WBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association

[Civic Minded]

Snikkers did play - she played with the second unit.  Something like 4 points and maybe about that many rebounds as well.  In my opinion, she looked more like a freshman than the rest of the freshman - but that might have been because of higher expectations.  Hope is an extremely deep team.

I think there is an issue with the scoreboard/stats board only handling 15 players, and Hope has 16.

I was more impressed with Snikkers on Saturday than Friday.  She seemed to be more comfortable.  I also like DeKuiper for defense and, of course, Kopke.  She never quits.

I absolutely agree, on all counts.  Snikkers seemed to settle in on Saturday, andwas great fun to watch.  When she decides to work it inside to the basket, she can't be stopped.  DeKuiper has really impressed me, maybe the most of any of the freshmen so far.  What an abundance of blessings this team has!

[WWWRHH]

Hope is indeed deep and strong inside:  In Saturday's game at the 5 position Lange scored 6 in  9 mins., Snikkers scored 10 in 16 mins, and Knox scored 10 in  7 mins.  If you can get 26 points in 32 mins from your center position the zone is not going to be effective.  It doesn't look like we will see two of these players on the court at the same time, but if I was an opposing coach I would wonder what to do if it did happen.  Of course at the four position O'Hare is also doing a good job of racking up the points.

[AlwaysHope]

Here's a unique stat about Hope's 89-61 victory over Ohio Northern.  The starters scored 25 points in total, and the bench scored the remaining 64 points.  Thus the bench outscored ONU, 64 - 61!The 5 Hope starters played a total of 67 minutes, while the 11 players coming off the bench played 130 minutes (numbers rounded off, since the total is not 200), so the entire bench was more productive than the starters were for this game.

I can't say I'm surprised. I think we're going to see more of this kind of bench output this year because 1) Hope's women won't have many close games and 2) Hope's bench is very talented.

Actually, you could argue that if the game is close, the "subs" should come in sooner, based on that two game performance.  They have been outplaying the starting unit in the first two games!

To be more acurate, you would have to look at points per player minute (ppm).  If you do that, in the first game the starters scored at a rate of 0.46 ppm based on 28 points (not 25) in 61 minutes.  The bench also scored at 0.46 ppm based on 65 points in 139 minutes - basically a wash. In the second game, the starters scored at 0.37 ppm and the bench at 0.49 ppm.  Either game, that's impressive.

Acurate?  Sorry, I couldn't let that one pass.
Seriously, FDF, thanks for catching my addition error.  At least we did not make this mistake; hopefully it was not a Kalamazoo College Grad that spelled this (you got to see it to believe it.):
http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/nationworld/sns-sns0906offbeats120070906051717,0,7163988.photo?coll=chi_home_promo

[Flying Dutch Fan]

AH - That's a good one!!

[realist]

Hope is going to go undefeated in the regular season.  They are to deep and strong inside!

One has to love this level of team support, but not sure any team is ever too deep or strong indside.   There is probably little doubt that Hope will have an excellent year, but going undefeated is setting the bar pretty high.

[sac]

I don't believe gottaluvhoops is a Hope fan.  They've made 11 posts, and 9 have been on the IIAC and MIAC boards.

The 2 posts in here have been

"Can Hope run the table?" and "Hope is going to go undefeated in the regular season.  They are to deep and strong inside!", about a week or two apart.


The most boisterous comments about Hope seem to be coming from people who rarely would wear orange or blue.

[hope1]

i think it schould be a good game tonight at 6.00 on whtc vs defaiance of ohio 

[sac]

Hope 93, Defiance 70

[gohope]

To all the MIAA posters:

Wishing You Joys
Both Great and Small
And a Happy Thanksgiving
To you all!

[realist]

Sac:  I have to agree it didn't sound like a typical Hope poster.  Hard to tell with people who post a few times, and then move on.   

[Pat Coleman]

I don't believe gottaluvhoops is a Hope fan.  They've made 11 posts, and 9 have been on the IIAC and MIAC boards.

...

The most boisterous comments about Hope seem to be coming from people who rarely would wear orange or blue.

How do you know it's not a Macalester fan?

[gottaluvhoops]

Hope is up to #4 in the rankings!!

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Actually Hope remains at #4, although Calvin did move up from #9 to #6.

[Grutte Dirk]

Actually Hope remains at #4, although Calvin did move up from #9 to #6.

Hope's under rated (who can run with them?) and Calvin's over rated (too many personnel losses).

[hope81]

Another impressive win by the Dutch tonight.  Depth proved to be the difference.  At one point in the 2nd half the Hope subs had outscored the Carthage subs 33-7.  And I think Snikkers is starting to understand the Hope system.  Should be a good game tomorrow as Wheaton beat Calvin.