MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[sac]

9-6 added JCU, Otterbein and Wilmington which completes this list


Baldwin Wallace:  http://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/schedule
Capital:  http://www.capital.edu/mens-basketball-schedule/
Heildelberg:  http://www.heidelberg.edu/athletics/teams/mbasketball/schedule
*John Carroll:  http://jcusports.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball&;   
Marietta:  http://pioneers.marietta.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Mount Union:  http://athletics.mountunion.edu/sports/mbkb/2012-13/schedule
Muskingum:  http://www.muskingum.edu/athletics/basketball_m/Schedule12-13.html
Ohio Northern:  http://www.onusports.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/schedule
***Otterbein:  http://www.otterbeincardinals.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
**Wilmington:  http://www2.wilmington.edu/mens-basketball/calendar/6526

*  John Carroll has a schedule posted but its really just the OAC dates and their exhibition game with Akron, otherwise nothing to see here move along.

**  Wilmington actually has its full schedule now posted and worth noting it includes a real game with D1 Miami(Ohio) in late December.

***  Otterbein has their schedule up which includes a lot of TBA's.  Otterbein and Ohio Wesleyan, two schools about 17 miles apart will play each other in Rochester, NY.

[WAlum]

Any predictions?

[Dr. Acula]

I don't know about predictions, but I hope for incremental improvement from my Raiders.  They haven't had a winning record overall or in the OAC the last 7 yrs.  They were 11-15, 7-11 last year.  I'd be happy with 9-9 and a winning record overall this year.  That's quite a string of below avg. hoops, but luckily if Fuline landed a couple key recruits it can turn around quickly.  Hopefully he did.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The Preseason Top 25 is out: http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2012-13/preseason

[sac]

Some pretty important news about Baldwin-Wallace on the d3hoops.com home page.

http://d3hoops.com/notables/2012/10/baldwin-wallace-postseason-ban

[Dr. Acula]

UMU posted their roster.  I don't see Stevie Griffin on it.  That's not good news since he was their 3rd leading scorer (9 ppg) as a freshman last year.  I'm guessing they were counting on him to be a main scorer this year. 

Varsity roster breakdown is:  2 seniors, 5 juniors, 1 soph, 7 freshmen. 

They're going to lean heavily on the backcourt as Gillespie, Little and Jacubec are by far the guys who played the most last year (all avg 22+ min).  The front court is going to be interesting with the graduation of Wood and loss of Griffin. 

[sac]

Rough start for the OAC, 7-11 the first weekend.

[Dr. Acula]

Rough start for the OAC, 7-11 the first weekend.

Yeah, and on top of that the preseason favorite and 2nd (tied) got blown out.  Wheaton blew Cap's doors off 80-45 and OWU beat up on Etta by 20+.  Not good.

Following the box scores it looks like my Raiders are going with a full on youth movement.  A lot of freshmen named among the scoring/rebounding leaders so far. 

[bouncer1]

Impressive opening night win by BW over Bethany. Looks like the Jackets were up big during the game but hung on for a 5 point win against a very good Bethany team with a lot of returners from an NCAA qualifier last year. Another big test comes Tuesday night against Wooster.

[WAlum]

I see BW winning the OAC.

[Dr. Acula]

I hope not for their sake.  It'd suck to win the regular season and then have no chance to go to the tournament.  I feel like that would burn me up if my team was the #1 team in the regular season.

[bouncer1]

I disagree with Dr. Acula. Right now it's all BW has to play for, a regular season title. It does suck that they can not go to post-season because they should have a very good team. But now they have to set their goal at what they can achieve and that is to win the OAC regular season. Had a chance to take in BW vs Wooster game. Very good game between 2 very good teams. Rebounding was the difference in the game especially at the offensive end and Goodwin came up big for Wooster all night. Both teams should be fun to watch all season.

[Dr. Acula]

I just meant it sucked for them because I wouldn't want to "waste" (for lack of a better word) a championship caliber team in a year when I can't go to the tournament.  This is BW we're talking about.  It's not like they can just shrug it off because they field great teams regularly.  They don't.  They don't even field good teams regularly.  That's why I thought it was a shame for them.  But you're right, they'll go all out to win that reg season title.  No doubt there.

[WAlum]

JCU playing better than expected!

[WAlum]

Not much OAC talk going on in here.