Bowling Green State University Athletics
MacRitchie Twins Have Falcons in the Zone
November 13, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 13, 2006
By JACK CARLE, Sentinel Sports Editor - Colin and Ryan MacRitchie were right in the middle of things Saturday afternoon at Anderson Arena.
The Bowling Green teenagers were guest coaches for the Bowling Green Falcons as part of the Make-A-Wish program.
The identical twins have spent parts of the last two weeks with the team, during practices, in the locker room and taking part in several media sessions, including the post-game radio show on Saturday.
For BG's season-opener with Denison they were right at the end of the bench with head coach Dan Dakich and assistants LaMonta Stone, Marty Richter and John Stroia.
The Falcons posted an 89-52 victory.
"He (Dakich) said to play a full 40 minutes and we did," Ryan MacRitchie said. "We were able to come out in the second half and make the lead larger."
"Coach Dakich gets them all disciplined up and with the right attitude," Colin MacRitchie said. "It was a fun time being with them on game day and everyone did well."
With victory well in hand, Dakich allowed the MacRitchies to call some plays and that decision led to what Dakich, laughingly called --"a mutiny."
Dakich is a coach who preaches man-to-man defense. The MacRitchies had the Falcons running a zone defense.
"I say all right, `let's run Kansas,'" Dakich said. "I get out of the huddle ... and I'm thinking these guys (Colin and Ryan) haven't been playing attention, `tell the guys they are supposed to run Kansas.' The next thing I know they are asking for a pen, which is dangerous, and they are drawing stuff up.
"I know (then) that my team is really huddling close and it's a mutiny," he continued. "The next thing I know, we're playing zone, which was never in the discussion in terms of the head basketball coach at Bowling Green State University to his lofty assistants and his team."
The twins also called an offensive play, on which the Falcons scored.
"They called a play at the end that worked for us," said BG's Brian Moten, who scored on the play.
"When I first heard about the idea, I just thought it was great," Moten added. -- CARLE
