MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[pointlem]

Matthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

With 14 eligible returning players and this impressive new 11-man recruiting class, Calvin should have a great jv team, GoodKnight (or some disappointed returnees and recruits)? Coaches, I presume, would rather have too much talent than too little. I'm guessing you have your varsity contributors in the post-Jalen era already penciled in.

[KnightSlappy]

Matthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

With 14 eligible returning players and this impressive new 11-man recruiting class, Calvin should have a great jv team, GoodKnight (or some disappointed returnees and recruits)? Coaches, I presume, would rather have too much talent than too little. I'm guessing you have your varsity contributors in the post-Jalen era already penciled in.

Everyone will have the opportunity to compete for playing time in the fall, and I believe Coach Sall and the Calvin staff do a good job honestly communicating with recruits and seem to set realistic expectations with where they see them fitting in.

Case in point: during this year's MBB banquet, Luka Ressler recounted his recruitment and how Sall told him he saw him beginning as a JV player. Luka got to work proving what he could do and started 17 varsity games as a freshman.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Matthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

Interesting sirname - isn't that what all your relatives call you GK, or maybe that's OK   

[TUAngola]

Another Trine commit:

Drake Ahrens  6'3 G  Versailles HS Ohio

2026 Division V All-Ohio Boys Basketball first team member.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Recruit/transfer list UPDATE:
Total - 48
6-5 or > - 19
< 6-0 - 6

By Home State            By Position
MI - 37 - 0.771            PG - 4 - 0.083
OH - 5 - 0.104            G - 20 - 0.417
IN - 4 - 0.083            G/F - 3 - 0.063
GA - 1 - 0.021            F - 18 - 0.375
IL - 1 - 0.021            F/C - 2 - 0.042
.....................            C - 1 - 0.021

Player	Height	Position	High School	College
				Adrian
Miaen Shipp	5-7	G	Warren Fitzgerald (MI)	Albion
Jacob Figaro	6-2	F	Cass Tech (MI)	Albion
Henry Peck	6-3	G	East Lansing (MI)	Albion
Deandre Dann	6-4	F	Loyola - Detroit (MI)	Albion
Brayden Holok	6-4	G/F	Stevensville-Lakeshore (MI)	Albion
Darius Aldrich	6-5	F/C	Durand (MI)	Albion
Adam Dugener	6-0	PG	North Muskegon (MI)	Alma
Georyeon Cannon	6-3	G	Grand Blanc (MI)	Alma
Connor Fierstine	6-3	F	Marquette (MI)	Alma
Mason Gugle	6-4	G/F	Leroy Pine River (MI)	Alma
Parker Sundman	6-4	G	Hartland (MI)	Alma
Dalton Dudas	6-7	F	South Lyon East (MI)	Alma
Titus Spencer	5-11	PG	Holland Christian (MI)	Calvin
Jonny Ingalls	6-0	PG	St Ignace (MI) / Northern Michigan transfer	Calvin
Will Plummer	6-1	G	Grand Haven (MI)	Calvin
Kyler Berghuis	6-2	G	Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI)	Calvin
Jack Kamminga	6-4	G/F	Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI)	Calvin
Cole Charter	6-5	G	Clarkston (MI)	Calvin
Milo Barangan	6-5	F	Mona Shores (MI)	Calvin
Matthew Elderkin	6-6	F	Calvin Christian (MI) / GVSU transfer	Calvin
Owen Vander Waal	6-7	F	Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI)	Calvin
Marc Gamble	6-8	F	Timothy Christian Elmhurst (IL)	Calvin
Luke Tubergen	6-9	C	Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI)	Calvin
Brody Willick	5-11	G	Kenowa Hills (MI)	Hope
Ayden Ayers	6-2	G	Spring Lake (MI)	Hope
Kaden Grau	6-4	G	Westview Topeka (IN)	Hope
Ben Uhde	6-4	G	Johns Creek (GA)	Hope
Johnny Lake	6-6	F	Battle Creek Pennfield (MI)	Hope
Ben Mehendale	6-8	F/C	Brecksville Broadview Heights (OH)	Hope
Dylan Gross	5-9	PG	Rockford (MI)	Kalamazoo
Truman Brennan	5-10	G	Paw Paw (MI)	Kalamazoo
Marvin Moore	6-0	G	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer (MI)	Kalamazoo
Jordan Harrison	6-1	G	Ann Arbor Pioneer (MI)	Kalamazoo
Andrew Caldwell	6-4	G	Flint Powers (MI)	Kalamazoo
Brennan Elling	6-5	F	Oxford (MI)	Kalamazoo
Brayden Lee	6-6	F	Dakota (MI)	Kalamazoo
				Olivet
Charles Cunningham	5-10	G	Springfield (OH)	Trine
Jackson Kohler	6-0	G	Yale (MI)	Trine
Drake Ahrens	6-3	G	Versailles (OH)	Trine
Cassius Bont	6-3	G	Byron Center (MI)	Trine
Jack Leppelmeier	6-3	G	Pettisville (OH)	Trine
Jake Holcomb	6-5	F	Holland Christian (MI)	Trine
Brogan McNiece	6-5	F	Ft Wayne Homestead (IN)	Trine
Connor Stevens	6-5	F	Concord (MI)	Trine
Jaron Witcher	6-6	F	Sylvania Southview (OH)	Trine
Caleb Claerbaut	6-7	F	Zeeland East (MI)	Trine
Alex Lake	6-7	F	Indianapolis Bishop Chatard (IN)	Trine
Drew Matelic	6-7	F	Speedway (IN)	Trine

[Flying Dutch Fan]

1st Olivet commit (that is publicly known):

Blake Schuch 6-6 F Davison (MI)

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Another Olivet commit:

Jameson Huizenga 6-2 G Holland Black River

Per the Holland Sentinal, he is the first Black River boys basketball player to receive all-state honors (2nd team in D3) and will be the first River Rat to play college basketball

[sac]

Friday bored

In this quarters "News from Hope College" magazine, Spring 2026 or Volumne 57 No 3.  Way in the back on page 45 at the top is a picture of a bunch of young students running in front of the Capital in Washington.  The caption mentions Hope graduate Lee Bechtel '77, the photo is celebrating Hope's 50th year of the Washington Honors Semester  (something I was very very far from).

I mention this only because I got a call this afternoon from my uncle who some present and past posters have met. He worked in admissions at Hope for not much more than a year or two in the very early 70's.  It might have even been Ray Smith's first year as the head football coach.  He was with the group I'd call the 'old guard' of Hope College many of their names grace various facilities.  Bultman, Smith, Van Wieren, Bob DeYoung etc.  He left Hope and took a job in admissions at Michigan State which is where he stayed for the rest of career and where he met Bob DeYoung, who later returned to Hope. He remained in close contact with those folks for decades.  He mentioned more than once over the years had Hope had today's facilities then he would have stayed and that lack of campus facilities was the primary reason he left.  It worked out ok, he did some cool things at MSU.

So the phone call.....

He calls me today and points out this picture, but not for Lee Bechtel.  No, he points out the senator smile looking man right in front.  That man is former Indianapolis Mayor and Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana.   

Why was this important to my uncle.  Well my uncle was a classmate of Mr Lugar at Denison University in the 50's, and as he goes on in his story, Lugar was one of two students (both Freshman btw) selected by the University to debate a couple traveling students from Oxford University in England.  What about, he can't remember but he's sure the two Denison students won the debate.  Mr. Lugar went on to study at Oxford Universtiy and later entered politics serving almost 40 yeas in the US Senate.

This whole interaction is an improvement for my Uncle as it wasn't to long ago I would have received a letter in the mail containing a cutout of the photo and a hand written note describing everything above. 

He lives 8 miles away.


Cool Story bro!


As a bonus I forgot I did receive a newspaper cutout article not even 3 weeks ago from my uncle about the new MSU football coach.  It was an article printed in the Chicago paper about the scandal at NW and his redemption.

 and bonus........ it was sent to my uncle by his former colleague in Evanston.

Bonus, Bonus.  They actually sent the exact same article to each other at the same time.