MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[HopeConvert]

Springboard. See: it all connects to diving. (Although divers tend not to use it as a verb). 

I hope to enjoy that day in every way.

[sac]

Calvin at Trine highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FH1RhnhPPQ&feature=youtu.be

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

For the third consecutive year, Hoopsville will air for 12 hours as the regular season enters the final four weeks. Dave McHugh will chat with coaches, administrators, student-athletes, and others involved in Division III basketball from around the country. Other guests will include those who have Division III roots or appreciate the division and the game along with the student-athletes who play the sport.

Hoopsville will air from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (and maybe later) on Thursday, February 4 live from the WBCA/NABC Studio. You can see what guests are scheduled, get more information, and watch the show here: http://www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2015-16/feb4

You can also read the press release about the show: http://www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/hoopsville-marathon-2016

Here is the guest list as we speak. All times are Eastern and subject to change. Additional guests to be added if and when necessary:


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Time	Guest	School
10:15am	Connie Tilley	St. Norbert (WBB) - WBCA Center Court
10:40am	Jamie Purdy	Peidmont (WBB)
11:00am	Keri Carollo	UW-Whitewater (WBB) - Nat'l Committee Chair
11:20am	Brent Pollari	Saint Mary's (Minn.) (WBB)
11:40am	Kent Madsen	No. 21 Wheaton (Ill.) (WBB)
12:00pm	Russell Loyd	Rose-Hulman (MBB)
12:20pm	Kevin Broderick	Nazareth (MBB)
12:40pm	Justin Scott	Arcadia (MBB)
1:00pm	Sam Hargraves	No. 12 Alma (MBB)
1:20pm	Lenny Reich	Mount Union (SID)
1:40pm	Maureen Webster	Clarkson (WBB)
2:00pm	Betsy Witman	York (Pa.) (WBB)
2:20pm	Sara Lee	Denison (WBB)
2:40pm	Klay Kneuppel	Wisconsin Lutheran (MBB)
3:00pm	Brian Van Haaften	Buena Vista (MBB) - Nat'l Committee Chair
3:30pm	Sydney Moss	No. 1 Thomas More (WBB)
3:45pm	Aaron Rousell	Bucknell (WBB) - former Chicago coach
4:00pm	Tim Shanahan	Staten Island (WBB)
4:20	Pat Cunningham	Trinity (Texas) (MBB) - NABC Coach's Corner
4:50pm	Bubba Smith	Sewanee (MBB)
5:15pm	Ben Strong	Former Guilford All-American
5:30pm	Kevin Connors	ESPN SportsCenter Anchor - Ithaca alumnus
6:00pm	Kristen Dowling	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (WBB)
6:20pm	Allison Coleman	Sage (WBB)
6:40pm	Landry Kosmalski	Swarthmore (MBB)
7:00pm	Dave Niland	No. 23 Penn State-Behrend (MBB)
7:20pm	Aaron Galletta	Lasell (MBB)
7:40pm	John Baron	Gwynedd-Mercy (MBB)
8:00pm
8:20pm
8:40pm	Melissa Hodgdon	Wheaton (Mass.) (WBB)
9:00pm	G.P. Gromacki	No. 2 Amherst (WBB)
9:20pm	James Wagner
9:40pm	HAPPY HOUR	Free-for-all of calls, tweets, and fun!

We hope to get at least the full show on a podcast, or several podcast, during the on Friday. You can find it here:
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hoopsville/id1059517087

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And a reminder the Hoopsville Fundraising Project has begun yet again. Please consider helping us cover Division III basketball the way it deserves to be covered. If you can not donate, please don't worry about - we understand. At least share the campaign with anyone you think might be interested: http://igg.me/at/hoopsville-fundraiser/x/6029509

Also, if you know any advertisers interested in promoting their company or products on the show, send them our way: hoopsville@d3hoops.com

Thanks!

[HopeConvert]

Well, the score was 1-0 before the game even started, and it sort of has gone downhill for Olivet from there.

[calvin_grad]

Dakota Kazen makes a shot with 1.1 seconds to go.  Albion beats Calvin 67-66 in a game both teams really needed to have.

[oldknight]

As has become a distressing habit for Calvin, another lengthy scoring drought doomed their chances at winning. Daley scored a basket with 7 minutes left in the first half to cut Albion's lead to 24-22. The Knights failed to score again until the final half minute when Daley scored again to make the score 39-24 at the break. It was a nice effort by Calvin to get back in the game who still trailed by 15 with less than 8 minutes left. The comeback was fueled by the irrepressible Jordan Daley (32 points) and Albion's decision to try and pull the air out of the ball. Didn't work as the Brits abandoned any effort to attack the basket until late in the shot clock which led to repeated low quality shots, just the opposite of what was happening the first 30 minutes of the game. Only a difficult Dakota Kazen runner the final second of the game bailed them out. Calvin would have won if they could have kept Albion off the boards but they didn't, allowing Albion to collar 15 offensive rebounds. Other game notes:

--Daley did his best to drag his team to victory with his 32 point effort. If I'm correct, he finished the night with 998 career points. If he had made it to 1000 Calvin wins. He did force the action too hard a few times and ended the game with 7 turnovers, but it's tough to be critical of a guy who went all out, all the time. A pretty impressive evening by Jordan.

--Interesting to see Calvin's two freshmen guards--Amoros and Huckaby--play so many minutes, particularly at crunch time. Given that Calvin's chances at reaching the conference tournament is pretty much shot, they might as well see what kind of players these two are going to be.

--Wilks led all players with 12 rebounds, many of them tough ones in traffic. Slight of frame and not particularly quick, he's an unlikely person to do that, particularly against Albion which has a bevy of athletic leapers. Credit where credit is due to Michael who is tougher than he appears.

--Interesting to see Jody May insert his 6'11" 325 pound freshmen, Ryan Lowe, into the game the final 1.1 seconds to defend Cam Denney's in bound pass. The kid is massive, dwarfing Denney on the baseline. Good move by Coach May I must say.

[almcguirejr]

Matt Neil was in attendance at Calvin tonight.

[Winifred Durfee]

Chad Carlson scored all of his points before tip-off tonight in a 36 point win. Not sure how we might find out, but I'm thinking that could be the only time that has ever happened...

[AlwaysHope]

Well, the score was 1-0 before the game even started, and it sort of has gone downhill for Olivet from there.

Here's something you will never see again.  Hope guard Chad Carlson makes a free throw giving Hope the lead 1 - 0 before the game started.  He then proceeds to shoot a very uncharacteristic 0 - 7 in 28 minutes of playing time, with no more free throws.  So Chad gets more points before the game started than during the game!

I assume that there was a technical before the game on Olivet.  Does anyone know what that was about?

[sac]

Most likely a roster issue.  Olivet has flirted with this issue a couple times this year.  Saturday they dressed only 8 guys, looks like tonight they dressed Emory and added a JV guy.  The problem probably lies in there somewhere.

I don't know about the frequency of such things, but its definitely rare and a first for Hope that I can recall.

[sac]

Alma 68  Adrian 63

I'm not exactly sure what I thought I'd see tonight and I'm not sure how to process this one.  On one hand I think Alma was off its game, definitely a team that looked out of sorts (like a team who had bus trouble on the way to Adrian) and possibly looking ahead to Saturday.  On the other I think Adrian played pretty well including on the defensive end of the the floor.

Alma missed several of the type of shots they usually hit early in this game and it allowed Adrian to kind of stick around.  Just as the Scots opened up a little comfort zone with a 10 point lead at 26-16.   Adrian's Christian Covile went on a hot streak scoring 14 points in row followed by a Jordan Denham layup that capped a 16-2 Adrian run to finish out the first half to lead 32-28, completely changing the complexion of the game.

Adrian kept up its good shooting and led 43-37 before the Scots turned this around reclaiming their original first half lead with a 16-3 run of their own to lead 53-46.  Adrian did battle back twice to tie the game at 53-53 and pull within 1 at 59-58.  But both times Alma had an answer of 2 offensives scores book-ending a defensive stop.

Nikodemski had zero points, zero shots attempted in the first half and the halftime adjustment was pretty simple.  Just about 100% of Alma's 2nd half offense went through Scott Nikodemski and Alma shot around 70% for the half.  That's a pace that Adrian just can't quite keep up with right now. 

4 things about this game are important bits.


1)  Alma may have shot 70+% to Adrian's 37% in the 2nd half but their 9 turnovers really kept them from putting this game away.

2)  Adrian was pretty bad from the FT line (or mostly Christian Covile was, 1-8) and left a few points out there that could have been useful late in the game.

3)  I really think Alma won this with their shot blocking, boxscore says 9 and that probably erases 10 or 12 points that Adrian would otherwise have scored.

4)  I don't think Adrian will feel really good about being out-rebounded by Alma, I saw a lack of effort of few times

Looking forward to Saturday night in what is easily the biggest Hope-Alma game in my 25 years watching this league.  It should be a heck of a lot of fun.

[devossed]

I believe I heard the technical was related to Olivet not having their starters checked into the book at the required time pregame, but that was only "thirdhand" so I can't confirm.

[sac]

+1 for road win, -1 for home loss
Alma      9-0     +4
Hope     8-1     +3
Albion    5-4     +1
Trine      5-4     0
Adrian   4-5      -1
Calvin    3-6     -1
Olivet     2-7    -2
Kzoo      0-9    -4

Home teams are 22-14  (7 of those losses belong to Kzoo, Olivet)

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


If everyone in the top 6 wins their remaining home games and beats both Kzoo and Olivet( any win on the road vs any of these 6 teams is a really big win.)

Alma      12-2
Hope     11-3
Albion     9-5
Trine       8-6
Calvin     7-7
Adrian     6-8

-----Calvin has the most favorable schedule remaining but they're probably going to have to win at Alma,  to whom they lost by 18, beat Adrian who has beaten them by 20+ and beat Hope on the final day.  Not the easiest task.

-----Adrian took its 3rd home loss tonight and that's going to be really difficult to make-up, they'd need to win at Albion, at Hope and at Calvin just to get back on square terms.  Adrian's going to need some help along with getting some big road wins.

-----Albion is still in a weird position because they have a loss to Olivet that no one else has right now.  They might get away with it but at some point it seems that's going to come home to roost.  Maybe in a tie-breaker.  Adrian's the only team behind them that can win at Calvin, which probably wouldn't matter much.  Tonights win at Calvin maybe cancelled out the loss at Olivet.

-----Trine has the other big game Saturday.  A win at Adrian would go a long way to securing at least the 4 seed.  That would be a win Calvin does not have and can not get.  It is worth noting a Calvin/Trine tie for 4th might end up being very interesting to break.


If they weren't already Kzoo was eliminated tonight, Olivet can technically still make the tournament but that would probably involve wining all 5 remaining games and winning a tie-breaker.

[sac]

The MIAA tournament weekend has been restored with a twist.........


If the men and women have different #1 seeds, the semifinals will be at 5:30 (#2 vs. #3) and 7:30 (#1 vs. #4), and 7:30 championship game.

If the same school is the #1 seed for both men and women, the women's semifinals will be #2 vs. #3 at 1 p.m., and #1 vs. #4 at 5:30, and the men's semifinals will be #2 vs. #3 at 3 p.m., and #1 vs. #4 at 7:30. Championship games will be at 5:30 for women and 7:30 for men.


One downer seems to be under scenario #1 the men and women would be playing at the same time at different locations, the other sort of downer is the Friday schedule should one school host.

[GreatScot!?]

I had a bad feeling on the way to Adrian and this was compounded during the trip down when there were bus problems on the way down. Proud of the team and that they pulled out a win while shooting an uncharacteristic 26% from 3 (probably not leading the nation anymore). It felt great to pull out a win despite not shooting well. In years past, the Scots would have to shoot well to pull a win out home or away. Got a lot of great looks to start the game, but they didn't fall and this trend continued throughout the game. The Scots scored a lot of points on the Pick and Roll, which Adrian switched and this lead to plenty of mismatches. Despite being in the running for best point guard in the country Nikodemski shot a whopping 5 times from the field and looked a little passive. Gamble and Bradfield had huge contributions on the defensive end thwarting Adrian drives, doing a beautiful job contesting and blocking shots without fouling. Gamble had 8 boards and 2 blocks despite only playing 16 minutes due to foul trouble.

As for Adrian, hard loss for them while trying to make the playoff. Going to have to steal a couple of away games to pull it off. As mentioned earlier Covile had an impressive scoring run seemingly making about all of his mid-range shots in the final 6 minutes of the first half. The score was 26-16 Alma with 6 minutes left, which quickly turned into 32-28 Adrian at Halftime. Covile ended up with 27, but needed 25 shots to reach it. He was a 73% FT shooter going into the game, but his 1-8 shooting from the stripe did not help their comeback effort. Thought Adrian was great from mid-range which is one of the weaknesses of the 2-3, but generally not a go to for offenses. Overall good effort for both sides and now looking forward to the big game against Hope on Saturday!