WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

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Halftime in both semi-finals

Calvin 32  Albion 26

Calvin holds Albion scoreless for 5:30, Guimond 13 for SM, Harris 11 for Calvin.

Hope 28 St. Mary's 24

10-0 run around the 6 min mark gives Hope the slim lead,  Wood for Hope with 13

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I just had to post these score now

Calvin 41 Albion 33  15:30

Hope 41 St. Mary's 33  13:00

yep at the same moment, Hope on 9-0 run after Belle's took the lead.

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Timeout in Holland

Hope 50 SMC 39  8:32

18-6 run since SMC grabbed the lead


Calvin 53 Albion 42   10:01

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FINALS

Hope 71 St. Mary's 52

Hope played what sounded like a great 10-15 minutes of basketball, a 13-0 run put it away midway through.  Ellen Wood with a 10-13 23pts 10 rebound performance for Hope.

Calvin 70 Albion 54

Harris 18 for Calvin, Guimond 18 Bossard 20 for Albion

Remarkably similar games.

Saturday 3pm at Calvin Fieldhouse

Hope vs Calvin

[Harrier]

SCORES
MIAA Women's tournament

MONDAY - play-in game
Adrian 78, Kalamazoo 66

TUESDAY - quarterfinals
Calvin 90, Adrian 52
Hope 85, Tri-State 61
Saint Mary's 66, Alma 54
Albion 80, Olivet 74 (OT)

THURSDAY - semi-finals
Hope 71, St. Mary's 52
Calvin 70, Albion 54

SATURDAY - championship
Hope at Calvin, 3 p.m.

[Grutte Dirk]

Ellen Wood with a 10-13 23pts 10 rebound performance for Hope.

IMHO Wood is a very strong canidate for MVP this season.  While Winkle is all-american great, Wood is a bigger part of her team and should be an AA as well.

[Dark Knight]

Two solid outings for the knights.

In last night's game, the Britons played very well and hard. They're quick, they pass well, and they can drive to the bucket. They're not too far from a top-25-caliber team. If they played Southern Maine's schedule, they'd probably also be 21-2, or maybe a little worse if they had a couple of bad games. Congrats to Jessica Babcock on a great career.

The knights worked hard, out-rebounding the Britons 36-33 and holding turnovers down to an acceptable 15. Ball movement was good, with 17 assists.

Harris is really starting to stand out offensively. When she's hitting her shots, she's very hard to stop, even from a few feet out, even double teamed. She can get hacked or pushed by about three defenders on her way to the bucket and still get the shot off. Fortunately for the Britons the refs were allowing quite a bit of contact. Lisa Winkle picked up her 14th double-double of the season.

Calvin's win streak is up to 22 games, but from this point on, every game is going to be a huge challenge. Not the least of which is one and possibly two more games against Hope in the next week or so!

[oldknight]

Ellen Wood with a 10-13 23pts 10 rebound performance for Hope.

IMHO Wood is a very strong canidate for MVP this season.  While Winkle is all-american great, Wood is a bigger part of her team and should be an AA as well.

Both of these ladies are excellent players who have had fine careers and are the heart and soul of their respective teams. But Calvin did go undeated in the conference and to me that's the difference maker. I think you have to give the MVP to Lisa.

[Cowman]

Two solid outings for the knights.

In last night's game, the Britons played very well and hard. They're quick, they pass well, and they can drive to the bucket. They're not too far from a top-25-caliber team. If they played Southern Maine's schedule, they'd probably also be 21-2, or maybe a little worse if they had a couple of bad games. Congrats to Jessica Babcock on a great career.

The question is, does Albion become as good a team playing Southern Maine's schedule . . . or does Southern Maine become a better team playing in the MIAA?

[Trailer Dog]

Calvin's win streak is up to 22 games, but from this point on, every game is going to be a huge challenge. Not the least of which is one and possibly two more games against Hope in the next week or so!

If Calvin does play the Dutch two more times this winter no way they win both.  In that scenario I see the Knights winning the MIAA tourney and losing to Hope in the NCAAs.

[gohope]

Went to cheer on the Flying Dutch last night against the Saint Mary Belles.  Some notes:

*  KUDOS to the students from Saint Mary's who made the trip to cheer on their team. They NEVER gave up and were a LOT louder than the 3 students from Hope. And what's up with that?  A handful of Hope students at the game, that's it?  I just don't get it?  But the young lads who wore the "Belles" - you got to give them a LOT OF CREDIT. I mean A LOT!!! 

*  The game was quite close the first half with the lead changing a number of times.  Hope came out the second half with a greater will to win.  PLUS they put in both Wood and Lange and Saint Mary's was having a harder time keeping up with that rotation.

*  Now onto the "Leading Scorer" in the MIAA.  Allison Kessler.  She has a very nice shot, and handles the ball okay, BUT WHAT AN ATTITUDE.  She definitely puts the "ME" in Team.  After the game, she "shook" hands with the Hope Ladies, and hardly even acknowledged Coach Morehouse when he stopped specifically to share some words with her, she could definitely take a lesson from fellow teammate Bridget Lipke who had just as much will and determination, but acknowledged the words and gester from both the team and Coach Morehouse.  So the I looked up the Conference stats, and no wonder she's leading the league in scoring, she's played almost 970 minutes compared to 650 for a leading Calvin player and 530 for a leading Hope player.  HOLY COW!!!  Okay I'm done!    

*  Kudos to Julie Henderson for doing a spectacular job on Defense last night.  Hope kept their two leading shooters for Saint Mary's who average 33 points together to just 24 and just 2 assists when they usually average 8!

*  Good Luck Ladies on Saturday at Calvin!  Go Hope!

[realist]

FDF:  No harm no foul.  Do 100 posts perfectly, and no one notices, but misspell one word.
Expect Sat's game to be very close.  Home court may just determine the outcome. 
Glad I don't have to vote for mvp.  It is hard when you have several  deserving candidates.  I give the edge to Winkle on the double doubles, and looking at the stats she could have had a few more, but spent loads of time on the bench. 

[Dark Knight]

Calvin's win streak is up to 22 games, but from this point on, every game is going to be a huge challenge. Not the least of which is one and possibly two more games against Hope in the next week or so!

If Calvin does play the Dutch two more times this winter no way they win both.  In that scenario I see the Knights winning the MIAA tourney and losing to Hope in the NCAAs.

That scenario may not even be a possibility. Hope is on the bubble as to whether they'll get in to the NCAAs if they don't win the MIAA tourney. Currently their QOWI is 10.136, but if they lose another game it'll go down. I read somewhere that the threshold is likely to be about 10 for DIII women's teams.

[roaring0506]

I really don't think the NCAA would keep out Hope if they lose to Calvin in the finals.  Whether of not a have a low QOWI, they've still been ranked in the top 10 in the country.  Do they deserve to be in the tournament if they lose???  I'm sure the Hope fans think so.... but I'm sure a couple of other schools fans would disagree.  It will definitely be interesting.  Maybe Hope will beat Calvin this time 'round, and we won't have to discuss this senario   Should be a fun one to watch it.

[Dark Knight]

I really don't think the NCAA would keep out Hope if they lose to Calvin in the finals.  Whether of not a have a low QOWI, they've still been ranked in the top 10 in the country.  Do they deserve to be in the tournament if they lose???  I'm sure the Hope fans think so.... but I'm sure a couple of other schools fans would disagree.  It will definitely be interesting.  Maybe Hope will beat Calvin this time 'round, and we won't have to discuss this senario   Should be a fun one to watch it.

I don't like the QOWI system any better than the next guy, and Hope clearly deserves to dance if the tournament picks are supposed to even faintly resemble the best teams. However, them's the rules, at least for this year.

Hope's QOWI will fall to 9.583 if they lose to Calvin (or something close to that; it could also be affected by other teams' wins or losses). Definitely marginal at best for getting into the NCAAs.