MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sac]

Exactly 300 miles from Hope's campus to Augie's, almost all highway. I'd go for sure if I didn't have to host some visitors this weekend. Too bad, as there is a Calvin grad on Augie's faculty who loves basketball and scotch.

I think the committee might have partaken with a couple of their selections.

[GoKnights68]

These might be the halcyon days for Hope in the rivalry.  With its two wins this year Hope has now beaten Calvin at least once for 10 straight years.  That had never happened for Hope in the long history of the rivalry.

Over the past 30 games its 20-10 to Hope going back to the 2002 MIAA Championship game.  The only other 30 game stretch that has been better for Hope was the first 30 games of the rivalry from 1918 to the first game of the 1950 season when Hope won 22 of 30.

I find this truly amazing.

Those are interesting numbers.  What I find amazing, and I'm sure what many Calvin supporters are frustrated about, is that Hope has not been a historically dominant team during the last decade.  Certainly not compared to teams of the early 80's, early 90's or late 90's.

But they've been pretty darn good the last decade.  Especially the  2006 to 2008 teams, who were absolutely loaded all three of those years.

[wiz]

Hanover looks like a really young team.  5 Fr. and 7 Soph's, with just 1 Senior.

Great news for Hope!  Looks like an easy bracket and with the professed strength of the MIAA this year, this one should be a cakewalk...all the way to Salem.

[HopeConvert]

Teams:

        Hope             Hanover
PPG:       80.4                        69.6
OPPG:     71.5                        64.6
Diff:        8.9                          5.0
FG%       48.1%                     48.3%
OFG%     45.8%                     44.1%
3PT%      37.1%                    34.8%
O3PT%   36.2%                     32.4%
FT%        74.8%                    69.4%
REB:       35.6                        31.7
OREB:     32.8                        28.2
ASS:       15.9                        10.6
TO:         12.9                        11.8
Steals:    10                           5.8
Blocks:     4                            2.2

Hanover averages 52 fans a game.

[sac]

Hanover looks like a really young team.  5 Fr. and 7 Soph's, with just 1 Senior.

Great news for Hope!  Looks like an easy bracket and with the professed strength of the MIAA this year, this one should be a cakewalk...all the way to Salem.

A little early for your yearly schtick isn't it?

[GoKnights68]

Interesting:

2010 Calvin Massey Rating: 0.326 Power: 4.72 (ranked #43 in D3, 747 overall)
2011 Calvin Massey Rating: 0.363 Power: 7.41 (ranked #59 in D3, 693 overall)
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The NCAA tournament will change some numbers still, but as of now, Massey isn't as disappointed in Calvin as Doug E Fresh and realist are!

You can add me into the list of disappointed people.  I know SAC and you don't like when people ever criticize a coach in any sort of way on this forum. And while I don't agree with everything Realist says in regards to this matter, I do agree to an extent of what he says.  And I can tell you so do other Calvin fans out there, including some of the administration, as this message board isn't a representative of all Calvin fans out there.

[HopeConvert]

By the way, on the season Hope averaged about 1000 more fans a game than Calvin did.

[sac]

By the way, on the season Hope averaged about 1000 more fans a game than Calvin did.

With no Saturday league games

[almcguirejr]

Hanover looks like a really young team.  5 Fr. and 7 Soph's, with just 1 Senior.

Great news for Hope!  Looks like an easy bracket and with the professed strength of the MIAA this year, this one should be a cakewalk...all the way to Salem.

A little early for your yearly schtick isn't it?

Why don't you just let it go before you help turn this into a debacle like last year.

[sac]

Why don't you just let it go before you help turn this into a debacle like last year.

Seems like you're sending your message to the wrong person.

[GoKnights68]

It looks like Augustana would be a pretty tough possible match-up for Hope if both make it to the second round, but it looks like Augustana has struggled a bit in the last week compared to the rest of their season.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

So the second guy gets called for the foul.  Seriously???

[GoKnights68]

So the second guy gets called for the foul.  Seriously???

Josh Meckes?

[SKOT]

Hanover averages 52 fans a game.

I would take this number with a grain of salt (or 10 million.)  If you take the total attendance for the 4 games that actually list an attendance figure and divide it by their 11 home games, you still get more than 65 fans a game!

[oldknight]

So the second guy gets called for the foul.  Seriously???

I think the official called a double foul. Let's do like football, call them offsetting penalties and replay the down.