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2009-10
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MIAA Basketball Coaches Predict Races (11/3/09)
Defending MIAA champion Calvin and tournament champion Hope have been installed as preseason co-favorites in the 2009-10 MIAA men's basketball race, while defending champion Hope is the preseason selection to repeat as women's basketball champions. Calvin and Hope each received four votes in the annual preseason men's poll released today, while the Flying Dutch picked up six first place votes in the women's poll.
Men's Poll Results (first-place votes in parenthesis): 1. Calvin 10 (4), 1. Hope 10 (4), 3. Olivet 23, 4. Albion 24, 5. Adrian 32, 6. Trine 34, 7. Alma 45, 8. Kalamazoo 46.
Women's Poll Results (first-place votes in parenthesis): 1. Hope (6) 8, 2. Calvin (2) 13, 3. Saint Mary's 22, 4. Albion 29, 5. Trine 30, 6. Adrian 38, 7. Olivet 46, 8. Alma 49, 9. Kalamazoo 53.

2009-10 Pre-Season Outlook

The Flying Dutchmen will be seeking to maintain its tradition of excellence with a team that includes eight returning letterwinners from an 08-09 squad that finished second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), competed in the NCAA Division III tournament and poisted a 21-8 season record.

Coach Glenn Van Wieren, who begins his 33rd year at the helm of the Flying Dutchmen, has a team that includes three freshman prospects, four sophomores, five juniors and two seniors. Van Wieren enters the season the sixth winningest active Division III coach with 639 victories and a 75% winning percentage.

Tri-captains of the team will be junior forward Will Bowser of Midland (HH Dow HS), junior guard Peter Bunn of Lansing (Lansing Christian HS), and senior forward Chris Nelis of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS). Bunn was named to the All-MIAA second team in 08-09.

Other returning letterwinners include senior guard Scott Jungling of Zeeland (Zeeland West HS), sophomoreforward Nathaniel King of Sterling Heights (Henry Ford II HS), sophomore guard David Krombeen of Grandville (Grandville HS), junior guard Ty Tanis of Jenison (Jenison HS), and junior center Andy Venema of Hudsonville (Tri-Unity Christian HS).

Three players were members of the junior varsity squad a year ago -- junior center Adam Dickerson of Muskegon (Mona Shores HS), sophomore guard Logan Neil of Holland (West Ottawa HS), and sophomore guard Ryan Ross of St. Joseph (Michigan Lutheran HS).

Freshman prospects include center Josh Holwerda of Gallup, N.M., guard Jared Mysliweic of Wyoming (Tri-Unity Christian HS), and forward Nate Snuggerud of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS).

The Flying Dutchmen will play eight of their first 11 games at Hope's DeVos Fieldhouse, including three tournaments -- the MIAA/CCIW Classic (Dec. 4-5), the Holland Sentinel Community Tournament (Dec. 11-12), and the Russ DeVette Holiday Classic (Dec. 29-30).

Two pre-season Division III polls included the Flying Dutchmen. DIII News placed Hope 11th while D3hoops.com put them in 23rd.

The 08-09 team led the nation's Division III teams in home attendance and in four seasons at the DeVos Fieldhouse are 62-4.

Off-Season Headlines 2008-09 MIAA Academic Honor Roll Recipients

ESPN Says Hope-Calvin Rivalry Among the Best
HOPE-CALVIN RIVALRY WEBSITE
ESPN has identified the nation's greatest college basketball rivalries and to no one's surprise, the Hope-Calvin rivalry is tops in NCAA Division III and ranked fourth in all collegiate hoops. The ranking was based on a poll of fans and ESPN's "panel of experts".

ESPN's GREATEST COLLEGE RIVALRIES
#1 - Duke vs. North Carolina
#2 - Connecticut vs. Tennessee (women)
#3 - Louisville vs. Kentucky
#4 - HOPE vs. CALVIN
#5 - Xavier vs. Cincinnati
#6 - Indiana vs. Purdue
#7 - Philadelphia's "Big 5"
#8 - Illinois vs. Missouri
#9 - Penn vs. Princeton
#10 - Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State

An ESPN crew covered the Calvin at Hope game in 2005. ESPN also conducted an on-line "Fan Poll" where the Hope-Calvin rivalry received resounding support as America's best with more than 80% of the voters casting their ballot for the orange & blue/maroon & gold.

2008-09 Season in Review

MBB Season Results/Stats
Alltime Records
2008-09 Winter Sports Season in Review
2008-09 Winter Sports Guide

Flying Dutchmen Featured by NCAA
The NCAA blog Double A Zone features a community-service project by the Hope men's basketball program. Coach Glenn Van Wieren offers his reflections.
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Men's Basketball Attendance on Top of DIII Again
For the seventh straight year, Hope has led all NCAA Division III men's basketball programs in home attendance. This is the 11th time in school history that Hope has been the men's basketball attendance leader. The 2008-09 Flying Dutchmen averaged 2,696 fans per game over 16 home dates. Rival Calvin, playing in its new Van Noord Arena, finished second with an average of 2,553 fans over 13 home dates. The Flying Dutchmen posted a 14-2 home floor record. In four seasons at DeVos Fieldhouse, Hope has posted a 62-4 record.

The Flying Dutchmen, coached by Glenn Van Wieren, finished second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), competed in the NCAA Division III tournament and posted a 21-8 overall record.

Other years when Hope led the nation in men's attendance were 1984, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Hope and Calvin helped the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) to top all Division III conferences in home attendance for the 18th consecutive year with an average of 1,059 fans per game. The average home attendance for Division III men's teams in 2008-09 was 434 fans.

Hope also topped Division III women's basketball programs in home attendance in 2008-09 with an average of 1,269 fans over 17 home dates.

Coaches Honor Reimink as All-American
Hope's Alltime All-Americans
Senior Jesse Reimink of Hudsonville, Mich. (Hudsonville HS) has joined an elite group of Hope basketball players as a Division III All-American. Already named the player of the year in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Reimink is being honored as a second team State Farm All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the publication DIII News and a first team All-American by the website D3hoops.com. It marks the fourth straight year that a Hope basketball player has received All-America recognition.

Reimink led the MIAA in scoring this season (21.1 ppg) and became the first Hope player in more than a decade to average more than 20 points a game over the entire season (20.8 ppg). He was a three-year starter and achieved a career distinction of scoring more than 1,000 points (1,321) and grabbing more than 500 rebounds (597). Hope during his career posted a 103-20 record.

Reimink is a second-generation Hope basketball player. His father Ron, a 1980 Hope graduate also played for current coach Glenn Van Wieren. A geology major, he was also recently named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District first team.

Flying Dutchmen Compete in NCAA
The Flying Dutchmen were defeated by UW-Platteville 83-59 in a first round game of the NCAA Division III tournament in Wheaton, Ill. Coach Glenn Van Wieren's Dutchmen, appearing in the post-season tournament for the 20th time, end the season with a 21-8 record.

Flying Dutchmen Win MIAA Tournament
Second-seeded Hope reeled off 18 straight points over a six-minute span in the second half, then held off a furious late rally by Calvin to knock off the top-seeded Knights, 69-59, to win the MIAA men's basketball tournament at Calvin's Van Noord Arena. Jesse Reimink, who led the MIAA in scoring during the regular season, fired in 25 points, including 5-of-6 on 3-point tries, as Hope (21-7) repeated its tournament championship of a year ago. The Flying Dutchmen have eight tournament championships, matching Calvin's total.