MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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I believe everyone played for Albion last night at Kalamazoo, however the minutes distribution was interesting, or maybe not.
https://www.miaa.org/sports/mbkb/2022-23/boxscores/20230111_bgk6.xml?view=boxscore

[FyteOnne]

Ken and Jon Jon each had what looked like knee injuries in the first half.  Ken came back in but possibly seemed a little tentative.  It looked like Jon Jon was holding an ice pack on his knee during the second half, and he never came back in after he fell. 

That might have accounted for some of the odd distribution of minutes.

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Anyone have a favorite spot in Adrian for a pre- or post-game meal?

[HopeConvert]

Anyone have a favorite spot in Adrian for a pre- or post-game meal?

Ann Arbor.

[Grutte Dirk]

Anyone have a favorite spot in Adrian for a pre- or post-game meal?

Ann Arbor.

[KnightSlappy]

Much was said last night on the broadcast about the young Calvin team, and being in their first rivalry game.  True enough, but maybe not as much disparity from the so called "veteran" Hope team.  Not counting anyone who played in any rivalry games last year for 1-2 minutes in cleanup time, Calvin had 110 minutes logged by players with no rivalary experienc eand Hope had 98 minutes.  Both teams had 2 starters in their first Rivalry game.  Overway & Ressler for Calvin, Quillan (played 3 min total in last years games) and Wourman for Hope.

It was actually Coach Mitchell who was one of the first to set this up in the opening 10 minutes of the broadcast. In the pre-recorded interview he mentioned Calvin was "led by a freshman" and indicated Calvin's solid team defense might make up for "what they might lack in experience". Mitchell later concluded by saying, "I'm going to lean into our experience and our guys have been there before and I think that's going to be really important."

[oldknight]

Calvin comes away with a 64-59 win at Adrian. It was what might be called an ugly win, but over the decades, I have noticed that wins in Lenawee County are almost always accompanied by some struggle. Today was no different.

After a 28-23 first half lead, that saw the two teams combine for a miserable 0-from-the-arc during the opening 20 minutes, Calvin clawed its way to a double digit lead that seemed would hold. The visitors still led 55-41 with less than 6 minutes left before the Bulldogs ran off 12 straight, and had a chance to tie with two free throws at the 1:42 mark. Deonta Pearson missed both, and Egekeze bailed out Calvin's offense with a tough basket and accompanying free throw 18 seconds later. If the young man from Huntley, Illinois keeps doing stuff like this, he might get both conference MVP awards this season. Adrian never got the ball back with a chance to tie or go ahead.

Like I said, the win was ugly, but Calvin improves its conference record to 4-0 and remains tied with Trine, who seemed to have their own struggles at Kalamazoo. Overway and Egekeze led Calvin with 19 and 12, while Adrian was paced by Price, Bellany and Seifert who had 22, 18 and 11 respectively. Overway shot a pedestrian 5-14 from the floor, but was money at the stripe (8-8) and also grabbed 9 boards. Life is just so much easier for your team when you have a reliable big guy other teams must account for. 

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Calvin comes away with a 64-59 win at Adrian. It was what might be called an ugly win, but over the decades, I have noticed that wins in Lenawee County are almost always accompanied by some struggle. Today was no different.

After a 28-23 first half lead, that saw the two teams combine for a miserable 0-from-the-arc during the opening 20 minutes, Calvin clawed its way to a double digit lead that seemed would hold. The visitors still led 55-41 with less than 6 minutes left before the Bulldogs ran off 12 straight, and had a chance to tie with two free throws at the 1:42 mark. Deonta Pearson missed both, and Egekeze bailed out Calvin's offense with a tough basket and accompanying free throw 18 seconds later. If the young man from Huntley, Illinois keeps doing stuff like this, he might get both conference MVP awards this season. Adrian never got the ball back with a chance to tie or go ahead.

Like I said, the win was ugly, but Calvin improves its conference record to 4-0 and remains tied with Trine, who seemed to have their own struggles at Kalamazoo. Overway and Egekeze led Calvin with 19 and 12, while Adrian was paced by Price, Bellany and Seifert who had 22, 18 and 11 respectively. Overway shot a pedestrian 5-14 from the floor, but was money at the stripe (8-8) and also grabbed 9 boards. Life is just so much easier for your team when you have a reliable big guy other teams must account for.

There was a little scare late in pre-game warmups with Overway. I did not see exactly what happened but Jalen was clearly in discomfort and had to go to the trainer table behind the Adrian bunch for what looked like an ankle tape job. Fortunately he felt OK enough to start and play his normal minutes. He did stand behind the bench to make sure things were staying loose instead of sitting when he was out of the game. It appears the worst has been avoided but maybe something to watch over the next couple days just to be sure.

Calvin let this one get hairy but credit them for pulling it out, particularly after what could charitably be called official scorer's confusion. A less charitable, though perhaps correct, view would be official scorer error. Marcus Bult was whistled for a foul with just under three minutes to go and despite everyone in maroon and gold and competing score books believing it was his fourth foul the official word from the table was that it was his fifth and the officials removed him from the game. The on-court official simply explained to Bill Sall that they had to go with the official scorer.

Temperatures cooled some when it seemed an explanation may have been that a foul assessed to Egekeze was actually Bult's. Oh well, one more here, one less there. That was until Egekeze picked up his next foul and it was second verse, same as the first. The scoreboard in the arena clearly showed four fouls yet he was also removed from the game. Even the posted box score still shows Bult and Egekeze each with four fouls: https://www.miaa.org/sports/mbkb/2022-23/boxscores/20230114_uvx1.xml?view=boxscore

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Hope 91 Albion 67 F

Hope had to play without  Wiegerink, Schoonveld and Nocek. 

You may commence your head scratching.

Couple streaks defined the first half, strong Albion start leading 14-9 and Hope not looking anything like the team that would go on to win this game including at this point 0-6 from behind the arc, then Hope goes on a 11-2 run over 3 minutes to lead  20-16.  Normalcy to the previous game flow continued and Albion led 27-25 with just over 4 min. to go in the first half.  I don't know what it was but something clicked for Hope from this point  and it was their best stretch of offense and defense maybe even for the whole season as they went on a 17-0 run to lead 42-28 at the half.

Second half Albion was never able to mount to much of comeback though Fred Garland made the best effort of any Albion player, close to unstoppable.   Hope just kept clicking on offense and kept expanding the lead.   I don't know what Hope shot from behind the arc in the 2nd half, I was told 7-9 and I'd believe that, thats after something like a 2-32 stretch as a team.  It wasn't just the 3-point shots, Hope looked more dynamic than at any point I recall this year.  Basketball is weird.


Hope:  Thomas 26, Quillan 20, Dykhouse 12
Albion:  Garland 27, Thomas 18

Given the matchup with Ken Thomas I thought Gabe Quillan might have played his best game in a Hope uniform, he was really good at times.  Evan was as good as he's looked since returning.  Some solid guard play from Dykhouse and Wourman with difficult defensive assignments, Dykhouse had a really great individual fast break that was chef's kiss.  Tough break of the day goes to Albion  Jr. Lamar Lee who barely got to play today.  3 early fouls, then his 4th on the first 2nd half possession and a 5th just a few ticks after subbing in later.  Albion was already short Armsted-Wilkerson. 

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The never too early +/-
+1 for road wins, -1 for home losses

Calvin  4-0    +2
Trine   4-0    +2
Hope   2-2    +1
Olivet  2-2    -1
Adrian 1-3     -1
Albion 1-3     -1
Alma   1-3      0
Kzoo   1-3     -2

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Bryce Garbacz, 6-4 SG/SF, Plymouth HS committed to Alma

[goodknight]

Quincy Winkle of Potter's House has committed to Calvin University. He's the son of NCAA Division III 2000 Player of the Year Aaron Winkle. Never can have too many Winkles.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Quincy Winkle of Potter's House has committed to Calvin University. He's the son of NCAA Division III 2000 Player of the Year Aaron Winkle. Never can have too many Winkles.

Seems like just yesterday he was a just a tWinkle in his fathers eye... 

[Dark Knight]

Quincy Winkle of Potter's House has committed to Calvin University. He's the son of NCAA Division III 2000 Player of the Year Aaron Winkle. Never can have too many Winkles.

It seems that we keep getting more of them as we age.

Don't we already have a Winkle who can light up the board -- although he "is still learning to play defense," according to Sall? Is Trevin Winkle related to any of the other Winkles?

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Quincy Winkle of Potter's House has committed to Calvin University. He's the son of NCAA Division III 2000 Player of the Year Aaron Winkle. Never can have too many Winkles.

It seems that we keep getting more of them as we age.

Don't we already have a Winkle who can light up the board -- although he "is still learning to play defense," according to Sall? Is Trevin Winkle related to any of the other Winkles?

I believe the short answer is yes, though some more directly than others. Jeff Febus kind of went through the Winkle family tree during a recent broadcast and apparently Marcus Bult's mom is part of it too.