WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

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Any thoughts from Hope fans as to why McAfee and Llorens FG% is down so much this year?  Has it been that Hope has just played teams with a good post defense so far?  Looking at McAfee's FG% from last night's game made me wonder what she was shooting overall and then I noticed both her's and Llorens percentages were down.

2013-14:
McAfee 54.6%
Llorens 54.3%

2014-25:
McAfee 43%
Llorens 44.1%

And maybe this is what happened last year during non-conference and they will go up significantly during conference play due to the lack of depth in the league.  Just thought it was interesting.

http://miaa.org/wbb/stats/1314/hopew.htm
conference stats are separated further down the stats pages

both McAfee and Llorens shot lower percentages within the MIAA last season

McAfee 53.6%
Llorens 48.4%

[Roundball999]

I'm not worried, I think both Llorens and McAfee will be fine.  Preseason schedule has been a little tougher this year, and some teams (such as Chicago) were really geared to clog the middle and help on the backside.  Llorens is also coming off an ACL and not playing competitively since late 2013, she looks good and will only get better.  Guard play is not as deep and less experienced (Berry aside) than last year, so it's possible the posts are not getting the ball in quite the same spots as last year.  But just speculating there.

Word is that Berry was not well before the Franklin game.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

In a pretty ugly game offensively, it must have been a really ugly second half at the Hope v Franklin game.  Hope outscored Frankling 19-12 in the second half, with Hope shooting 18.5% from the field.  Good thing the Flying Dutch outperformed their season average from the FT line in this one (shooting 80%).  Point breakdown for Hope was 22pts from 2, 12 pts from 3, and 20pts from the line.

[Roundball999]

In a pretty ugly game offensively, it must have been a really ugly second half at the Hope v Franklin game.  Hope outscored Frankling 19-12 in the second half, with Hope shooting 18.5% from the field.  Good thing the Flying Dutch outperformed their season average from the FT line in this one (shooting 80%).  Point breakdown for Hope was 22pts from 2, 12 pts from 3, and 20pts from the line.

Ugly yes, though I actually take some encouragement from this.  Despite the offensive futility, the Dutch beat a 5-1 team on its court by the same margin as a quality team like DePauw beat Franklin - at DePauw.  Strong defense sure helps to bail you out on those nights when the shots just aren't falling.

[Roundball999]

Maybe its the time of year.  Cabrini just beat previously undefeated and #6/7 Scranton 37-35.  Both teams were below 27% shooting, including Scranton going 1-18 from behind the 3 pt line.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Maybe its the time of year.  Cabrini just beat previously undefeated and #6/7 Scranton 37-35.  Both teams were below 27% shooting, including Scranton going 1-18 from behind the 3 pt line.

I blame it on the overload of finals

[Flying Dutch Fan]

OFF-TOPIC - but in keeping with the recent questioning of awards, how does Amber Warners (Calvin VB Coach) get the AVCA coach of the year over Hope's Becky Schmidt?  Both teams had 2 losses on the season as they split their 4 meetings 2-2.  Both teams had a 1st and 2nd team All-American.  But Hope won the one match that really mattered, and then won the National Championship.  Seriously??

[gohope]

OFF-TOPIC - but in keeping with the recent questioning of awards, how does Amber Warners (Calvin VB Coach) get the AVCA coach of the year over Hope's Becky Schmidt?  Both teams had 2 losses on the season as they split their 4 meetings 2-2.  Both teams had a 1st and 2nd team All-American.  But Hope won the one match that really mattered, and then won the National Championship.  Seriously??

Preach it FDF, Preach it!!!   

[Roundball999]

OFF-TOPIC - but in keeping with the recent questioning of awards, how does Amber Warners (Calvin VB Coach) get the AVCA coach of the year over Hope's Becky Schmidt?  Both teams had 2 losses on the season as they split their 4 meetings 2-2.  Both teams had a 1st and 2nd team All-American.  But Hope won the one match that really mattered, and then won the National Championship.  Seriously??

Couldn't agree more.  And actually, Calvin lost a couple matches early in the season (good teams, but matches Calvin would usually win - even more support for your argument) so final records were 31-4 vs. 34-2.

[wiz]

Nice victory for the Lady Knights today over Lewis & Clark to remain undefeated.  Good luck against UC Santa Cruz tomorrow.

[wiz]

Lady Knights take on the Banana Slugs and Cruz to 9-0 season start.

[Roundball999]

Nice win for Hope last night over a solid Capital team at Capital, to run the record to 11-1.  Capital's Dixie Jeffers is an outstanding coach and after 3 games in four nights with 5 days straight on the road, this was a game that required a lot of mental toughness by the Dutch.  The Dutch fell behind early but overtook Capital late in the first half, maintaining the lead between 3-14 points the rest of the way.  Rebekah Llorens seems to be fully recovered from last season's ACL injury, matching her career high and posting her 3rd straight double double.  Maura McAfee was very strong as usual.  Britanny Berry was a little quiet, but it was clear from the pregame broadcast that coach Jeffers felt strongly that stopping Berry was key and consequently Berry was blanketed most of the game.  She did hit a couple of big threes when the Dutch were stretching it out in the 2nd half.  The focus on Berry may have helped open up room for Llorens and McAfee inside; with this Dutch team you have to pick your poison and that is why they are so tough.  Autumn Anderson continues to be a very pleasant surprise running the point, handling the ball well and being a constant threat to take it to the rim.  Hannah Doell hit a few big buckets and free throws and played her usual suffocating defense.  Interesting to see the Dutch play almost exclusively zone, bodes well that they've added a very good zone defense to their usual overplay man to man.

[Roundball999]

Congratulation's to Hope Rebekah Llorens for being recognized as the MIAA WBB player of the week last week.  She had a great week with three consecutive double-doubles, but the important thing to me is to see an outstanding player (from any team) come back from a season ending ACL tear and subsequent surgery to achieve such success.

[wwjjdd]

Sophomore Mandy Traversa made 8 of 13 3-pointers tonight plus two other field goals to lead Hope with 28 points in the win over Albion.  She was awesome. 

[Roundball999]

Sophomore Mandy Traversa made 8 of 13 3-pointers tonight plus two other field goals to lead Hope with 28 points in the win over Albion.  She was awesome. 

Traversa's performance was notable in several ways:

- Broke the previous DeVos fieldhouse single game record for 3s of 7, held by several players including twice by Britanny Berry.
- Tied the DeVos single game scoring record of 28, achieved recently by Brittany Berry.
- Shattered by 11 points her previous single game personal best for scoring.

And she's not even a starter, though pretty much first off the bench.  What a luxury to bring that kind of firepower off the bench.

Albion did a nice job against Hope's reserves but the starters were overmatched.  Was impressed by the Brits Darian Payne, who is a nice player, works hard and had a nice game.