MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

My condolences to Coach Moran and his family.   

[sac]

Sad news for the Moran family, my condolences as well.  I

[Toph]

JCU/Muskingum has been rescheduled to Monday, Feb. 6th at 7 PM.

jdean-
Nothing to say before the JCU/Mount game?  I'm shocked!

[jdean]

Haven't been here for awhile--MUC's play has given me no reason to post.
Sorry to hear about the loss in the Moran family. No matter how old you are, no matter how old she is--its always tough to accept.
I may stroll over to the game tonight. If I go, I'll be the one with the bushel basket nearest the stripes. If it will help I'll let some JCU players dip into the basket!

[Toph]

I hope you don't have any luck with that tonight .

I'll be in UHeights for the women's game tonight, hopefully it'll be a good one.

[jdean]

Mount is so bad they don't even merit JCU radio coverage?

Pay attention to two of the women--Williams can be beast under the hoop and Hogan is a whirling dervish (there's one I haven't used for awhile) on defense, great hands.

[Toph]

Equal rep for the men and women, until the postseason, then it's usually just the men.

[baldbear]

ONU 70 Muskies 66

[jdean]

Toph:
This has to be a first. I wrote the game summary worthy of publication in SI--the session timed out and I lost everything. Started over again, this one worthy of Mad magazine--session times out and lost another one.
So excuse the brevity. 16-4 early because of the press, Mount fought back to 18-16 deficit and 30-30 half. JCU pulled away by ten most of the 2nd half. Briefly had it to 17 but Mount brought it back to ten. Coach Jr had a T in the 1H--that got the coach to loosen his tie. Both coaches were on the stripes.
Not a very impressive performance by the Streaks, but they won. Hope your game was better to watch.

[Pat Coleman]

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[Toph]

It seems like the father and son duo is racking up more technical fouls than usual this year.  JCU has never been very good winning in impressive fashion, but they do win ugly...a lot.  I hope they can go on a little run here leading up to the tournament.

[David Collinge]

The first set of regional rankings comes out tomorrow.  We're never quite certain what hocus pocus is applied by the regional committee, but it seems that the only important factors in determining which teams get ranked are the regional winning percentage and the QoWI.  From there, they use head-to-head and records against other ranked teams to break ties. 

Along those lines, here's the 8 Great Lakes teams that have win %s at .800 or above, ranked by their regional records:

Team--Reg. rec.--Reg. %--QoWI--(national ranking in QoWI)
1. Wooster 16-1 .941 10.706 (14)
2. Hope 12-1 .923 10.615 (16)
3. Baldwin-Wallace 17-2 .895 10.526 (18)
4t. Wittenberg 14-2 .875 10.500 (19)
4t. Calvin 7-1 .875 9.625 (48)
6. Carnegie Mellon 13-2 .867 11.000 (9)
7. Lake Erie 13-3 .813 9.438 (61)
8. Albion 8-2 .800 9.900 (36)

If I had to guess, I'd guess that the rankings come out like this:
1. Wooster
2. Hope
3. CMU
4. Baldwin-Wallace
5. Wittenberg
6. Calvin

The top 100 national teams in terms of QoWI have been posted by Pat Coleman in the QoWI Chat room.

[David Collinge]

...and that in fact is how the rankings have materialized.

[David Collinge]

Updated (thru games of Thursday 2/9) QoWIs for GL teams (source: Pat Coleman, QoWI Board, Multi-Region Topics):

1 (7 overall) Carnegie Mellon    11.000    13-2 (regional record)
2 (13) Wittenberg    10.765    15-2
3 (18) Wooster    10.556    17-1
4 (21) Hope    10.500    12-2
5 (23) Baldwin-Wallace    10.400    18-2
6 (29) Calvin    10.111    8-1
7 (45) Albion    9.727    9-2
8 (48) Lake Erie    9.706    14-3
9 (74) Wilmington    9.273    16-6
10 (75) Bethany    9.250    16-4
11 (78) Muskingum    9.158    13-6
12 (92) Ohio Northern    9.000    12-5

[bouncer1]

Has anyone had the pleasure of watching Baldwin Wallace play a game this year?  I had the chance last week against Mount-and even though the first half was a struggle-what a second half. They move the ball so well they can get a good shot almost every time down the floor. And Tori Davis is a great player!!!  Not news to many.  But there are many pieces of the puzzle on that team. Great passing and unselfishness.  But they are not very big. How do they do it night after night? In the OAC, to have only one loss to this point is quite an accomplishment. Would like to see them against ONU this week-should be a good game. Hopefully no letdown for BW after clinching it on Sat.  What has happened to JCU? I believe both polls picked them to finish first at the beginning of the season. I know P. Moran is out lately but they were already in a tailspin before that.  Any thoughts? Does anyone else get in the NCAA tourney from the OAC if BW wins out? What if BW doesn't win the tourney, do they still get in?  Thoughts about that??  Just food for thought.