MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[oldknight]

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.

I would like to tell you that my visit to the land of the Papists--under a one day guarantee of safe travel--is for the purpose of presenting a paper on Guido de Bres, the unjustness of his execution, and the sound biblical basis of the Belgic Confession. Alas, my purpose is far more mundane. I am attending a deposition. I promise to avert my eyes when passing by the campus.

OpaKnight is a title I had not considered. Well done. Not having any Frisian blood coursing through my veins, the use of PakeKnight would likely be seen as too presumptuous by certain MIAA board posters.

[realist]

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.

Last night 10 players saw double digit minutes.  Ranging from Kruis at 26 to 14 for Vallie and Stout.
Interestingly we saw 4 for 4 subbing  3 times in the game, and at the 12:10 mark of the first half a 5 for 5 exchange.  This being the 6th game of the year it might be safe to conclude the rotation is pretty much fixed at 10, and who the 10 will be.   All 10 in the rotation are averaging over 13.7 mpg.
Mast and Huizenga each on the floor for 2 minutes, and Nadeau for 25 seconds, and Daly 0.

[sac]

We've got 4 games tonight, 3-1 maybe?

Mount Union, Ohio at Adrian, 5:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo at Oberlin, Ohio, 7 p.m.
Albion at Heidelberg, Ohio, 7:30 p.m.
Alma at Defiance, Ohio, 8 p.m.

[Civic Minded]

Several months back I noted a documentary being made about the River Valley Mustangs and the several years leading up to and following their state championship.  For any of you who might have made donations to help with its completion, thank you, sincerely.

The premiere date has been set for April 13, 2013.  Here's a taste of some of the interviewing they've done in the making of the film (and a potential explanation for my passion for basketball to this day):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FpvhpNkNc

I ran into (Hall of Fame) Coach Schaffer two weeks ago on our way to the North Cental tournament.  He still inspires awe, lo these many decades later.  Great guy.

[oldknight]

Adrian moves to 6-0 on the season with a 63-48 win over Mt Union (1-4). Neither team shot particularly well and it seems the Bulldogs benefited from taking 13 more shots than the visitors from Ohio, largely the result of 27 Mt Union turnovers. Eric Lewis led Adrian with 17 while Cody Barnes and Adam Meier added 11 each.

[sac]

Adrian 63, Mount Union, Ohio 48
Kalamazoo 55, Oberlin, Ohio 53
Heidelberg, Ohio 66, Albion 58
Defiance, Ohio 76, Alma 60

Heidelberg has two wins now over Trine and Albion

[KnightSlappy]

It appears that Calvin last beat Wheaton in '05-06. That seems like a long time ago.

[sac]

It appears that Calvin last beat Wheaton in '05-06. That seems like a long time ago.

Caleb Veldhouse was a Fr.

[sac]

So far the league is 12-11 in region, those two losses by Trine and Albion to Heidelberg hurt because

1) Alma beat them
2)  14-9 looks better than 12-11, that's a cushion we could have used.

With 2 teams that will most likely have the resume to make the tournament come March its so vitally important the league finish above the .500 mark in the non-conference in-region games.

This weekend's seven in-region games:
North Central @ Trine
Hope @ Wheaton
Adrian @ Carnegie-Mellon
Chicago @ Kalamazoo
Baldwin-Wallace @ Alma
Elmhurst @ Albion
North Central @ Kalamazoo

I have to imagine the MIAA rep is the underdog in all but one of these games.  I think Adrian's a favorite over Carnegie, and Albion/Elmhurst is probably a tossup.  Consider Elmhurst beat Albion handily last year.  It's going to be a long uphill climb after this weekend to get back to .500 in-region.  I still think its possible.

Going to be rough weekend seven days, buckle-up!

[goodknight]

It appears that Calvin last beat Wheaton in '05-06. That seems like a long time ago.

Caleb Veldhouse was a Fr.

Calvin coughed up a huge lead late in the Wheaton game last year, setting the tone for a head-scratching and ultimately disappointing season.

[GoKnights68]

It appears that Calvin last beat Wheaton in '05-06. That seems like a long time ago.

I remember that win really turned around Calvin's season that year.  Calvin was struggling heavily going into the game with an ugly showing at the Thanksgiving HOF tourney, and it looked like it wasn't going to be pretty playing against a Wheaton team that was out for blood after getting knocked out by Calvin the season before in the NCAA tournament on a last second tip-in by Dan Aultman.  I didn't realize it's been that long since we had beaten them.

Wheaton has been beating their opponents pretty easily so far this season, and so it will be quite a test for the Calvin and Hope this weekend.

[sac]

Calvin coughed up a huge lead late in the Wheaton game last year, setting the tone for a head-scratching and ultimately disappointing season.

Wheaton made two big comebacks in last years games.

Down 12 with 8:58 to play, led up by 3 with :17 to play and lost by 1 vs Hope
Down 14 with 8:46 to play, led by 6 with :28 to play and won by 5 vs Calvin

They trailed Hope almost the whole game, against Calvin they actually had a brief 8 point first half lead. 

[sac]

It appears Wheaton's WETN will provide video of the Hope/Wheaton game Saturday

From their schedule
Nov 3 08:00 PM
    Wheaton Men's Basketball vs. Calvin College - Audio Only

Dec 1 3:00 PM
    Wheaton Men's Basketball vs. Hope College

[devossed]

It appears that Calvin last beat Wheaton in '05-06. That seems like a long time ago.

I remember that win really turned around Calvin's season that year.  Calvin was struggling heavily going into the game with an ugly showing at the Thanksgiving HOF tourney, and it looked like it wasn't going to be pretty playing against a Wheaton team that was out for blood after getting knocked out by Calvin the season before in the NCAA tournament on a last second tip-in by Dan Aultman.  I didn't realize it's been that long since we had beaten them.

Wheaton has been beating their opponents pretty easily so far this season, and so it will be quite a test for the Calvin and Hope this weekend.

So began the Sager-Draayer love odyssey that weekend?

If memory serves, there were a few treys from THUNDERDAN range and/or falling OB?

And I think Trewhella was pretty legit that weekend too.

[Gregory Sager]

Why single me out? Mr. Ypsi, ne Cabonney, was waxing rhapsodic about Draayer's performance that night as well on d3boards.com. Lots of CCIW people who'd never seen Draayer until that night were saying the same things -- including Wheaton head coach Bill Harris, who at one point I think had Draayer land in his lap after launching a successful trey.

The only difference is that those other CCIW people didn't put it out there in cyberspace like Chuck and I did. We're still paying the price for our intrepid public testimony, I guess.