WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[sac]

at the moment both link to livestats on miaa.org give you the Calvin/St. Mary's game.

here's the Hope link
http://www.hope.edu/pr/athletics/livestats/

[wiz]

Calvin goes into halftime with a 16 pt lead over St.Mary's.  Verkaik already has 15 pts, showing her MVP status once again.

[sac]

Calvin 90 St. Mary's 71

Hope 66 Adrian 54

Calvin vs Hope, Saturday 3pm at DeVos Fieldhouse

[Dark Knight]

The knights dismantled St. Mary's tonight after Anna Kammrath got into early foul trouble. The knights were leading by 32 (and had already scored 79 points) with 10 minutes left in the game.

Verkaik got 19 points and 9 rebounds in 20 minutes, bringing her to 497 points on the season, a Calvin all-time record--with at least one game to go.

Congrats to Verkaik also for being named to the d3hoops.com Team of the Week for the second time this year.

[gohope]

Congrats to the Flying Dutch on a great win this evening.

Other highlights included:

It was a milestone game for senior Philana Greene who became the 11th player in Hope women's basketball history to score more than 1,000 career points. She has totaled 1,003 points in 99 games. Greene also set a single season record for steals. She had three to raise her season total to 90. She also holds the career mark for steals with 303.

Junior Carrie Snikkers had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds while team scoring honors went to ffreshman Liz Ellis with 19 points.

[wiz]

Before Hope and Calvin go after each other on Saturday for the MIAA tournament championship, I too would like to acknowledge Philana Greene for an outstanding career at Hope and offer a congratulations for crossing the century mark in scoring, always a career milestone achievement for any basketball player.  She has also compiled 90 steals this year.

Carrie Snikkers continues to be a most talented and classy act.  She is a force to reckon with and let's hope in her senior year she is able to play injury free.  While she has missed 8 games this year, she still managed to score more points than any other Hope player and she averages 12.6 points per game.

Congratulations also to most likely MVP, Carissa VerKaik, who is already half way to the century club with her freshman year still not completed.  She has pumped in 497 points and averages 18.4 per game while shooting field goals at a .576 clip, treys at .455, and free-throws at .833.  On top of that, she rebounds at 9.5 per game, which nearly gives her a double-double average for the entire season.  For good measure, she blocked 94 shots this year.

Just three of some of the remarkably talented players that will be on the DeVos floor Saturday afternoon.  So, go to the Happy city of Holland on Saturday and watch some good basketball.  Who knows, you might even run into Alan Babbitt and be able to exchange a few pleasantries.

[Dark Knight]

A couple more interesting notes about Calvin's game last night: after successfully getting the inside-outside game going, the Knights set a tournament record for most field goals, at 38, and came just shy of the field-goal percentage record, hitting 58.5% percent of their attempts. The previous record was 58.8%, set by Calvin in 1993.

Coach Ross was pleased with the the offensive performance but said that the Knights need to do better defensively than they have been doing for the last couple of weeks. "If we're going to keep this season going a little longer, we're going to have to start holding teams in the forties."

[Flying Dutch Fan]

A bit of trivia following last nights Hope game

Coach Mo coached in his 400th game as the head coach at Hope last night.  In those 400 games, his teams are 339-61 for a winning percetage of .848!!!

[realist]

Very impressive 14 years, and this year isn't over yet. 

[NW Hope Fan]

And with all his own recruits and system in place (minus the first three years) he is 291-29 for 90.9%... Amazing!

[wiz]

And with all his own recruits and system in place (minus the first three years) he is 291-29 for 90.9%... Amazing!

And without the ones where they merely didn't score enough points, he is 100%...evan more amazing!

[Flying Dutch Fan]

And with all his own recruits and system in place (minus the first three years) he is 291-29 for 90.9%... Amazing!

And without the ones where they merely didn't score enough points, he is 100%...evan more amazing!

Evan is more amazing than who?   

[KNIGHTRHOPE]

I am sure that Carrie would be a starter at most D1 schools at this point in her bball career(power forward)....she is all around the consummate player.  She isnt even challenged at the level she is playing.  CVK is a great post player at the D3 level but would ride the pine at the D1 level.  We shall see tomorrow how the match-up goes. I am a fan of CVK but at this point-my vote goes hands down to Carrie and I'm sure most of the MIAA coaches would not only agree but would rather play against CVK than Carrie on any team.

[realist]

I am sure that Carrie would be a starter at most D1 schools at this point in her bball career(power forward)....she is all around the consummate player.  She isnt even challenged at the level she is playing.  CVK is a great post player at the D3 level but would ride the pine at the D1 level.  We shall see tomorrow how the match-up goes. I am a fan of CVK but at this point-my vote goes hands down to Carrie and I'm sure most of the MIAA coaches would not only agree but would rather play against CVK than Carrie on any team.

Welcome.  Always nice to have more posters here.  I don't think anyone ever said CS isn't a good player.    I think your use of the term most D1 programs is perhaps a bit of a stretch.  Perhaps CS could play on many low level D-1's but she would ride the pine at most mid level schools.   At this point in time I think CS was wise to choose D3 over D2 let alone D1.  As talented as CS is I just don't think she would hold up well at the D1 level.
I think all the coaches in the MIAA have a real problem playing Hope, and that is true whether or not CS is even on the floor.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

At this point in time I think CS was wise to choose D3 over D2 let alone D1.  As talented as CS is I just don't think she would hold up well at the D1 level.

Just to be accurate, Carrie did not chose D3 over D2.  She was at D1 Oakland on scholarship, which she left to come to Hope.