MIAA chat

Dark Knight · September 21, 2010, 11:49:35 AM

Trine has really stepped up their game this year. Last year's team didn't have any wins and gave up 87 goals to 9 scored. This year's model is just under .500 at 3-4-1. Way to go Trine!

Olivet is looking good at 6-1-1. Last year they were 4-5-1 in non-conference games.

Adrian was 9-4-1 in non-conference play last year. This year they are also looking strong at 5-1-2.

Alma also has a better non-conference record than last year so far.

It should be a competetive conference season.

sflzman · September 21, 2010, 06:20:47 PM

I still don't think there will be any question that it will be Adrian, Alma or Calvin (Im leaning to one of the two latter) as the #1 seed. It will just come down to who can A) beat the other and B) avoid the upset (alma's loss to Albion last year)

Dark Knight · September 28, 2010, 09:10:46 PM

With three more saves last week, Calvin's freshman goalie Ashton Hearn moved up to #6 nationally in save percentage, at .971, as 5 goalies around the nation gave up their first goals. Four remaining goalies have given up no goals, and one has 40 saves, to Hearn's 33.

Good job Ashton!

sflzman · October 02, 2010, 08:49:15 PM

Well with Calvin's loss today, and Alma's win, Tuesday's game will decide where the "road to the miaa championship" goes through. If Calvin win's, teams will be tied, Calvin having the tiebreaker. If Alma wins, Alma has a 2 game lead, and the tiebreaker....

sflzman · October 06, 2010, 04:19:38 PM

With the Calvin/Alma tie, the league tourney should go through Alma....

Knight2Day · October 13, 2010, 10:44:37 AM

Quite a bit of time and some big games left in the season, I don't think anyone can guess where the league tourny will go through

sflzman · October 16, 2010, 02:56:00 PM

Quote from: Knight2Day on October 13, 2010, 10:44:37 AM
Quite a bit of time and some big games left in the season, I don't think anyone can guess where the league tourny will go through

Actually, I think it's pretty safe to say Alma will host (#1 seed is what I'm saying), the Scots are a game up on Calvin, and have Albion, Kzoo, and Hope left on the schedule....not very scary.

sflzman · October 23, 2010, 05:14:11 PM

MIAA title will come down to Wednesday....Alma controls their own destiny...

If Alma wins or ties on Wednesday at Albion, or Calvin loses, Alma will be #1 seed in the MIAA tourney.

If Alma loses, and Calvin wins, it will go to the 4th/5 tiebreakers....

Dark Knight · October 27, 2010, 07:31:38 PM

The young knights seem to be finding their stride offensively. They scored only 17 goals in their first 12 games, but they have have scored 20 in their last 5 games.

Knight2Day · October 27, 2010, 10:58:02 PM

Have to think that if Calvin even makes it to the MIAA championship game they will receive a big to the NCAA tourny especially with big wins against in region opponents earlier in the year, something I don't think Alma did early in the year.

Dark Knight · October 28, 2010, 07:01:30 AM

Calvin is ranked fifth in the new regional rankings (http://www.ncaa.com/graphics/d3wsoccer102710.pdf), so they have a shot at a bid if they don't win the MIAA tournament. It would depend on how many of the teams ahead of them (Wheaton, Illinois Wesleyan, Augustana, Wash U) get upset in their conference tournaments.

Interestingly, the 6th team is Chicago. Calvin played 4 of the 5 regionally ranked teams (besides themselves) and ended up with a 2-1-1 record.

Dark Knight · October 28, 2010, 07:05:18 AM

And, of course, congratulations to Alma for winning the conference (and breaking Calvin's 5-year streak

).

sflzman · October 28, 2010, 06:04:07 PM

Quote from: Dark Knight on October 28, 2010, 07:01:30 AM
Calvin is ranked fifth in the new regional rankings (http://www.ncaa.com/graphics/d3wsoccer102710.pdf), so they have a shot at a bid if they don't win the MIAA tournament. It would depend on how many of the teams ahead of them (Wheaton, Illinois Wesleyan, Augustana, Wash U) get upset in their conference tournaments.

Interestingly, the 6th team is Chicago. Calvin played 4 of the 5 regionally ranked teams (besides themselves) and ended up with a 2-1-1 record.

Wheaton, IWU, and Augy will get 2 at-large bids (other getting an AQ)...

WashU is in the UAA, which doesn't have enough teams to get an AQ, so they will get one of the 2-3 non-AQ bids reserved for independant schools.

The general assumption right now is that the MIAA will only get 1 school in.....

Knight2Day · October 28, 2010, 11:11:05 PM

Quote from: sflzman on October 28, 2010, 06:04:07 PM
Quote from: Dark Knight on October 28, 2010, 07:01:30 AM
Calvin is ranked fifth in the new regional rankings (http://www.ncaa.com/graphics/d3wsoccer102710.pdf), so they have a shot at a bid if they don't win the MIAA tournament. It would depend on how many of the teams ahead of them (Wheaton, Illinois Wesleyan, Augustana, Wash U) get upset in their conference tournaments.

Interestingly, the 6th team is Chicago. Calvin played 4 of the 5 regionally ranked teams (besides themselves) and ended up with a 2-1-1 record.

Wheaton, IWU, and Augy will get 2 at-large bids (other getting an AQ)...

WashU is in the UAA, which doesn't have enough teams to get an AQ, so they will get one of the 2-3 non-AQ bids reserved for independant schools.

The general assumption right now is that the MIAA will only get 1 school in.....

Does the CCIW not have a conference tourny? If they do, Millikin is in the top 4 of that conference and could easily knock off one of the other 3 which would help Calvin's cause if they make it to the MIAA tourny final, even if they don't win it. Granted the general assumption is that only one MIAA team will get in, but due to the fact that Calvin has a stronger in region record than last season, and picked up a big win at Olivet (due to the fact that they are an over .500 team, in region, and as an away game,) I think that for anyone to assume anything at this point would be pretty nonsensical. Do I need to bring up last years Calvin women's soccer team as a refresher to those who assume a team may or may not be in the tourny....you know what they say happens when you assume things....

Mr. Ypsi · October 28, 2010, 11:25:59 PM

Yes, Millikin is the fourth team in the CCIW tourney, but to say they could 'easily' beat one of the big three is a stretch. They are the 'best of the rest', but there appears to be a huge drop from Augie to them.

I was really hopeful that IWU had finally taken over the top spot in the conference (and have not totally abandoned hope that they still will), but Wheaton seems to have reasserted their accustomed dominance, handily defeating (in fact, dominating) both IWU and Augie in a week's time. I wouldn't bet seriously against them winning another national title (though Messiah seems to be on another level lately).