MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[Sturdevant]

Obviously this post has nothing to do with MIAA basketball, but if Calvin's hockey team wins today the championship game broadcast tomorrow will be available on the Calvin sports website.  Puck is set to drop at 12:15 EST for the title tilt.  Calvin would have to get past Northwood today.  Hope made a nice run in the tourney but fell yesterday to Wright State. 

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant.  It seems curling would be more Calvin's speed for ice sports.

Here is my problem with the hockey tournament.  I am pretty sure both schools only have club teams and they play in Division III of some association made up by a bunch of hockey fans because no one likes hockey enough to have it be an NCAA sport beyond a select few division I schools.  Ultimately, who really cares, is it really that great an accomplishment to win that tournament.  If they were varsity sports and there were an NCAA championship on the line then I might start to care.  I'm amazed that Calvin would broadcast it on their website.  I'm just as surprised Hope's website gives the hockey team as much play as it does.

[pennstghs]

id ont see transylvania advancing, as wooster should handle them easily-witt went down there and had no trouble whatsoever with trans

[kcrest]

Obviously this post has nothing to do with MIAA basketball, but if Calvin's hockey team wins today the championship game broadcast tomorrow will be available on the Calvin sports website.  Puck is set to drop at 12:15 EST for the title tilt.  Calvin would have to get past Northwood today.  Hope made a nice run in the tourney but fell yesterday to Wright State. 

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant.  It seems curling would be more Calvin's speed for ice sports.

I think the rationale a long, long time ago might have been the violence factor.  Pretty sure that's not the case anymore as Calvin hockey games features some pretty good hitting.  The Calvin boys did have a game against Albion this season.  The Brits have a little ways to go on the ice yet.    Hey don't knock curling until you've tried it.  There's a reason every curling rink has a bar next to the ice.

[oldknight]

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant.  

I'm not sure what the reasons against football are today (startup expenses possibly). There was a day when the main obstacle to football at Calvin was an objection to its violence but that day is now a fading memory.

[dren]

Aside from Hope winning... all that stands out in my mind about the VanAndel game is the three sections full of Boy/Cub scouts in the upperdeck.  They were given free tickets along with everyother GR organization to guarantee a sell out.

[NW Hope Fan]

Flying Dutch Fan - I knew what you were going to say as I was typing the P.S. You don't get it - Lose Karma or Gain Karma - "It just doesn't matter"
In fact it even matters less to me now that I know it is at the subjective whims of only 3 posters. I have as much chance of gaining positive Karma as the U.S. skaters do with a Russian judge!

I said this the other day to someone else who was asking: The posters you "see" are not the only ones who visit our room, and certainly not the only ones who can smite or applaud. So the "lurkers" with over 200 posts who think your comments are witty or jerky have just as much power, regardless of their affiliation. You may not care (and that shows by your posts), but some of the people who post are just as concerned with amount of acid thrown between posters as with the basketball we are posting about.

-Peace!

[kcrest]

Obviously this post has nothing to do with MIAA basketball, but if Calvin's hockey team wins today the championship game broadcast tomorrow will be available on the Calvin sports website.  Puck is set to drop at 12:15 EST for the title tilt.  Calvin would have to get past Northwood today.  Hope made a nice run in the tourney but fell yesterday to Wright State. 

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant.  It seems curling would be more Calvin's speed for ice sports.

Here is my problem with the hockey tournament.  I am pretty sure both schools only have club teams and they play in Division III of some association made up by a bunch of hockey fans because no one likes hockey enough to have it be an NCAA sport beyond a select few division I schools.  Ultimately, who really cares, is it really that great an accomplishment to win that tournament.  If they were varsity sports and there were an NCAA championship on the line then I might start to care.  I'm amazed that Calvin would broadcast it on their website.  I'm just as surprised Hope's website gives the hockey team as much play as it does.

Wow.  Yep it's a club sport but so what?  There are 130 schools that compete in the division Calvin and Hope are part of.  And only 16 get invited to Nationals.  So it's a pretty nice accomplishment.  As to who really cares try to get into a Calvin-Hope hockey game sometime.  Calvin actually gets more students to hockey than hoops.  Finally, there are a bunch of D3 schools that have varsity ice hockey.  

[albionbritfan]

Obviously this post has nothing to do with MIAA basketball, but if Calvin's hockey team wins today the championship game broadcast tomorrow will be available on the Calvin sports website.  Puck is set to drop at 12:15 EST for the title tilt.  Calvin would have to get past Northwood today.  Hope made a nice run in the tourney but fell yesterday to Wright State. 

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant.  It seems curling would be more Calvin's speed for ice sports.

I think the rationale a long, long time ago might have been the violence factor.  Pretty sure that's not the case anymore as Calvin hockey games features some pretty good hitting.  The Calvin boys did have a game against Albion this season.  The Brits have a little ways to go on the ice yet.    Hey don't knock curling until you've tried it.  There's a reason every curling rink has a bar next to the ice.

I don't know if you want to get curling going at Calvin.  Hope would follow suit and probably recruit all the great Klompen brooming talent.

[dren]

D3 Hockey is pretty big on the east coast with a few teams from Wisconsin and Minnesota.  I can see some of the Michigan teams joining D3 as an Official Team in the near future.

There is even D3 womens ice hockey with roughly 45 particapting teams.


http://web1.ncaa.org/ssLists/sportByInst.do?sport=MIH&division=3

http://web1.ncaa.org/ssLists/sportByInst.do?sport=WIH&division=3

As we speak I'm going for the rights to d3hockey.com just to sell them to Pat for millions of dollars...   

[hornet fan]

Calvin has a hockey team but deems football as too violent a sport.....brilliant. 

I'm not sure what the reasons against football are today (startup expenses possibly). There was a day when the main obstacle to football at Calvin was an objection to its violence but that day is now a fading memory.

Does that mean they can start chanting, "KZOO HOCKEY!", when the K fans chant "CALVIN FOOTBALL?"

Anyways, good luck to both teams tonight.  I would like to see Andy Phillips and the Dutch prevail tonight and against the Knights (should they win). 

[dren]

Dear Coach GVW

Please read this to the Dutchmen before taking the court to play wisconson lutheran

Your pal
Dren

And you are of course entitled to your opinion after invading the LMC board and talking trash about my conference.  However, I still think that WLC will put up a fight.  Can you guys gaurd the 3?  Once again, I'll play the ignorant card: How do you guys even play over there.  I picture a bunch of farmboys with a dependency on the post and crisp passes.   Like the Hoisers.  Well lets just hope that this fridays game wont have a Hollywood Hope ending.
Bust Ya'll

[AndersDY]

You can throw this on the fire too:

Suffice it to say, I can only predict so many tournament and conference champs in one year, therefore, what I will say will no doubt upset everyone.  Look for a WLC win.  The guys are hot, they love atmosphere (6th Man or other) and of all the colleges those stats of Hope compare just fine with ours.  Now, call me ignorant, (and you are free to do so) but I would much rather play against a MIAA team then the Stouts, Pointers and LaX's of Wisconsin.  For some reason, it just seems more do-able.  So bring on the criticism and attacks from both the LMC and MIAA board, but I gotta stay green guys.  WLC wins it on friday by 5.  The first LMC team to advance...you heard it here first folks.

[realist]

Andersly:  Essentially I agree.  Calvin/Hope at the Van once was fun, "been there, done that.  However, I reserve the right to change my vote if they open the beer stands.  I still don't like b-ball games played in hockey rinks.
Dren: They were Calvinist Cadets, not boy or cub scouts.  Someone still paid $$ for each seat.
Sturdevant, et al.  Hockey games at Calvin actually outdraw some other sports.  Love those Canadian students eh!  In the old days only South Christian played football so there wasn't much of a feeder system.
Point of interest:  Calvin's (club) hockey team has already won one national championship.  Care to guess who that beat in that tournament?
Just catching up on old posts, and talking of banners didn't Alma win one in women's b-ball in 92?

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Enough hockey - let's play some round ball!!   

Can't wait for tonight - my predictions (pure gut feelings)

Calvin 74    LAX 78 (OT)

Hope 96     WLC 64

[realist]

FDF:  Finally some Hope fan thinks they will win big along with me. (I have Hope +22).
Are all Hope fans so afraid of Calvin they pick LAX?