Early,

The defenders in the Grinnell system are taught to avoid fouling
on the press in order to keep the game going back and fourth.  
Grinnell plays defense, but only for short periods of time. They want the
ball back and they do it by getting a TO or getting scored on.  Many of
Grinnell's fouls come after a long shift in order to get a new line of five on
the floor and others come on the occasional steal or block attempt.

On offense GC attacks at full speed posession after posession
looking to score quickly against five defenders who actually are
determined to stop them.  You can't deny that both the pace of the game
and the number of defensive posessions often lead to fatigure, slow feet,
and in the end, fouls.

While it isn't common, we can't sit here and assume that if another MWC
team had more fouls than GC than the officiating was bad.  It has to do with
many factors, including GC 3pt%.

That said, Grinnell got the majority of the close calls this weekend.  But overall
the officials were solid.


Beloit played alright but missed too many easy shots to stay in the game.
Ripon was solid. They looked exhausted but kept playing. Props.

Cheeb Da Cheetah