WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[Flying Dutch Fan]

The Facebook page for the Hope Women's Team adding a bit of fuel to this fire yesterday.  They posted a quick video touting it is 25 days until practice starts (Oct 15th).  The tag line on the post was "5 + 20 = 25".  The video itself showed Voskuil (#5) and Schoonveld (#20) during a pre-game intro last year.   

[AlwaysHope]

How about Sydney, Olivia, and Kenedy coming back, with this young lady handling the point:

https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2021/02/with-attack-mode-always-on-abi-tarrant-storms-into-1000-point-club.html

Note the 5'8" point guard is the all-time leader in rebounds for her high school.

[Roundball999]

Nice Facebook photo yesterday from Hope's usual wonderful work with the West Michigan Miracle League.  Some familiar faces  

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/242881020_10159356073797527_1295478575515094238_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=L5oj_Y_yutgAX9iPx2O&tn=NIvHV-4phckFbzrM&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=510c92b636e1e20ba1e39bf9f15e25d7&oe=617444A6

[TUAngola]

Pre-season D3hoops.com Top 25 poll is out:

Hope #1, with 21 1st place votes, #2 East Texas Baptist with 2 1st place votes.  Trine comes in at #3.  No other MIAA squad shown any love, I thought Albion would at least get some votes, maybe Calvin.  The powerhouse NESCAC schools, Tufts, Bowdoin and Amherst are all ranked too but since none played last year they come in ranked a little lower than usual.  I beleive all 3 will climb in the rankings once they start playing.

It has been confirmed that 3 Hope seniors are coming back for a 5th year: Schoonveld, Voskuil and Muller.  As a Trine fan I am torn, yes I do want to see these girls play in person one more time since we weren't able to last year.  And as a Trine fan all I want to say is...ugh!!    I thought this would be our year to maybe beat Hope with our best players all 4th year seniors.  Now it will be very unlikely with the 3 Hope superstars all returning.

But seriously I'm more happy than not to see Hope with their squad mostly intact from last year as it will be National Championship or bust for the girls this year.  Get ready for some epic battles between Hope and Trine again in 2021-2022.

[AlwaysHope]

Hey, I called the 3 seniors returning in Sept. (above)  Actually one of their Mothers told a friend of mine.  So does the publicized freshman get the start at point?  Who will the other forward be?  Lots of options!

[jspiii]

I would expect DeSmit to start at PG and Majerus at Forward.

[HOPEful]

I would expect DeSmit to start at PG and Majerus at Forward.

I would expect a very typical Morehouse deep rotation where the word "starters" means a lot less relative to minutes played than most programs. I'm thinking 10-12 girls again will get substantial playing time.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Hope has their roster posted:

https://athletics.hope.edu/sports/wbkb/2021-22/roster

6 seniors (3 5th year, and 3 4th year)
4 Freshmen
16 total - 11 of them between 5-10 - 6-3

[jspiii]

Hope women beat Ferris State women 69-60. The game is listed as an exhibition game but very energetic play from both sides.

Hope first unit, Majerus, Schoonveld, Muller, Voskuil & DeSmit played a little better than Ferris State's first unit. Hope's second unit of Morehouse, Baguley, McKinney, Feenstra & Smith were markedly better than Ferris's second unit helped by Feenstra's game leading 16 points of which 10 points were in the 2nd quarter. The 9 point deficit was the closest Ferris got after the 1st quarter. Hope's biggest lead was 17 points in the 2nd quarter.

Kurncz, Jemison, Garner, Bellows, Tarrant & Lee did not get into the game.

[TUAngola]

D3hoops.com pre-season women's All American teams announced today.

Kenedy Schoonveld - Hope - 1st team
Tara Bieniewicz - Trine - 3rd team
Olivia Voskuil - Hope - 4th team

Seniors and Graduate Students represent 22 of the top 26 players...only 4 underclassmen.  There will be a lot of veteran teams with many choosing to come back for that extra 5th year of eligibility.

Trine opens exhibition schedule with a game at D1 Butler University in Indianapolis on Thursday.

[TUAngola]

D3hoops.com pre-season women's All American teams announced today.

Kenedy Schoonveld - Hope - 1st team
Tara Bieniewicz - Trine - 3rd team
Olivia Voskuil - Hope - 4th team

Seniors and Graduate Students represent 22 of the top 26 players...only 4 underclassmen.  There will be a lot of veteran teams with many choosing to come back for that extra 5th year of eligibility.

Trine opens exhibition schedule with a game at D1 Butler University in Indianapolis on Thursday.

Final:  Butler 68 Trine 61

[Flying Dutch Fan]

D3hoops.com pre-season women's All American teams announced today.

Kenedy Schoonveld - Hope - 1st team
Tara Bieniewicz - Trine - 3rd team
Olivia Voskuil - Hope - 4th team

Seniors and Graduate Students represent 22 of the top 26 players...only 4 underclassmen.  There will be a lot of veteran teams with many choosing to come back for that extra 5th year of eligibility.

Trine opens exhibition schedule with a game at D1 Butler University in Indianapolis on Thursday.

Final:  Butler 68 Trine 61

Impressive!

[TUAngola]

Took me some time to find a site with a box score...finally found one this afternoon.  15 of the 18 girls on the roster played. Buter with 3 times as many free throw attempts as Trine.  19 turnovers isn't bad against a D1 team, Hope always turns us over way more!!  Impressive stat lines for Bieniewicz and Taylor.  Wildman struggled from 3.  Of the necomers Sidney Wagner had a good 1st game.  As a freshman I think she'll get significant playing time as the season goes on...probably play with the 2nd platoon.  The new starter to replace graduated senior Shay Herbert is junior Sam Underhill.  She does deserve to start, but she was so good off the bench the first 2 years for Trine.  It does leave us more undersized with the 2nd unit.  Regular season opens next weekend for the gals.



Trine       14     9      14      24            61
Butler     15     21     18      14           68

NAME   POS   MIN   FGM-A   3PM-A   FTM-A   OREB   REB   AST   ST   BLK   TO   PF   PTS
MAKAYLA ARDIS   G   14   1-2   1-1   0-0                 1   1   0   0   0   4   2   3
TARA BIENIEWICZ   G   28   7-12   6-11   0-0                 0   3   1   0   0   3   0   20
KELSY TAYLOR           F   18   7-9   0-0   0-1                 3   9   1   1   0   2   3   14
SAM UNDERHILL   F   21   2-7   0-0   2-2                 2   10   1   1   0   1   3   6
KAYLA WILDMAN   G   23   1-10   0-7   0-0                 0   3   5   0   2   2   0   2
ALYSSA ARGYLE           G   16   0-3   0-3   1-2                 0    0   3   0   0   1   2   1
KAYLEE ARGYLE           G   16   1-4   1-2   0-0                 1   3   2   0   0   2   0   3
BROOKE BRAUHER   F   9   0-3   0-2   0-0                 0   4   1   1   1   0   3   0
SIERRA HINDS           G   5   0-1   0-1   0-0                 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
NATALEE KUNSE   G   6   0-0   0-0   0-0                 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
MACAYLA MCGOWAN   G   1   0-0   0-0   0-0                 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
KATIE SLONEKER   G   9   0-2   0-2   0-0                 1   4   0   0   0   1   1   0
SOPHIE SLONEKER   G   10   0-1   0-0   0-0                 0   1   0   1   0   1   0   0
RACHEL STEWART   G   14   1-6   0-0   1-2                 1   3   1   2   0   1   4   3
SIDNEY WAGNER   G   10   4-5   1-1   0-0                 0   2   0   1   0   0   4   9
Total                                   24-65   9-30   4-7               13   49   15   7   3   19   22   61

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The 19th season of Hoopsville debuts tonight!

Tune in as we talk to the two preseason #1 teams in Division III basketball plus two of the top experts in the division. We also take a look at how the season may unfold and how the opening weekend was just a teaser of things to come.

We talk some of the things that we are looking forward to and the question marks we will be considering from now until champions are claimed in March.

Tune in starting at 7:00 PM ET right here - www.d3hoopsville.com

Guests on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline include:
- Brian Morehouse, head coach of #1 Hope women's basketball
- Gordan Mann, D3hoops.com Senior Editor
- Josh Merkel, head coach of #1 Randolph-Macon men's basketball
- Pat Coleman, D3hoops.com Editor in Chief

[NW Hope Fan]

Well done Mo! Go Hope!