WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Hope women moved into 3rd place all time for DIII winning streaks (42 in a row) by beating Adrian tonight 82-47. 

[Bushop]

SCORES
January 4, 2006

Calvin 84, Albion 60
Olivet 82, Saint Mary's 63
Hope 82, Adrian 47
Alma 73, Tri-State 57

[sac]

Nice win for the knights today over a pretty solid Albion team, 84-60. Before tonight Albion's record was 6 and 6, but one of those losses one to #2 Hope by 8 points,

Not sure where you got 8, Hope won that one 68-56 and Hope led by 20 with 7 minutes to go.

That should be one great matchup next weekend though.

[northb]

Calvin in a squeaker over St. Mary's, 53-52.  St Mary's throws a "hail self"  off the front rim as time runs out.

[Bushop]

SCORES
January 6, 2007

Albion 86, Tri-State 53
Adrian 65, Olivet 56
Calvin 53, Saint Mary's 52 -- oh my
Kalamazoo 66, Alma 58
Hope 79, Rochester 33

[sac]

I didn't realize it untill yesterday but it will be possible to watch the Hope/Calvin men's game next Saturday in GR and then pile into a car and head over to DeVos to watch the women's game.

Anyone else plannning on doing this?

[Green Hornet]

I'm just going to go to the girl's game. Super pumped. I hope the Calvin girls give them a run for their money.

[Bushop]

I'm just going to go to the girl's game. Super pumped. I hope the Calvin girls give them a run for their money.

Calvin seems to be struggling in many ways.  The Knights are going to need to be much more physical to match-up with the Dutch.  I'm afraid Wood will have her way with them just like last season.

[hope1]

sac  me and my kids are planning on doing this i think no  problem the mens game will be done around  4.00   then we are going  straight to the girls game 

[Dark Knight]

New Massey power ratings are out. The MIAA is strong -- the fifth-strongest conference.

	Rank	Power
Hope	3	18.4
Calvin	7	14.0
Albion	78	2.4
Adrian	104	-3.1
Olivet	161	-5.9
St.Mary's	136	-3.8
Alma	165	-8.4
Kalamazoo	235	-15.4
Tri-State	268	-17.3

The #3 vs. #7 match next Saturday should be a good one -- Massey makes Hope about an 8-point favorite at the DeVos, with home court advantage. However, I agree that Calvin had problems containing Wood last year.

This year maybe they'll have a better strategy. Knock on Wood. 

[Bushop]

SCORES
January 10, 2007

Alma 77, Adrian 71
Hope 92, Olivet 63
Calvin 79, Tri-State 40
Albion 80, Kalamazoo 42

[WWWRHH]

Dark Knight:

I am also looking forward to the game Saturday evening and believe it will be a good one.  Hope needs a challenge because thirty to forty point victories are not great preparation for post-season play.

Post play will certainly be important to the final outcome.  Wood had great success against Calvin last year, but if the Knights will have to do more than stop one player to beat the Dutch.

Hope is a much more balanced team than Calvin.   I have only seen the lady Knights play once this year, but from that brief observation and a review of the statistics they seem very dependent on Winkle and Harris.  Both play a lot of minutes and are the leading scorers.

Hope's minutes and points are more evenly distributed and they are a very balanced team.  The post players have been very productive, but if a team chooses to collapse to the middle and double or triple team inside (as Olivet did Wednessday) Boles and Jurik will make them pay from the outside.  Take away the perimeter and Hope's bigger and stronger post players can dominate the middle.

At the skill level and in three point shooting I have to give the edge to Hope's guards.  In the post I think Hope has a potential advantage with depth, size and better quality bench players.  Wood starts and averages 18 mins/8.5 pts, Lange comes in with 14 mins / 7.2 pts, and Knox fills in with 9 mins / 4.2 pts.  Combined the 5 position has produced 20 pts and 14.3 rbds per game (in 40 avg combined mins).  All three centers are listed at 6'2" and are typically stronger than their opponents.  At the 4 position Warsen and O'Hare contribute 13 pts / 9 rbds per game (in 33 avg mins) and Warsen is a much improved offensive player this year.

I think the game will come down to how effectively Hope's perimeter players shoot and whether Harris and Winkle can contend with better rested, bigger opponents.  If either has foul trouble the advantage will quickly tilt to Hope.  The Dutch centers have shot 117 free throws and made 68% from the line, but Ellen has made 73% of her forty, so it will probably not be a good idea to knock on Wood .


 

[WWWRHH]

Before someone else points it out, I will correct myself on one point  .  Hopefully, it will be my last mistake on this board.

A quick review of the statistics indicates that Calvin has shot the three more often with a little better success than Hope (.388 vs. .378).

It will be interesting to see how each team does versus more intense defensive pressure than they have typically encountered.

[sac]

Hope's Jordyn Boles......26 points in 18 minutes vs Olivet.    Efficient 8)

[sac]

Calvin 60 Hope 57

A congrats to the Knights for snapping the very impressive 44 game winning streak of the Flying Dutch.

Very similar game to the men in that it basically came down to the final 4 or 5 minutes.  Calvin executed, Hope did not.  The difference to me was Calvin's interior defense and in the first half their rebounding.

However the first 15 minutes was simply the worst 15 minutes I've seen an organized team play basketball.  wow

No matter how open the blonde in the fouth row is, its simply not a good pass.........the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th time.   


after a Hope FT the score was 7-5 Calvin at the 15:30 mark, 10 minutes later it was 20-11 Calvin but Hope's posessions over that time included and I'm not kidding here...........


1 for 11 shooting including 4 straight misses on one posession, and ELEVEN turnovers and many of those were the passes into the bleacher variety or just simply handing the ball to a player from Calvin.

Despite that stretch Hope somehow stayed within reach and made a game of it in the second half.  However that 15 minutes will haunt them.    The final stats ended up pretty even overall and again it came down to executing down the stretch Calvin did, Hope did not.