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Tournament Information
Hope College in Holland, Michigan
was pleased to host the 2008 NCAA Division III
Women's Basketball Championship
SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2009!
March 20-21-2009 at DeVos Fieldhouse
CONGRATULATIONS
Howard Payne Yellow Jackets
2008 NCAA Division III Champions
Championship
Photo Galleries
All-Tournament
Team
2008
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Friday, March 21
Semi-Final Games
Messiah 80, Oglethorpe 60 summary / box
Howard Payne 69, UW-Whitewater 59 summary / box
Saturday, March 22
Third Place
UW-Whitewater 80, Oglethorpe 67 summary / box
Championship
Howard Payne 68, Messiah 54 summary / box
Editorial Comment
THE HOLLAND SENTINEL
Plenty of people deserve credit for staging last weekend's NCAA Division
III women's basketball championships at DeVos Fieldhouse, an event that
showed outsiders Hope College and Holland at their best. Tournament director
Eva Dean Folkert headed a team of community volunteers and Hope staff
-- many of whom must have sorely missed accompanying the Hope men's team
to its Final Four appearance in Salem, Va. -- that kept everything running
smoothly and made fans of the participating colleges feel welcome. Kudos
also must go to the Holland Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for its
services to visitors and to the Hamilton and Holland high school pep
bands for helping create a more festive atmosphere. Finally, credit goes
to local basketball fans who turned out in big numbers even though Hope's
Flying Dutch weren't playing in the Final Four. The tournament drew nearly
5,000 fans over two days, surpassing the attendance at the men's Final
Four, with about two-thirds of the tickets sold locally. We suspect the
crowds would have been even bigger if many of our most fervent local
basketball fans hadn't accompanied the Hope men's team to Virginia.
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