http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:58:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en on this Friday morning.  Basketball central right now in my office.  Listening to Sioux Falls getting ready to play their second round game in Branson.  Monitoring the women's tournament in Sioux City and keeping an eye on the state tournament in Des Moines as well. A few numbers for you before ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/03/12/a-little-history/ I think that could be the new name for this blog.  We veer all over the place tonight. Hockey lost to Farmingdale State this afternoon at the national tournament. Led or were tied much of the contest and then gave up late goals to lose their second pool play game and ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/03/11/all-over-the-road/ Great week for the track teams.  Competed well at the national meet in Johnson City, Tennessee and had  some all-American performances and some personal records. Mark Eekhoff managed a couple All-American performances.  Got one in the 4 x 800 where the team blazed to a third place finish and got another ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/03/07/looking-back-looking-ahead/ Track coaches and national meet qualifiers should be approaching Knoxville as I write this.  They'll be on the ground a little after five and should be in their hotel around 8:00 tonight.  After a workout to get the kinks out late this evening they'll get a night's rest and hit ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/03/03/wednesday-march-3/ The big question this time of the year in NAIA basketball circles is: What teams will receive at large berths to the NAIA National Tournament?  Under the system the NAIA has you can map things out and get a pretty good picture where your team falls and with the final ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/03/02/naia-national-qualifiers/ How do you sum up a season in a few paragraphs?  How do you put on paper what players mean to and have meant to a program?  It's not easy and with sleep still elusive as the bus rolls on and with  Billy Joel and Elton John keeping me company ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/02/26/the-last-chapter-is-the-hardest-to-write/ Is the name of the tournament basketball game.  Dordt succeeded on both the women's front and the men's front on Tuesday night earning their school record tying 19th win in women's play and the 20th win of the season for the men.  The women were 56-53 winners over Midland Lutheran ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/02/23/survive-and-advance/ That's how I would have described the chances of Dordt making the National Tournament in hockey this year.  Struggled to find consistency through the course of the season.  Good for the guys and coach Elgersma.  Now they have a little time off to prepare for the nationals March 10-14.  We'll ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/02/21/improbable/ Not bad at all.  An uneventful travel day to Crete for myself and the basketball teams is done.  The hockey team is in transit from Las Vegas and the track teams should be home from Lincoln by now. The good--well a third straight trip to the ACHA Division III national hockey ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/02/21/not-a-bad-day/ Hmmm…..ok, the scenarios are a little murky in the GPAC standings but fairly straight forward for the Dordt teams. Here are the women’s standings: Hastings 15-1 Northwestern 14-3 Briar Cliff 12-5 Morningside 11-6 Concordia 11-7 Dordt 9-8 Mount Marty 9-8 Sioux Falls 9-8 Doane 8-9 Nebraska Wesleyan 4-13 Dakota Wesleyan 4-13 Midland Lutheran 3-14 Dana 1-16 And the men: Dakota Wesleyan 15-2 Hastings 13-4 Sioux Falls 12-5 Briar Cliff ... http://blogs.dordt.edu/mbyker/2010/02/19/updated-scenarios/