MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[almcguirejr]

Schoolcraft 86
Fennville 62

Final

[realist]

CU men (33-4) will be playing for National title tomorrow.  One of their losses was to Calvin in HOF.  
Last time CU won national title Calvin was only team to beat them that year (if my memory serves correct).

CU will play St. Francis (28-9) a team CU beat in ot last fall.

[sac]

Cornerstone will be playing St. Francis, IN the defending National Champion and the team that knocked Cornerstone out of last years quarterfinals.  No one has won back-to-back NAIA II titles since Bethel won 3 of 4 in 95, 97 and 98.

These two played earlier this year with Cornerstone winning 92-89 in OT.  http://www.cugoldeneagles.com/stats/2010-11/mBasketball/M04_USF_11162010.html

Very interesting match-up

CU men (34-3) will be playing for National title tomorrow.  One of their losses was to Calvin in HOF. 
Last time CU won national title Calvin was only team to beat them that year (if my memory serves correct).

Cornerstone went 37-3 that year(1999) but I don't know who their other two losses were against.

[almcguirejr]

Al, who are you rooting for in the iditarod?

I wanted Sebastian Schnuelle to win.  It looks like he will get a top 5.  I'm hoping Baker maintain his lead. There's 77 miles to go and he has a 51 minute lead.  He should leave White Mountain at 4:03 am EDT.  He should be to Nome between  12:30 - 1:30pm.  KTUU out of Anchorage usually live streams the finish.

Baker and Ramey Smyth are close but Sports Ilustrated recently ran a feature on Lance Mackey and how his dad won the closest race ever.  It included a classic line.  Here's the quote from Sports Illustrated:
Dick's son Lance was only seven years old during the '78 race, but he can remember the commotion as his father, running beside his sled and nearly suffocating in his parka, barreled down Front Street neck and neck with Rick Swenson, the defending champion, who'd also jumped off his sled to run. Mackey's lead dog crossed the finish line first, at which point Mackey collapsed to the ground and his team stopped, straddling the line as Swenson and his team zoomed past. After 14 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 24 seconds, the race had come down to the blink of an eye. Who had won depended on whether winning meant getting your entire sled or just your lead dog across the line first. With no rule in place for such a circumstance, race marshal Myron Gavin appealed to common sense. "They don't take a picture of the horse's ass, do they?" he said. Thus it was that Dick Mackey became an Iditarod champion and his son's hero.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1182631/2/index.htm#ixzz1GdPUF9VI

[northb]

Al, who are you rooting for in the iditarod?

I wanted Sebastian Schnuelle to win.  It looks like he will get a top 5.  I'm hoping Baker maintain his lead. There's 77 miles to go and he has a 51 minute lead.  He should leave White Mountain at 4:03 am EDT.  He should be to Nome between  12:30 - 1:30pm.  KTUU out of Anchorage usually live streams the finish.

Baker and Ramey Smyth are close but Sports Ilustrated recently ran a feature on Lance Mackey and how his dad won the closest race ever.  It included a classic line.  Here's the quote from Sports Illustrated:
Dick's son Lance was only seven years old during the '78 race, but he can remember the commotion as his father, running beside his sled and nearly suffocating in his parka, barreled down Front Street neck and neck with Rick Swenson, the defending champion, who'd also jumped off his sled to run. Mackey's lead dog crossed the finish line first, at which point Mackey collapsed to the ground and his team stopped, straddling the line as Swenson and his team zoomed past. After 14 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 24 seconds, the race had come down to the blink of an eye. Who had won depended on whether winning meant getting your entire sled or just your lead dog across the line first. With no rule in place for such a circumstance, race marshal Myron Gavin appealed to common sense. "They don't take a picture of the horse's ass, do they?" he said. Thus it was that Dick Mackey became an Iditarod champion and his son's hero.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1182631/2/index.htm#ixzz1GdPUF9VI

[ScotsFan]

Al, who are you rooting for in the iditarod?

I wanted Sebastian Schnuelle to win.  It looks like he will get a top 5.  I'm hoping Baker maintain his lead. There's 77 miles to go and he has a 51 minute lead.  He should leave White Mountain at 4:03 am EDT.  He should be to Nome between  12:30 - 1:30pm.  KTUU out of Anchorage usually live streams the finish.

Baker and Ramey Smyth are close but Sports Ilustrated recently ran a feature on Lance Mackey and how his dad won the closest race ever.  It included a classic line.  Here's the quote from Sports Illustrated:
Dick's son Lance was only seven years old during the '78 race, but he can remember the commotion as his father, running beside his sled and nearly suffocating in his parka, barreled down Front Street neck and neck with Rick Swenson, the defending champion, who'd also jumped off his sled to run. Mackey's lead dog crossed the finish line first, at which point Mackey collapsed to the ground and his team stopped, straddling the line as Swenson and his team zoomed past. After 14 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 24 seconds, the race had come down to the blink of an eye. Who had won depended on whether winning meant getting your entire sled or just your lead dog across the line first. With no rule in place for such a circumstance, race marshal Myron Gavin appealed to common sense. "They don't take a picture of the horse's ass, do they?" he said. Thus it was that Dick Mackey became an Iditarod champion and his son's hero.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1182631/2/index.htm#ixzz1GdPUF9VI

Classic!   

+K!

[oldknight]

Al, who are you rooting for in the iditarod?

I wanted Sebastian Schnuelle to win.  It looks like he will get a top 5.  I'm hoping Baker maintain his lead. There's 77 miles to go and he has a 51 minute lead.  He should leave White Mountain at 4:03 am EDT.  He should be to Nome between  12:30 - 1:30pm.  KTUU out of Anchorage usually live streams the finish.

Baker and Ramey Smyth are close but Sports Ilustrated recently ran a feature on Lance Mackey and how his dad won the closest race ever.  It included a classic line.  Here's the quote from Sports Illustrated:
Dick's son Lance was only seven years old during the '78 race, but he can remember the commotion as his father, running beside his sled and nearly suffocating in his parka, barreled down Front Street neck and neck with Rick Swenson, the defending champion, who'd also jumped off his sled to run. Mackey's lead dog crossed the finish line first, at which point Mackey collapsed to the ground and his team stopped, straddling the line as Swenson and his team zoomed past. After 14 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 24 seconds, the race had come down to the blink of an eye. Who had won depended on whether winning meant getting your entire sled or just your lead dog across the line first. With no rule in place for such a circumstance, race marshal Myron Gavin appealed to common sense. "They don't take a picture of the horse's ass, do they?" he said. Thus it was that Dick Mackey became an Iditarod champion and his son's hero.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1182631/2/index.htm#ixzz1GdPUF9VI

On rare occasion, a post is so pithy, so pregnant with meaning, so worthy of honor that it's worth revisiting the board 24 hours later merely to give it its due. I'm in awe.  

[oldknight]

D3hoops posted the All-Great Lakes Region Team:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-men

Congratulations to Michael McClary (First team), Will Bowser (Second team) and Tom Snikkers (Third team).

[BogeyMan]

Congrats also to Jon VanderWal, Albion grad, on being named Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year.  I also noticed three players from Marietta on the All-Great Lakes Regional teams.  All three are back next year.

[DewCrewVett]

D3hoops posted the All-Great Lakes Region Team:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-men

Congratulations to Michael McClary (First team), Will Bowser (Second team) and Tom Snikkers (Third team).

Well I sure would have like to have seen Coach Neil as a coach of the year recepient  , but hats off to Marietta's coach.

What are the chances a combination, one, or none of our MIAA players are named All-Americans? I guess it all depends on D3 hoops selection criteria. In my opinion McClary and Bowser should be considered locks for All-Americans this year, and Snikkers probably a future prospect.

With that being said, go Cornerstone! A national championship is nothing short of amazing for the Golden Eagles!

[ziggy]

D3hoops posted the All-Great Lakes Region Team:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-men

Congratulations to Michael McClary (First team), Will Bowser (Second team) and Tom Snikkers (Third team).

Well I sure would have like to have seen Coach Neil as a coach of the year recepient  , but hats off to Marietta's coach.

What are the chances a combination, one, or none of our MIAA players are named All-Americans? I guess it all depends on D3 hoops selection criteria. In my opinion McClary and Bowser should be considered locks for All-Americans this year, and Snikkers probably a future prospect.

With that being said, go Cornerstone! A national championship is nothing short of amazing for the Golden Eagles!

My gut tells me that anyone not named to an all-region first team won't be considered for an all-american designation

[Pat Coleman]

D3hoops posted the All-Great Lakes Region Team:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-men

Congratulations to Michael McClary (First team), Will Bowser (Second team) and Tom Snikkers (Third team).

Well I sure would have like to have seen Coach Neil as a coach of the year recepient  , but hats off to Marietta's coach.

What are the chances a combination, one, or none of our MIAA players are named All-Americans? I guess it all depends on D3 hoops selection criteria. In my opinion McClary and Bowser should be considered locks for All-Americans this year, and Snikkers probably a future prospect.

With that being said, go Cornerstone! A national championship is nothing short of amazing for the Golden Eagles!

My gut tells me that anyone not named to an all-region first team won't be considered for an all-american designation

It depends on the region but yeah, there are 25 All-Americans and 40 first-team All-Region players so not every first-team All-Region pick can be on our All-American team. But we don't go through first-teamers until we run out -- we do really pick the best players at each position. If eight of them come from the West while two come from the East and three come from the Mid-Atlantic, so be it. Or if there are four great guards in a region while no centers make the cut, that's what we'll pick.

I don't think I am giving away any state secrets by suggesting there will be at least one MIAA All-American in men's basketball.

[DewCrewVett]

D3hoops posted the All-Great Lakes Region Team:

http://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2010-11/greatlakes-men

Congratulations to Michael McClary (First team), Will Bowser (Second team) and Tom Snikkers (Third team).

Well I sure would have like to have seen Coach Neil as a coach of the year recepient  , but hats off to Marietta's coach.

What are the chances a combination, one, or none of our MIAA players are named All-Americans? I guess it all depends on D3 hoops selection criteria. In my opinion McClary and Bowser should be considered locks for All-Americans this year, and Snikkers probably a future prospect.

With that being said, go Cornerstone! A national championship is nothing short of amazing for the Golden Eagles!

My gut tells me that anyone not named to an all-region first team won't be considered for an all-american designation

I disagree, Ziggy. Bowser was named second team all-region this year because his spot was probably taken by Ian Franks- player of the year from Wooster, or Wes Smith who averaged 22 pg from Wabash. A second-team forward from the Great Lakes may be a better option from an all-region first-team forward from the mid-atlantic, west, midwest, or what have you.

I was just doing a little clicking and noticed somehow Bunn was named first team all-region last year. Now how can Bunn who statistically had a significantly inferior season to Bowser, and whose team did not play as well in the NCAA - tournament, nor win the regular season MIAA championship be named first-team, and Bowser who did all those things this year be named second team?

Its because the strength of the region in the Great Lakes, in the guard or forward position is probably significantly up this year compared to last.

[ziggy]

It depends on the region but yeah, there are 25 All-Americans and 40 first-team All-Region players so not every first-team All-Region pick can be on our All-American team. But we don't go through first-teamers until we run out -- we do really pick the best players at each position. If eight of them come from the West while two come from the East and three come from the Mid-Atlantic, so be it. Or if there are four great guards in a region while no centers make the cut, that's what we'll pick.

I don't think I am giving away any state secrets by suggesting there will be at least one MIAA All-American in men's basketball.

I wonder who will be left on the board

[hopefan]

As some of you know, this 'hopefan' moved away from Western Michigan long ago... down to SLIAC land in St Louis....  I was able to see Hope only at the Augie weekend.
I can only say that as Will Bowser did not make first team all region, the guys who did make first team must be VERY good... Will just impressed me 100%.....