WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[oldknight]

  And I think Snikkers is starting to understand the Hope system. 

16 points, 9 boards and 4 blocks in 21 minutes? Yeah, I would say so.

[sac]

I think some coaches would take that kind of bench production, .......from their whole bench.

[hope1]

way to go hope girls keep it up today it schould be a great game today i hope a lot of fans show up and watch the game today it would be nice

[oldknight]

  And I think Snikkers is starting to understand the Hope system. 

16 points, 9 boards and 4 blocks in 21 minutes? Yeah, I would say so.

Here's the link for Dan D'Addona's take on the game with comments from Morehouse and Snikkers in today's Sentinel.

http://hollandsentinel.com/stories/120107/localsports_20071201065.shtml

[sac]

Carthage 52 Calvin 50

Hope 73 Wheaton 56

Carries Snikkers with 15 and 5 bds. off the bench.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

Carthage 52 Calvin 50

wow! I think we all expected Calvin to have a tough early start to their season due to injuries but I never expected to see them lose both games this weekend!

[gohope]

Some notes from today's first game:

1.  There are NO players from Wisconsin on Carthage's team. Kinda interesting.

2.  Carthage played like they forgot about the time change. Just a bit slower and their passing a bit fuzzy.

3.  Bounce passing is going to kill me yet!!!!!!!!!  Watching both teams try to execute the "bounce pass" got scarier and scarier as the game went on - kinda like driving home from Holland to Kazoo this evening. Holy Not Fun!!  But as Dorothy shares with Toto, "There's no place like home!"

4.  Carthaged TOTALLY depended on #54, who was a good player, but one player does not make a team!

5.  Carthage never gave up. Behind by about a dozen in the second half they just kept chipping away. A note to the coach from Carthage:  When totally disgusted/disappointed with the play of your team, if you're going to turn your back on them, hand the game over to an assistant coach so that they'll know that someone believes in them.

[gohope]

Some notes from today's second game:

1.  When Carrie Snickers entered the game and scored her first points, the person that I was sitting by, we both mentioned it would be fun for everybody at the game sometime later in the season to be given a Snickers candy bar as they entered the DeVos, and then we'd hold them up in her honor. Well... the guys who run the giant scoreboard must have been evesdropping as there was a HUGE graphic of a Snickers candy bar on the scoreboard when Carrie scored. That was fun!

2.  At the beginning of the game I made a note to myself to check the number of minutes played for #45 for Wheaton. I was going to guess that the coach would play her for much of the game, but as the game progressed, I saw that she didn't have the stamina for a full game and ended up playing 27 minutes. But later I wondered the same for #21, and looking at the stats, YEP, all 40 minutes!  And that same tone came across in her play. As there is "me" in the word team! Don't get me wrong, she is a good player, but she needs to remember that there are four others out there at the same time that she is playing.

3.  Is Linebacking 101 an official class at Wheaton? Instead of snowing outside it was raining offense charging/pushing by the Thunder in the first half!

4.  Before I forget - a REALLY COOL NATIONAL ANTHEM done by a group of women members from the Holland Chorale!  VERY IMPRESSIVE!!! It would be really sweet if they could sing prior to one of the games when Hope hosts the Final Four Tournament!

5.  Hope Ladies - Lots of good things. The game was close the first half with Hope leading 32-30, but then the depth of Hopes team was too much for the Thunder. Hope just kept substituting with just as strong or even stronger players. They led in rebounding, assists, steals and had half as many turnovers as Wheaton.  They're just a lot of fun to watch, and... they have fun playing too!

[gohope]

One last thing. It was interesting noting that when I looked at Wheaton's roster, I noticed that players came from 9 states! For those of us in the MIAA most of our players come much more regionally, if not within a two hour radius of the school. Being limited in knowledge about other teams, I wondered about Washington U. in St. Louis, since they are also a school that receives students nationwide. They have players from 16 states on the Women's Basketball team!!!  I'm going to guess that the majority of D3 schools have players on a team that are more regionally vs. nationally, but it would be fun to hear from others on this!

[Grutte Dirk]

And I think Snikkers is starting to understand the Hope system.

If by "Hope system" you mean .... take ball, be tall, score again and again .... then I'd agree.  She's starting to understand.

[hope1]

good job hope girls keep it rolling all seasson long

[AlwaysHope]

Several comments regarding the Hope women's basketball team after their impressive 5-0 start:

1) Of their top 8 scorers, five of them have yet to start a game this year.  Another way of looking at it is that five "non-starters" have outscored two starters.  And it's not because they have more playing time.   These five "non-starters" have totaled 343 minutes while scoring 181 points, while the five starters (who started every game this year) have totaled 441 minutes while scoring 171.   Incidentally, also of the 8 top scorers, only 2 are seniors, 2 juniors, 3 sophmores, and 1 freshman.

2) The leading scorer of the team has averaged only 10.8 points per game.

The Dutch have now been ranked # 1 in the USA Today/ESPN poll, and # 3 in the  D3 Hoops poll.

Heard an interesting post-game interview with Asst. Coach Dean Morehouse this past weekend.  When asked about the starters and the reserves, he stated that Hope only has two teams:  Those playing on the floor at that moment, and those on the bench.  He never used the words starters or reserves, or 1st and 2nd team.  When the interviewer brought up Carrie Snickers, he said that she is still a freshman who like the other freshmen is still learing the Hope system.  He then praised her for her talent.  Spoken like a true veteran coach who keeps things in perspective.

[sac]

Hope 92 Marygrove 40

http://www.miaa.org/wbb/stats/0708/1205magr.htm

Hope takes on Albion Saturday following the men's tournament.  Good double-header against good competition.

[HopeConvert]

Hope 92 Marygrove 40

Hope takes on Albion Saturday following the men's tournament.  Good double-header against good competition.

As Oldknight said at the game tonight, they keep outscoring the opposition 5-2 every two minutes or so. They never seemed to go on a big run, but every time you looked up at the score board, the lead was 10 points larger. Hope's women came at Marygrove in waves. It really wasn't fair. I was most impressed with Kaitlyn Kopke - she's fearless, and quick.

[hope1]

man what a blowout last night  hope they do it saturday to vs albion it would be nice if they could