MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

Mount (7-2) coasts past a not-so-good Adrian team yesterday at home 68-49.  No one scored more than 11, but 8 guys had at least 6 points.

JCU and Musky also won the other OOC games so it was a good Saturday for the OAC.

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Muskingum 87  John Carroll 85

The Muskies 27 game OAC losing streak is over!!!!

[Dr. Acula]

Good for the Fish!  Gotta believe JCU fans had that penciled in as a W.

Mount set a new school record with 17 triples in a 113-75 win over Westminster the other day.  The Raiders are 9-2 and look to go to 5-0 in OAC play tomorrow night at Cap.  If you want to be taken seriously you have to take care of business on the road.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount at Cap tonight has been postponed until 1/20.  Kind of bums me out as I could go tonight.  Not so sure about 2 weeks from now.

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Ohio Northern 78  Marietta 73
John Carroll 102  Heidelberg 93  2OT
Wilmington 67  Capital 51


With that Mt. Union is in first place by themselves and travel to ONU Saturday.

[BogeyMan]

Noticed Marietta did not play their top three scorers against ONU.  Wonder what happened??

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Noticed Marietta did not play their top three scorers against ONU.  Wonder what happened??

Good eye, hadn't noticed that.  All 3 are still on the roster.

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Its potentially a shake-out weekend among the contenders in the OAC.

Current standings

Mt. Union      4-0
Marietta        4-1
Wilmington   4-1
BW               3-2
John Carroll  3-2
Ohio. No.      3-2

John Carroll at Wilmington
Baldwin-Wallace at Marietta
Mt. Union at Ohio Northern

3 or 4 other top match-ups among these teams again next week.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount wins their 8th straight in Ada today. 10-2, 5-0 and still alone in 1st for now.  I was excited about the possible resurgence of hoops at Mount when they hired Fuline and he certainly seems to have the program moving up. 

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today's results lead to these standings

Mt. Union 5-0
Marietta   5-1
Wilmington  5-1


What a big week for Mt. Union next week as they host Marietta on Wed. and host Wilmington on Sat.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount hits a FT w 0.8 seconds left to beat Etta 73-72.  Raiders are 11-2, 6-0.  I thought they needed at worst a split between Etta and Wilm this week.  With both at home they surely were looking to sweep though. 

[kiltedbryan]

Mount hits a FT w 0.8 seconds left to beat Etta 73-72.  Raiders are 11-2, 6-0.  I thought they needed at worst a split between Etta and Wilm this week.  With both at home they surely were looking to sweep though.

Probably time to start considering Mt. Union for some Top 25 votes.

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John Carroll 71  Bald Wally 69
http://d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2013-14/box_scores/20140115_4lwn.xml

BW misses one at the buzzer to tie.  With that, BW has 4 conference losses already.

Mt Union can open a 2 game lead with a win over Wilmington Saturday and Marietta plays at JCU. 

Mt. Union     6-0
Wilmington   5-1
Marietta        5-2
JCU               4-3
Capital          3-3             

[Dr. Acula]

Probably time to start considering Mt. Union for some Top 25 votes.

If they beat Wilm Saturday I think they'll get some votes.  I'm guessing it's been 15 years since that's happened.

Also happy to see they had 2354 in attendance last night. That's a huge crowd for Mount.  I saw Cecil Shorts tweeting that he was going and they needed the students to go too.  Definitely some good buzz on campus and that's fun to see.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount leads Wilm 44-41 at half.  Half of runs by both teams. Both teams shooting well too.