WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[fannie]

Is it too early to start asking about those who may be joining the Hope team next year via transfer or coming in as freshman???  ;-)

[oldknight]

Trying to compare the relative merits of MIAA women's coaches like John Ross or Brian Morehouse to their counterparts on the men's side strikes me as a bit of a fool's errand. The difference between a good and bad team on the women's side is far greater than on the men's. Teams at the bottom of the MIAA have essentially no chance of beating a team like Calvin or Hope. That's not true of the MIAA men. Take Kalamazoo for example. Their women's team has been awful for several years and finished in a tie for seventh (out of nine teams) this past season. As it happens, even though I don't watch the Calvin women nearly as much as the men, I did see the Lady Knights play Kalamazoo twice in the last three years. I don't mean to be mean but the Hornet women were awful. They had no chance of beating Calvin and have been regularly toasted when playing the teams at the top of the league. Meanwhile the Kalamazoo men's team finished this season in sixth place (out of eight teams)--basically the same position as their female counterparts. Yet during the regular season the men took Hope into OT at DeVos and beat Calvin at Van Noord. Stuff like that happens in the men's game making it a lot tougher to get a 20 win season even if you have the team to do it.

[Mr. Ypsi]

oldknight, that is not just an MIAA phenomenon.  There is far more parity in the men's game in general than in the women's - as a glance at just about any week's edition of Darryl Nester's "How they fared" on the men's and women's top 25 board would show.  He highlights losses among top 25 and ORV teams in red - the men's board is always much 'bloodier' than the women's.

Excluding games between teams both receiving votes (thus, someone had to lose), I can recall plenty of weeks where no more than 2 or 3 women's scores were in red, but the norm for the men is around 10-12, and 20+ is not a rarity.

[sac]

Washington 72 Thomas More 53

Chicago 87 Greensboro 61

[oldknight]

oldknight, that is not just an MIAA phenomenon.  There is far more parity in the men's game in general than in the women's - as a glance at just about any week's edition of Darryl Nester's "How they fared" on the men's and women's top 25 board would show.  He highlights losses among top 25 and ORV teams in red - the men's board is always much 'bloodier' than the women's.

Yeah, we noticed that a couple of weeks ago when Calvin played the champions of the AMCC, a team that won 23 games, and the Lady Knights took a 46-8 lead early in the second half before they emptied the bench.

[Out_Of_My_Kitchen]

Just wanted to say way to go to Hope College for opening up their gym to the local High School Scool Team who lost a player a week ago.  Shows what kind of class and compassion Hope has for people.  Classy people to say the least. 

[sac]

Washington 63 Chicago 58

[pointlem]

The IWU women get (ok, I'm feeling some envy) what the Hope women longed for two and three years ago--the chance to play in a Final Four on their home court . . . after coming from 16 behind against George Fox with just over 10 minutes to play, and still 8 points behind with 3 minutes to play. 

[ziggy]

From the bracket, is it fair to guess that the hidden GL regional ranking go like this?

Thomas More
Calvin
Hope
Denison
Hanover
DePauw

This turned out to be correct: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2011/03/01/ncaas-final-regional-ranking/

[GoKnights68]

Davenport University women (37-0) won tonight to reach the National Championship game played tomorrow.  It'd be awesome to see them finish their season at 38-0 with national title.

[realist]

CU men will be playing for national title as well tomorrow.  One of their losses was to Calvin in HOF. 
Last time CU won national title Calvin was only team to beat them that year (if my memory serves correct.)

[bballfan13]

D3Hoops all region teams announced:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/index

[wiz]

Congratulations to Carissa Verkaik on being named Great Lakes Region Player of the Year.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Davenport University women (37-0) won tonight to reach the National Championship game played tomorrow.  It'd be awesome to see them finish their season at 38-0 with national title.

While a perfect season would be nice, I'm going to be HOPEing for a DU loss in the Championship game - they are playing defending National Champion Northwestern (IA) - my alma mater.

[almcguirejr]

Carissa Verkaik named player of year on the D3hoops.com all Great Lakes region team.  Carrie Snikkers also 1st team.
http://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-women