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Posted: 11/30/2013 8:26 AM

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This game is part of our pseudo-tournament and these two played an epic battle yesterday with Mercer winning 117-108 in 3OT. Valpo led at the half 45-33 but Mercer outscored them by an identical 45-33 in the second half. Jacob Gollon of Mercer, who didn't hit a FG against us (and I don't even remember sadly) led all scorers with 37 points. Mercer has now played 5 OT periods this season.

That makes today's game against Evansville the last game of the "tournament" and essentially the championship game. Not including the game each team played against a DII or DIII team the standings are as follows:

Ohio 2-0
Evansville 2-0
Mercer 1-2
Valpo 0-3

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Posted: 11/30/2013 8:41 AM

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I just saw this and was going to post about it as well. Here's a link to the box score on ESPN.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400499074

Both teams show free throws extremely well. Mercer was 35-41 (85%) and Valpo was 29-32 (91%). Langston Hall went for 24 against us, but was help to 8 points (2-16 shooting) in 54 minutes for Mercer.

Last Edited: 11/30/2013 8:41:48 AM by Eagle66

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Posted: 11/30/2013 10:29 AM

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looks like Valpo just ran out of bodies. They played the final OT with only 2 non guards available because of fouls.

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Posted: 11/30/2013 6:59 PM

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Update:

Ohio 3-0
Evansville 2-1
Mercer 1-2
Valpo 0-3

Quite an impressive run through the tournament giving us a good look into what we can expect from the Bobcats this year. While none of the three are great teams they are all good teams and other than about a 4 minute stretch against Valpo we pretty much dominated. Below are our biggest leads against the three.

Evansville +34
Mercer +20
Valpo +16

I'm loving this team's make up and versatility.

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Posted: 11/30/2013 11:13 PM

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Bean showed flavor today. That was encouraging.