Quote from: hotdawg on February 27, 2017, 03:29:04 PM
Tough time to be a team in the Great Lakes Region ... only 1 at large bid for the whole 60 team region.

....and had Hope won their tournament it might have been zero unless that next spot was going to go to OWU.

Quote from: kiltedbryan on February 27, 2017, 01:05:38 PM
No at-large selection for Ohio Wesleyan or Denison, as expected. First time in a while (I think?) that the NCAC has been a one-bid league.

Last time was 2007, the year Wooster went to the Final Four for the second time.

Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 26, 2017, 08:15:32 PM
First pass at guessing hosting sites. Need one more, probably in the central region (a de facto Wash U. pod at a non-legitimate hosting site like Benedictine or Hope). Hardin-Simmons deserves a host but probably only gets one if they have 4+ flights approved instead of the minimum 3.

Middlebury
Babson
Tufts

UW-River Falls
UW-Whitewater

Whitman

Marietta
Hanover

Christopher Newport
Susquehanna / Scranton

Neumann
Ramapo

St. John Fisher
Rochester

Emory

Begin primarily knowledgeable wit the Greta Lakes I agree with Hanover and Marietta being the locations. I then think Hope, Wooster and a CCIW team get sent there.  My guess for Marietta is Calvin, Thomas More, and an a team from the east -- Ramapo?

Congratulations to the Wooster Scots on qualifying for the NCAA tournament and Coach Moore on his 800th career win.

A great game to watch. Wooster builds a BIG lead as OWU shot poorly from 3 and turned it over at a much higher rate than season average. But I had that feeling that they were not going to go away.

Quote from: fantastic50 on February 25, 2017, 10:52:44 AM
Today's bubble games
Percentages are Pool-C-bid-if-needed probabilities with win/loss today
12:00 Rochester (21-3, 0.532, 4-1, EA#1, lock) at Emory (17-7, 0.544, 1-3, SO#2) 92%/4%
1:00 VA Wesleyan (19-8, 0.528, 1-6) vs Guilford (21-5, 0.504, 3-2, SO#3) 70%/33%
7:00 Mt St Joseph (18-5, 0.509, 2-1, GL#4) 69%/30% vs Manchester (10-15, 0.504, 0-4)
7:30 MIT (19-6, 0.544, 0-4, NE#7) 48%/17% vs WPI (17-8, 0.536, 2-5)

Potential "bid thief" games
If these go the "wrong way", highly-ranked teams will drop into Pool C.  Bubble teams want the bold-ed teams to win these.
2:00 Gwynedd Mercy (21-6, 0.496, 1-5, AT) at Neumann (24-2, 0.508, 6-0, AT#1)
3:00 Wheaton (MA) (11-15, 0.512, 0-4, NE) at Babson (24-1, 0.578, 4-1, NE#1)
4:00 Moravian (18-6, 0.520, 5-4, MA#8) at Scranton (20-6, 0.536, 7-3, MA#5)
4:00 Stevens (18-7, 0.487, 1-2, EA) at St John Fisher (21-5, 0.549, 0-3, EA#2)
4:00 Wooster (20-7, 0.546, 4-5, GL#5) at Ohio Wesleyan (21-6, 0.508, 2-3, GL#8)
4:00 SUNY Oneonta (17-10, 0.536, 4-6, EA) at Oswego State (19-6, 0.526, 3-2, EA#5)
4:00 Trinity (CT) (16-9, 0.564, 2-8, NE) at Middlebury (22-3, 0.612, 6-3, NE#2)
5:00 Albright (13-13, 0.552, 1-4, MA) at Lycoming (21-4, 0.530, 1-1, MA#3)
5:00 Transylvania (16-9, 0.506, 3-2, GL) at Hanover (19-3, 0.519, 2-2, GL#2)
7:00 Dickinson (16-10, 0.522, 0-4, MA) at Swarthmore (21-5, 0.524, 1-1, MA#4)
7:00 Hardin-Simmons (21-6, 0.556, 3-1, SO#1) at LeTourneau (22-4, 0.490, 2-1, SO#5)
7:30 Calvin (15-8, 0.504, 2-3, GL) at Hope (20-4, 0.521, 2-1, GL#3)
7:30 Baldwin-Wallace (15-12, 0.527, 2-6, GL) at Marietta (23-4, 0.578, 4-4, GL#1)
8:00 N Central (IL) (16-9, 0.552, 2-4, CE) at Augustana (19-7, 0.540, 2-2, CE#5)
8:00 UW-Oshkosh (17-9, 0.592, 5-5, CE#8) at UW-River Falls (21-3, 0.590, 7-3, CE#1)

You guys are a great source of information and I very much appreciate the time and effort you put into posting these lists. The above list confirms my thought of how unusual it is the bubble teams would want a conference leader to lose to save a spot.

Marietta has two losses, both this week.

Quote from: Dave 'd-mac' McHugh on March 02, 2014, 11:47:05 AM

Quote from: Wooster Booster on March 01, 2014, 09:08:12 PM
So, NCAA-wise, are we back to the format of two years ago?  Byes aside, will the first round be four-team pods at one school?  Then, down to sixteen teams, four more four-team pods, called sectionals?  With finally the Final Four at Salem, right?

Yes... back to the normal process.

Too bad...I liked last years format.

I missed the Wednesday results so I'm late pointing out the four year seniors of Doug Thorpe and Scott Purcell experienced their 100th Wooster win (100-17). They represent the 12th consecutive senior class to achieve that feat.

Quote from: sigma one on December 26, 2013, 05:52:43 PM
Lost in transit.  Word is they showed up in Wabash, Indiana, looking for the College.  No Dabs at game time.  No Dabs during the next hour.  Nor the next.  Referees from Ohio thought they waited long enough and decided to go home.  Game declared no contest after discussion with Wabash.  Refs, team, fans dispersed.  One guess who walked through the front doors of the Allen Center not long after.
     Folks, there is a Wabash College; there is a Wabash, Indiana; there is a Wabash River; there is a Wabash Valley College (two year).  None of them are all that close to one another.  For future reference:  Wabash College is in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
     I was there to see the game, sat and stood around, said my holiday greetings to the fans and players I know, and was walking out of the building when the Dab's came in.  I didn't stick around to hear or see the rest of the story. 

This almost happened to my wife's parents. Back in the day they did not have a cell phone but fortunately we called them just before they were to leave to attend the game. They were going to head to Wabash, Indiana, a four drive for them. We corrected their destimation and they made the game on time.
     


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A question - has Wooster won 24 or 25 games? I thought I heard mid season that the NCAA counted the Sheridan game. The relevant point that is if the Scots have played 30 official games so fr this season, then when Josh Claytor steps on the court aganst Cabrini he will break Matt Fegan's NCAA record of games played in a career (125).

Quote from: seinfeld on February 16, 2013, 10:54:53 PM
The Indiana trips for Wooster have gone from a problem to a disaster, at least by Wooster standards. That's four losses in a row out there, and none of them did they play even remotely well. Today DePauw was just simply better. No one has played well for Wooster in these games, but the play of Doug Thorpe really sticks out. Thorpe, who has single-handily won a couple of real important games this year, has been miserable at Wabash and DePauw. Combined, he is 2-for-21 from the field and 1-for-13 from three-point range this season. If you take out his stat line, Wooster has actually shot better from the field (38.9% to 38.6%) and three-point range (34.8% to 33.3%) in the two games.

Regardless, these teams may be meeting again in just six days.

To me, poor shooting in of itself isn't playing badly. I only got to listen to the game yesterday but I heard many plays where Wooster just flat out made poor decisions (fouls with <5 seconds on the shot clock, turnovers on passes, not blocking out, ....). I'd like to strike this up to DePauw having more to play for than Wooster, but at this point I think we are all a bit nervous.

Quote from: smedindy on February 15, 2013, 12:54:37 PM
I failed to account for a possible three way 6-10 tie between Wabash, Hiram and Oberlin. Yikes!

I think then Oberlin could get 7th as they'll be 3-1 vs. Wabash and Hiram. Wabash then would be at the mercy of H2H vs. the Terriers. Oops. LGs go home if they lose and Hiram upsets Witt.

Thanks for the season long game previews. I have enjoyes reading them. I know how long it takes to put them together. If I had a vote I'd give you a +k.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 14, 2013, 03:54:25 PM

Quote from: goscots on February 14, 2013, 10:21:31 AM
Yes  -I forgot about that game - I wasn't there that night. it's not in the list of 17 becuase Wooster ended up winning by 10 in OT.

A ten-point overtime win is a closer game than a one-point win in regulation.

Agree - I should have included that game.  But even more to your point - I conveniently picked <10 point difference because there are many games in the 10-12 point difference and the "story" wouldn't have sounded as good. It is no different than a baseball analyst saying a batter is "3 for his last 15", which means he is also "4 for his last 16". Selectively picking statistics happens everywhere.

Yes  -I forgot about that game - I wasn't there that night. it's not in the list of 17 becuase Wooster ended up winning by 10 in OT. Another game was in Dec. '05 at Earlham. Kyle Witucky hit a running floater down the lane to give Wooster the win by 2 in OT. The critical point was one the previous Earlham possession when Wooster had only a 1 point lead but Earlham had the ball for the last shot. I believe it was Terrell Brown who got fouled on a drive and could have put Earlham into the lead and made any Wooster shot more tense. Instead he hit 1-2.

Well - Alleghany utilized the zone tonight and you might think it worked with a mere three 3 point Wooster lead at half time but the issue was not offense but rather good shooting by Alleghany. But the Gators miss all 10 3's in the second half to create the easy victory.

In the post game interview Coach Moore did acknowledge that the continue to work on their zone offense. Wabash probably has done the Scots a huge favor by exposing thir weakness with enough time in the season to correct.

With his 703rd victory Coach Moore has now moved into sole possession of 3rd place for All time coaching victories at the Men's Division III level. Given #1 and #2 are still coaching, not sure if he would ever catch them (or want to catch them).

Finally - Since Alleghany defeated Wooster in Feb. 1998, Wooster has now won 167 consecutive games against non "w" NCAC teams (ya - I'm cheating by putting DePauw in the "w' group). It's a cherry pick statistic but still amazing. Only 17 of those victories have been by less than 10 points - Including that game in Gambier in '09 that they had no business winning).