MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[kiltedbryan]

Also,

Hiram 71
Ohio Wesleyan 85


Can't find any scores for Kenyon-Earlham or Oberlin-Denison yet.

[BigRedGrad]

Big Red VICTORY!!!!!  78-74

[goscots]

Have to give props to Denison for not giving up on the season....

[kiltedbryan]

Wabash, take heart...

Kenyon 63
Earlham 64

Earlham's Tristan Gregory has 32, 11-17 from the floor, 6-9 from 3 including the game-winner with 6 seconds left.  Sounds like he really carried Earlham to victory today.

Kenyon has a write-up on the game on its website.

[smedindy]

Whoa....

The Quake shock the Lords...

[David Collinge]

Maybe today's unbelievable result from Richmond will bring Billy and/or EA out of their self-imposed exile. 

So the standings look like this:
1a. Wittenberg 11-1 (Witt has tie-breaker on head-to-head results)
1b. Wooster 11-1
3. OWU 9-3
4a. Wabash 7-5*
4b. Kenyon 7-5
6. Allegheny 5-7
7. Hiram 4-8
8. Oberlin 3-9
9. Denison 2-10
10. Earlham 1-11

* I can never remember whether the tie-breaker (after head-to-head) is best win or worst loss, but Wabash had both: the best win is their victory over #3 OWU, and the worst loss is Kenyon's loss to #10 Earlham.

Wabash has Earlham and Oberlin at C'ville, then trips to Wittenberg and Denison remaining.  Kenyon travels to Oberlin, hosts Allegheny, goes to Hiram, then closes the season at Gambier against Wittenberg, and they'd better plan on winning all four if they want to host the 4/5 game two weeks from Tuesday.

[kiltedbryan]

* I can never remember whether the tie-breaker (after head-to-head) is best win or worst loss, but Wabash had both: the best win is their victory over #3 OWU, and the worst loss is Kenyon's loss to #10 Earlham.

I believe the NCAC does worst loss.  The OAC does best win, and I remember from last year thinking that the two leagues used different ones.

[Li'l Giant]

* I can never remember whether the tie-breaker (after head-to-head) is best win or worst loss

Can we add worst win and best loss? 

[David Collinge]

This week's NCAC Player of the Week is Denison's Brian Elder, who recorded 29 points in two games.  Congratulations, Brian!

[pennstghs]

running out of players to give the award to? just kidding

[David Collinge]

It's just that my usual enthusiasm for this award is dampened by a touch of the flu, that's all.  I'll admit that there seems to be a "Denison's turn" aspect to this, especially when one considers Tristian Gregory's week, but it happens all the time and I've never let that bother me. 

Brian Elder is the senior leader of a team that could very easily have thrown in the towel weeks (even months) ago.  That they didn't, and still play hard right to the finish of every game, is largely because of his hard work and inspirational leadership.  He's constantly giving pep talks and back slaps to his teammates, all of whom clearly look up to him.  Is he the best post in the league, even the best post this week?  No.  But he exemplifies a lot of what's right about our league, and I think he's very deserving of league recognition for his efforts.

[ScotsFan]

Well said David.  I think a lot of credit has to go to Coach Ghiloni as well.  It had to be rough to not only have the losses to graduation that Denison sufferred, but also the losses of kids just quitting on the program.  I'm sure that he felt like he was running a sinking ship at some points this season and to his credit, he has been able to keep the ship from sinking completely.  Let's hope that the young kids Ghiloni has now are buying in to what he's trying to accomplish and they can continue to build Denison instead of leaving Ghiloni with another major rebuilding project.

[pennstghs]

To clarify, i wasn't trying to take a hit on Mr. NCAC for the week, i was just trying to make a light-hearted attempt at some humor. Please forgive me....geez

Anyways, as noted before Wittenberg's game against Ohio Wesleyan essentially has little impact on Saturday's game at Wooster conference standings-wise because whether Witt wins or loses they control their own destiny as the cliche goes. However, i think form a mental standpoint playing OWU will allow Witt the chance to avenge a tough loss from earlier in the year. Should be a great week of basketball for Witt fans-that is the ones that actually show up to the games.......that's a whole other issue.....

[David Collinge]

To clarify, i wasn't trying to take a hit on Mr. NCAC for the week, i was just trying to make a light-hearted attempt at some humor. Please forgive me....geez

I know that.  I just felt like I needed to expand on my less-than-normally-enthusiastic first post on this subject. 

Current odds on next week's NCAC Player of the Week:
George Raftis 3:2
Bill Babe 4:1
Charlie Jaicks 6:1
Ben Torsney 6:1
Field 40:1

[ScotsFan]

However, i think form a mental standpoint playing OWU will allow Witt the chance to avenge a tough loss from earlier in the year.

However, I think from a mental standpoint playing Witt will allow Wooster the chance to avenge a tough loss from earlier in the year...    

Sorry penn but I couldn't resist! 8)