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Leader of the Pack

To me, there's no such thing as a good lie, unless it's my Titleist sitting center-cut in the fairway (oh warm weather, please come fast, I'm ready to blow my money on a game I'm terrible at). The reason numbers and I get along so well is because they don't lie. Abraham Lincoln never told a lie and neither do my friends the digits.

From Warren Spahn's palindrome of 363 career wins (most wins by a left-handed pitcher), to Stan Musial's 3,630 hits (here's one to use on your friends, Musial had exactly 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 on the road), numbers tend to stick to my brain like a statically-charged t-shirt.

When Dick Reynolds hit career win number 600 last year, it made me ponder the difficulty of such a milestone. It's weird to think that a coach would have to average 20 wins a season for 30 years in order to reach such a plateau. Needless to say, the guy knows a lot about that little rock.

This past Saturday was Reynolds at his best. Seven days after an embarrassing loss to those darn Capital Crusaders, his Cardinals were hosting the third-best team in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC). All the stars were aligned and the chips were laid for the beginning of a possible downward spiral that would make Britney Spears look like a beauty queen.

Instead, Reynolds had his team primed for the best win of the season. At one point last weekend, Otterbein was beating the John Carroll team (a team that was riding a four-game winning streak that included a win over the talented Heidelberg team and the athletic Wilmington Quakers) by 39 points. It was the Cards' first taste of victory in four weeks.

Against those baboons from Bexley, the OC had just five assists as a team. At the half, they were shooting a vomit-inducing 12 percent from the field. Seven days later, Otterbein was breaking the school record for three-point field goals, with 18, and dishing out 23 assists on 33 field goals. The unselfish play led to a win that should and will get the ball rolling.

Give Dick Reynolds a full week of practice to prepare for any team and I give Otterbein the upper-hand. It all just seemed to click: Brian Pollock locked down the OAC's second leading scorer (don't let the stat sheet fool you; Terry Walsh's 27 points were all in junk time and eight of them came at the line), and everybody and their mother was on fire.

Moral of the story: Dick Reynolds is the best game coach you may ever see, regardless of division.

Give me a team with a lot of heart and Dick Reynolds on the bench, and I'll show you a basketball team that you should be darn proud of.



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