game was essentially over by halftime.

[wally_wabash]

I love it when Wooster fans feel it necessary to dump on every team that they beat.  Hoops snobbery at it's finest.   

[DLP]

according to the scoreboard....both St. John Fisher and Brockport won...hmm...

[woolax]

So with St John's Fisher, Brockport St, John Carroll and Wooster all winning tonight, who is likey to host the sectionals next week? From the little I have read on the board people are saying Wooster? Can anyone confirm this?