MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

Wilmington takes the brass ring, 69-63 over JCU.

[HOPEful]

Wilmington takes the brass ring, 69-63 over JCU.

Goodluck tonight! I would love to see an all Ohio matchup Saturday in St. Louis!

[sac]

PG Spencer Sanders,  UD-Jesuit (Detroit) will attend John Carroll.

[Dr. Acula]

Happy to see JJ Kukura staying home.  The Alliance senior was 1st team All-Ohio and conference, county and district POY averaging almost 30 a game along with 9 boards.  Nice job Coach Fuline!

[Dr. Acula]

Another good commitment....Jessie Driver, a 6-1 guard who was DI 2nd team All-Ohio at Austintown Fitch is headed to Mount according to Fitch Basketball's Twitter account.  Fuline is really doing a great job recruiting Youngstown. 

[sac]

BW:  http://bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule

Jan 6.  at Pine Manor

Pine Manor just went co-ed in January, this will be their first year of men's athletics.

[Pat Coleman]

We have schedules posted as well -- here's Capital:
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Capital/Men/2014-15/index

Our Otterbein schedule includes their December tournament opponent:
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Otterbein/Men/2014-15/index

And we have partial JCU and Wilmington schedules based on what other teams have posted, though nothing useful for JCU yet.
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/John_Carroll/Men/2014-15/index
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Wilmington/Men/2014-15/index

[sac]

And the only one that I really care about is the only one not available . . .

JCU has always been fashionably late to the schedule party.

[Onward on, John Carroll]

Mount Union   http://athletics.mountunion.edu/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
Muskingum: http://www.fightingmuskies.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
John Carroll:  http://www.jcusports.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
BW:  http://bwyellowjackets.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
Marietta: http://pioneers.marietta.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Capital  http://athletics.capital.edu/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
Otterbein: http://www.otterbeincardinals.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Ohio Northern: http://www.onusports.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
Heidelberg:  http://athletics.heidelberg.edu/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule
Wilmington:  http://www.wilmingtonquakers.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule

[Dr. Acula]

I like Mount's non conference schedule.  Bethany, St. Vincent, Wooster, Hope.  Those are some solid games.  Fuline is pushing them. I like to see it. 

[Dr. Acula]

The preseason coaches poll is out.  What the heck is going on in Westerville?!  I watched them a couple times last year and they were not good, but dead last??

79 Mount (8)
68 Marietta
66 JCU (1)
57 Cap (1)
46 ONU
39 BW
37 Wilmington
28 Berg
18 Musky
12 Otterbein

[sac]

The preseason coaches poll is out.  What the heck is going on in Westerville?!  I watched them a couple times last year and they were not good, but dead last??

79 Mount (8)
68 Marietta
66 JCU (1)
57 Cap (1)
46 ONU
39 BW
37 Wilmington
28 Berg
18 Musky
12 Otterbein

When you return only 4 of your top 11 minutes guys, you went 4-22 with 2 wins over Muskingum  last year, and your roster contains 1 Senior, 1 Junior, 6 Sophs and 12 Freshmen, expectations tend to be low.

http://www.otterbeincardinals.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

[Dr. Acula]

Well the bigger problem is they SHOULD have had their 3 best players back since they were all soph/frosh last year, but in looking at their roster 2 of them are not there including their best player (Bischoff).  That kills them.  Now the ranking makes a lot more sense!

[ohiofan1954]

congrats to Marietta for the fine game they played against my Bobcats yesterday. You could here the sound of people jumping of the Ohio bandwagon in the first half.

[sac]

ohio 82 Marietta 69

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2014-2015/bk110814.html