MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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Calvin Basketball @CalvinMensBball 19h

Tomorrow we host Carthage at 8pm. Old uniform sale before the game and we will be rocking gold retro jerseys from the 2006 season!

[KnightSlappy]

Calvin Basketball @CalvinMensBball 19h

Tomorrow we host Carthage at 8pm. Old uniform sale before the game and we will be rocking gold retro jerseys from the 2006 season!

2002-03 and 2003-04 were the gold years.

They should go really retro and play the game in the Hoogenboom gym.

[ziggy]

Calvin Basketball @CalvinMensBball 19h

Tomorrow we host Carthage at 8pm. Old uniform sale before the game and we will be rocking gold retro jerseys from the 2006 season!

2002-03 and 2003-04 were the gold years.

They should go really retro and play the game in the Hoogenboom gym.

They should go really, really retro and wear the uniforms with belts (the non-trademarked kind).

[wiz]

Calvin Basketball @CalvinMensBball 19h

Tomorrow we host Carthage at 8pm. Old uniform sale before the game and we will be rocking gold retro jerseys from the 2006 season!

2002-03 and 2003-04 were the gold years.

They should go really retro and play the game in the Hoogenboom gym.

They should go really, really retro and wear the uniforms with belts (the non-trademarked kind).

Any of these retro alternatives are fine as long as they don't go retro to the 2012-2013 games played at Wheaton.  Ouch!

[KnightSlappy]

Overall conference record vs D3 is being tracked by hopefan on another part of the board.  I can't think of another way to show just how badly the league has been struggling to this point.

36   CUNY      11   20   0.355
37   NECC      14   28   0.333
38   NAC      9   18   0.333
39   USAC      13   28   0.317
40   MIAA      8   18   0.308
41   UMAC      8   22   0.267
42   Independent      6   19   0.240
43   SLIAC      8   27   0.229
44   NEAC      5   24   0.172

I have them not quite that bad at #35 in non-conference RPI, but yeah, usually the MIAA is like a #10-15 type league. Not so much this year.

[toooldtohoop]

I cannot get to the live video.  Any ideas?

[Roundball999]

I cannot get to the live video.  Any ideas?

Link on the Hope web site doesn't work.  Did you try http://new.livestream.com/calvin-college

[Gregory Sager]

Wheaton 80
Hope 61

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage 74
Calvin 68

[calvin_grad]

Not that many people agreed with the rankings this early, but after watching that game tonight, there is NO WAY that Calvin is the #9 team in the country.  Teams that have good, quick guards are going to eat them for lunch.

[pointlem]

Kudos to Wheaton for taking it to Hope tonight, with 65% shooting, enabled by lots of open jumps, layups, and drives to the basket when their spread offense left the paint unoccupied. 

Hope started NVA and Benson, who continue to play well--each now with a 67% season shooting percentage.  The frosh forwards, Blackledge and Stuive, also continue to impress, as did McMahon who added some much-needed scoring power at the wing position.  Chad Carlson got quality minutes, and handled the ball well.

Normally the point guard position is another Hope strength.  But Ben Gardner's off-night (16 minutes, 0 points), likely the result of his ankle sprain earlier this week, clearly slowed Hope offense.  Maybe it's end-of-the-semester tiredness, but Hope didn't seem to have much emotional energy tonight.  They'll need more tomorrow, against a very good Carthage team.

[oldknight]

A tremendously disappointing second half by Calvin tonight. The Knights held a 35-28 lead at the break and appeared to be in control of the pace of the game. Then they decided to try and put it on cruise control at the start of the second half, and promptly gave up 18 points the first 4 and one-half minutes of the second frame. Carthage did shoot very well the second half (5-7 from the arc and 16-29 overall) but honestly, most of their shots were comfortable looks. Calvin did compete hard the final few minutes of the game but it was too little, too late and they suffered a well deserved loss. The Knights need more players who compete like Mickey DeVries--now there's a guy who just doesn't take time off any possession. Tyler Kruis had a nice game with 26 points on 11-13 from the floor (he even made a couple of mid-range jumpers to quiet KnightSlappy ), but his 4-8 from the stripe hurt Calvin's chances. The backcourt was MIA and will need to show up if Calvin is to compete with Wheaton tomorrow.

[sac]

Its going to be a long, cold winter in MIAA land.

[sac]

Normally the point guard position is another Hope strength.  But Ben Gardner's off-night (16 minutes, 0 points), likely the result of his ankle sprain earlier this week, clearly slowed Hope offense.  Maybe it's end-of-the-semester tiredness, but Hope didn't seem to have much emotional energy tonight.  They'll need more tomorrow, against a very good Carthage team.

I thought Wheaton putting Tyler Peters on Gardner was an excellent move.  Ben might have been lacking a little hard edge to his cuts or that quick burst on his drives to the basket, but mostly I just thought Peters played good solid defense on him.

I agree Hope lacked some energy and no where was that more evident than on the defensive end.  I think they had good and bad minutes offensively but it was mostly bad without the ball.  At the moment their youth is showing the most on the defensive end.




Carthage has now beaten top 10 ranked teams Washington and Calvin in about a weeks time.  Regardless of whether those teams are over ranked or not that's still pretty impressive.

[arena]

A tremendously disappointing second half by Calvin tonight. The Knights held a 35-28 lead at the break and appeared to be in control of the pace of the game. Then they decided to try and put it on cruise control at the start of the second half, and promptly gave up 18 points the first 4 and one-half minutes of the second frame. Carthage did shoot very well the second half (5-7 from the arc and 16-29 overall) but honestly, most of their shots were comfortable looks. Calvin did compete hard the final few minutes of the game but it was too little, too late and they suffered a well deserved loss. The Knights need more players who compete like Mickey DeVries--now there's a guy who just doesn't take time off any possession. Tyler Kruis had a nice game with 26 points on 11-13 from the floor (he even made a couple of mid-range jumpers to quiet KnightSlappy ), but his 4-8 from the stripe hurt Calvin's chances. The backcourt was MIA and will need to show up if Calvin is to compete with Wheaton tomorrow.

Wasn't able to attend the game last night, but if this is the case that Calvin put it in "cruise control" for the second half, Vandestreek needs to go.