I saw NYU at Hope last year and was impressed with their team. Everyone is back, they were my pre-season pick for this year's championship.

At one point in the 3rd quarter, Hope had a rotation of one senior (Morehouse), one sophomore (Garner) and 3 freshman (Sietsma, Karlblom & Kaiser). Sietsma did get schooled a few times by Gaby Timmer though. Learning under pressure. Loved it!

Driving up from Florida to Pittsburgh on the way home to Michigan. Got a room 2 miles from the arena for Thursday night. If Hope wins, might be a problem getting a room for Friday night. Just realized Division I Men have a sectional on Friday less than 1/2 mile from the women's arena.

And St. Thomas is quite a bit larger school than Hope College. Wikipedia has enrollment at St Thomas at 6,200-6,500 undergraduates, Hope is around 3,200-3,500.

Does anyone know the status of Freshman Abi Tarrant?

Hope women beat Ferris State women 69-60. The game is listed as an exhibition game but very energetic play from both sides.

Hope first unit, Majerus, Schoonveld, Muller, Voskuil & DeSmit played a little better than Ferris State's first unit. Hope's second unit of Morehouse, Baguley, McKinney, Feenstra & Smith were markedly better than Ferris's second unit helped by Feenstra's game leading 16 points of which 10 points were in the 2nd quarter. The 9 point deficit was the closest Ferris got after the 1st quarter. Hope's biggest lead was 17 points in the 2nd quarter.

Kurncz, Jemison, Garner, Bellows, Tarrant & Lee did not get into the game.

I would expect DeSmit to start at PG and Majerus at Forward.

Quote from: Roundball999 on February 21, 2020, 05:33:06 AM
I did read confirmation in the Holland newspaper that Sydney Muller is out for the season, rumors of ACL I guess were true.  She was leading in scoring and MVP of all three early season tournaments so surely a big loss.  On the other hand, Hope is deep and she's been out for weeks now so Hope has had some time to adjust before the post season.  Best wishes to Ms. Muller for a full recovery for her senior season next year.

Yes, she was not at Wed. Feb 12th home game, so I presume she had her surgery sometime around then. She was at this Wednesday's home game with her leg encased in a brace and on crutches. Hopefully, she'll be ready for the beginning of next season.

Natalee Kott is off her crutches (from a pre-season knee injury) but still walking somewhat gingerly.

Ashleigh Thomas came out on the court after the game wearing a boot on her left foot. She was walking on it without crutches. Watching the replay at home, her leg got tangled with a Olivet's player. On replay looked like the knee, but dodged that bullet. Hopefully, it's not long term. I'd be surprised if she was ready for Saturday's Trine game. But maybe it's only a precaution.

Quote from: Roundball999 on January 29, 2020, 07:51:00 PM
Hope's leading scorer Sydney Muller apparently not playing vs. Albion?  Anyone have news?

Saw the pre-game warm-ups on video. Sydney was in sweats watching, she was walking favoring her right leg or ankle.

Quote from: Dutchfan on March 19, 2018, 09:18:14 PM

Quote from: Roundball999 on March 19, 2018, 08:38:13 PM
Speaking of next year, I'm already looking forward to a Hope squad that may well be stronger yet next year.  6' All American Frankie Buchanan will be back and the starting guards will no longer be freshmen.  Reserve 6'3" Olivia Voskuil played a lot of key minutes down the stretch and the sky is the limit for her as indicated by her 6 pts, 7 rebs, 6 blocks vs CNU.  6'2" Ashleigh Thomas also was part of a strong 2nd unit that logged lots of minutes.  Looks like a strong recruiting class coming in again too. 

Hope was loaded with freshmen that started or played key roles this year.  In my experience, the summer between freshman and sophomore years is when the women make the greatest offseason improvement.  Finding time and places to play during the summer seems to be key.  If the Hope women manage that, watch out!

If memory serves, Ashleigh Thomas actually spent most of the season as part of the third unit. Says a lot for Hope since there are many teams she would've started for.

Another one that didn't see a lot of minutes was 6' Jess Moorman. She was overly aggressive at times but has a nose for the ball on defense and made a few key steals. And she made a few slick passes for assists when the opportunity arose.

Quote from: sac on February 23, 2018, 11:17:41 PM

Quote from: alexj35 on February 23, 2018, 07:45:58 PM
Omg Wallace Whitfield is reffing the Trine/Olivet game. I'm nervous already. How does this guy still have a job?

I might be interpreting what happened incorrectly but the funniest part of the night for me was late in the 2nd half Wallace Whitfield stopped the game  to make sure the 29 seconds on the shot clock was correct.  After a brief discussion Whitfield and Bart Wagenke determined the shot clock was correct, all this time Ernst was yelling across the gym directly at Wallace.  Just as the ball is about to be put in play Wagenke stops the game again and then resets the  shot clock.

FWIW I did not think Whitfield was bad tonight.  I haven't seen is name in box scores a lot this year I was surprised to see him assigned to this game.

He came up lame in one of Hope's home games, and they had to finish up the game with 2 refs.

The Calvin game was the first time in the last 12 games, Hope has won the "points in the paint" team stats category.

Quote from: GoPerry on December 15, 2017, 09:19:05 PM
Wheaton over Rochester College(MI)

Devin Kyler      19 pts, 4 rebs, 2 asst      
Maggie Dansdill   15 pts, 5 rebs, 5 asst
Hannah Frazier      11 pts, 8 rebs


Overall a decent performance for Wheaton today after a busy finals week.  Glad to see the Thunder ladies get back on the winning track with a road win.  Devin Kyler had a very game and freshman Hannah Williams had a nice game off the bench.  Rochester had a couple forwards in  Allyssa Copley and Brook Fielder who matched up height-wise so Frazier and Jill Berg weren't able to simply have their way inside. 

A growing concern is the Thunder lackluster outside shooting which gets hidden in the stats.  And it's not just 3 pt shooting where Wheaton is just not good right now.

Rochester was really not that formidable an opponent.  I think the team would've really looked forward to tomorrow's game with #7 Hope who handled 1-9 Finlandia pretty easily tonight. 

But . . .

"Due to a Hope College scheduling issue, Wheaton will take on Finlandia on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. (EST) in the final game of the tournament – Saturday's only game."

Not sure what that's all about?  Definitely a drag for Wheaton not getting their chance to play a ranked team since they have yet to do so this season.

The only thing I could think of with the scheduling conflict. Hope men and women's teams have games in Florida on Tuesday. Someone might have messed up the travelling arrangements.

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on November 30, 2017, 01:21:17 PM
Interesting game last night with Olivet at Hope - if I'm not mistaken there were 6 freshman starting between the two teams.  Olivet's press was impressive, specially how well they did it on missed shots rebounded by Hope.  Lots of turnovers for the Dutch, in fact Hope had three 10 second violations in the first half.  Hope eventually adjusted to it, and attacked well.  Francesca (Frankie) Buchanan with a monster game of 18 points, 19 rebounds, in 21 minutes.

Side note - Olivet coach Zach Ingles was pretty animated several times over what he saw as missed calls.  At one point he sat behind his team on the bleachers, which drew the attention of the small but boisterous Dew Crew.  They then mimicked everything Coach Ingles did for the next couple minutes, which had the broadcasters cracking up.

Agree on the backcourt violations. Tolbert did a good job dribbling through the press. 3 Hope passes in the backcourt will eat a lot of those 10 seconds. Olivet is going to surprise a few teams in the conference. The 25 point margin was not indicative of how hard Olivet made Hope work.