Great Lakes Region

sac · November 08, 2011, 04:10:29 PM

Pre-Season polls around the Great Lakes Region

MIAA
1. Hope
2. Calvin
3. Adrian
4. Albion

NCAC
1. Wooster
2. Wittenberg
3. Ohio Wesleyan
4. Wabash

OAC
1. Marietta
2. John Carroll
3. Otterbein
4. Capital

Presidents Athletic
unavailable

usual suspects Bethany, Thiel, St. Vincent, Geneva

AMCC

2. Penn State-Behrend

imderekpoe · November 08, 2011, 04:22:43 PM

Quote from: sac on November 08, 2011, 04:10:29 PM
Pre-Season polls around the Great Lakes Region
OAC
1. Marietta
2. John Carroll
3. Otterbein
4. Capital

It will be interesting to see how the OAC plays out with Trevor Halter reportedly out of action for 3 - 7 weeks with back surgery. Fortunately for Marietta they don't play JCU until January so hopefully Halter should be back in action well before then.

sac · November 08, 2011, 04:33:35 PM

Non-conference match-ups of the above teams

Nov 18 Capital vs Thiel at Westminster
Nov 19 Otterbein at Thiel at Westminster

Nov 22 Capital at Wittenberg
Nov 22 Penn State-Behrend at Thiel

Nov 29 Wittenberg at Marietta

Dec 3. Wooster at Adrian

Dec 10 Marietta at Otterbein

Dec 22. Otterbein at Wittenberg

Dec 28 Ohio Wesleyan vs Albion at Otterbein

Dec 29 Marietta at Hope
Dec 29 Ohio Wesleayn/Albion at Otterbein
Dec 29 Thiel at Wooster

Jan 2. Capital at Ohio Wesleyan

Jan 4. Geneva at Wooster

sac · November 19, 2011, 12:28:19 AM

Couple scores of regional interest.

Capital 76 Thiel 56
Centre, Ky 92 John Carroll 91 OT

sac · November 22, 2011, 10:19:10 PM

Wittenberg 69 Capital 63

sac · November 23, 2011, 03:41:57 PM

Thiel 65 PSU-Behrend 47

Never quite know what we'll get from the PAC and our AMCC orphans, but this is a key in-region win for Thiel. Behrend has usually ended up with pretty gaudy in-region records however this year's version of the Lions are 0-4.

Gregory Sager · November 23, 2011, 05:38:52 PM

Quote from: sac on November 23, 2011, 03:41:57 PM
Thiel 65 PSU-Behrend 47

Never quite know what we'll get from the PAC and our AMCC orphans, but this is a key in-region win for Thiel. Behrend has usually ended up with pretty gaudy in-region records however this year's version of the Lions are 0-4.

It's a bad year to be Penn State, regardless of which particular campus of the institution you happen to represent.

sac · November 30, 2011, 12:14:52 AM

Marietta 87 Wittenberg 63

Pretty convincing score. Later down the road this score will be useful to Marietta's various rankings.

smedindy · November 30, 2011, 05:41:15 PM

Maybe. Are we sure Wittenberg won't have another stumblebum season like they did a few years ago?

sac · December 01, 2011, 07:26:26 PM

Quote from: smedindy on November 30, 2011, 05:41:15 PM
Maybe. Are we sure Wittenberg won't have another stumblebum season like they did a few years ago?

True, but at the minimum its an in-region win and those never hurt. Especially considering Marietta is short one all-american forward. It would be a shame to rack up losses without your best player and have it cost you seeding in the tournament or getting in the tournament at all.

sac · December 03, 2011, 10:17:53 PM

Baldwin-Wallace 93 Marietta 74

It was really never close, http://www.bw.edu/athletics/mbb/sched/11game05.htm BW has a pretty young team with only 1 senior and 4 juniors. Pretty decent height as well. BW was only 9-16 a year ago but are off to a 5-1 start this year, their loss a curious loss to Bethany (6-0)

Wooster 75 Adrian 50

ste24vie · December 04, 2011, 09:52:35 AM

Lucky for Marietta that Muskingum is next up. Then to Otterbein, where they will get a beatin if they don't guard the paint. Ithaca played a continuous 2-3 zone against the Cards and clogged the paint.

sac · December 07, 2011, 11:24:15 PM

Wittenberg 56 Wooster 55......basket at the buzzer, just how good rivalries should end. http://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/boxscores/20111207_4gba.xml

Takes a little thunder out of this Saturday's Wooster at unbeaten Wabash game, it now almost becomes a must win for Wooster so early in the NCAC season.

sac · December 10, 2011, 03:52:39 PM

Wabash 72 Wooster 58 -- Wabash looked the better team the whole time I was watching. Maybe not a top 10 team but a very good D3 team. Wooster has some work to do to win another NCAC title and they'll need some help now.

sac · December 10, 2011, 09:48:38 PM

Marietta 77 Otterbein 69 http://otterbeincardinals.com/custompages/Mbasketball/games/2012/game7.htm

Otterbein was picked among the top 4 in the OAC, but right now they are 3-4 and have some tough games coming. Not sure the Cardinals are going to live up to their pre-season billing or at least their non-conference record not reflect it.