WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

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mjfasteenwolf

ACTION ALERT:
All or most of you are aware that Hope College is hosting the NCAA
Division III Women's Basketball Championship next weekend.  Hope has
been chosen to do this because of the quality of our institution.
However, the quality of our institution is degraded when a few decide
to mar its reputation.  Today, it was noticed that three NCAA Welcome
banners had been stolen from the lamppost in the front circle of
DeVos.  This is HIGHLY disappointing!!  We ask that those who may know
the whereabouts of these stolen banners, please find them and return
them to the DeVos Fieldhouse, no questions asked. We are trying to put
our best feet forward for our visitors and the NCAA.  Actions like
this do not allow that to happen.  Please help!!

Eva Dean Folkert (folkert@hope.edu)
Director of Women's Athletics

This is too bad, HOPEfully whoever took those will decide they should represent Hope with a little more class.

hope1

that is to bad some stole the banners no class at all
i love hope  sports all of them are really great to watch

Civic Minded

#1397
gohope, any thoughts?    ;)
2014 MIAA Pick 'Em Champion  :)

sac

Not the first time those rowdy Hopesters have stolen banners. :P

Flying Dutch Fan

Some food for thought.  A comparison of Hope and HPU, should they meet



Offense     % 2pt   % 3pt      % FT
Hope     47.9   33.2      63.5
HPU     50.2   33.5      75.8
            
Defense     % 2pt   % 3pt     
Hope     34.8   27.2     
HPU     34.6   23.3     
            
Rebounding     Team   Opp      Margin
Hope     46.7   36.1      10.6
HPU     41.2   31.9      9.3
            
Scoring     Team   Opp      Margin
Hope     78.0   55.4      22.6
HPU     76.8   47.1      29.7
            
3 point shooting     Attempts   Made      Made/game
Hope     413   137      4.7
HPU     361   121      4.2
            
Blocks     Total   per game     
Hope     183   6.3     
HPU     101   3.5     
            
Steals     Total   per game     
Hope     418   14.4     
HPU     447   15.4     
            
Turnovers     Total    per game     
Hope     536   18.5     
HPU     501   17.3     
            
Assists     Total   per game     
Hope     473   16.3     
HPU     371   12.8     
            
Assist/Turnover             
Hope     0.88        
HPU     0.74        
2016, 2020, 2022 MIAA Pick 'Em Champion

"Sports are kind of like passion and that's temporary in many cases, but academics - that's like true love and that's enduring." 
John Wooden

"Blame FDF.  That's the default.  Always blame FDF."
goodknight

Flying Dutch Fan

Quote from: sac on March 12, 2008, 01:23:05 PM
Not the first time those rowdy Hopesters have stolen banners. :P

Where's the banner (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)...
2016, 2020, 2022 MIAA Pick 'Em Champion

"Sports are kind of like passion and that's temporary in many cases, but academics - that's like true love and that's enduring." 
John Wooden

"Blame FDF.  That's the default.  Always blame FDF."
goodknight

oldknight

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on March 12, 2008, 09:55:54 AM
Quote from: realist on March 12, 2008, 09:46:54 AM
Personally I think Hope has the depth to be able to handle HPU, should that game come to pass.  The point the Schreiner guy was making is HPU has had considerable success in forcing other team's ball handlers into making bad decisons.   On several occassions posters have mentioned the turnovers the Hope team has had in some games.    His feeling was turnovers could very well be a telling factor should the two teams meet.

It is true that Hope turns the ball over at a fairly high rate - averaging 18.5 turnovers per game.  A big reason for this is how hard they push the ball up the court. 

Another factor to look at is that although they average 18.5 turnovers per game, they are forcing their opponents to turn the ball over 23.9 times per game.  Hope is also averaging 14.4 steals per game.

That's a good analysis by FDF. Hope's women average nearly 65 shots taken per game. That's a lot of shots, and a lot of possessions per game.  HPU has played the same number of games as Hope and has taken 265 fewer shots than has Hope so the two teams obviously play at different paces. By contrast, Calvin's women average 53 shots per game and Hope's men (whose offense I consider to be pretty high octane) average about 60 shots. IMO, Hope's women do a good job of taking care of the ball and if any opponent thinks they have an advantage in the TO department I think they will find that assumption to be quite mistaken.

JACKET84

HPU isn't looking past DeSales.  It will be tough to beat them, just like it will be hard for Hope to beat George Fox.  At this point of the tournament, anybody can win.

gohope

Quote from: Civic Minded on March 12, 2008, 12:53:51 PM
gohope, any thoughts?    ;)


NOT ME This time!!!  The thought NEVER even entered the noggin!

Civic Minded

Just went to see the ladies off -- they all seemed really excited, and thought it was cool that there were people there to wish them well before they headed on their way.  While many of the fans there were comiserating with them about the "unfortunateness" of them having to play away from home, they seem to have a pretty good attitude about it.

Go get 'em, ladies!  We'll be cheering you on from home!
2014 MIAA Pick 'Em Champion  :)

hope1

yes good luck it would be nice if hope went 4-0  this weekend  then i  dont know whitch final 4 i would go to it would be tuff 
i love hope  sports all of them are really great to watch

WWWRHH

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 12, 2008, 11:35:03 AM
I have reviewed the stats of HPU's games at Chapman and vs Redlands in California and then the games versus the Top 4 teams in the ASC-East (UT-Tyler, UT-Dallas, Mississippi College and Louisiana College and the next four teams in the ASC-West, (McMurry, Hardin-Simmons, UMHB and Concordia TX) whom I consider the creditable opponents for this analysis.  All teams in the analysis have winning in-region records.

Five more rebounds, three fewer turnovers and 5 more steals per game for HPU than their best opponents..

This should be interesting.

I have become more optimistic.  Over the Christmas holidays I needed a basketball fix and went to Kalamazoo to see their holiday tournament.  Redlands barely escaped Kazoo with a 2 point win over the worst team in the MIAA and beat Rose-Hulman, a very average team, by 6.  Perhaps it was the cold weather or the travel (why would a CA team come to MI in late December).  but Redlands looked like a team that Hope's third string would have made a very early entrance against.  I would not characterize them as quick.



HopeCSO

Quote from: Civic Minded on March 12, 2008, 03:23:09 PM
Just went to see the ladies off -- they all seemed really excited, and thought it was cool that there were people there to wish them well before they headed on their way.  While many of the fans there were comiserating with them about the "unfortunateness" of them having to play away from home, they seem to have a pretty good attitude about it.

Go get 'em, ladies!  We'll be cheering you on from home!

The ladies left Devos parking lot at 3:14pm with a nice fan base to send them off.  I was glad to be there to see their smiling excited faces.  May God's right hand be upon you ladies as you travel, play, and come home to your Hope family.
"Obstacles are the things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.?– E. Joseph Cossman

sac



Ed says Go Hope..........and recycle!

sac



Hope women at the airport, in one of those "are they really makeing us do this" kind of moments.