MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[almcguirejr]

Calvin collapses and loses 87-85 in OT.  Outscored 20-2 in the last 7:19 minutes of regulation. 

[oldknight]

Calvin, once up by 16, plays no defense to speak of in the 2nd half or the overtime.  Alma walks up the court and shoots with time running out to beat Calvin 87-85

That total lack of defensive effort the final 3.3 seconds was mindboggling. How can you just usher the dribbler to the free throw line and invite him to take a free throw? The only thing as bad as that was the announcing team. I had stretches when I just had to stop listening.

[arena]

I almost made a spur of the moment trip to Alma,  glad that didn't happen

[NW Hope Fan]

Nice to watch video from the comforts of my living room in the PNW. Nice OT win Hope! On to Calvin...

[arena]

Didn't Alma pull an upset over Hope a few years ago that damaged its path to the MIAA championship?

[oldknight]

Calvin collapses and loses 87-85 in OT.  Outscored 20-2 in the last 7:19 minutes of regulation. 

A mindboggling collapse. In the last 7 minutes, Calvin missed 8 floor shots, the front end of a one-and-one, committed 5 turnovers and got outscored 20-2. If you include the first minute of play during overtime, the Knights got outscored 25-2 in over 8 minutes of playing time. That's really mindboggling.

[sac]

Didn't Alma pull an upset over Hope a few years ago that damaged its path to the MIAA championship?

Alma hasn't beat Hope in 17 years.  1998 Hope won the league with losses to kzoo and alma.  Before that 1994 maybe.

[wiz]

What happened  to Stout today?

[arena]

What happened  to Stout today?

More importantly, what happened to the guard (non) play?

[pointlem]

I see there has been some great conversations on who would be the league MVP this year.  There are a lot of great players in the MIAA and at this point it could be any number of guys.

My vote for Trine MVP would be Jared Holmquist. 

TUAngola,

After watching Jared Holmquist score 27 today, and be unstoppable in one-on-one matchups . . . and with zero turnovers in 43 minutes of play . . . I'm ready to vote with you.

Trine plays so tough and crisp . . . only 7 team turnovers in 45 minutes, despite moving the ball around for more than half of those minutes with their deliberate offense.  I was more impressed than I expected to be.

[kzoo99]

Close game at Kalamazoo tonight.  Kzoo needs to learn how to win the close games.  Coach Dougal has a very young team on the floor with 2 freshmen and 4 sophomores averaging 19 minutes each.  Nice dunk by the freshman Jason Hugan tonight.    http://new.livestream.com/KalamazooCollege/events/3761052/videos/75615591

[TUAngola]

I see there has been some great conversations on who would be the league MVP this year.  There are a lot of great players in the MIAA and at this point it could be any number of guys.

My vote for Trine MVP would be Jared Holmquist. 

TUAngola,

After watching Jared Holmquist score 27 today, and be unstoppable in one-on-one matchups . . . and with zero turnovers in 43 minutes of play . . . I'm ready to vote with you.

Trine plays so tough and crisp . . . only 7 team turnovers in 45 minutes, despite moving the ball around for more than half of those minutes with their deliberate offense.  I was more impressed than I expected to be.

pointlem

Glad you were able to see the Trine-Hope game.  Holmquist is just a solid basketball player.  You could tell when he was a freshman that if he worked hard he'd be special.  And he's a Michigan kid...how did the rest of the MIAA schools miss on him?  However with Angola being close to Michigan and Ohio we usually have a mixture of kids from all 3 states.  Now we have a logjam for first place in the MIAA with both Trine and Calvin losing today.  I was gone most of the day so I couldn't follow the game online, but after reading the recap and box score I am proud of the way our guys played.  Playing from behind most of the game and then forcing overtime must have been exciting.  Did Trine just run out of gas in the OT?  Both Holmquist and Blackledge with 27 each.  When Hope played down here in Angola it was the first time I saw Blackledge play and boy was I impressed.  He is a tough matchup because he is so athletic for a big.  I am assuming Bagley was on him today, maybe Hall?  I see Good only got 24 minutes, did he get into foul trouble?

Well now it is Trine's turn to exact some revenge on Wednesday.  Adrian got us over there.  If we lose then the winner of the Calvin-Hope game moves into first place. 

[sac]

Last 3 Hope-Trine games

Hope 65  Trine 62 OT
Trine 65  Hope 62
Hope 73  Trine 63 OT



--excellent job by Trine containing Gardner and Eidson much like down in Angola.  Gardner fought foul trouble all day and Eidson maybe himself as he struggled to score before hitting maybe the biggest shot of the game in OT.  Not bad for a guy who found himself on the pine at the end of regulation and the beginning of OT.

--Hope took away what made Holmquist succesful down at Trine, the 5-10 ft jump shot.  Tonight Holmquist just powered past guys to the glass, he was terrific.  Not sure I've seen too many players improve as much as he has since his Fr. year.

--Hope did a nice job on Dixon and he still finished with 17, took him a lot of shots to get that though.

--Trine faced a lot of adversity in this game, met the challenge head on and put themselves in position to win a game on the last shot they hadn't led throughout.  When Good fouled out with just under 7 to play I think a lot of people thought that was probably it for the Thunder.

--Harrison's scoreline speaks for itself.  He was huge today, his development has really taken off this year.  Exciting future for him.  Still not sure Hope's played many minutes with both Brock and Harrison together as they'd like.

--an excellent ballgame all around


Today's results mean:

Calvin controls its own destiny in the MIAA.  Win out, MIAA Champs, #1 seed
Hope controls its own destiny in the MIAA.  Win out, minimum of Co-Champ, #1 seed
Trine can win out, minimum co-champ would need Hope to lose for #1 seed
Adrian winning out would mean a possible tie with Hope = #1 seed by 2 wins over Trine
                                                   a possible tie with Calvin =  seed would depend on Calvin results.
                                                   a possible tie with Trine =  #1 seed by 2 wins over Trine
                                                   a possible 3 or 4 way tie.

Alma  needs help but lurking in the background and host Hope, Trine and Adrian.

Fun!

[almcguirejr]

Morning Sun article on Alma's win over Calvin:

http://www.themorningsun.com/sports/20150131/comeback-kids-scots-erase-18-point-deficit-to-top-calvin

[sac]

+1 or road win, -1 for home loss
Calvin   6-2    +2
Trine     6-2    +2
Hope     6-2    +2
Adrian   5-3    0
Alma     4-4    0
Albion   2-6    -1
Kzoo     2-6    -3
Olivet    1-7    -2

Remaining games:
Adrian:  @Trine, @Calvin, Albion, Kzoo, @Alma, @Hope
Albion:   Alma, Hope, @Adrian, @Olivet, Trine, Calvin
Alma:    @Albion, @Olivet, Trine, Hope, Adrian, @Kzoo
Calvin:  Hope, Adrian, @Kzoo, Trine, @Olivet, @Albion
Hope:   @Calvin, @Albion, Olivet, @Alma, Kzoo, Adrian
Kzoo:    @Olivet, @Trine, Calvin, @Adrian, @Hope, Alma
Olivet:   Kzoo, Alma, @Hope, Calvin, @Albion, @Trine
Trine:    Adrian, Kzoo, @Alma, @Calvin, @Albion, Olivet


Wednesday:
Hope at Calvin 6pm
Alma at Albion 6pm
Kzoo at Olivet 7:30pm
Adrian at Trine 7:30pm

Saturday:
Kzoo at Trine 1pm
Adrian at Calvin 3pm
Hope at Albion 3pm
Alma at Olivet 3pm

Seems like Adrian and Calvin have the biggest weeks