MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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What are YOUR thoughts?

Whose Dance Card has been punched for the Final Four in the Big Dance???

I had UWSP, Whitworth, Williams, and Middlebury.

UWSP and Whitworth are out, but I still have my champion Middlebury in the mix!

Because I told you Middlebury was a final four lock the second the brackets came out.

I had Point, Wooster (perfect corner of the bracket, I thank you), Va Wes and Middlebury (champ).

[KnightSlappy]

What are YOUR thoughts?

Whose Dance Card has been punched for the Final Four in the Big Dance???

I had UWSP, Whitworth, Williams, and Middlebury.

UWSP and Whitworth are out, but I still have my champion Middlebury in the mix!

Because I told you Middlebury was a final four lock the second the brackets came out.

I had Point, Wooster (perfect corner of the bracket, I thank you), Va Wes and Middlebury (champ).

Like you could ever tell me anything I didn't already know.

[gohope]

What are YOUR thoughts?

Whose Dance Card has been punched for the Final Four in the Big Dance???

I had UWSP, Whitworth, Williams, and Middlebury.

UWSP and Whitworth are out, but I still have my champion Middlebury in the mix!

No, no, the BIG Dance, as in D1!!! 

[Happy Calvin Guy]

What are YOUR thoughts?

Whose Dance Card has been punched for the Final Four in the Big Dance???

I had UWSP, Whitworth, Williams, and Middlebury.

UWSP and Whitworth are out, but I still have my champion Middlebury in the mix!

No, no, the BIG Dance, as in D1!!! 

I think there's a board for that.

[realist]

Congrats to M McClary of Olvet for his selection to the NABC All Star roster for Sat's game.   MM is on the West team, and Mike Turner of Albion is asst. coach for the East squad.

[KnightSlappy]

Probably only 10 miles of east-west separation between the two schools. 

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Perusing the rosters leads me to believe there has to be better team designations than "East" and "West"
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2011/03/nabc-all-star-rosters

[sac]

Holland's not as happy...



A poll that listed the Holland-Grand Haven community as second happiest in America in 2009, lists the area at No. 34 for 2010.

"We're slightly behind Ann Arbor, but ahead of Grand Rapids and East Lansing. As far as Michigan communities go, that's pretty good company to be in," Mayor Kurt Dykstra said. "I think as an area we are the same this year as we were last year; I think, overall, people in this area enjoy living here."


Is it just me or is Grand Haven a long way for these two cities to be considered one community?  That's what 20-25 miles?

[Gregory Sager]

Perusing the rosters leads me to believe there has to be better team designations than "East" and "West"
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2011/03/nabc-all-star-rosters

Well, they are generally east and west. What you have to remember is that, in D3, the South Region is considered to be part of the western half of the division, along with the Great Lakes, Midwest, and West regions. That's why last year there was a Virginia Wesleyan player on the West squad, in spite of the fact that Virginia Wesleyan's campus is practically a stone's throw away from the Atlantic Ocean.

D3 is so overwhelmingly oriented towards the northeastern corner of the country that over half of its members are located north and east of the Allegheny and Potomac rivers. In essence, the East is that northeastern corner (Northeast, East, Atlantic, and Middle Atlantic regions -- in other words, New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and most of Pennsylvania), and the West is everything else.

Personally, I like this setup. Many of us midwesterners are quite proud of the fact that the teams from the heartland have performed so well in the D3 tourney over the years. I will thoroughly enjoy watching, and rooting for, the West team this year -- even though it has ringers such as suburban Baltimore native Alex Franz (St. Mary's MD) and Whitworth's Michael Taylor, who lives somewhere in the northwestern wilderness halfway between Spokane and Seattle.

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Perusing the rosters leads me to believe there has to be better team designations than "East" and "West"
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2011/03/nabc-all-star-rosters

Well, they are generally east and west. What you have to remember is that, in D3, the South Region is considered to be part of the western half of the division, along with the Great Lakes, Midwest, and West regions. That's why last year there was a Virginia Wesleyan player on the West squad, in spite of the fact that Virginia Wesleyan's campus is practically a stone's throw away from the Atlantic Ocean.

D3 is so overwhelmingly oriented towards the northeastern corner of the country that over half of its members are located north and east of the Allegheny and Potomac rivers. In essence, the East is that northeastern corner (Northeast, East, Atlantic, and Middle Atlantic regions -- in other words, New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and most of Pennsylvania), and the West is everything else.

Personally, I like this setup. Many of us midwesterners are quite proud of the fact that the teams from the heartland have performed so well in the D3 tourney over the years. I will thoroughly enjoy watching, and rooting for, the West team this year -- even though it has ringers such as suburban Baltimore native Alex Franz (St. Mary's MD) and Whitworth's Michael Taylor, who lives somewhere in the northwestern wilderness halfway between Spokane and Seattle.

We MIAAers are vociferously told we are not regionally aligned with Chicagoland, et al so it is hard for us to put these sort of things in proper context.

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CU 80 St. Francis 71.  Good job Golden Eagles.

What happened next: http://www.mlive.com/smallcolleges/grandrapids/index.ssf/2011/03/cornerstone_star_hands_mvp_tro.html

[Gregory Sager]

Perusing the rosters leads me to believe there has to be better team designations than "East" and "West"
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2011/03/nabc-all-star-rosters

Well, they are generally east and west. What you have to remember is that, in D3, the South Region is considered to be part of the western half of the division, along with the Great Lakes, Midwest, and West regions. That's why last year there was a Virginia Wesleyan player on the West squad, in spite of the fact that Virginia Wesleyan's campus is practically a stone's throw away from the Atlantic Ocean.

D3 is so overwhelmingly oriented towards the northeastern corner of the country that over half of its members are located north and east of the Allegheny and Potomac rivers. In essence, the East is that northeastern corner (Northeast, East, Atlantic, and Middle Atlantic regions -- in other words, New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and most of Pennsylvania), and the West is everything else.

Personally, I like this setup. Many of us midwesterners are quite proud of the fact that the teams from the heartland have performed so well in the D3 tourney over the years. I will thoroughly enjoy watching, and rooting for, the West team this year -- even though it has ringers such as suburban Baltimore native Alex Franz (St. Mary's MD) and Whitworth's Michael Taylor, who lives somewhere in the northwestern wilderness halfway between Spokane and Seattle.

We MIAAers are vociferously told we are not regionally aligned with Chicagoland, et al so it is hard for us to put these sort of things in proper context.

Perhaps you'd be happier if they split the All-Star players into Peninsula and Mainland squads.

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Perusing the rosters leads me to believe there has to be better team designations than "East" and "West"
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2011/03/nabc-all-star-rosters

Well, they are generally east and west. What you have to remember is that, in D3, the South Region is considered to be part of the western half of the division, along with the Great Lakes, Midwest, and West regions. That's why last year there was a Virginia Wesleyan player on the West squad, in spite of the fact that Virginia Wesleyan's campus is practically a stone's throw away from the Atlantic Ocean.

D3 is so overwhelmingly oriented towards the northeastern corner of the country that over half of its members are located north and east of the Allegheny and Potomac rivers. In essence, the East is that northeastern corner (Northeast, East, Atlantic, and Middle Atlantic regions -- in other words, New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and most of Pennsylvania), and the West is everything else.

Personally, I like this setup. Many of us midwesterners are quite proud of the fact that the teams from the heartland have performed so well in the D3 tourney over the years. I will thoroughly enjoy watching, and rooting for, the West team this year -- even though it has ringers such as suburban Baltimore native Alex Franz (St. Mary's MD) and Whitworth's Michael Taylor, who lives somewhere in the northwestern wilderness halfway between Spokane and Seattle.

We MIAAers are vociferously told we are not regionally aligned with Chicagoland, et al so it is hard for us to put these sort of things in proper context.

Perhaps you'd be happier if they split the All-Star players into Peninsula and Mainland squads.

"Peninsulas, panhandles and archipelagos" versus "boring shapes" sounds like an interesting matchup

[Gregory Sager]

Hard to fit PENINSULAS PANHANDLES & ARCHIPELAGOS on the front of a uniform, though.

[Civic Minded]

Northwestern (IA) women avenge their only loss of the season, beating Davenport in the NAIA championship game 88-83 to repeat as national champs. Next up is the men's final featuring Cornerstone against defending champion Saint Francis (IN).

FDF, a Northwestern alum, gets beat to the sharing of this info?    Well done, OK.