MIAA Women's Basketball Week #16 Wrap-Up

MIAA Women's Basketball Week #16 Wrap-Up

MIAA Women's Basketball NCAA Championship Announcement


February 25 - MIAA Player of the Week


Last Week's Results

 
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Date Home Score Away Score Notes Status Links
Feb. 19 Alma 68 Calvin 63 Final
  Albion 42 Saint Mary's (Ind.) % 58 MIAA Tournament First Round Final
Feb. 22 Hope 75 Saint Mary's (Ind.) 36 Final
  Trine 79 Alma % 43 Final
Feb. 23 Trine 70 Hope % 65 Final - 2OT
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Next Week's Games

 
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Date Home Score Away Score Notes Status Links
Mar. 01 Trine 57 Emory 54 NCAA D-III Tournament 1st Round Game Final
  Hope 67 Wheaton (Ill.) 55 Final
Mar. 02 Thomas More 67 Trine % 59 NCAA Second Round Final
  Wartburg 79 Hope 49 NCAA Division III Tournament, Second Round Final
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Around the MIAA

Adrian (9-16, 5-11)

Season complete.


Albion (18-8, 10-6)

Albion College shot 32 percent – its third-worst in a game this season – as it was bounced from the MIAA Women's Basketball Tournament with a 58-42 loss to Saint Mary's College at Kresge Gymnasium Feb. 19. Senior Jami Hubbard scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds. 

Alma (15-12, 9-7)

The Scots started their week Tuesday (Feb. 19) with a win over Calvin College at home in the Conference First Round by a score of 68-63. Freshman guard Oretha Humphries (Detroit, Mich.) scored a career-high 24 points on nine-of-15 shooting while junior guard Hannah Thelen (Pewamo, Mich.) put up 15 points, all in the second half. Alma's season came to an end in the semis when they lost to top seed No. 7 Trine by a score of 79-43. Humphries led the way again with 11 points. The Scots end up with their most winningest season since 2003-04.


Calvin (12-14, 7-9)

The Calvin women's basketball team fell to Alma College 68-63 in the first round of the MIAA Tournament on Tuesday night at Art Smith Arena. Freshman Gabby Timmer led the Knights with 28 points and 14 rebounds for the firs-year player's 12th double-double of the season. 


No. 9/10 Hope (23-4, 14-2)

Hope fell short of an MIAA tournament championship in an epic battle with Trine Feb. 23 at the MTI Center in Angola, Ind. Four players scored in double figures for Hope, led by sophomore guard Sydney Muller with 14 points. Kenedy Schoonveld added 13 points and seven rebounds, and Olivia Voskuil added 12 points, five rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots.

Kalamazoo (0-25, 0-16)

Season complete.


Olivet (8-17, 4-12)

Season complete.


Saint Mary's (11-16, 7-9)

The sixth-seeded Belles defeated Albion 58-42 on Tuesday night to make their first MIAA Tournament Semifinal appearance since 2012. Saint Mary's hit a season-high 12 three-pointers against the Brits. Jade Mosier had a game-high 23 points on 60.0 percent shooting from the floor, and Giavanna Paradiso collected her third double-double of the season with 13 points and a game-best 10 rebounds. The season came to an end for Saint Mary's in the semifinal round with a 75-36 loss to No. 8 Hope. Carin Kaminski led the Belles with eight points, and Paradiso added six points and six rebounds.


No. 7/5 Trine (25-2, 16-0)

The 2019 MIAA Women's Basketball Tournament Championship game between top-10 ranked Trine and Hope lived up to the billing, as the host Trine prevailed in the first-ever double-overtime game in MIAA women's basketball tournament history to defeat Hope Saturday evening, 70-65. Trine scored the final six points in the second overtime, with Montana Martin converting on a natural three-point play with less than 17 seconds to go to give the Thunder a four-point lead; Martin then added a free throw in the waning seconds for the final margin.


 

2018-19 MIAA Women's Basketball Standings


  Conference Overall
GP Record Win % GF GA GP Record Win % GF GA Last 10 Streak
Trine 16 16-0 1.000 1232 773   29 26-3 0.897 2131 1474 9-1 Lost 1
Hope 16 14-2 0.875 1232 784   29 24-5 0.828 2183 1469 8-2 Lost 1
Albion 16 10-6 0.625 1123 977   26 18-8 0.692 1878 1551 5-5 Lost 1
Alma 16 9-7 0.563 969 1004   27 15-12 0.556 1621 1716 7-3 Lost 1
Calvin 16 7-9 0.438 998 1018   26 12-14 0.462 1626 1653 4-6 Lost 1
Saint Mary's (Ind.) 16 7-9 0.438 932 1039   27 11-16 0.407 1508 1702 4-6 Lost 1
Adrian 16 5-11 0.313 914 1040   25 9-16 0.360 1507 1618 4-6 Lost 5
Olivet 16 4-12 0.250 811 1084   25 8-17 0.320 1396 1689 3-7 Lost 2
Kalamazoo 16 0-16 0.000 751 1243   25 0-25 0.000 1165 1896 0-10 Lost 25