MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sac]

Calvin at Manchester tonight at 7:30, links and stuff on the miaa.org page

Manchester has played Albion, Trine and Kalamazoo.  They lost by double-digits to Albion and Trine, and came from behind to beat Kzoo in double-overtime.

[almcguirejr]

I think it is too early to be picking a top 25.  We will all have a better picture of the top teams after the first of the year.

[wiz]

I notice Manchester offers a live video stream.   

[Gregory Sager]

Hope at 19, Adrian 20, Calvin ORV in the latest poll.

Good job, good effort pollsters.

Looks like that College of Faith victory really gave Hope a boost.  I've become a mighty believer in their scheduling strategy.

Someone close to North Central told me that when Hope agreed to participate in North Central's tournament, UW-Whitewater (defending national champion) was supposed to be Hope's 1st round opponent.  UWW bailed, then another solid D3 committed and then bailed in the summer, leaving NCC literally looking for any team that would come.

It's not the first time that that's happened to NCC with regard to its' tip-off tournament. Back in 2007-08 North Central was forced to solicit a last-minute replacement team from the USCAA, World Harvest Bible College of Columbus, OH (now called Valor Christian College). The most unusual thing about the team was that it was coached by a woman, Lisa Bradley, who is purportedly the first woman to serve as the head coach of a men's college basketball team in U.S. history. While that's actually kinda cool, the bottom line is that North Central beat World Harvest on Friday night, 81-52 (NCC went on to finish 10-15, 4-10 that season), and then Taylor beat World Harvest in the consolation game on Saturday night, 96-51.

NCC's had about four or five NAIA teams participate in that tourney as well, dating back to that World Harvest year. Given the plethora of D3 teams available within a three-hour drive of Naperville, I can't imagine that this was by design. I think that the tourney's format -- women's game followed by men's game followed by women's game followed by men's game, on both nights -- probably reduces the number of interested teams by quite a bit.

Just so it's clear that I'm not singling out North Central, though, I should note that Wheaton was forced to alter the Lee Pfund Tourney to a three-day, three-team format this season after one of the teams bailed out. The same thing happened a few years ago to Wash U's Stan Lopata Tourney, and I'm sure that it's happened with increasing frequency throughout the country. It seems to me that it's getting harder and harder to find teams willing to commit to tournaments.

[Pat Coleman]

I think this is because there are more tournaments than there used to be and it's difficult to fill them all.

[almcguirejr]

Jeff Febus doing a nice job on the radio. 

[KnightSlappy]

Jeff Febus doing a nice job on the radio.

Yes he is. Can actually follow the action!

[goodknight]

Final from Manchester, Indiana:

Calvin 87
Man U 63

Bryan Powell with 13, Tom Snikkers with 12 and Jordan Brink and Tyler Dykstra with 10 points each.
Tyler Kruis and Dan Stout both added 9, and Mitch Vallie 8.

[almcguirejr]

Jeff Febus doing a nice job on the radio.

Yes he is. Can actually follow the action!

I'm also enjoying his commentary when there is a pause in the action.

[wiz]

Jeff Febus doing a nice job on the radio.

Yes he is. Can actually follow the action!

I'm also enjoying his commentary when there is a pause in the action.

Did Jeff happen to mention during any of those pauses what his favorite flavor of Hudsonville Ice Creme might be?

[goodknight]

Jeff Febus doing a nice job on the radio.

Yes he is. Can actually follow the action!

I'm also enjoying his commentary when there is a pause in the action.

Feebs is a walking encyclopedia of Calvin -- and all -- sports minutiae.  He was a student during the 1991-1992 national championship season, and has been Calvin's SID since getting his master's at Drake, the same school from which oldknight snagged his JD (about a hundred years earlier)..

[goodknight]

I'm not yet certain I can make the weekend MIAA/CCIW challenge at Wheaton, but I'm wondering if I can snag a ride down from the Holland area on Friday afternoon if there are drivers who don't mind an insufferable passenger.
Oldknight has "business" in South Bend on Friday before heading to Wheaton, so I can grab a ride back with him on Saturday.  Please PM me if you think you could stand to listen to my banal chatter for the better part of three hours.  HopeConvert, I'm counting on you!!!

[gohope]

I'm not yet certain I can make the weekend MIAA/CCIW challenge at Wheaton, but I'm wondering if I can snag a ride down from the Holland area on Friday afternoon if there are drivers who don't mind an insufferable passenger.
Oldknight has "business" in South Bend on Friday before heading to Wheaton, so I can grab a ride back with him on Saturday.  Please PM me if you think you could stand to listen to my banal chatter for the better part of three hours.  HopeConvert, I'm counting on you!!!

Too bad the "Go Hope" mobile isn't going to WHEEton this weekend - that would definitely be the trip to remember!!!  But alas, this opportunity will have to wait until another day.

And.... safe travels to all and.... GO MIAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maroonandgold]

Quote from: ziggy on November 26, 2012, 12:07:41 pm

    Quote from: Happy Calvin Guy on November 26, 2012, 11:25:52 am

     

I proposed an idea before the season began of possibly going to a 12 man rotation.  I'll back off of that belief now...it seems that Jordan Mast's game has declined a bit, and Huizenga and Daley, while showing great future potential, are a small but definite dropoff in skill from our top 9 or 10 guys.  I'm starting to wonder if Mitch Vallie is going to be the odd man out and if KVS will end up with his traditional 9 man rotation after all when league play starts.

I would be shocked if Vallie started losing minutes. He has started the season in a bit of a shooting slump but he provided some seriously ridiculous individual defensive moments in the tip-off tournament. The interesting thing about Calvin's ten-man rotation is that it contains the balance to put complete two good five-man units.

His minutes, in game order: 20, 15, 14, 12, 8. It could just be KVS tightening his bench in a tight Cornerstone game, but the trend exists.

Interesting to note that Mitch Vallie's minutes went up to 14 in last (K)night's game.  Apparently he is still very  much a part of the regular rotation.

[HopeConvert]

I'm not yet certain I can make the weekend MIAA/CCIW challenge at Wheaton, but I'm wondering if I can snag a ride down from the Holland area on Friday afternoon if there are drivers who don't mind an insufferable passenger.
Oldknight has "business" in South Bend on Friday before heading to Wheaton, so I can grab a ride back with him on Saturday.  Please PM me if you think you could stand to listen to my banal chatter for the better part of three hours.  HopeConvert, I'm counting on you!!!

Well Cuz, under normal circumstances I'd be happy to oblige. I would be going were it not for the fact that I have to gather with other localist ne-er-do-wells on Saturday to study works of subversive economic genius. I can hardly imagine that this will be an improvement on 3 hours of your banal chatter, the errors of great men being better than the truths of little ones and all that.

And what, exactly, is OK going to be doing in the land of the Papists? Investigating how a team that bad went 12-0 (and still, for that matter, be only the second-worst 12-0 team in the country)? Setting up an account so his new grandchild can be a Domer some day?

Let me add my congratulations to OK. I have nothing so clever to offer as a Liszt-meets-Gershwin moniker but will note that OpaKnight has not yet been taken. This leaves PakeKnight for GK, and I rather like the symmetry.