WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[Mr. Ypsi]

Wow (same comment as last night but a completely different reason). Hope trails most of the game and is outplayed for a good 38 minutes, but pulls out a HUGE win!  Down 67-58 with 4:30 to play, Hope closed the game on a 14-2 run, with Kenedy Schoonveld blocking a last second 3 to finish the game.  IWU had 6 turnovers in that stretch, 3of them steals by Voskuilfinal score

Hope 72
IWU 69

Schooveld with 20 (including 9 in the 4th)  Voskuil with 16

Sosa for IWU with 32 - a definite AA player from my view

Nah - unfortunately only about 32 minutes!  Hope went up 13-4 early, then won the final 4+ minutes; in between IWU was clearly the better team tonite.  Unfortunately not ENOUGH better to overcome those final minutes.

Sorry I couldn't be there - you deserved to have the opportunity to gloat like I tried not to in 2012!   From what I could tell on the broadcast it looked to be almost as compelling a game.

I sense that Sosa will probably not be AA this year (MAYBE 4th team), but she is coming on so much lately, she might be a national POY candidate next year.  It seems like every game she sets a new personal high!

[pointlem]

Wow, indeed, FDF. Incredible finish--so reminiscent of the 2012 IWU men's win at #1 Hope--with most of the 2007 fans on their feet and a deafening to-the-wire finish . . . this time with victory pulled by Hope from the jaws of defeat. Does NCAA DII/DIII women's basketball get any better than that, anywhere? Kudos to both teams for leaving it all on the floor, and to Hope for believing in themselves when many of us had assumed defeat.

Next up is Hope vs. B-W and Loras vs. WI Oshkosh. Given Hope's record, attendance/revenue, and central location (within 325 miles of the other 3 schools, while B-W is more than 500 miles from Loras and Oshkosh), Hope fans can surely look forward to one or two more home games.

[TUAngola]

Congrats on Hope and Trine advancing to the Sweet 16!

I watched all of the Hope game on video...now that was a ballgame!  Hope with a terrific last half of the 4th quarter to pull out the win.  IWU is very talented.  Sosa is highly skilled and their whole team is scrappy.

Now, unfortunately I couldn't watch the Trine game because the UWW video feed was pathetic.  It buffered and froze most of the night.  I gave up and followed the game on live stats.  I thought maybe it's my laptop?  But I pulled up several D3 games and all the video feeds worked fine, so not sure why UWW's feed was so bad.  Tied at half with Redlands, but Trine pulled away in the second and won 69-49.  It was nice not having to play UWW on their home court so have Redlands to thank for that.  Looking at the stats:  Senior Katy Steers with a magnificent game, 23 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast.  Wildman with 15 pts, Taylor with 10 pts and 10 reb and Bieniewicz with 8 pts.   As expected, Shay Herbert did not play.  Freshman Sophie Sloneker had to play a lot of minutes this weekend and did well, tonight she had 5 pts and 4 reb in 30 min.

We'll see where Hope and Trine play next.  Obviously Hope will get the next round at home and play Baldwin Wallace, who defeated Chicago tonight.  Trine will play NESCAC power Bowdoin in the next round.  Bowdoin is a terrific team, they've only lost to Tufts and Amherst in the regular season, and avenged both of those losses by beating both in their conference tournament.     

[scottiedawg]

I watched a lot of the 2nd half of the Trine game; no streaming issues.

Are 3 teams flying in the Bowdoin, Trine, Whitman, Oglethorpe pod, regardless of who hosts?

[Dutchfan]

TuAngola, I had the same issue with the feed for yesterday's Trine game.

[monsoon]

I watched a lot of the 2nd half of the Trine game; no streaming issues.

Are 3 teams flying in the Bowdoin, Trine, Whitman, Oglethorpe pod, regardless of who hosts?

Yes. Trine-Oglethorpe (in Atlanta) is more than 500 miles. Bowdoin is in Maine and Whitman is out in Washington. Definitely 3 flights.

[TUAngola]

I watched a lot of the 2nd half of the Trine game; no streaming issues.

Are 3 teams flying in the Bowdoin, Trine, Whitman, Oglethorpe pod, regardless of who hosts?

It only makes sense to play next weekend in Angola since we're in the middle, right?    Talk about geographical extremes:  Brunswick Maine, Atlanta, and Walla Walla Washington.

[monsoon]

I watched a lot of the 2nd half of the Trine game; no streaming issues.

Are 3 teams flying in the Bowdoin, Trine, Whitman, Oglethorpe pod, regardless of who hosts?

It only makes sense to play next weekend in Angola since we're in the middle, right?  Talk about geographical extremes:  Brunswick Maine, Atlanta, and Walla Walla Washington.

Amherst, George Fox, Mary Hardin-Baylor, and Christopher Newport will be 3 flights as well.

[sac]

I believe the Sweet 16 has 6 flights guaranteed in the other sectionals, Hope is probably going to host.

1 flight to Loras
1 flight to Oshkosh
2 flights to BW
zero flights to Hope

[TUAngola]

The Men's Sweet 16 bracket is updated.  Appears that each of the 8 games next Friday has its own host.  I thought they put each quadrant into 1 site?  Is that how the women's bracket will be?

[Flying Dutch Fan]

The Men's Sweet 16 bracket is updated.  Appears that each of the 8 games next Friday has its own host.  I thought they put each quadrant into 1 site?  Is that how the women's bracket will be?

Men's tournament is very different this year, in order to have the championship game in Atlanta the same weekend as the D1 Final Four.  So there are 8 site this coming weekend (4 on Fri, 4 on Sat) each with a single game.  The 8 winners will then go to Ft Wayne the following weekend to play Elite 8, and semi final games (4 games on Fri, 2 games on Sat) and then a two week wait for the championship game.

Women will follow the traditional setup - 4 region sites hosting 3 games (2 Fri, 1 Sat).  The four winners then advance to Columbus for the semi's and championship.   

[pointlem]

Hope indeed is hosting. Updated bracket: https://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/women/2020/bracket

Three of the top six Massey Ratings teams in the Hope sectional, with Hope (#1 nationally) facing B-W (#3 nationally): https://www.masseyratings.com/cbw/ncaa-d3/ratings

[TUAngola]

Hope indeed is hosting. Updated bracket: https://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/women/2020/bracket

Trine heading to Brunswick ME to play Bowdoin.  NESCAC gets to host 3 or the 4 quadrants (Tufts and Amherst being the other sitess).  Congrats to Hope on being able to host.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

What an opening weekend of the NCAA tournaments? Upsets a plenty. Gyms closed to fans. Incredible finishes. And so much more. Sunday night on Hoopsville we tried to cover it all.

The show started with extensive information on decisions surrounding COVID-19. We discussed decisions by Johns Hopkins and Amherst to close their doors to fans for the first weekend's games. We also had reactions and statements on the choice to return to Amherst this coming weekend for the Sectionals in women's basketball and the college's decision to, once again, ban fans from attending.

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[Flying Dutch Fan]

5pm game Friday - Loras vs UWO - quick comparison:

These two played each other in the 2nd game of this season back in November - a Loras win 88-83 in OT @ Loras

Offense	% 2pt	% 3pt	% FT
Loras	51.1	31.8	75.3
UWO	48.6	32.9	70.8
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Defense	% 2pt	% 3pt
Loras	47.1	32.1
UWO	42.5	29.3
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Rebounding	Team	Opp	Margin
Loras	34.3	30.2	4.1
UWO	34.9	34.4	0.5
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Scoring	Team	Opp	Margin
Loras	79.1	63.1	16
UWO	67.5	57.8	9.7
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3 point shooting	Made/game
Loras	6.8
UWO	7.3
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Ball Control	Stl/game	TO/Game	OppTO/Game
Loras	14.2	17	24.3
UWO	7.4	11.9	14.4
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Ball Control	Asst/game	A/TO	Blks/game
Loras	13.6	0.8	3
UWO	12.7	1.07	3
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	vRRO	In-Div SOS	Massey Predicts
Loras	6 - 2	0.556	70
UWO	4 - 7	0.578	64