MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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Top Heavy Knight

First round winners: Albion, Calvin, Hope, Adrian

Second Round Winners: Albion, Calvin

Champion: Calvin 72, Albion 60

Kdawg

Wednesday games:  

Albion vs. Tri-State; Albion wins  
Calvin vs. Kalamazoo; Calvin wins  
Hope vs. Alma; Hope wins  
Adrian vs. Olivet; Adrian wins  

Friday:  
Adrian  
Calvin  

Saturday:  
Adrian 56, Calvin 54 (AC wins the rematch!!)

Flying Dutch Fan

Albion
Kalamazoo (mostly in retaliation for all the Calvin folks picking Alma - plus I need an upset)Hope
Adrian

Albion
Hope

Hope by 9

MJA

Albion
Calvin
Hope  
Adrian

Adrian
Calvin

Adrian 71 Calvin 70 (OT)


tniem

So the rule is that you have to pick upsets, huh?

First Round Winners: Albion, Calvin, Hope, and Olivet

Second Round:
Albion beats Olivet
Calvin beats Hope

Championship
Albion - MIAA only gets one in the tourney  

Oh and Score: 63-58

(Message edited by tniem on February 23, 2005)

gohope

Bleeding Blue and Orange, the picks go as listed:

First Round of the MIAA Tourney:

Albion over Tri-State
Calvin over Kazoo
Hope over Alma
Adrian over Olivet

Second Round:

Albion over Adrian
Hope over Calvin

Champions:

Hope over Albion
Score:  68-61

sac

First Round

Albion by 15
Calvin by 15
Hope by 6
Adrian by 5 OT

Semi's
Calvin by 10
Albion by 10

Final

Albion 76 Calvin 75 OT

Flying Dutch Fan

Standings for the post season picks - a two way tie - GK picked a margin of 6, and Thealmascots picked 2.

PlayerRightWrongDiff in Margin
Goodknight702
Thealmascots70-2
Top Heavy Knight70-8
Sac613
Calalum611
inthepaint610
wizard61-1
northb61-2
MJA523
Kdawg522
D22521
Hyche520
tniem52-1
andrew tysse52-2
GoHope52-3
FlavaFlav52-5
dren432
Tyrone43-1
Flying Dutch Fan43-5
World B Free43-6
Civic Minded43-8

Pat Coleman

Sac,

I don't know if it will be released publicly or what they will do with irregularities if they find any. To my knowledge it's so far just a reporting system. But even that in itself is a step in the right direction.

doc

Here's a link re: Calvin's #6 finish in the D3 Sports Academy Director's Cup. . .Overall, 2004-2005 wasn't a bad year to be a Knight.
http://www.calvin.edu/sports/releases/2004_05/directorscupfinal.htm" target=_top>http://www.calvin.edu/sports/releases/2004_05/directorscupfinal.htm

Mr. Ypsi

Just got back from the Detroit Brass Band/Detroit Symphony Orchestra Independence Day performance at Greenfield Village (their final such performance this year is tomorrow) - fantastic!

Both musical groups were excellent (as always), culminating in the 1812 Overture.  The fireworks themselves were rather mediocre, until the grand finale, but fireworks with DSO accompaniment is quite a treat.

For anyone reasonable nearby, I HIGHLY recommend this annual event!

Mr. Ypsi

Congratulations to Calvin on their highest ever Director's Cup finish!

I have some questions about the cup and the fairness of its calculation.  Every source I found said the points were determined by the NCAA tourney finish: 100 points for the champ, 90 for the runner-up, etc.  (Though Ithaca seems to have only been awarded 50 points for winning in rowing - NO other sport, regardless of participation, seemed to suffer that diminution, so that may have been a mis-print.)

But SHOULDN'T the points be pro-rated by number of teams involved?  Only 42 d3 teams participate in women's rowing, compared to 425 in women's basketball - it is roughly 10 times as hard to finish first, second, or whatever in basketball.  Someone (I forget who) received full credit for their finish in women's water polo - there are only 19 such teams!  (Even if there is a single tournament across all divisions [I don't know], that's still only 61 teams, less than one-sixth those in, say, cross country, soccer, or softball.)

It would seem self-evident to me that finishing in the top 16 of, say, men's basketball (394 teams) is a vastly greater accomplishment than finishing in the top 16 of men's water polo (where there are 16 teams!) or even men's ice hockey (68 teams).

I'm very glad that dIII does not have 'major' and 'minor' sports in the same sense as dI (afterall, we have many schools who count their men's basketball attendance in the tens, rather than the thousands - by THOSE dI standards, we are ALL minor sports [Mt Union football, perhaps excepted!]).  But we DO have 'major' and 'minor' sports in the sense that some are simply not played by many schools.  To be the 'best' (or near best, thus still scoring Director's Cup points) is just not the same with 40 opponents as with 400 opponents; the scoring should reflect that.

[Note: as a practical matter, I have not attempted to compute what effect, if any, that would have had on current Director's Cup standings, especially since I am undecided on how such a pro-rata syspem should work.]

Brian Claerbaut

It looks like Calvin College received a basketball commitment from Tyler Zoerhof from Holland Christian.  Did anybody what him play in person in High School?  Does he have a chance to contribute this year for the Knights or is he a JV player?  Does anybody know of any other players that have committed to Calvin?  Here is the link to the article from the Holland Sentinel.

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/070405/localsports_20050704028.shtml" target=_top>http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/070405/localsports_20050704028.shtml

Dark Knight

Tyler Zoerhof is apparently rated 7th among wing prospects in the state by Michigan Preps: see http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=309337" target=_top>http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=309337

There are rumors of others who have committed to Calvin, but you never know til they show up, eh?

Did the rumor show up here yet that Joel Hoekstra is getting married and has decided not to play for Calvin next year? No? Oh, never mind.