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#2
Quote from: sac on March 16, 2023, 10:16:02 PM
Quote from: calvin_grad on March 16, 2023, 03:20:58 PM
Will the South/Unity state QF to be played at Calvin have more fans than the Calvin/Hope game?  Discuss.

Been a bit but I thought Unity and GR Christian sold out the Noord a couple years ago.  Surely Unity and South do the same.

The game was a sell out (4500 tickets sold).
#3
Congratulations to Hope.  Calvin was a combined 33-105 (31%) the last 2 games against Hope's defense. It's hard to win with shooting like that. Calvin played pretty well defensively last night also.  Calvin held everyone in check except for Wourman. He had a really nice game and was a huge reason Hope was able to win last night.
#4
Quote from: almcguirejr on February 24, 2023, 12:06:46 AM
Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 23, 2023, 11:00:01 PM
Quote from: calvin_grad on February 23, 2023, 10:10:35 PM
Quote from: sac on February 23, 2023, 09:12:28 PM
I might recommend buying and downloading your tickets before you leave home.  There is very little available internet service once you're inside VanNoord (not sure about the lobby area) and I found pretty low service sitting out in the parking lot before last Wednesday's game.  Maybe others have had better luck.
Nope.  For whatever reason, that arena is a black hole when it comes to getting an internet signal.

Wednesday was particularly bad, both for the Wi-Fi in the arena and the mobile signal outside. I'm not sure what it was. Usually mobile coverage is just fine in the area outdoors. I usually also have decent success with the in-arena Wi-Fi, though you have to go through the authentication steps.

The Calvin ticket line is also usually not great so I'd 2nd what sac says and get them ahead of time. Pretty sure they can scan directly from your phone.

The concession stand line is also usually not great!
Oh, and one more thing that is usually not great: the section of the scoreboard that lists the player's number, points, and fouls, is never current. It's maddening!
#5
Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 23, 2023, 11:00:01 PM
Quote from: calvin_grad on February 23, 2023, 10:10:35 PM
Quote from: sac on February 23, 2023, 09:12:28 PM
I might recommend buying and downloading your tickets before you leave home.  There is very little available internet service once you're inside VanNoord (not sure about the lobby area) and I found pretty low service sitting out in the parking lot before last Wednesday's game.  Maybe others have had better luck.
Nope.  For whatever reason, that arena is a black hole when it comes to getting an internet signal.

Wednesday was particularly bad, both for the Wi-Fi in the arena and the mobile signal outside. I'm not sure what it was. Usually mobile coverage is just fine in the area outdoors. I usually also have decent success with the in-arena Wi-Fi, though you have to go through the authentication steps.

The Calvin ticket line is also usually not great so I'd 2nd what sac says and get them ahead of time. Pretty sure they can scan directly from your phone.

The concession stand line is also usually not great!
#6
Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 22, 2023, 12:42:41 PM
Quote from: Grutte Dirk on February 21, 2023, 10:47:27 PM
Quote from: goodknight on February 20, 2023, 09:28:30 PMSam Lewis, Milford HS, committed to Calvin University
Quote from: ziggy on February 21, 2023, 09:00:50 AMSeems like a good get... I saw [Lewis] had offers from DIII...
What does offer mean these days, in this context?

"Offer" now has two meanings from a D3 perspective. The way that ziggy used it is the traditional meaning: Coach scouts prospect, coach contacts prospect, coach establishes relationship with prospect, and coach tells the prospect, in one way or another, "I'd like to have you on my team next year," with that last stage being the offer itself.

The newer meaning essentially refers to a legally meaningless piece of paper. It's about providing a ritual alongside the age-old practice described above in order to: a) conform to the social-media age; and b) establish a parallel narrative to the scholarship levels in an effort to, if I may be brutally candid here, compete better against them by playing to the egos of 17-year-olds.

So the word "offer" can still mean, "I'd like to have you on my team next year." Or it can be a reference to the document created in a subsequent "accepting an offer" ritual, the signing of a non-binding piece of paper in your high school lobby while your beaming parents look on, with you and your entire family all wearing the apparel of your future school. It's obviously meant to ape the sigining of a letter of intent to accept a basketball scholarship at a D1, D2, or NAIA school. It's a way of telling the kid, "You deserve the same sort of social-media fuss and fanfare that a scholie kid gets, even though we're not allowed to give you any money to play ball for us." But the actual nuts and bolts of how a high-school prospect becomes a D3 recruit remains exactly the same ... and, just as before, the kid is under no obligation whatsoever to even attend the school (he or she can always change their mind) or to participate in that sport once the kid arrives on campus (he or she can always change their mind about that as well), even after signing that piece of paper.

A friend of mine has a son playing D3 basketball.  He said these signing ceremonies are kids signing their loan agreements.
#7
It seems to me that the MIAA should be considering moving the Men's quarterfinals from Wednesday to Tuesday.  The weather forecast looks poor for Wednesday.  If games can't be played Wednesday a team could be looking at playing 3 games in 3 days.
#9
The Albion play by play guy said that Albion would be at Hope on Wednesday. Is that correct?
#10
Quote from: Happy Calvin Guy on February 16, 2023, 11:25:15 AM
Quote from: ziggy on February 16, 2023, 10:55:26 AM
Last night's attendance of 3,986 is larger than any home game for Western Michigan this season.

It was also the largest attendance for any game @Calvin in over five years, not to mention any home game @Hope ever.

In 2019, a high school quarterfinal game between Unity Christian and South Christian had a crowd of over 4500.
#12
https://twitter.com/itsantwright/status/1611796536123617280?s=42&t=3oX4_fCYAhS60H4Gjn4koA
Disappointing news from Albion.  This was a day to honor Mike Turner.  It's sad that this situation has happened.
#13
Is Luka Ressler injured?
#14

Jalen Overway of Calvin University was named MIAA Men's Basketball Athlete of the Week for his performance between November 7-13.
#15
Quote from: pointlem on November 04, 2022, 12:09:33 AM
Quote from: sac on November 03, 2022, 09:45:59 PM
SVSU 82 Hope 78 F OT

Thomas 27, Quillan 17, Wourman 12, Cheaney 8, Wiegerink 7, Dykhouse 7

For the curious Hope started  Dykhouse, Thomas, Schoonveld, Wiegerink, Quillan.   Wourman saw 31 minutes off the bench.  Fr. Justice Mims and Jr. Devin Cheaney saw around 10 each.   TJ McKenzie did not play due to football, I assume he'd be in the mix for starting or first 2 off the bench. 


Box:  https://www.svsucardinals.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/boxscores/20221103_8j19.xml?view=boxscore
Take exhibition games with the usual grain of salt but this seems like a really good result
A good result, indeed. If you'd told me that SVSU was going to scorch the nets for 15 of 26 long-range bombs, while Hope was a meager 23% (and 56% of free throws) I would have thought they'd lose by 25. But then I wouldn't have predicted their outrebounding the bigger Redbirds by 51 to 29 and outscoring them 50 to 14 in the paint. Quillan and Cheaney combining for 25 points was also a pleasant surprise. Also good to see Eli Schoonveld able to contribute 23 minutes.

With TJ McKenzie and new players in the wings, this could be an exciting year--with the Hope men perhaps a tad under-ranked in the preseason poll and the Hope women (after graduating their best players) a tad over-ranked? Next weekend will tell us more.

I agree that Hope is under-ranked.  I think they're a top 10 team.  Evan Thomas  is one of the top players in the country.  Clayton Dykhouse, may be the second best player in the MIAA.  Wourman and Quillan both looked good last night.  Wiegerink, Schoonveld, and McMcKenzie make Hope a legitimate national championship team.  Hope seems to have all the ingredients to be in Fort Wayne at the end of the year.