Great Lakes Region

[kiltedbryan]

Hiram 86
Ohio Wesleyan 96


NCAC Friday night semifinals at Wittenberg:

#3 Ohio Wesleyan vs. #2 Wooster
#5 Denison vs. #1 Wittenberg

[sac]

Thiel's season probably came to a crashing end tonight as they lost to Washington & Jefferson 91-89


Thomas More clobbered Geneva 82-56 to advance and will get to host one of the two PAC semi-finals.

Finishing the PAC results.

Bethany 82-69
St. Vincent held off Grove City 71-64.


Semi-finals, Fri 7pm
Washington and Jefferson @ Bethany
St. Vincent @ Thomas More

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Isn't the OAC playing on Thursday?
http://www.oac.org/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/2012Tournament

[ScotsFan]

Isn't the OAC playing on Thursday?
http://www.oac.org/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/2012Tournament

Yes.  Semis are on Thursday and the final will be on Saturday at the highest remaining seed.

Have to say, I was a bit surprised (yes Sager I know the OAC can be a volatile place) to see Marietta lose at home last night to ONU.  The dreaded kiss of death came to fruition from me hyping them up as a dangerous team coming down the stretch of the season.  The Etta express promptly lost their last two games after I sung their praises last week to see their season come crashing to an end... 

[monsoon]

New regional rankings are out.

Great Lakes:
Hope                16-0  24-1
Wittenberg       18-4  20-5
Wooster           19-4  21-4
Ohio Wesleyan  18-6  19-6
Bethany (WV)   21-2  22-3
John Carroll      15-6  18-6

Wabash is out, Bethany moves up one slot, and John Carroll comes in.

[sac]

New regional rankings are out.

Great Lakes:
Hope                16-0  24-1
Wittenberg       18-4  20-5
Wooster           19-4  21-4
Ohio Wesleyan  18-6  19-6
Bethany (WV)   21-2  22-3
John Carroll      15-6  18-6

Wabash is out, Bethany moves up one slot, and John Carroll comes in.

From the looks of these, even if Bethany loses in the PAC tournament they will probably stay ahead of the OAC Pool C candidate(and that's really only JCU).  The trouble comes if OWU loses in its semi-finals and gets ranked behind Bethany next week.  I'm not sure Bethany is a great C candidate on a national level, OWU could get hung out to dry.

Probably moot, as I expect Bethany to win the PAC tournament without too much trouble.

[KnightSlappy]

New regional rankings are out.

Great Lakes:
Hope                16-0  24-1
Wittenberg       18-4  20-5
Wooster           19-4  21-4
Ohio Wesleyan  18-6  19-6
Bethany (WV)   21-2  22-3
John Carroll      15-6  18-6

Wabash is out, Bethany moves up one slot, and John Carroll comes in.

From the looks of these, even if Bethany loses in the PAC tournament they will probably stay ahead of the OAC Pool C candidate(and that's really only JCU).  The trouble comes if OWU loses in its semi-finals and gets ranked behind Bethany next week.  I'm not sure Bethany is a great C candidate on a national level, OWU could get hung out to dry.

Probably moot, as I expect Bethany to win the PAC tournament without too much trouble.

I don't think a Pool C OWU would be ranked behind a Pool C Bethany. OWU will be getting an SOS boost for any game played, but Bethany's SOS will probably be going down (I'm assuming they're playing home games for the Tourney).

But your point is valid. Bethany will not be a good Pool C candidate, so anyone getting stuck behind them will be royally screwed, as they say.

[ScotsFan]

Just throwing this out there, but I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the following scenario.  It looks as though both Witt and Wooster are strong Pool C candidates regardless of how they finish.  Hypothetically speaking, let's say they both lose in the NCAC semis on Friday meaning Denison and OWU would advance to the finals.  And then, lets say that Denison finds a way to beat OWU in the finals punching the Big Red's ticket into the big dance.  How likely would it be to see the NCAC then get three C's? 

From where I'm sitting, if Denison can stay hot, the NCAC could very likely see 4 teams get into the dance...

[pennstghs]

I was kind of thinking the same thing ScotsFan.

Of course, my question is if Witt is able to win the conference tournament or at least make the finals does that lock up possible hosting for a first round site?

[monsoon]

From the MIAA:

Hope    87
Calvin  80

Adrian  59
Trine    50

#2 Adrian plays at #1 Hope on Saturday afternoon.

[hope52]

maybe at   hope

[ScotsFan]

I was kind of thinking the same thing ScotsFan.

Of course, my question is if Witt is able to win the conference tournament or at least make the finals does that lock up possible hosting for a first round site?

I'd say Witt or Wooster would be in pretty good shape for hosting for the first weekend of the NCAA tournament if either of them bring home the tournament championship. 

[sac]

I was kind of thinking the same thing ScotsFan.

Of course, my question is if Witt is able to win the conference tournament or at least make the finals does that lock up possible hosting for a first round site?

I'd say Witt or Wooster would be in pretty good shape for hosting for the first weekend of the NCAA tournament if either of them bring home the tournament championship.

One thing to remember is Transylvania has a pretty solid resume for being a host the first weekend.  With Hope likely grabbing one that probably leaves one other for the Great Lakes area (Transylvania is in Lexington).  I could see Transylvania hosting and Witt/Wooster having to go on the road. 

[sac]

The OAC Tournament semi-finals are tonight.


#5 Wilmington @ #1 John Carroll  7:30pm--JCU won both previous meetings by 18 at Wilmington, and by 2 in OT at home just 2 weeks ago


#6 Ohio Northern @ #2 Capital  7:30pm--Capital won both previous meeting by just 4 and 3.  This is the 3rd game in 4 nights for ONU and 4th in 6 days.


Video, live stats, audio can all be found on the host schools websites.

[sac]

The PAC Tournament semi-finals are tonight

#4 St. Vincent @ #3 Thomas More 7pm--these teams split their previous meeting.  St. V won by 15 at home, Thomas More won by 7 at home.   TM is on a 9 game winning streak.


#7 Washington & Jefferson @ #1 Bethany 7pm--  W&J did not have fun playing Bethany this year losing the two previous meetings by 19 and 32


video, live stats, audio links are on the conference website...... http://www.pacathletics.org/sports/pac_m-basketball.html