MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[KnightSlappy]

 I liked the idea of Kruis getting some time against MM.  

That'll put a little hair on the frosh's chest.

And I'm not sure Kruis didn't win the battle. Of course, he had help in the form of the double team.

22 points for McClary, but that came on 10-25 shooting. I'd let him score 44 that way.

[arena]

I'm being usurped! 

From the Calvin student body president:

Dear Calvin Community,
As the Student Body President and chair of the Dark Knights Society (DKS), I'd like to welcome you to the concept of this brand new chartered organization.   

Who are the Dark Knights? They are a group of 12 passionate and energetic students representing all academic years who will be at every basketball game and major Calvin event, drumming up support for the teams with their dances, cheers, and interactions with the crowd. The Dark Knights will act as tradition builders with innovative cheers, spunky looks, and lots of heart. These students won't be known by their given names but by personas (Bling, Caesar, Rufio, Lackademics, Colonel, The Kid, Charms, The Flow, Schemer, Birdman, Whips, and Dr. Swag). Wearing gold masks to conceal their identities, black jumpsuits, wigs of all shapes and sizes, and Converse shoes, these students will be a sight to see on the court and will hopefully continue the legacy off the court and down in Calvin's history. When they graduate, these Dark Knights will un-mask--revealing their identities to their classmates, roommates, and even significant others!

They've been practicing for a week now and are ready for the big debut today. After building up their name through advertising methods (paint, under cover appearances, and pictures), the Dark Knights will finally show their masked faces to the public during halftime. After halftime they will be in the stands cheering on the team with chants and cheers. They've worked so hard for this. I hope the basketball team and crowd appreciate their presence.

I have to go with GS on this one. This is really rather comical. 

Really. As opposed to the Dew Crew.  Really?

Yes, the build up in the form of a letter and "practicing" and hiding their identities. It's a bit silly and comical.

Being there tonight, I would describe it more as creepy.

I guess nothing wrong with school spirit, though.

Creepy, yes.  Reminded me of those evil clown movies.  Kept waiting for the mayhem to start.

As long as we're talking about new things needing work, how about the before game video?  The first thing I thought was just what was Hope going to do after seeing it? 

[Knightmare]

Now that we've completed a few games I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the season-end standings and tournament seedings are going to come down to a lot of different tiebreakers.  With so much parity this year we may need to go quite far down that tiebreaker list.  Someone keep that list handy so we can all brush up on the 5th or 6th tiebreaker on the list because it may be coming to that.  I believe it will, however, make for one exciting finish this year.

[KnightSlappy]

Now that we've completed a few games I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the season-end standings and tournament seedings are going to come down to a lot of different tiebreakers.  With so much parity this year we may need to go quite far down that tiebreaker list.  Someone keep that list handy so we can all brush up on the 5th or 6th tiebreaker on the list because it may be coming to that.  I believe it will, however, make for one exciting finish this year.

I think it's:

Overall record
head to head
record versus 1st place team
record versus 2nd place team
.
.
.
record versus 8th place team
coin flip

[Dark Knight]

I'm being usurped! 

From the Calvin student body president:

Dear Calvin Community,
As the Student Body President and chair of the Dark Knights Society (DKS), I'd like to welcome you to the concept of this brand new chartered organization.   

Who are the Dark Knights? They are a group of 12 passionate and energetic students representing all academic years who will be at every basketball game and major Calvin event, drumming up support for the teams with their dances, cheers, and interactions with the crowd. The Dark Knights will act as tradition builders with innovative cheers, spunky looks, and lots of heart. These students won't be known by their given names but by personas (Bling, Caesar, Rufio, Lackademics, Colonel, The Kid, Charms, The Flow, Schemer, Birdman, Whips, and Dr. Swag). Wearing gold masks to conceal their identities, black jumpsuits, wigs of all shapes and sizes, and Converse shoes, these students will be a sight to see on the court and will hopefully continue the legacy off the court and down in Calvin's history. When they graduate, these Dark Knights will un-mask--revealing their identities to their classmates, roommates, and even significant others!

They've been practicing for a week now and are ready for the big debut today. After building up their name through advertising methods (paint, under cover appearances, and pictures), the Dark Knights will finally show their masked faces to the public during halftime. After halftime they will be in the stands cheering on the team with chants and cheers. They've worked so hard for this. I hope the basketball team and crowd appreciate their presence.

You should feel honored DK. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and this group did nothing to gainsay the time-honored Dark Knight tradition. I enjoyed them and already have anointed Lackademics as my personal favorite. His name alone reminds me of the low standards to which I aspired when a student. I hope to meet him someday, though I'm not sure I will introduce him to my daughter.

OK, you are right of course. Anyone should feel honored to have a society named after themselves. And I didn't even have to donate as much money as Mr. Trine. I am a bit red-faced, though, that these imitators are making public my previously-private behavior with characters such as Bling, Schemer, and Whips.

Actually, I think there is a major conceptual flaw in the whole idea. How can you lead cheers when you are wearing a mask? Maybe it's a whole new concept: the silent, miming student section.

Swap out the masks for face paint, O society mine, and lead cheering the old fashioned way...

[ziggy]

I think it's:

Overall record
head to head
record versus 1st place team
record versus 2nd place team
.
.
.
record versus 8th place team
coin flip

Forget a coin, might need to head over to K College and steal a student's dungeons and dragons die to break the tie.

It is my opinion that Calvin has both the best win and the worst loss of the 2-1 bunch to help muddy the picture.

[Knight2Day]

To me, the most important player in the game was Powell. I thought Bryan was excellent tonight for Calvin. He didn't dribble aimlessly but instead he attacked the basket well and he distributed the ball nicely too, gaining five assists against no turnovers. When he displays those qualities Calvin's offense doesn't go into a funk as it has in some games this year. He's also become an excellent defender. This was an important win for the Knights.

Last night? Yes, Powell played very well. Become an excellent defender? Can't say that's true. On Saturday he probably was the worst defensive player on the floor for Calvin at any given point. If he would just keep his play at a high level instead of going into almost a tantrum like state where he doesn't play defense and thinks he needs to force plays, the guard combination at Calvin would be deadly with he and Brink in the back court.

We'll see how the guard rotation goes throughout the rest of the season. I was interested seeing an isolation play run for Brink to try and hit a triple...wish he would have hit it (although there was a significant amount of contact). Nice to see Danny bounce back after a rough game against K-zoo as well.

[KnightSlappy]

I think it's:

Overall record
head to head
record versus 1st place team
record versus 2nd place team
.
.
.
record versus 8th place team
coin flip

Forget a coin, might need to head over to K College and steal a student's dungeons and dragons die to break the tie.

It is my opinion that Calvin has both the best win and the worst loss of the 2-1 bunch to help muddy the picture.

Good thing tournament bids and league tie-breakers seem to favor games against the top teams.

[goodknight]

Dark Knights Society > Dead Poets Society.
Seize the knight, boys > Seize the day, boys.

No one notices the intro video until it's half over, which is appropriate since it's about half as good as last year's Tradition Never Graduates.  Both of them were student productions, and this year it really shows.

[wiz]

Olivet is clearly the best MIAA team Calvin has face this season.
And without Evans.  Fortunate to win a big game like that.  Adrian will be equally difficult on Saturday.

[section7]

Anyone know where Billy Seiler was last night for Hope?

The box score lists him, but those are Nate King's stats.

I don't remember seeing him play last night.

[Erm Schmigget]

Anyone know where Billy Seiler was last night for Hope?

The box score lists him, but those are Nate King's stats.

I don't remember seeing him play last night.

Seiler was on the bench in street clothes--no idea why.

Here are Hope's stats from the Hope website's boxscore:

HOME TEAM: Hope College 8-5
                         TOT-FG  3-PT         REBOUNDS
## Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
03 Eric Immink.........    0-0    0-0    0-0    0  0  0   0   0  0  0  0  1   4
04 Will Bowser.........    8-17   2-6    6-9    5  3  8   1  24  2  3  0  2  28
10 Colton Overway......    1-4    0-1    0-0    0  2  2   2   2  1  0  0  0  18
11 David Krombeen......    2-7    0-4    0-0    1  4  5   1   4  7  1  0 10  28
12 Logan Neil..........    0-4    0-4    0-0    0  3  3   1   0  1  1  1  0  20
15 Chase DeMaagd.......    0-1    0-0    0-0    0  3  3   0   0  0  1  0  0   7
21 Ty Tanis............    4-10   2-6    2-2    0  3  3   1  12  2  0  0  3  22
22 Chris Ray...........    4-6    0-0    0-0    2  2  4   2   8  0  1  0  0  16
23 Nate King...........    3-4    1-1    0-0    0  0  0   0   7  1  0  1  1   7
24 Nate Snuggerud......    8-14   0-1    2-3    4  6 10   4  18  0  0  2  1  20
25 Josh Holwerda.......    2-4    0-0    0-0    1  0  1   1   4  0  0  0  0  10
34 Adam Dickerson......    5-6    0-0    0-0    4  3  7   3  10  0  0  1  1  20
  TEAM................                         1  2  3
  Totals..............   37-77   5-23  10-14  18 31 49  16  89 14  7  5 19 200

TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 18-44 40.9%   2nd Half: 19-33 57.6%   Game: 48.1%  DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half:  1-14  7.1%   2nd Half:  4-9  44.4%   Game: 21.7%   REBS
F Throw % 1st Half:  3-4  75.0%   2nd Half:  7-10 70.0%   Game: 71.4%    2


I don't see Billy's name.  (Please forgive the formatting.)

[hoopdreams]

After all the secrecy following Bunn's injury, Billy is probably hoping that trend had continued.  According to multiple newspapers, he suffered a "non-basketball related" injury on campus.  He slipped on a patch of ice walking on campus and pulled/strained his groin.

[oldknight]

To me, the most important player in the game was Powell. I thought Bryan was excellent tonight for Calvin. He didn't dribble aimlessly but instead he attacked the basket well and he distributed the ball nicely too, gaining five assists against no turnovers. When he displays those qualities Calvin's offense doesn't go into a funk as it has in some games this year. He's also become an excellent defender. This was an important win for the Knights.

Last night? Yes, Powell played very well. Become an excellent defender? Can't say that's true.

You're right; the use of that adjective was a bit hyperbolic. Bryan's game on both sides of the ball has been mercurial but he displayed a very nice game last night. He certainly has ball hawking skills and he has that competitive streak you need to have to be a good defender. Let's just say that he's improving on defense.

[Happy Calvin Guy]

Hope currently leads the MIAA in non-basketball-related incidents.