MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[neilrocks]

Without Garner Small having played, Olivet still leads Hope at the half, 34-28. Hope is 0-6 from the arc and has committed 12 turnovers.

Snugs with 13 minutes.

And VanArendonk with a goose egg. He did manage to grab one rebound in zero minutes though. Put that in your TI calculator to come up with a 40 minute average and watch it explode.

EDIT: They just changed it and gave him 1 minuteof pt. Darn! I wanted to see fireworks.

And like a lot of games, he has 2 fouls in less than 1 minute of play

[oldknight]

Olivet upsets Hope 68-65. Hill hits three with 2 seconds left.

[hoopdreams]

WHOOPSIE?...this one stings a bit

[KnightSlappy]

Running the table the wrong way.

[alexj35]

Olivet > Hope. Even without Garner Small. I love seeing the better team win!

[goodknight]

Ruining the table the wrong way.

Freudian?

[KnightSlappy]

Ruining the table the wrong way.

Freudian?

Androidian.

[goodknight]

Ruining the table the wrong way.

Freudian?

Androidian.

Antediluvian.  The floodgates are straining.

[oldknight]

Ruining the table the wrong way.

Freudian?

Androidian.

Antediluvian.  The floodgates are straining.

25 Hope turnovers. Yikes.

[calvinite]

Top Ten Reasons for Poor Calvin College basketball Attendance
10) With live video feed available, cheap Calvin fans prefer watching the home games on the Internet—or , I suspect, they prefer watching the broadcast on WGVU because D3 Hoops posters are always complaining about problems with the Live stats.
9) Faithful Calvin fans know that Coach VandeStreek will make a major strategic error by (A) pulling a starter every time he gets in foul trouble and (B) using way too long of a bench. Fans choose to protest such obvious coaching mistakes by not attending games.
8) Calvin Mascot Lance embarrasses Calvin fans by being so short and by running on the court and interfering with the play. An even greater embarrassment is the covering in Chimes of a story about Calvin students stealing (unacceptable behavior in the Calvin community) a Hope banner. This is just too much for the Calvin Faithful.
7) No Dew Crew-type enthusiasm to excite students and inadequate pay for pep band members who are paid a paltry salary. This results in an anemic pep band that doesn't excite fans and therefore results in an excessive amount of eclectic songs played on the PA system during stoppage of play which leads to all Calvin fans being subjected to at least a few songs which they loath.
6) Since there aren't any Calvin cheerleaders to entertain fans during the game, Calvin fans would rather listen to Doug Wentworth's broadcast while simultaneously monitoring the D3 Hoops boards in anticipation of SAC's 10,000th post which will happen any moment.
5) No recent Calvin College national title basketball runs, and we all know how important banners are for Calvin fans – far more important than attendance. The lack of a title run is the result of not scheduling the correct number of in-region, pre-season games and high enough OWP for out-of-region opponents.
4) Calvin students are too busy scaling the climbing wall to be bothered by basketball games. This might be corrected by a better Calvin College hype video such as the one suggested by Sac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pshjI1F1yQ0).
3) Since Hudsonville Ice Cream no longer sponsors Calvin College basketball broadcasts, there is no possibility of free Hudsonville ice cream at the games  – such as occurred at President Spoelhof's birthday a couple years back. This problem could be corrected by indoctrinating Calvin infants into the tradition, but the same prudishness at Calvin that prevents cheerleaders cheering at games also dissuades the bringing of exceptionally young infants to Calvin's campus which would require that 'lactating boobs'  be available during games – and this is a problem – just ask Old Knight.
2) Calvin fans are still out looking for Old Knight since he went missing after telling Mrs. Old Knight that he was 'still committed but still looking.'
1) Calvin fans are resentful after Calvin changes its policy of giving away free tickets to every CRC pastor, Christian school administrator, and athletic director in the area --as they used to do. Hope College is to blame for this as Hope's entire motivation for building DeVos Field House was to lure Calvin into building a bigger arena which Calvin couldn't afford (and knowing that Calvin couldn't fill it). Hope strategists knew the expense of a new arena would result in increased ticket prices and concession stand prices and a corresponding decrease in attendance; this decrease in attendance would lead to a demise of the entire Calvin College basketball program. Hope, therefore, is ultimately responsible for low attendance at Calvin games.

[oldknight]

After the Hope game someone asked me how worried I was about today's game with Trine. I said I was actually more worried about Olivet because they appear to be the type of team that has given Calvin fits in the past--they shoot a lot of threes and do so quite well. Coming into today's game, Trine had only taken 45 shots from beyond the arc, fewest in the MIAA, while Olivet the most at 121. On top of that, Olivet leads the league in three point percentage by a wide margin hitting over 41%. Today Olivet made 12-25 from downtown. Calvin had better be ready to defend the arc. They have been much better at doing that this year and are second in the league in 3 point field goal defense allowing opponents to shoot 29% coming into today (last year the Knights were 6th at 34%), and will need to continue that Wednesday night if they expect to finish the first half 7-0.

[wiz]

And a hush falls over the crowd...

So true, indeed.  No Hope posters tonight?

[arena]

And a hush falls over the crowd...

So true, indeed.  No Hope posters tonight?

They'll be here to give their views of what the team did wrong, I'm sure.  Or they'll praise MN for giving minutes to the underachieving senior forward.

[wiz]

And a hush falls over the crowd...

So true, indeed.  No Hope posters tonight?

They'll be here to give their views of what the team did wrong, I'm sure.  Or they'll praise MN for giving minutes to the underachieving senior forward.

I am happy to see that Snuggerud got 27 minutes.  That's a good indication his back must be getting better.  I heard that after coach Neil's post game interview on Wednesday that Snuggs re-injured it running to the table.

[sac]

Olivet 68  Hope 65
http://www.hope.edu/pr/athletics/mbb/stats/1213/0119olho.htm

Can't say I didn't try to warn people. 

I've seen Olivet four times now, they've been better each time I've seen them.  Chris Coles has them playing hard and with a belief they can win.  The stuff he runs with them to get 3 point shooters open is good and difficult to defend and when they hit those shots they're tough to beat.  They outscored Hope by 30 back there with the Dutchmen being little threat at all there themselves and that's the difference in the game really.

TJ Vondette really stepped up today and hit the big shots he was given, in the absence of Garner Small his points were big.

It was a little eery how this game mirrored the Adrian/Olivet game I saw a couple weeks ago, also in that one Olivet hit big 3's at the end to win it.

Maybe the most improved aspect of the Olivet program is their interior defense, they doubled the post pretty well and made things a lot more difficult for Hope than they'd like especially early on in the ball-game.  Gradually Hope turned that in their favor but it took awhile.


This was a one point game with 5 minutes to play and both teams turned it over 5 times in the last 5:40 of the game.  Either team could have pulled this out easily with some better and smarter ball handling.