2004-05 News
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Fifty Years After Bill Edwards' Homecoming, Tradition Continues
April 05, 2005The watershed moment that changed the Wittenberg athletic landscape forever occurred on April 3, 1955, with the most important hiring in the department's illustrious history. -
Winter Sports Athletes Claim 15 NCAC Postseason Awards
March 07, 2005An outstanding winter sports season has come to a close for the 2004-05 school year, but not before 15 Wittenberg University student-athletes reaped rich rewards for their efforts as they were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams.
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2004-05 Season In Review
March 05, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team lost 10 seniors in the last two years, all of whom made significant contributions to three straight North Coast Athletic Conference championships. At some point, even a program as firmly established as Wittenberg's is unable to overcome such significant personnel losses.
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Roundup: Denison Disrupts Tigers' NCAC Tournament Hopes
March 04, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team never quite got untracked offensively in the 2004-05 season, and it finally caught up with the Tigers as their three-year reign atop the North Coast Athletic Conference came to an end with Friday's NCAC Tournament semifinal defeat against Denison.
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All-NCAC Women's Basketball Squad Announced
March 02, 2005Denison senior wing Emma Woodward (Thornville, OH/Lakewood) has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2005 All-North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball squad, announced today after voting by the conference's head coaches.
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Roundup: Tigers Seeded Third For NCAC Tournament
February 25, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team may have taken a somewhat circuitous route, but the Tigers are right where they want to be at this time of the 2004-05 season. The two-time defending North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament champions are seeded third in this year's tournament after tying for second place in the regular season standings, and the Tigers are set to tip off against second-seeded Denison at 5:30 p.m. tonight.
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Wittenberg Stumbles In NCAC Tournament Semifinals
February 25, 2005The weather still hasn't warmed yet in Ohio, a sign that the winter season still has a grip on the state. The Wittenberg Tigers still haven't warmed up yet either, as evidenced by 27 percent shooting from the field, including a 1-of-16 performance from three-point range, in a disappointing 56-43 defeat against Denison in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals hosted by Kenyon College.
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Wittenberg Overcomes Slow Start to Advance Past Wooster
February 22, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers have reached the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals in each of their 16 years in the league, and after a slow start against the College of Wooster Fighting Scots the Tigers rallied to advance to that familiar position again in 2005 with a 73-51 victory.
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Wittenberg Wraps Up Regular Season With Key Win Over Ohio Wesleyan
February 19, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers continued their recent mastery of one-time nemesis Ohio Wesleyan Saturday, claiming a 67-55 road victory over the Battling Bishops. It was Wittenberg's eighth straight victory over Ohio Wesleyan, dating back to an 81-75 overtime win in the HPER Center in the 2002 North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship game.
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Roundup: Can't Count The Tigers Out
February 18, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team has taken some body blows, but like any good fighter, the Tigers can't be counted out. With a roster dominated by underclassmen, the Tigers have shown steady improvement with flashes of outstanding play mixed in and now stand at 15-9 overall and 11-4 in the North Coast Athletic Conference.
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Wittenberg Uses Big Second Half To Defeat Earlham
February 16, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers found themselves in a spot they didn't expect - tied up at 24 with last-place and winless Earlham four minutes into the second half. Then the Tigers turned on the afterburners, scoring the next six points and 44 of the last 61 to claim a deceiving 68-41 victory over the Quakers on their home floor.
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Wittenberg Slips Past Wooster
February 12, 2005The celebration for Senior Day turned out to be a victorious day for the Wittenberg Tigers, as they defeated visiting Wooster, 64-61.
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Wittenberg Races Past Hiram
February 05, 2005Less than 24 hours after struggling mightily against the Allegheny Gators, the Wittenberg Tigers rebounded nicely with an 84-50 home victory over Hiram.
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Roundup: Tigers Tied For Second In NCAC
February 04, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team continues to show its age. With most of their players in the rotation in the freshman and sophomore classes at Wittenberg, the Tigers have gone through their share of highs and lows this season as they build for the future and compete for a fourth straight North Coast Athletic Conference regular season title simultaneously.
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Wittenberg Stumbles Against Allegheny
February 04, 2005Neither team played very well in the first half. Unfortunately for the Wittenberg Tigers, the team that finally caught fire and pulled out an unlikely victory was the Allegheny Gators, who captured a 58-53 victory.
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Wittenberg Wins Key NCAC Game Over Ohio Wesleyan
February 01, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers and their rollercoaster 2004-05 season continued on Tuesday, this time with a happy ride up one of the hills with a convincing 78-63 victory over visiting Ohio Wesleyan.
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Wittenberg Bounces Back With NCAC Win At Oberlin
January 29, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team rebounded from a tough loss Wednesday at Kenyon with a 71-61 victory over the Oberlin Yewomen.
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Wittenberg Fall To Kenyon In First-Place Battle
January 26, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers lost their shooting touch on Wednesday, and even a stout defensive effort against North Coast Athletic Conference-leading Kenyon couldn't make up for it in a 35-33 loss on the Ladies' home floor.
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Wittenberg runs past Earlham, 76-56
January 22, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first three minutes of the game and cruised to a 76-56 victory over the visiting Earlham Quakers.
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Roundup: NCAC Race Gets Interesting Following Loss At Denison
January 21, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team appeared to have put it all together with a four-game win streak that moved the Tigers to the top of the North Coast Athletic Conference standings. But a stumble at Denison on Wednesday brought the Tigers back into the pack and set up an even more interesting stretch run to the 2004-05 season.
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Wittenberg Stumbles Against Denison Again
January 19, 2005Superman had his kryptonite, Wittenberg women's basketball apparently has its equivalent in 2004-05 with the Denison Big Red. For the second time in two months, Denison dealt the Tigers a disappointing North Coast Athletic Conference defeat, this time by a 52-44 margin.
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Wittenberg Dominates Another NCAC Contender
January 15, 2005Pure domination, with a statement that the Tigers are back on the prowl in the North Coast Athletic Conference. For the second straight game, the Wittenberg Tigers crushed a would-be contender for the 2005 NCAC regular season championship, this time hitting the road to dispose of the College of Wooster by a final score of 79-43.
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Roundup: Conference Action A Welcome Event
January 13, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team has made a habit of getting into gear at just the right moment. In each of the last three years, the Tigers have rallied from early-season struggles against a top-flight nonconference schedule to go on January win streaks and win the North Coast Athletic Conference regular season titles.
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Wittenberg Runs Away From Kenyon, 64-35
January 12, 2005It was expected to be a tough battle for first place in the North Coast Athletic Conference. It wound up a surprising rout in favor of the homestanding Wittenberg Tigers as they won going away, 64-35.
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Wittenberg Keeps Pace In NCAC With Key Win Over Allegheny
January 08, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers appear to be making the necessary strides to not only be competitive in the North Coast Athletic Conference, but actually contend for a fourth straight regular season title. Wittenberg took a huge step toward that goal Saturday with a 66-55 victory over homestanding Allegheny.
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Wittenberg Easily Defeats Hiram
January 07, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers may have struggled through much of the first half of the 2004-05 season, but that doesn't mean they plan to give up their three-year stranglehold on the North Coast Athletic Conference regular season crown without a fight. They served notice on Friday with a 77-45 road win at Hiram that the Tigers are going to be players in this year's competition for the regular season title.
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Roundup: Tigers Turn Things Around With Kiwanis Classic Title
January 06, 2005The Wittenberg women's basketball team is in just about the same predicament as it was a year ago - just before the Tigers went on a 21-game win streak that carried them to North Coast Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championships and a berth in the NCAA Division III Round of 16 for the first time in school history.
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Wittenberg Nearly Knocks Off Nationally Ranked DePauw
January 03, 2005The last time DePauw came to Springfield, Ohio, the Tigers were ranked 13th in the nation before losing 69-64 to Wittenberg on Dec. 14, 2003. This time, however, the Tigers of DePauw came in ranked No. 6 and managed to escape with a victory, 65-61, after surviving a scare from the homestanding Tigers of Wittenberg.
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Wittenberg Wins Kiwanis Classic Championship Game Over Hanover
December 30, 2004The Wittenberg Tigers of 2004-05 did something four of their five predecessors could not - win the Kiwanis-Wittenberg Holiday Classic championship. The Tigers fought off a strong challenge from the Hanover College Panthers, winning 66-60 to capture the program's first title of their own in-season tourney since 2001 and just their second title in the last six years.
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Wittenberg Turns In 67-46 Win Over Centre
December 29, 2004The Wittenberg Tigers spread the wealth on offense and took advantage of 35 Centre College turnovers in a 67-46 victory in the first round of the Kiwanis-Wittenberg Holiday Classic. The win moved the Tigers into the tournament championship game against Hanover College at 6 p.m. Thursday, while Centre moved to the consolation game against Buffalo State at 1 p.m. Thursday.
