WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

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Olivet's Kelsey Campbell is a shoe-in for player of the week.  Kelsey followed up her record breaking 16 assist night on Wed. with Saturday's stat line of 10 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists.

26 assists for the week and a triple-double.

This might be the first triple-double in league history? ? ?

[Roundball999]

Wanted to mention that Alma wore the jerseys from that the 1982 national championship team wore today...I think all of the magic has worn out 

All joking aside though. Hope is a very good team. It will be interesting to see how the season series against Calvin ends up in 3 games.

Alma did some good things and played hard, but Hope is just too big and too deep.

Looking forward to the next matchup with Calvin.  I think Calvin maybe has the best starting five in the nation, but also think Hope is deeper with no one averaging more than 22 mpg, 9 players averaging at least 12 mpg, and all 16 players getting at least 5 mpg.  Not ready to predict the next matchup yet, Hope has to get by Olivet next and Olivet is playing really well lately.

The Flying Dutch are now leading the nation in both scoring defense and scoring margin and are among the national leaders in turnover margin, steals, rebounding margin and FT %.

[Calvinhoops]

Wanted to mention that Alma wore the jerseys from that the 1982 national championship team wore today...I think all of the magic has worn out 

All joking aside though. Hope is a very good team. It will be interesting to see how the season series against Calvin ends up in 3 games.

Alma did some good things and played hard, but Hope is just too big and too deep.

Looking forward to the next matchup with Calvin.  I think Calvin maybe has the best starting five in the nation, but also think Hope is deeper with no one averaging more than 22 mpg, 9 players averaging at least 12 mpg, and all 16 players getting at least 5 mpg.  Not ready to predict the next matchup yet, Hope has to get by Olivet next and Olivet is playing really well lately.

The Flying Dutch are now leading the nation in both scoring defense and scoring margin and are among the national leaders in turnover margin, steals, rebounding margin and FT %.

It is pretty close actually...Calvin has 10 girls getting over ten minutes and all players getting over 7 minutes per game!  CV only plays 25mpg.  With that said, beating Hope at Hope is never an easy task.

[sflzman]

Olivet's Kelsey Campbell is a shoe-in for player of the week.  Kelsey followed up her record breaking 16 assist night on Wed. with Saturday's stat line of 10 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists.

26 assists for the week and a triple-double.

This might be the first triple-double in league history? ? ?

Not to be that one that corrects little mistakes. But 16+11 is 27 

[Calvinhoops]

She does everything well except the 100+ turnovers.   If she tightens up that stat I think Olivet may compete with Hope and Calvin next year.  Olivet has really turned the corner.

[Roundball999]

Wanted to mention that Alma wore the jerseys from that the 1982 national championship team wore today...I think all of the magic has worn out 

All joking aside though. Hope is a very good team. It will be interesting to see how the season series against Calvin ends up in 3 games.

Alma did some good things and played hard, but Hope is just too big and too deep.

Looking forward to the next matchup with Calvin.  I think Calvin maybe has the best starting five in the nation, but also think Hope is deeper with no one averaging more than 22 mpg, 9 players averaging at least 12 mpg, and all 16 players getting at least 5 mpg.  Not ready to predict the next matchup yet, Hope has to get by Olivet next and Olivet is playing really well lately.

The Flying Dutch are now leading the nation in both scoring defense and scoring margin and are among the national leaders in turnover margin, steals, rebounding margin and FT %.

It is pretty close actually...Calvin has 10 girls getting over ten minutes and all players getting over 7 minutes per game!  CV only plays 25mpg.  With that said, beating Hope at Hope is never an easy task.

Yes, distribution of minutes probably wasn't the best way to make my point; both teams have the luxury to give lots of players good minutes and Hope has a couple of extra on their roster that still get decent minutes.  I mainly meant that, in my opinion, t Calvin is probably stronger 1 through 5 but that Hope may be better 6 through 10.

[Calvinhoops]

Interesting comparison from the first game:  Hopes second five players played 70 minutes, with 20 pts, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and Calvin's second five played 76 minutes, with 23 pts, 13 rebounds, 3 assists.   Comparatively speaking I don't think Morehouse likes seeing Hilbrands, Irwin and Marsh any more than Ross likes seeing Llorens, Mcafee and Kelly!  Very close teams.

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First regional rankings come out Wednesday, here's what the Great Lakes regional reps have to sort through.

(the # is D3hoops.com poll ranking which has no bearing on regional ranking)

(record, in-region record) --giving Calvin the win for Monday nights game with Trine
#1 DePauw  22-0, 17-0
#2 Calvin 20-1, 15-0
#3 Hope 20-1, 19-1
#6 Ohio Northern 20-1, 19-0
#9 Thomas More 20-1, 20-1
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Transylvania 16-5, 16-4
Franklin 17-4, 15-4
Olivet 15-7, 12-3
Mt. Union 17-4, 16-4


I think the women get to rank 7 teams because the Heartland Conference is in the Great Lakes Region.

[bballfan13]

Last year the GL region only ranked 6 teams, not sure if that has change this year.  I will rank 7 just in case.  My #6 and #7 are tricky.  Also, the SOS numbers are provided by D3hoops

Here's what I think the rankings will look like come Wednesday (these are current stats, so does not include Calvin vs. Trine game tonight):

Team	In Region Record	Overall Record	SOS	Record Vs. Ranked Opp
Ohio Northern	19-0	20-1	.549	1-0
Depauw	17-0	22-0	.527	0-0
Calvin	14-0	18-1	.489	2-0
Thomas More	20-1	20-1	.508	0-1
Hope	19-1	20-1	.497	0-1
La Roche	17-2	18-2	.472	0-0
Mount Union	16-4	17-4	.543	0-1

I had some trouble with what to do with La Roche and Mount Union.  Mount Union has a much tougher SOS but also 2 more in region losses.  La Roche's SOS is terrible, so it will be interesting to see what the committee does.  I also think that Thomas More and Hope could switch but gave it to Thomas More with the better SOS.

Feel free to critique   

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Geez I didn't even realize LaRoche was in the GL region.  How stupid to have the LaRoche and Pitt-Bradford women in this region but not the men.


also just want to clarify I wasn't ranking the teams, just listing them and their 'measurements'.  I really have no idea how to sort through that mess.

[bballfan13]

Geez I didn't even realize LaRoche was in the GL region.  How stupid to have the LaRoche and Pitt-Bradford women in this region but not the men.


also just want to clarify I wasn't ranking the teams, just listing them and their 'measurements'.  I really have no idea how to sort through that mess.

Gotta love the NCAA :-)

On my list I also have Olivet, Transylvania, Franklin, Hoover, and St. Vincent just outside the regional rankings.

[bballfan13]

Congratulations to Carissa Verkaik on collecting her 1,000th career rebound last night!  She now has 1,001 for her career.  She trails Lisa Winkle by 33 (1,034) for the career record at Calvin. 

[Calvinhoops]

When do the regional rankings come out and where do you find them?

[Roundball999]

When do the regional rankings come out and where do you find them?

I heard they come out this week, maybe today, and they can be found at http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-women/d3/regional_rankings

[Calvinhoops]

Thank you!