CENTREVILLE, Michigan — Saturday JUCO basketball fans across the state found out that Henry Ford Community College, last year’s unlikely regional champion and a one-time no. 1-ranked team in the nation this season, will not participate in the regional playoffs. Apparently the team played the bulk of its schedule with an ineligible player and so [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Saturday: A sad day for JUCO basketball in Michigan
Posted: February 28, 2010 by Jared Field in College46
Mott downs Glen Oaks 77-73 to claim MCCAA state title
Posted: February 27, 2010 by Jared Field in CollegeCENTREVILLE, Michigan — The Mott Community College men’s basketball team took down a hard charging Glen Oaks team 77-73 to win the MCCAA state championship on Saturday at Glen Oaks. The Bears led by nine at the half and by as many as 14 in the second half before a late Vikings run in the [...]
Flyboys: Mott’s forwards prepare for state title game
Posted: February 26, 2010 by Jared Field in High SchoolToday’s Flint Journal profiled Mott’s “big three” forwards, freshmen Doug Anderson and Mike Brigham and sophomore Torian Oglesby. The Bears (25-3) are preparing for their matchup with Glen Oaks Community College on Saturday at 3 p.m. The two teams will compete for the MCCAA state championship in Centreville, Michigan. Mott is the no. 1 seed in [...]
Editor’s note: Thanks to Dylan at UMhoops.com for digging this up. Pete Rossman, at The Only Colors, has an interesting piece on MSU’s lackluster play of late: He wonders, turnovers or shooting – what’s eating Michigan State? From TOC: In a stunner, when Michigan State shoots very well, they almost always win. You can see why [...]
Keeping ‘Kool’: Results over reputation
Posted: February 25, 2010 by Jared Field in College, High SchoolI recently wrote an article discussing the topic of whether it would be possible to just recruit Michigan and win a national title. That question wasn’t thoroughly answered, but what materialized was a debate over my starting line-up on the perimeter. My starting perimeter guys were Xavier’s Jordan Crawford, Western Michigan’s David Kool, and Notre [...]
Startling stat: (57) Demarco Sanders’ field goal percentage
Posted: February 24, 2010 by Jared Field in High SchoolTags: DeMarco Sanders
It’s not every day you come across a statistic that makes run the numbers through your trusty calculator three times. This one, however, did. Flint Powers’ 6-2 senior shooting guard Demarco Sanders is averaging 19 points per game this season with nearly five rebounds. That’s good, but this is great: Sanders is shooting 57% from the field [...]
FLINT, Michigan — The Mott Community College Bears are where they were expected to be, just a little early. Like a year early. Mott (24-3), with a roster chock-full of freshman, won its 11th straight game on Tuesday night over a hard-charging Oakland team that had beaten nationally-ranked St. Clair and Henry Ford in the [...]
In case you missed it: No. 4-ranked Lansing Eastern pounded by Grand Ledge
Posted: February 23, 2010 by Jared Field in High SchoolEastern junior LaDontae Henton scored 37 points, but it didn’t matter. The Quakers sans their star freshman point guard Charles “Cha Cha” Tucker were blitzed by Jon Horford and Grand Ledge last night, 85-63. It was Eastern’s first conference loss. I’m frankly shocked by this. I watched these two teams play each other at Eastern [...]
NCAA Tournament 2010: How far will the Spartans go?
Posted: February 22, 2010 by Jared Field in CollegeMott showdown versus OCC postponed to tomorrow night, 7:30 p.m. in Flint
Posted: February 22, 2010 by Jared Field in CollegeNo. 2-ranked Mott Community College will play rival Oakand Community College at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Steve Schmidt Gymnasium in Flint. The game had been scheduled for tonight, but a winter storm is blanketing southern lower Michigan with up to eight inches of snow. Oakland is coming off two big wins agains St. [...]
