MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[kiltedbryan]

My sincere thoughts and prayers to the entire JCU basketball family.

[wooscotsfan]

I watched Matt Crozier play last year vs. Wooster and he was a terrific player.

Deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Matt Crozier as well as the entire JCU basketball family.

[WAlum]

News like this puts winning and losing in perspective.  Prayers to the Crozier and JCU families!

[kiltedbryan]

With Baldwin-Wallace and a mourning John Carroll idle, here are tonight's (1/5) results.

Otterbein 60, Capital 71
Capital takes care of business against the cross-town rival, and have now won 8 of the last 10 meetings in this series. Scott Robinson with 21 & 12 for the Crusaders.

Marietta 64, Mount Union 54
Another game, another 50%+ shooting night for the still unbeaten Pioneers, who lead all of DIII in FG%.

Heidelberg 67, Ohio Northern 63
The 'Berg improves to 3-2 in OAC play, picking up a good road win.

Muskingum 56, Wilmington 67
Wilmington picks up its second win in a row after giving #1 Wooster everything it could handle, and finally wins an OAC game.  Next up, an undoubtedly emotional visit to John Carroll on Saturday.

[kiltedbryan]

Current OAC Standings (through games of 1/5):

Marietta, 6-0
Capital, 5-1
John Carroll, 3-2
Heidelberg, 3-2
Mount Union, 3-3
Ohio Northern, 3-4
Baldwin-Wallace, 2-4
Muskingum, 2-4
Otterbein, 1-4
Wilmington, 1-5

Marietta's next three games: at Heidelberg, vs. Capital and vs. John Carroll.  Think that's a key stretch for the Pioneers?

[GoRed]

Condolences to the Crozier and JCU families.  May they have the strength to get through the challenge of such a tragedy.  The memory of far too many of these events stay with us all. 

[Gregory Sager]

You say promising young players, I agree. 

I agree the team has promising freshmen,

Wait a minute, Stevie. You kept carping on Coach Reynolds as being too old to recruit, and you gave the Otterbein program a failing grade in terms of recruiting. And yet now you agree with WAlum that Otterbein has "promising young players"?

Perhaps you should choose one side of the argument or the other and stick to it.

[billy the kid]

Well, Stevie and Sager, it usually takes a couple years to grade a recruit. Promising is a long ways from a successful recruit. WINS tend to be the grading scale on recruits and vets. So, now you should be grading the Class of 2011 and 2012.

[NEPAFAN]

Prayers to the Crozier family and condolences on their loss.

[Gregory Sager]

Well, Stevie and Sager, it usually takes a couple years to grade a recruit. Promising is a long ways from a successful recruit. WINS tend to be the grading scale on recruits and vets. So, now you should be grading the Class of 2011 and 2012.

No, it takes a couple of years to grade a player. You grade a recruit based upon physical makeup, physical potential, skills, coachability, high-school performance, etc. Stevie suggested pretty strongly that Otterbein's Coach Reynolds was not doing this properly. To then say that Otterbein has "promising freshmen" or "promising young players" contradicts those earlier accusations.

[ScotsFan]

Surprised there's been no mention of Marietta losing for the first time this season to Heidelberg yesterday.  Now their next two games with Cap and JCU loom even larger.

Cap could have had a share of first place but they were upset yesterday as well at B-W.

And just when you thought Wilmington might be getting things figured out having won 2 in a row after giving Wooster all they could handle, they go and lay an egg up in University Heights yesterday losing 96-66 to JCU?! 

[David Collinge]

John Carroll retakes the floor, and makes a statement, thumping Wilmington 96-66.  Good on 'em. 

Marietta takes their first loss of the season, administered by Heidelberg, 81-77.

Capital fumbles a chance to catch 'Etta at the top of the chart, losing to B-WC 86-79.

Elsewhere,
Mt. Union 69, ONU 56
Otterbein 58, Muskingum 48

Current standings, courtesy of OAC.org:

1.  Marietta 6-1
2.  Capital 5-2
3.  JCU 4-2
3.  Heidelberg 4-2
5.  Mt. Union 4-3
6.  Baldwin-Wallace 3-4
7.  Ohio Northern 3-5
8.  Otterbein 2-4
9.  Muskingum 2-5
10. Wilmington 1-6

Edit--I guess we're on the same wavelength, SF!

[kiltedbryan]

DC-

Actually Marietta should be 6-1, and Capital is 5-2.


{Thanks!  Duly noted and corrected above.  I blame frozen fingers!}

[D3BASKETBALLFAN]

What is going on at Ohio Northern ?   They are usually at the top of the OAC, & now they already have five losses.

[kiltedbryan]

For those who might be interested, Marietta has live stats, audio and video of the game with Capital tonight.

http://pioneers.marietta.edu/index.aspx?path=mbball&tab=basketball

(look down the right side of the page under "calendar")