MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sac]

I think Jesse was open.

[veragrace]

In case anyone was wondering about tickets.  Page 19 of the tournament manual explains it all.

http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbooks/basketball/2008/2008_d3_m_basketball_handbook.pdf

Hope will get 1/2 and the other half must be split 3 ways  (approx 550 each) for the Friday night  games.   I imagine OWU, Wheaton and esp. Whitworth will return alot of tickets.

From the Hope website:

SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT UPDATE
Flying Dutchmen Will Host;
Flying Dutch Headed to Texas

Hope's basketball teams got their marching orders for the next round of NCAA Division III championship play today. The Flying Dutchmen will host a four-team Sectional tournament at DeVos Fieldhouse on Friday and Saturday while the Flying Dutch will be headed to Brownwood, Texas for their Sectional.

Joining the Flying Dutchmen will be Ohio Wesleyan (22-7), Wheaton, Ill. (21-7) and Whitworth, Wash. (21-6). Friday's doubleheader will pit Wheaton against Whitworth at 6 p.m., followed by Hope against Ohio Wesleyan (8 p.m.). The Sectional championship game will be played Saturday at 7 p.m. Ticket information will be announced on Monday.

The Flying Dutch will be playing their 13th straight NCAA tournament game on the road when they travel to the campus of Howard Payne College. On Friday the Flying Dutch (29-0) will play George Fox, Oregon (25-4) while host Howard Payne (also 29-0) will play DeSales, Pa. (26-3). The Sectional championship game will be played Saturday. Game times and ticket sale plans have not been announced.

[sac]

Nice gallery from the Sentinel.

http://spotted.hollandsentinel.com/pages/gallery.php?gallery=367503&offset=0

[Happy Calvin Guy]

Here's a stat comparison of Hope and OWU - pretty similar teams - although Hope does have nearly double the steals

....and 7 times the number of assistant coaches. 

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Here's a stat comparison of Hope and OWU - pretty similar teams - although Hope does have nearly double the steals

....and 7 times the number of assistant coaches. 

I'm beginning to think that some Calvin fans have assistant coach envy - nah it probably doesn't have anything to do with assistant coaches  

[northb]

Here's a stat comparison of Hope and OWU - pretty similar teams - although Hope does have nearly double the steals

....and 7 times the number of assistant coaches. 

I'm beginning to think that some Calvin fans have assistant coach envy - nah it probably doesn't have anything to do with assistant coaches  

Bring us back some Walnut and Bronze before you talk about envy     

[Happy Calvin Guy]

Here's a stat comparison of Hope and OWU - pretty similar teams - although Hope does have nearly double the steals

....and 7 times the number of assistant coaches. 

I'm beginning to think that some Calvin fans have assistant coach envy - nah it probably doesn't have anything to do with assistant coaches 

Bring us back some Walnut and Bronze before you talk about envy     

I didn't mean to start another Calvin fans-Hope fans scuffle!  I just thought it was a funny joke, sorry.  Best of luck this weekend against Ohio Wesleyan, and yes, FDF, of course I wish we could still be playing too. 

[hope1]

the press had nice article today and about the hope girls and how much snow they got in ohio

[HopeConvert]

Good interview D-Mac had on Hoopsville with Mike DeWitt (!), the OWU coach. Inter alia, the use of an extended 2-3 zone seems to have been a turning point in their game against Centre. The team sounds focused and confident. OWU will be a stern test for the Dutchmen. I suspect the interview will be archived, and I recommend it to your listening.

By the way, they do have the internet in Holland MI! 

[dumezrules]

Ryan Klein's Defense

MIAA Semi-Final vs Adrian
Desmond Young-16 first half points-Enter Klein-4 points in next 10 minutes, 4 points in final 10 minutes

MIAA Championship vs Calvin
Derek Griffin-15 first half points-Enter Klein-2 points in next 10 minutes, 6 points in final 10 minutes

NCAA Second Round
Nate Stahl-16 first half point-Enter Klein-2 points in next 10 minutes, 5 points in final 10 minutes

(The assumption being that sometime around the 10 minute mark, these games were decided). 

Yeoman's work being done by Klein.

Other than having to give up his "Master of Halftime Adjustments" title, is there a reason why GVW doesn't just assign Klein to the opponent's best scorer for the whole game?

Its for those teams that ONLY view the 1st half of the game tapes!!   

Fatigue factor and it never hurts to give a good scorer different looks

[monsoon]

I just started a "Hope Sectional" thread in the Great Lakes Region.  Let's try to move most of the Hope - OWU - Wheaton - Whitworth talk to that common location.

[sac]

Here's a little piece of trivia.

With Hope's win over Capital, the Dutchmen now have a 5 game winning streak vs teams from the OAC.  This dates back to the 1995 tournament game with B******-*******.

1996  Hope 80 John Carroll 61--NCAA Tournament
1998  Hope 84 John Carroll 64--NCAA Tournament
2002  Hope 69 Mt. Union 42
2006  Hope 89 John Carroll 77
2008  Hope 92 Capital 72--NCAA Tournament

[Gregory Sager]

The Yellow Jackets defeated Hope 72-69 on its home floor on a shot at the final buzzer by then sophomore guard Ryan Sooy.  Hope entered the game with the best home record in Division III and in Division III tourney history.

I strongly doubt the accuracy of that last statement. North Park had gone 11-0 on its home floor in D3 tourney games by the time Hope faced Bald Wally in that 1995 contest.

[Gregory Sager]

Finally, I love how the crickets seemed to have followed you Greg... sorry your level of humor is just too sophisticated for the rest of us. Who is that guy?

That's Donald Sutherland (probably better known today as Kiefer "Jack Bauer" Sutherland's father), in the climactic scene from 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The joke arises from the fact that the guy who was complaining about the first-weekend games being called "pods" wanted to know who was responsible for coming up with that term. The pic of Sutherland pointing is because the human-looking aliens in the movie identified the true humans by pointing at them and shrieking ... and the aliens were hatched from pods.

[AndersDY]

The Yellow Jackets defeated Hope 72-69 on its home floor on a shot at the final buzzer by then sophomore guard Ryan Sooy.  Hope entered the game with the best home record in Division III and in Division III tourney history.

I strongly doubt the accuracy of that last statement. North Park had gone 11-0 on its home floor in D3 tourney games by the time Hope faced Bald Wally in that 1995 contest.

That quote seems to be inaccurate in several ways. Ryan Sooy may have been the guy to make a late clinching shot, but that statement gives the impression the game was 69-69 and he hit a 3 as the buzzer sounded. The game was close, but did not end on a buzzer-beater. I don't recall how it went exactly, but I do know Hope had their backs to the wall and I remember that a critical timeout was called where none existed which just about sealed the game for BW with the technical.

The "home floor" item is a bit misleading as Hope did host, but had never played an official game in the Dow Center before. That is how I'm pretty certain they did not have the best home record in "D3 tourney history" at that point as they had not previously hosted a tournament game on the men's side. This is of course the reason the whole 90' issue came up that year. The only thing that last sentence may be correctly implying is that in 1995 Hope had the best home record in the country (likely, since they were undefeated) and that no team had come into the D3 tourney in a given year with a better home record (so if they were 16-0 or 17-0 at home for the year, no tournament team had previously had as large a perfect home record). If that is what that quote was saying, it was not specified well at all though.