MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sac]

Halftime

Carnegie Mellon 29  Adrian 16

Carnegie has attempted only 14 shots, made 8 of them.

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Personal phone calls are frowned upon in the media business Doug.

[Titan Q]

Awesome broadcast moment - the Calvin broadcaster took a cell phone call while on the air.  "Hello?  I'm on the air right now, I will call you back later, OK?"

Good stuff.

[wiz]

Rumor has it KVS received a 5 year contract extension at halftime.

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Carnegie-Mellon 70  Adrian 44

woof!   Ricky Jackson scored half his teams points.



Trine 87  Illinois Tech 33

No details except Illinois Tech remains really bad at basketball

[toooldtohoop]

I had kind of stopped watching because of the beat-down that Calvin was delivering, but then heard the cell phone!

A nice moment of humor in the midst of a disappointing Thunder performance.

Congrats to all of you Knights.  Your team looked very impressive today.

[Titan Q]

Awesome broadcast moment - the Calvin broadcaster took a cell phone call while on the air.  "Hello?  I'm on the air right now, I will call you back later, OK?"

Good stuff.

Cut the guy some slack dude.  He has been doing this for like 50+ years now.  At least he isn't quite as full of himself as you sound.

It's not OK to point out a funny moment that happened in a broadcast?

[KnightSlappy]

Awesome broadcast moment - the Calvin broadcaster took a cell phone call while on the air.  "Hello?  I'm on the air right now, I will call you back later, OK?"

Good stuff.

Cut the guy some slack dude.  He has been doing this for like 50+ years now.  At least he isn't quite as full of himself as you sound.

It's not OK to point out a funny moment that happened in a broadcast?

realist just gets even grouchier when Calvin wins.

[sac]

Awesome broadcast moment - the Calvin broadcaster took a cell phone call while on the air.  "Hello?  I'm on the air right now, I will call you back later, OK?"

Good stuff.

Cut the guy some slack dude.  He has been doing this for like 50+ years now.  At least he isn't quite as full of himself as you sound.

It's not OK to point out a funny moment that happened in a broadcast?

realist just gets even grouchier when Calvin wins.

Yeah, it was seriously one of the funniest things I've heard listening to a D3 game.

In true Doug Wentworth fashion he was incredibly polite.

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Albion 68  North Park 58

[Gregory Sager]

Trine 87  Illinois Tech 33

No details except Illinois Tech remains really bad at basketball

IIT lost by 14 last Monday to a club team from Northeastern Illinois University. NEIU doesn't have intercollegiate varsity sports, and hasn't had them for a very long time now; the school disbanded its athletic department 17 years ago.

When your varsity team loses by double digits to a club team from a school that doesn't have intercollegiate athletics, that's really, really, really bad. Makes me wonder why Trine put IIT on the sked.

(According to the box score, NEIU's club team has a player named Ulysses Grant. It also has a player named William Lee. If I was the NEIU team, I'd twist Lee's arm and tell him he couldn't play unless he agreed to go by the nickname of "Robert E.")

[oldknight]

Quick, before Calvin v. Wheaton finish:  Let's do a virtual Hope v. Calvin game. 

Carthage beats Calvin by 6.

Hope beats Carthage by 22.

Ergo, Hope beats Calvin by 28.

Calvin fans can update after the Wheaton game.

(As Sac says, basketball makes perfect sense.)

Wheaton beats Hope by 19.

Calvin beats Wheaton by 27.

If I'm doing the math correctly, that means Calvin beats Hope by 18.

This has to be the strangest weekend ever for the CCIW/MIAA series. Handing Wheaton its head one day after Wheaton did the same to Hope--and then Hope rebounding to smother Carthage--is difficult to fathom. I don't know how you make sense of the results. Top 25 voters have to be thoroughly confused and I'm glad I don't have a ballot. I guess that's why we pay Dave McHugh the big bucks.

With respect to Calvin's results I will say this: it's amazing how much better you look when you play the full 40 with a sense of urgency. One day after I expressed unhappiness with Calvin's second half effort against Carthage, the Knights came out of the locker room firing off lightning bolts and sounding thunder at the visitors from Chicago-land and never letting up. It all began with defense and while Wheaton only hit 5-25 threes, I must say very few were good looks. Most were rushed as Thunder players seemed worried that their shots were being challenged by oncoming defenders—which they were. Calvin turned Wheaton into a perimeter team in the opening 20 minutes. When you can force Michal Berg to shoot nothing but three hurried 3 point attempts for the game, the defense has done its job. The large number of attempted triples was a direct result of the fact that Calvin's big guys ruled the interior, especially early on. In the decisive first half, Calvin outscored Wheaton 22-6 in the paint.  Other game notes:

--Calvin's guards were solid and Jordan Daley had his finest game ever in maroon and gold. He penetrated and scored several time in the early minutes, thereby opening things up for Tyler Kruis to shoot that mid-range jumper KnightSlappy so dearly loves to see.   After yesterday's so-so performance, Jordan Brink was his usual self and while Austin Parks didn't score, he had 8 assists and several nifty passes to big guys I didn't think were open.

--Tyler Dykstra only scored 8 points and it would be easy to overlook his overall performance which I thought was outstanding. He was often matched up on Tyler Peters and while TP finished with a game high 21, Dykstra (with help from others) really neutralized Peters in the first half allowing only 4 shots before the break. Most of Peters' scoring occurred long after the game was decided.

--I wish I could have heard Doug Wentworth's aborted, on-air, cell phone conversation. But I was there to see and hear what has to be the oddest and funniest technical foul call I have ever seen. With about 6 minutes left and the game getting a bit chippy, Mickey DeVries went up for a shot, clearly got hammered by two Wheaton players and the ref called a held ball, awarding it to Wheaton on the alternate possession. Needless to say, VandeStreek was not happy. As players from both teams went to the other end, the ref turned and called the technical on Coach Schauer, who—pointing to KVS—said: "The funny thing about your T is, I was agreeing with him!"

[sac]

http://new.livestream.com/calvin-college/events/2523335

At about 1:32:40  you can hear the phone ring and Doug answer it.  His explanation continues into 1:34

Around 1:39/1:40 is the "hissy fit"

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Alma 75  Finlandia 64

Law 14, Nikodemski 11


Elmhurst 72  Trine  68

Trine had its chances in the final couple minutes but were too sloppy with turnovers and missed ft's.

Dixon 32,  Good 13, Tatu 11

[Gregory Sager]

http://new.livestream.com/calvin-college/events/2523335

At about 1:32:40  you can hear the phone ring and Doug answer it.  His explanation continues into 1:34

Around 1:39/1:40 is the "hissy fit"

I watched the game today, and I have to agree that the phone call was hilarious. I hope that Doug Wentworth's sister Joyce is doing well down in Florida.

When I first started doing webcasts for NPU, the advice that I got from fellow broadcasters was always the same: "Time and score, time and score, never forget to keep repeating time and score as often as possible." But if I were to give a neophyte broadcaster advice, I'd say, "Never forget to keep repeating time and score as often as possible -- and to turn off your cell phone before you go on the air."