WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[hope1]

the girls played a good game yesterday vs adrian and hope played all the players that was nice to see. and a great crowd to show to see the seniors play her last home regular seasson home game

[sac]

It was great to see the Hope women go all out with the pink uniforms Saturday.  What an awesome thing that cause has turned out to be around college basketball.

[hope1]

i hope a lot of fans go to the calvin game saturday  brian said yesterday it will be the toughest team they will face saturday with harris back for calvin she is playing good at  2.00  the jv afterward the varsity game

[WWWRHH]

With St. Mary's struggling due to injuries to Beier and Mahoney, Calvin is the best team remaining on the schedule prior to the post season tourney.  Although Calvin played Olivet on Saturday and Hope plays Olivet on Wednesday, the comp scores will not provide much insight into how the Dutch and Knights will match up.  As I said in a previous post, Harris and Van Eck together will provide a challenge for Snikkers and Knox inside.

I think Harris and Van Eck will score fewer points against the Dutch than they have in other games since Harris returned, but when playing defense Knox and Snikkers height advantage will be somewhat mitigated by Calvin's post players athleticism.  On the other hand, it will remain a huge challenge for Calvin to keep Hope off the boards.  I am looking forward to a good game.

[hope1]

good job last night girls keep it up now a tough game at calvin

[WWWRHH]

The Dutch have gained the #1 regional ranking with DePauw's recent loss to Centre.

If the team can make it through this weekend and next week's conference tourney unscathed, they have a good chance of hosting each weekend of the tourney.

http://www.ncaa.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ncaa/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/Rankings-DIIIWBB-21809

Since the men are playing at Trine I expect to see the Hope fan base show up in GR for the Calvin game Saturday.

[fannie]

Is there any information out regarding dates and game times for next weeks MIAA tournament?

[WWWRHH]

Is there any information out regarding dates and game times for next weeks MIAA tournament?

The games will be held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and played on the higer seeds court.  The Dutch will have home court advantage as the #1 seed.

As far as I know, game times have not been annouced, but week night games are generally played at 7:30 and Saturday games at 3:00.

Tourney match ups are not at all clear at this point.  Hope will face the winner of the Olivet or Kalamazoo play-in game.  Although K has not won this year, they do have a chance of pulling an upset.

On Saturday, if Hope beats Calvin (likely, but not a lock), Albion prevails over Olivet (very probable) and Alma defeats Adrian (mild upset), three teams - Calvin, Trine and Albion - will finish 9-7, and two teams - Adrian and Alma - will close the season at 7-9.

Since I remain employed, I am not going to try to figure out the potential tie breakers and seedings while here at the office.  However, it looks like there is a strong possiblity that the Dutch could face 2 of the 3  teams that have been playing the best recently:  Calvin, Trine and Albion in the tournament. 

[OC_SID]

Is there any information out regarding dates and game times for next weeks MIAA tournament?

Tourney match ups are not at all clear at this point.  Hope will face the winner of the Olivet or Kalamazoo play-in game.  Although K has not won this year, they do have a chance of pulling an upset.

There is no play-in game this year, so Hope is locked in to play Olivet on Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.

[WWWRHH]

Thanks for the clarification OC_SID. 

The elimination of the play-in game is certainly better from an academic stand point in that it eliminates the need for back to back games by a team.

[wwjjdd]

I have been following the MIAA women's and men's boards for about a year, and have finally mustered up enough courage to venture a post of my own.   Therefore, I would ask everyone to please bear in mind King David's admonition to his military chief Joab, i.e., "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom."

I saw a picture in today's Holland Senile showing a Unity Christian player named Steffani Snikkers [ http://www.hollandsentinel.com/sports/x1658749593/Chix-rout-Unity-Christian?view=pop&photo=0 ] .  Can anyone tell me if she is a sister or relative of Carrie Snikkers and what are her basketball talents?  Just thinking ahead......

thanks

[oldknight]

I have been following the MIAA women's and men's boards for about a year, and have finally mustered up enough courage to venture a post of my own.   Therefore, I would ask everyone to please bear in mind King David's admonition to his military chief Joab, i.e., "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom."

I saw a picture in today's Holland Senile showing a Unity Christian player named Steffani Snikkers [ http://www.hollandsentinel.com/sports/x1658749593/Chix-rout-Unity-Christian?view=pop&photo=0 ] .  Can anyone tell me if she is a sister or relative of Carrie Snikkers and what are her basketball talents?  Just thinking ahead......

thanks

Welcome to the board. Fear not, I've already granted you my standard courtesy applause just for showing up.

Steffani Snikkers is indeed Carrie's younger sister and a freshmen at Hudsonville Unity Christian. Steffani is not yet a starter but she does play quite a bit on the varsity and averages about 4-5 points per game. Her high school team is pretty inexperienced and has struggled this season but I think there are better days ahead for them. At 5'10" Steffani is not as tall as her older sister who was a varsity starter from her first game as a 9th  grader. But Steffani has good court sense, ball-handling skills and a fundamentally sound shot. It's a lot to ask that she be as dominating as her sister--and she won't be--but I expect she will be a solid high school player over the next three years.

[hope1]

good job last night girls keep it up now a tough game at calvin

the hope girls play home tuesday  night at  7.30    general seating  then if they win play thuresday night home to the tickets are on sale at the devoss ticket office

[hope1]

the hope girls at beating calvin at half time hope  39  to   27

[sac]

Hope wins 68-65, great game from Jenny Cowen, 26 points, including the go ahead 3 with under a minute to go.

attendance = 3175