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Post by ptctitan on Feb 1, 2022 15:47:35 GMT -5
See announcement. Close enough to Oakland U's campus to count in government work? It's a conspiracy!
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Post by Rogobob77 on Feb 1, 2022 22:48:16 GMT -5
Like UM-Dearborn, Rochester is an NAIA team. But they should be a little bit tougher than the ‘lil Wolverines, RU’s record is 16-9 and they beat UM-D twice this year (by margins of 30 and 6 points).
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Post by Commissioner on Feb 2, 2022 11:55:17 GMT -5
Like UM-Dearborn, Rochester is an NAIA team. But they should be a little bit tougher than the ‘lil Wolverines, RU’s record is 16-9 and they beat UM-D twice this year (by margins of 30 and 6 points). Rochester is actually a pretty good program for their level. They played for many years as a USCAA team--that's the United State Collegiate Athletic Association, a group of about 70 really small schools. I mean really small, like Albany College of Pharmacy, Christendom College, Kent State-Tuscarawas, and Williamson College of the Trades (it was originally founded in 1966 as the National Little College Athletic Association (NLCAA). They were then simultaneously in the USCCA and NAIA for many years, through 2018. They won the USCCA national title in '89, '90, '04, '05, '13, and '18. They joined the NAIA in 2012, and have played in the NAIA tournament in 2013, '17, and '21. The joined the Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference in 2017. They haven't had a losing season in ... well, I don't know, but as far back as their records go on line (2010) and probably quite a bit further. The Warriors have regularly played NCAA D-1 teams, sometimes three, four, or five in a season, although limited to one or two since joining the WHAC, which fills up much of their schedule. They've had some success, typically losing by no more than 10-15 points. Last year, when they won the WHAC regular season, they lost at Youngstown State by 10. In the fall of 2019 they lost to Oakland by just 61-59. In the fall of 2018 they lost at Eastern Michigan by just 10. We played them back in the fall of 2014, winning more easily, 77-54. In the 2013 season, they beat OVC member Eastern Illinois. Our last NIT team beat them 102-67 that year, but they lost that year to Oakland by just 11, to a 20-win Kent State team by just 6, and to EMU by 14. In other words, their coach, Klint Pleasant, has been happy to schedule D-1 teams and while losing most, has kept the games competitive far more often than not. Pleasant was an assistant on Kent State's 2002 team that lost in the Elite 8 to Mike Davis's Hoosiers. In other words, we oughta win the game. But yes, definitely more of a challenge than UM-Dearborn, with some chance of a catastrophic loss. And that's good.
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Post by fan on Feb 2, 2022 12:45:57 GMT -5
The Pleasent family has been part of Rochester College basketball almost right from the start, Klint's dad Garth built the program.
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Post by ptctitan on Feb 3, 2022 16:33:56 GMT -5
Game canceled.
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