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[ChicagoHopeNut]

Nope! If Hope wins and IWU wins I sure hope we see IWU in Holland next weekend. Sorry Mr. Ypsi.

[sac]

I'm sure there will be as in other years, but the women don't start until tomorrow so should be up today or tomorrow morning.

Thanks. That had been my vague recollection but I wasn't certain.

Yes, in previous years because the women started first I rolled the women's preview out on Wednesday. This year, there's no Wednesday game so the order is flopped.

And so now the preview is out. Pat, as an observer of all things D3 and without the one-team biases of most of us, I'd be very interested in how you'd answer your own big question posed in the "Illinois Wesleyan" bracket: "Is it possible for one team to host all the way through to the national championship game? Hope didn't have the chance to do that either of the past two years, once because the men were hosting and last year because of the dreaded geographic proximity clause. If the Titans escape the first weekend, will they be sent on the road and required to earn their way back home?"

What do you think: Should IWU--or any team, for that matter, men or women--be able to play for a national championship without ever leaving its home court?

Of course, we'd also be happy to hear the views of Mr. Ypsi on this one... :-)

The bracket suggests IWU is the top seed in that sectional and probably in line to host.  The sectional will most likely require one flight from the winner of the Marymount pod.....though I'm not positive.

Howard Payne was the top seed in the 2008 bracket Hope was in and hosted........George Fox was the top seed last year, but the sectional went to Thomas More for travels reasons I'm sure.

There's no real way to tell until you know all 4 teams advancing and their geographic distribution.



I think its probably more important that the focus be on being the team to come out of this weekends pod, than who hosts next weekend.

[KnightSlappy]

Hosting for the sectional round will probably come down to the bottom pod of Marymount, Scranton, Medaille, Lebanon Valley.

I would bet Hope will get to host over IWU if Medaille comes out of the Marymount pod. Otherwise it will probably go to IWU.

[KnightSlappy]

Nope! If Hope wins and IWU wins I sure hope we see IWU in Holland next weekend. Sorry Mr. Ypsi.

His Titans wouldn't get homecourt, but the trek to Holland is easier made from Ypsilanti than the trek to Bloomington, so it wouldn't be all bad for the venerable Mr. Y.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Nope! If Hope wins and IWU wins I sure hope we see IWU in Holland next weekend. Sorry Mr. Ypsi.

His Titans wouldn't get homecourt, but the trek to Holland is easier made from Ypsilanti than the trek to Bloomington, so it wouldn't be all bad for the venerable Mr. Y.

You beat me to it!  I'd have no problem with hoping to visit DeVos rather than Shirk; just as long as the Titans still get to host their own FF the next weekend!

I haven't had the guts to broach the subject of attending BOTH weekends yet, but I'm now leaning towards attending the Sectional rather than risk having NO weekend to attend.

And personally, I think the sectional WILL be in Holland.  While there is no written rule against a team staying home the whole tourney, I have a feeling there is an unwritten rule against it.

[realist]

My personal prefrence would be to see Calvin win the St. Norbert pod, and have Calvin host.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

My personal prefrence would be to see Calvin win the St. Norbert pod, and have Calvin host.

Today realist is not so realistic

[ChicagoHopeNut]

DePauw has more than doubled up Lakeland already.

Looks like DePauw wil get the winner of Hope-Denison tomorrow night.

Go Hope!

[almcguirejr]

Hope women up 20 with 5 to go.

Calvin women up 13-4 after 5 minutes played

[sac]

Hope women up 20 with 5 to go.

Calvin women up 13-4 after 5 minutes played

Are the Calvin stats frozen?


Looks like Hope/DePauw Saturday night in Holland.  Should be a tough defensive game, but I think most of us knew that already.

[almcguirejr]

Hope women up 20 with 5 to go.

Calvin women up 13-4 after 5 minutes played

Are the Calvin stats frozen?

Livestats are frozen

19-16 Calvin.  Too many turnovers

[almcguirejr]

25-19 Calvin with about 6 to go 1st half.

Verkaik on bench with 2 fouls.
St. Norberts league MVP player is also on bench with 2 fouls.

[MaroonKnighty]

Got video but no audio 

[almcguirejr]

Calvin 33-31 at the half.

[realist]

Calvin up by 2 at the half, but my worst fear has occured.  Turnovers one after the other.