WBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[seventiesraider]

Make that 11-0, but Sunday s/b the major test of the young season against CWRU. BE THERE

[David Collinge]

p.s. Sorry for the 3 straight posts.  I blame it on Lenny for posting that story. 

Hah!  I only wish I could be allowed to be bothered by such things.  I had a 33-post string snapped in the NCAC room yesterday, and if I hadn't typed in a wrong score, it might still be going on.  Be thankful you're not posting in an echo chamber! 

[Dr. Acula]

I would say I should just text Seventies about the Lady Raiders so as not to bother everyone else, but that costs $ and this is free.     Maybe PM instead? 

[Dr. Acula]

Make that 11-0, but Sunday s/b the major test of the young season against CWRU. BE THERE

I thought you were being sarcastic, Seventies.  But then I saw that Coach Reimer was at Case and it made sense that they actually could be good.  She's a very solid HC.  She was the HC at MUC my FR/SO years I believe and I thought she did a nice job.  Then she went to Allegheny and made them competitive right away.  She has a nice track record of raising a program's level of play and maintaining it.  Hopefully not quite as much as Suzy's raising the Raiders level of play though!

p.s. If this start to the season isn't enough fun for you, just glance at their roster.  Her top 11 girls are littered with freshmen and sophomores.  3 of her 5 starters are freshmen or sophomores (Pohovey is a SR and Forquer is a JR).  Bottom line....it's hard to not be excited about the Women's hoops program.  I hope folks are showing up for their games because they deserve to play in front of nice crowds. 

[David Collinge]

After opening with a close loss at W&J, Case has now won 9 straight, although the ninth (yesterday, at Wittenberg) is not without a small blemish.  Still, the Sparties are playing well for Coach Reimer, and they have (at least) two very good players in Ashleigh Tondo and Erin Hollinger. 

This game is sort of the Fiesta Bowl of D3 women's hoops: two very good under-the-radar teams on serious rolls match up, but can we be sure that the winner is for real?  Should be a great game.

[Dr. Acula]

Ouch...I feel bad for the official scorer.  I feel like the officials should be able to consult both teams and if both coaches agree they should change the score.  I'm sure CWRU's stat person had the correct score also and Reimer would have certainly agreed to correct the score if both benches had the same score.  Obviously it sounds like this wasn't an option, but it feels like common sense.

[SilenceIsDirty]

Actually, coach Reimer was fully aware of the discrepancy. Between the time the mistake was made on the board and a minute or two later when the officials stopped to check with the scorer, Case's assistant went to the scorer several times to doublecheck the score (obviously baffled that they had been given free points and wanting to make sure they were not going to take them back away). When the officials stopped play again at the request of Wittenberg's head coach, they checked with Witt's book, then asked Case if they had the same score as Wittenberg. Reimer shrugged, as if she had no idea what the score was. If they weren't keeping track on their bench then why did the assistant check the score several times, which he had not done at any time previously? Classless. Honestly, I wish the Plain Dealer story had included a statement from Reimer as to whether or not she knew of the mistake at the time. The actions of Case went against everything DIII is meant to represent, and I cannot help but lose almost all respect I may have had for Reimer. I'm simply glad she's no longer representing the North Coast Athletic Conference.

[Dr. Acula]

Actually, coach Reimer was fully aware of the discrepancy. Between the time the mistake was made on the board and a minute or two later when the officials stopped to check with the scorer, Case's assistant went to the scorer several times to doublecheck the score (obviously baffled that they had been given free points and wanting to make sure they were not going to take them back away). When the officials stopped play again at the request of Wittenberg's head coach, they checked with Witt's book, then asked Case if they had the same score as Wittenberg. Reimer shrugged, as if she had no idea what the score was. If they weren't keeping track on their bench then why did the assistant check the score several times, which he had not done at any time previously? Classless. Honestly, I wish the Plain Dealer story had included a statement from Reimer as to whether or not she knew of the mistake at the time. The actions of Case went against everything DIII is meant to represent, and I cannot help but lose almost all respect I may have had for Reimer. I'm simply glad she's no longer representing the North Coast Athletic Conference.

Is this a fact or your assumption?  It sounds like the latter.  Not sure if you've ever coached hoops, but during the game you don't really talk with your 4th assistant/team manager that keeps the book other than to ask "How many fouls does ___ have?" or "How many TO's do I have?".  Most HC's kind of assume that the official scorer can, in fact, keep score.  If Reimer did know then she should have said so, but just because the assistant knew doesn't mean that anyone else knew at the time the official asked the question.   

[David Collinge]

Ouch...I feel bad for the official scorer. 

I'm not sure why, since that's where the mistake originated.  The refs should have ordered the correction, but they didn't, and that's that.  The game is in the books and nothing, not even a statement by Coach Reimer, will change it now.  Thus it becomes an internal Wittenberg issue, to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't recur.

[seventiesraider]

Home from watching the Purple Raider's spank Case Western by 20. BW coming up..


BTW 12-0

Capital, on a two game losing streak, will be in Alliance 1-16

[Dr. Acula]

Ouch...I feel bad for the official scorer. 

I'm not sure why, since that's where the mistake originated.  The refs should have ordered the correction, but they didn't, and that's that.  The game is in the books and nothing, not even a statement by Coach Reimer, will change it now.  Thus it becomes an internal Wittenberg issue, to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't recur.

I just meant that I felt bad for the official scorer from the standpoint that the person obviously doesn't do it for the money, they certainly enjoy Witt athletics if they agree to do it and their honest mistake cost their own team.  It should have been corrected, but it wasn't and for that I feel bad because it could happen to anyone.   

[seventiesraider]

 In the words of Mount Union's fabled Athletic Director: "Susy sure has 'em playin'"

BDubs and the Beinners at Mount this week

Best start in Womens BB history

[seventiesraider]

B-Dubs tinight, should be worth the price of admission 

[Dr. Acula]

How do I know it's a great year so far?  I just looked at the clock to make sure I didn't need to pull up the live stats yet.  Good test tonight w/ the Jackets in town.

[seventiesraider]

Yeah ice storm keeping us home