MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

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ScotsFan

Quote from: wooscotsfan on January 10, 2007, 10:14:51 PM
Mount Union 84  Capital 74 (Cap is upset at home)
For those of you out there who like to say that Team A beat Team B and Team B beat Team C so Team A must be better than Team C, this score just goes to show, comparing scores doesn't work much.  Wooster beat MUC by 25 in the opening weekend of the season.  Capital beats ONU last weekend by 11 in Ada.  MUC then goes to Cap and slaps a 10 point loss on the Crusaders.  Meanwhile, ONU beat Wooster at Timken over the Holidays?!  Go figure??? ::)


onefan

Playing the who beat who game to try and determine which team is the best is an exercise in futility. Some nights a team brings their "A" game and some nights they don't. It is as simple as that. Great teams just bring their "A" game with greater consistency than merely "good" teams. The real mystery in life is that in almost any sporting event, be it individual sporting events such as golf or tennis or team events such as football or basketball even the participants never know until the "game is on" which level of their game they have with them that particular time out...How  often have you participated in an event and could do no wrong and defeated an opponent that might have taken you down the last ten times you met....but not this time....does that make you a superior player?  Of course not, but you were for that space in time. I guess that's why we have play-offs...Everwhere except division 1 football of course.

baldbear

One Fan has it right.  In the OAC there is more parity than in the NCAC.  If you don't bring your A game and the other guy does, you're going to lose.  In the NCAC Witt and Wooster can bring their B games and in some cases even their C games and still get a W. 

TigerFan_1973

Quote from: onefan on January 11, 2007, 12:04:37 PM
Playing the who beat who game to try and determine which team is the best is an exercise in futility.

One year, the sports editor of the Springfield Sun used comparative scores to "prove" that Wittenberg was 156 points better than Ohio State in football.

I could have gone for 125, but, to be realistic, 156 was just too many.  :D

TigerFan_1973

David Collinge

JCU upends #4 Ohio Northern in University Hts., 63-61.

wooscotsfan

#440
1/13 OAC Final Scores:

John Carroll 63  Ohio Northern 61
Wilmington 95  Baldwin-Wallace 88 OT (home loss for Jackets)
Heidelberg 74  Marietta 70
Muskingum 66  Capital 54 (first OAC win for Muskie)
Otterbein 77  Mount Union 61

Guess who is in sole first place?   HEIDELBERG at 6-2

ONU, JCU, B-W, CAP, OTT are now all 5-3

whoknows

Anyone who says that this is not the most exciting basketball league in the country is just crazy... what other team can go and beat the number one and number 6 team in the country in the same week and then come back and lose two in a row in thier own league play to unranked teams... but  the worst thing about this league is that we beat up on eachother so much that even in our best years like this one the OAC will only get one team in. (yes i know in the 04-05 season BW and JC got in)That can also be a blessing because come tournament time we are so used to haveing to show up every single day that OAC teams always seem to do well in the tournament. They should start an OAC Reality show, cause there is more then enough drama to keep even the smallest sports fan interested.

sac

I think the CCIW will end up being as equally crazy..........the OAC has a giant head start though. ;)

David Collinge

Quote from: wooscotsfan on January 13, 2007, 06:38:58 PM
Guess who is in sole first place?   HEIDELBERG at 6-2

ONU, JCU, B-W, CAP, OTT are now all 5-3


Quote from: David Collinge on January 10, 2007, 11:13:17 PM
Oh, come on, scotsbrod wooscotsfan, EVERYONE knew that Heidelberg was the team to beat in the OAC this season!  ;) :D :o :)

Toph

If this keeps up we are going to have one of the most entertaining OAC tournaments in recent memory.  Who the hell knows what could happen!!?

Gregory Sager

Quote from: sac on January 13, 2007, 10:31:26 PM
I think the CCIW will end up being as equally crazy..........the OAC has a giant head start though. ;)

True, although Elmhurst is still poised to lap the field in the CCIW if the Bluejays can stay hot. But one thing you have to keep in mind in terms of league topsi-turviness is that it is an honored tradition in the OAC. This is, after all, the league where one year seeds six thru ten swept seeds one thru five in the opening round of the conference tournament. The CCIW doesn't have a tradition for parity and unpredictability that's anything like that -- nor does any other league in all of D3, I suspect. It's part of what makes the OAC so much fun to follow, even from a distance.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Toph

Quotethe league where one year seeds six thru ten swept seeds one thru five in the opening round of the conference tournament.

Your point is well taken, but a quick correction is in order.  Only the top 8 teams make the conference tournament in the OAC.

sac

Quote from: Toph on January 15, 2007, 08:15:26 AM
Quotethe league where one year seeds six thru ten swept seeds one thru five in the opening round of the conference tournament.

Your point is well taken, but a quick correction is in order.  Only the top 8 teams make the conference tournament in the OAC.

Starting in 2005.....prior to that everyone made the OAC tournament.

Greg is also refering to the 1998 OAC tournament.....

First Round
#7 Capital 76 #10 Hiram 59
#8 Marietta 80 #9 Heidelberg 67

Quarterfinal

#8 Marietta 61 #1 John Carroll 59
#7 Capital 69 #2 Ohio Northern 66
#5 Otterbein 76 #4  Muskingum 54
#6 Baldwin-Wallace 72  #3 Mt. Union 69

Semi Final
#6 Baldwin Wallace 96 #7 Capital 83
#5 Otterbein 86 #8 Marietta 68

Final
#6 Baldwin-Wallace 83 #5 Otterbein 80

Truely a tournament for the ages.  1996 was pretty wild to with #7, 9 , 4  and 3 in the semi's.  #4 BW beat #7 Marietta that year.



Pat Coleman

Quote from: Toph on January 15, 2007, 08:15:26 AM
Quotethe league where one year seeds six thru ten swept seeds one thru five in the opening round of the conference tournament.

Your point is well taken, but a quick correction is in order.  Only the top 8 teams make the conference tournament in the OAC.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, you gotta know your history, son. :)
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Mr. Ypsi

Quote from: Pat Coleman on January 15, 2007, 12:00:14 PM
Quote from: Toph on January 15, 2007, 08:15:26 AM
Quotethe league where one year seeds six thru ten swept seeds one thru five in the opening round of the conference tournament.

Your point is well taken, but a quick correction is in order.  Only the top 8 teams make the conference tournament in the OAC.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, you gotta know your history, son. :)

Especially when 'correcting' a HoFer!  I learned that the hard way my first couple of years. :(