MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

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Couple familiar names to Ohio D3 fans hired at Heidelberg

http://www.heidelberg.edu/athletics/teams/mbasketball/news/20130805

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9/6  added John Carroll

Baldwin Wallace:  http://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/schedule
Capital:   http://athletics.capital.edu/sports/mbkb/2013-14/schedule
Heildelberg:
John Carroll:       http://www.jcusports.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball&
Marietta:  http://pioneers.marietta.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Mount Union:  http://athletics.mountunion.edu/sports/mbkb/2013-14/schedule
Muskingum: 
Ohio Northern:  http://www.onusports.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/schedule
Otterbein:  http://www.otterbeincardinals.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Wilmington: 

[Pat Coleman]

Having all those other schedules in the system allows us to display partial schedules for the rest:

http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Heidelberg/Men/2013-14/index
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Muskingum/Men/2013-14/index
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Wilmington/Men/2013-14/index

[ohiofan1954]

A question for Heidelberg fans. I was looking at my ohio bobcats schedule for the 2013/2014 season and I saw Heidelberg on the schedule. Is this the same Heidelberg from Tiffin or some other one I don't know about? If it is you then I hope you have a great time down in Athens. I know from watching your games at Cap and Otterbein the Berg always comes strong. See you at the game and don't forget the night spots on court street afterwards.

[Gregory Sager]

A question for Heidelberg fans. I was looking at my ohio bobcats schedule for the 2013/2014 season and I saw Heidelberg on the schedule. Is this the same Heidelberg from Tiffin or some other one I don't know about?

There's only one other institution of higher learning called Heidelberg, and that's the original one:



I doubt that it has a basketball team that's going to fly from Germany to Athens, OH for a game.

[ohiofan1954]

Thank you very much, after looking at the schedule closer I did notice that was a student prince logo. Second time Ohio has played a d3 team in a regular season game in the last three years. The kind of game you would expect for beginning exhibition not a regular game. Oh well Ohio is not going to be very good this year , who knows.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount has their roster up. Given the mass youth of last year's team I wasn't sure what to expect. Well, the one thing that should be a given:  Fuline reeling in his former players. 2 more of his former HS players are on the roster in Miles Griffin and Michael Shull.  Shull went to DII Malone but is now listed as a soph at Mount. Griffin joins his brother Stevie in Alliance. Miles tore his ACL last Dec but he was a very nice HS player averaging almost 15 ppg and leading the team in reb and assists as a jr. Just a solid all around player.

The name that jumped out to me was DeAllen Jackson from Akron Hoban.  Really excited about him. Kid can absolutely score the ball.

They need bigs. My pipe dream was that Josh Egner would become overcome with memories and land at Mount when he transferred from Akron.  That kind of athlete in the post would have been huge, but alas he went to Walsh. Can't really blame him.  Mount did bring in Tyler Sherman who is a pretty skilled 6'7" kid from Norton.  He's going to have to play early I'm guessing because they have guards out the wazoo but they're thin on bigs still.

[bouncer1]

Have the coaches and media's picks come out for the new hoops season? What are some thoughts about the rankings? I will go with BW, Wilm, Mount, ONU, Marietta, Cap, Ott, JCU, Berg, and Musky in that order.  Thoughts???

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OAC coaches poll released this afternoon

http://oac.org/sports/mbkb/2013-14/releases/2013__Basketball_poll.pdf


Personally I'd be uneasy voting an 13-15 team from last year #3 in this conference.  Asking a team that hasn't had a winning record in 8 seasons to finish 3rd seems like a lot.  Marietta and Capital despite graduation losses are still pretty strong programs to just leapfrog like that.   We'll see how it goes.

[bouncer1]

I agree with the thought process of sac about Mount maybe not being able to leapfrog over Capital and Marietta but the bottom line is--look at the players returning for all 3 programs. Mount has some of the best young players in the league that gained valuable experience playing last year. Both Capital and Marietta lost key players to graduation last year. Both coaches do tremendous jobs with the players they have but I think that talent comes to the top this year. I was a little surprised that Northern was picked that low by the coaches. They have some nice talent coming back also. Should be another interesting year in the OAC. BW will get a measuring bar test early when they play in Wooster's tourney. All 4 teams ranked in the top 26 of d3hoops pre-season

[Dr. Acula]

My assumption is Mount being 3rd is based almost solely on their run to the finals with basically a freshmen/soph squad.  It's definitely higher than I would have had them right now.  To me BW is the favorite, Wilm is good, and then you have a handful of teams that look to be bunched pretty closely.

[bouncer1]

Trying to get some conversation going on this site. How about a discussion of possible POY candidates for this season in OAC. I think all talk begins with Kyle Payne from BW. He must be considered the pre-season front-runner. Other possible candidates that I will throw out there include Tyler Hammond of Marietta, Nate Jacubec from Mount, Branden Rushton from ONU, Malcolm Heard from Wilmington, and Kevin Krakowiak from BW. All are seniors except Jacubec. Any thoughts on those possibilities or others to throw in the discussion??

[Dr. Acula]

It's Payne or Heard, IMO.  Anyone else would be a surprise to me.

[ohiofan1954]

good luck Student Princes at Ohio tomorrow. Please try to ignore the fact that the Convo is a dump. I am sure you will give a much better account of yourselves then the Ohio football team did in their disgraceful performance Tuesday night. I think it will be a lot closer then a lot of folks down in Athens think.

[ohiofan1954]

congrats Quakers on a great win. If you want some good reading check out the Miami message boards. This may be the worst meld down ever.