Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on January 27, 2025, 09:25:42 AM

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Quote from: BigBallBoy on January 25, 2025, 04:52:40 PMTough Trine-Hope game to watch from a Dutchman perspective. . . .
Tough climb from here for the Dutchmen, but there is always Hope!

Well said BigBallBoy...as Hope's cold shooting woes (28%, and but 3 of 24 3's) continue. But, yes, credit Trine as well as the basket lid.

Hope could have used Josh Decker's 3-point shooting these last two games. Hopefully he and Eli Schoonveld will soon return--both missed. With Albion/Calvin/Trine up next, this is the difficult stretch.

Trine deserves some credit for Hope's poor performance, but I think the bulk of it falls on Hope simply not making a lot of good, open shots.  Other than shooting percentage, this was a pretty even game statistically. 

Reb: H 47, T 41 
FGA: H 67, T 57 
TO: H 15, T 11 
Pts off TO: H 11, T 16 
FTA: H 21, T 19 
OReb: H 25, T 10

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Quote from: goodknight on March 12, 2024, 11:04:23 AMCalvin commit from Illiana Christian, 6-6 forward Andy Spoelman.
https://x.com/AndySpoelman/status/1767326816128135271?s=20

Mrs. Northb's alma mater, she said when she thinks of Spoelmans she thinks of "tall".

Quote from: stlawus on March 08, 2024, 07:29:06 PMI'm not sure Overway is long for the division III ranks after this season.  He can start or be the first option off the bench for plenty division I mid majors. 

Then you don't understand Calvin or the MIAA.  Calvin (and other MIAA schools) have a long history of guys that could play at another level, but remain at Calvin for a bunch of other reasons.

Fun fact, my dad, a graduate of Calvin some 60+ years ago, did postgraduate work at Trinity (CT).  So one alma mater will be playing at the other this weekend.  Should they both win, they will play against each other.

He will root for Calvin.

Calvin Knights 88    St Norbert Green Knights 66

Calvin 1 point shy of being ranked #1....

Calvin beats UW-Lacrosse, 84-71.  Ressler with 18. Wheaton is next.

Okay, so who is winning the recruiting battle?

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on May 09, 2023, 10:00:27 PM
Matt Snyder retweeted:

https://twitter.com/Indianagamehoop/status/1655982164393984015?s=20

Fun fact, Illiana has been the largest feeder school to Calvin outside of Michigan, and is Mrs. Northb's alma mater. 

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on February 06, 2023, 08:19:46 AM
Rules / judgement question:

Is the call for a backcourt / over & back violation correct at the 1:29:00 mark of the Hope @ Adrian game from Saturday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4yxuFEHop4

Appears to me that the edge of the ball (in the air) may pass over the line, but the ball when touching the floor never actually does.

I think you are right, it seems like a quick whistle on that call, without the ball touching the ground.

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Quote from: goodknight on September 01, 2022, 08:09:16 AM
Now that I have put away childish things (for the greater part), I try to avoid the blame game.
For the record, FDF adopted that sig line when I was attempting (with little success) to mediate a dust up many moons ago involving FDF and CM and an unnamed Calvin poster. What can I say: I'm not a marriage therapist!

Trust me, CM quotes you often GK   

I'm experiencing a modest growth spurt just contemplating the baleful look CM shoots your way while quoting me!!! 

Sadly, goodknight neglected to properly register ® the phase when first coining it. Just imagine the buckets of money he could recover from CM, due to theft of GK's intellectual property--such as it is. We all know the deep pockets CM has, and the multiple times she must have used it on FDF, so any litigation would have certainly led to a delightful financial recovery. To say nothing of all the money that might have been paid to GK's legal counsel.

Just Bill's Weasels^TM are now closely monitoring the MIAA board.

Quote from: HOPEful on June 14, 2022, 08:52:36 AM


Perhaps from the lens of a 2022 worldview, but in a very conservative Dutch community in 1882, the differences felt significantly different than they appear to us today. These were people who picked up their lives and followed a pastor across an ocean, then 750 miles west to a place they had never seen. Its not a coincidence that the divide happened six years after Van Raalte died in 1876. Us Dutch have a tendency to get pretty stuck in our ways. When the "new guy" wasn't doing it like Van Raalte did it, there were some reactions.

Some would even be shocked that this was being discussed on the Women's Board, as it is clearly more appropriate to be on a board devoted to the men. 

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 28, 2022, 08:39:40 AM

Someone needs to direct me to a summary of the political and theological history behind this Hope/Calvin thing. I feel like I'm embarrassingly uninformed about the details.

The common thought is that they are "Separated by a Common Heritage."

So with several of the new additions, which team would you wise people think has "won" the recruiting contest this year?

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on March 08, 2022, 01:22:58 PM
 

NCAA Tournament History (not sure I have the # of Final Four appearances right for Calvin):

Not sure about that either, but you nailed the number of National Championships