West Liberty Hilltopper Basketball

[Layton]

[Columbuseer]

FYI
wlu 6th in latest poll.
IUP is 5th, which is so sad for those young men given that their season is cancelled.
https://hilltoppersports.com/news/20...ason-poll.aspx

[Columbuseer]

Apparently that doesn't count since WLU didn't play and beat them at home...Also apparently doesn't count playing nationally ranked opponents that come from your own conference. ONLY thing that apprently proves how strong you are is to play out of conference national ranked programs at home!!

It's nice when you can define your own metric of greatness! You can ignore everything except that which "proves" YOUR program is great!! Hahahahahah!!!!

Good one boat!
Far from ducking contenders, wlu spends great effort to try to get good out of conference match ups. It is just that many are not interested. Besides risking a blow out loss, teams may reason that playing against wlu has limited upside, since no one in their conference plays the wlu style. Kudos to Daemon for accepting a home and home.

However, Some teams will scrimmage wlu like cal pa, lake Erie, Ashland and Findlay for a change of pace in preseason.

[boatcapt]

Findlay is a premier program, having defeated Ohio State 70-68 in exhibition in Nov 2007 and winning the national championship in Mar 2009, going 36-0.

After losing to Findlay at the ASRC in overtime in 2011, WLU went to Findlay and I watched WLU put a major beatdown on them, leading by as many as 28 points in front of a shocked, packed house. This was the last time Findlay wanted any part of WLU.

Not easy for WLU to find opponents, especially at the ASRC. WLU went to Shaw in 2019, but they were having a down year.

Men's Basketball | 11/14/2012 10:35:00 PM
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Apparently that doesn't count since WLU didn't play and beat them at home...Also apparently doesn't count playing nationally ranked opponents that come from your own conference. ONLY thing that apprently proves how strong you are is to play out of conference national ranked programs at home!!

It's nice when you can define your own metric of greatness! You can ignore everything except that which "proves" YOUR program is great!! Hahahahahah!!!!

[IUPalum]

WLU plays nationally and regionally ranked teams at home every year...Just last season, we played Charleston and Fairmont at home and on the road. In the recent past, they have played ranked NDC and Wheeling at home and on the road. To say WLU doesn't play any national contenders is a red hearing used by some to attempt to minimize WLU's regular season performance while burnishing the regular season performance of their team.

Nice try... those are your league games and aren't legit contenders year in and year out. Go kick rocks with that ****!!!

[Columbuseer]

Findlay is a premier program, having defeated Ohio State 70-68 in exhibition in Nov 2007 and winning the national championship in Mar 2009, going 36-0.

After losing to Findlay at the ASRC in overtime in 2011, WLU went to Findlay and I watched WLU put a major beatdown on them, leading by as many as 28 points in front of a shocked, packed house. This was the last time Findlay wanted any part of WLU.

Not easy for WLU to find opponents, especially at the ASRC. WLU went to Shaw in 2019, but they were having a down year.

Men's Basketball | 11/14/2012 10:35:00 PM
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Box ScoreAlex Falk

[boatcapt]

I didn't know 2010-2011 was a decade???

Try playing someone at home that is good and quit ducking national contenders!!!

WLU plays nationally and regionally ranked teams at home every year...Just last season, we played Charleston and Fairmont at home and on the road. In the recent past, they have played ranked NDC and Wheeling at home and on the road. To say WLU doesn't play any national contenders is a red hearing used by some to attempt to minimize WLU's regular season performance while burnishing the regular season performance of their team.

[Columbuseer]

Casualty of covid: Daemon was to play at wlu after decisively defeating wlu in ny last year. Their center is special. Was looking forward to rematch.

[Columbuseer]

I didn't know 2010-2011 was a decade???

Try playing someone at home that is good and quit ducking national contenders!!!

From 2010-2011 season to present is a decade.
Regarding good teams, few are interested. Nearby d1 schools have no interest in exhibitions. You have evidence to contrary?

Perhaps one reason non mec schools would prefer not to play wlu is relative scoring margin.
For 9 of their 11 mec opponents, wlu gave them the worst defeat of the season in terms of scoring margin.
only wheeling and notre dame suffered their worst defeat by teams other than wlu.
for example, concord lost by 7 at iup. They lost by 42 at wlu and by 25 in Athens.
Purpose is not to say wlu is definitely better than iup, as it is all about match ups.

Salem lost to cal pa by 15 and a week later lost to wlu by 50.
ohio Dominican lost to nationally ranked Indianapolis by 2 and a month later lost to wlu by 44.

It is just that the wlu style is so unique that it can make decent teams look really bad. That is why wlu led the nation in scoring margin.

[IUPalum]

west liberty has best home record in the decade from 2010-2011 of any NCAA team.
won 95.0% of games (151-8). Kansas was second at 94.1%.

https://www.timesleaderonline.com/sp...ns-basketball/

I didn't know 2010-2011 was a decade???

Try playing someone at home that is good and quit ducking national contenders!!!

[Columbuseer]

west liberty has best home record in the decade from 2010-2011 of any NCAA team.
won 95.0% of games (151-8). Kansas was second at 94.1%.

https://www.timesleaderonline.com/sp...ns-basketball/

[IUPalum]

Yep...See the PSAC in 2021-22!!

I don't see any schedules or guidance from the MEC either...

[boatcapt]

*YAWN*

Yep...See the PSAC in 2021-22!!

[IUPalum]

As the DII Basketball season is kicking off, the NCAA released their first Power 10 for the week. Checking in at #2 is WLU behind NW Missouri. Other notables on the list include Nova Southeastern at #6, IUP at #8 and Fairmont listed among the "Best of the Rest."

*YAWN*

[boatcapt]

As the DII Basketball season is kicking off, the NCAA released their first Power 10 for the week. Checking in at #2 is WLU behind NW Missouri. Other notables on the list include Nova Southeastern at #6, IUP at #8 and Fairmont listed among the "Best of the Rest."