WBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

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David Collinge

Former NCAC scoring champion and MVP of OWU's "Cinderella" Final Four team, Jessica Viertlboeck '01, will be inducted into OWU's Athletic Hall of Fame this Saturday. Congratulations, Jessica!  Story at Bishops.OWU.edu.

Viertlboeck...hmm...wouldn't that be "quarterback" auf Deutsch?

David Collinge

Here we go! The preseason top 25 is out, and for the first time in....well, history, there are two NCAC teams among the top dozen! DePauw starts the season ranked #10, while defending champion Denison will lace 'em up as the #12 team in D3.  These teams combined to finish 53-5 last season, but as they say, past results are no guarantee of future performance. Good luck to all nine squads!

David Collinge

The NCAC coaches have spoken, and what they said was this: "DePauw." In today's Coaches' Poll, the new Tigers on the block nabbed first-place votes from every coach but their own (Coach Huffman voted for Denison), establishing the Indianans as solid favorites in their first NCAC season. Defending champion Denison follows in second, followed by Kenyon, Allegheny, and Wittenberg at fairly regular intervals, indicating a reasonable consensus among the coaches for these top 5 positions. OWU, Hiram, Oberlin, and Wooster round out the pre-season predictions.

Coaches' Poll (.pdf)

David Collinge

The 2011-2012 season tips off tomorrow night, highlighted by four NCAC/OAC battles:

Grove City at Allegheny
Denison at Bethany
Hiram at Marietta
Muskingum at Kenyon (I'll be there!)
Oberlin at LaRoche
Wittenberg at Baldwin-Wallace
John Carroll at Wooster

OWU opens on Wednesday, while DePauw's NCAC debut is reserved until Friday

Now, don't think I'm a Trekkie or anything, but I like to start a new season of women's basketball with Seven of Nine playing!

David Collinge

Kenyon starts the season strongly, easily dispatching Muskingum (a program that has given the Ladies fits in recent years) 79-59. Kenyon's vaunted defense looked to be in mid-season form right from the tip, as it took the Fish nearly five minutes to get on the board and 20 minutes just to get 16 points. Good defense is a given in Gambier, but a 71-point effort on Opening Day was more than a little surprising. It took senior leader Morgan Korinek a little while to get untracked, but when she did, she was unstoppable in the paint, finishing with 22 points and causing havoc in the post at both ends of the floor all night. Muskingum never really threatened; they did manage to cut the lead to seven midway through the second half, but a subsequent 9-2 run by the Ladies shut that door fairly quickly. It's difficult to draw too many conclusions from one game in a new season, but with one notable exception (senior Amanda Dobbins, 18 nifty points and 13 strong boards), Muskingum doesn't seem to have any good players, or at least any players who can handle the kind of defensive pressure Kenyon gives you for 40 minutes. That's likely to change the next time KC laces 'em up, as they will face Eastern (16-9 last year) and possibly perennial power Wilmington this weekend.

Elsewhere:
Allegheny 71, Grove City 56
Denison 69, Bethany 61
Marietta 73, Hiram 58
John Carroll 60, Wooster 53
LaRoche 66, Oberlin 52
Baldwin-Wallace 56, Wittenberg 53

NCAC non-conference record: 3-4

David Collinge

Ohio Wesleyan has a chance to bring the NCAC back to .500 when they tip off the Reed era at Heidelberg tonight.

David Collinge

...and so they do!

OWU 63, Heidelberg 55

NCAC non-conference record: 4-4

David Collinge

Friday games, everyone but Wooster playing:

Westminster at Allegheny
Denison vs. Baldwin-Wallace (at Manchester)
DePauw vs. Albion (at Franklin)
Hiram at Penn St. Erie, the Behrend College
Kenyon vs. Eastern (at Wilmington)
Kalamazoo at Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan at Mt. St. Joseph
Wittenberg vs. Baruch (at Rochester)

David Collinge

#683
Friday results, keeping us right at .500:

Allegheny 65, Westminster 63
Baldwin-Wallace 64, Denison 63 ... snaps a 29-game regular season win streak for the Big Red
DePauw 59, Albion 48
PSU-Behrend 53, Hiram 43
Eastern 62, Kenyon 58
Oberlin 61, Kalamazoo 40
OWU 61, Mt. St. Joseph 57
Baruch 79, Wittenberg 73

NCAC non-conference record: 8-8

Saturday games:
Misericordia at Allegheny
Denison at Manchester
DePauw at Franklin
Hiram vs. Bethany (at PSU-Behrend)
Kenyon vs. Thiel (at Wilmington)
OWU vs. Capital (at MSJ)
Wittenberg vs. SUNY-New Paltz (at Rochester)
NW Ohio at Wooster

David Collinge

A pretty solid 6-2 day:

Denison 81, St. Mary's (Ind.) 74 ... time for a new streak?
Wittenberg 65, New Paltz St. 62
Hiram 69, Bethany (W.V.) 54
Kenyon 82, Thiel 62
Wooster 78, Northwestern Ohio 70
Capital 56, Ohio Wesleyan 38 ... Capital roughed up Hope yesterday, so they're probably pretty good this year
Allegheny 61, Misericordia 59
Franklin 52, DePauw 47

NCAC non-conference record: 14-10  :)

Just one Sunday game, as Wooster hosts Muskingum.

David Collinge

Muskingum finishes off the weekend dropping the host Scots 57-46.

NCAC non-conference record: 14-11

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Wooster's roster shows five freshmen.  Of these, after three games, only one has played more than three minutes, total.  That would be Danielle Spinden, who has logged 31 minutes and already shown herself to be a good rebounder with twelve.

But one freshmen, playing ten minutes a game, on what is likely a poor team, is not much of a recruiting job.  It appears to me that the fortunes of the Wooster women's team are not on the rise at all, despite any sort of "attitude" change.

David Collinge

Busy Tuesday in the NCAC:

Washington & Jefferson at Allegheny
Thiel at Denison
Ohio Northern at Kenyon
Oberlin at Bluffton
Ohio Wesleyan at John Carroll
Wittenberg at Capital

David Collinge

Tuesday results:

John Carroll 77, Ohio Wesleyan 71
Wash. & Jeff. 75, Allegheny 71
Denison 65, Thiel 58
ONU 60, Kenyon 55
Oberlin 68, Bluffton 56
Capital 49, Wittenberg 38

Disappointing 2-4, bringing us close to .500 at 16-15.

Next game is not until Friday, so Happy Thanksgiving to all!

David Collinge

Mt. Union dumps Allegheny this afternoon by a 92-44 count. You read that right, and the less said about it, the better. :)

NCAC slips to 16-16 on the non-conference season, but redemption is at hand with 6 games on tap for Saturday:

Allegheny vs. Waynesburg (at Mt. Union)
Denison vs. Carnegie Mellon (at Case Western Reserve in the UAA/NCAC Challenge)
DePauw vs. Illinois Wesleyan (at Washington U. in St. Louis)
Westminster at Hiram
Kenyon at Case Western Reserve (UAA/NCAC Challenge)
Ohio Wesleyan vs. Otterbein (at Ohio Northern)