Hope 118 College of Faith 20

Box Score

Hope played without starters Billy Seiler and Stephen Whittenbach.  Hope went with Overway, McMahon, DeMaagd, Snuggerud, Van Arendonk as the starting 5 and substituted liberally resulting in everyone playing double-digit minutes and only Matt Parisi eeking out 20.

The opening tip went to Coltan Overway, he dunked it, and that was pretty much it.  This one shouldn't count anyway so the game recap is this.....

Game Recap: Red Velvet Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 2 tablespoons red food coloring
• 1 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 1 pound cream cheese, softened
• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• Chopped pecans and fresh raspberries or strawberries, for garnish

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 (12-cup) muffin pans with cupcake papers.
In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. In a large bowl gently beat together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla with a handheld electric mixer. Add the sifted dry ingredients to the wet and mix until smooth and thoroughly combined.

Divide the batter evenly among the cupcake tins about 2/3 filled. Bake in oven for about 20 to 22 minutes, turning the pans once, half way through. Test the cupcakes with a toothpick for doneness. Remove from oven and cool completely before frosting.

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla together until smooth. Add the sugar and on low speed, beat until incorporated. Increase the speed to high and mix until very light and fluffy.  Garnish with chopped pecans and a fresh raspberry or strawberry.

Cook's Note: Frost the cupcakes with a butter knife or pipe it on with a big star tip.


Scoring and Interesting Stats:

Hope won every statistical category possible, even FT shooting.  Everyone was awesome!

Nate Snuggerud:  29 points,  11 rebounds, 13-13 from the floor, leading 3-point shooter with 2-2 (this can't happen often).....he did this in 17 minutes of action, did he even sweat?

Caleb Byers: 19 points on 8-9 shooting, he did this in 12 minutes....I might have a man crush problem this year

Coltan Overway: 11 points, 7 assists, 5 blocks......leading the team in blocks probably says it all

Matt Parisi:  10 points, hopefully some quality minutes.

For the game College of Faith had zero assists, not even one by accident.  Points in the paint was an absurd 72-2 advantage to Hope.

One thing I pointed to before this game was the 3 point shooting, Hope went 7-16, not bad but there's no knowledge of the actual difficulty of these shots.  Corey McMahon went 0-4 in a tough night shooting it, so the rest of the team went 7-12.  I don't think this is going to be the problem I thought, just individually streaky.  All the wrong streaky's coming together on the same night could be a problem.

Efficiency:

Estimated Possessions:  Hope 91  CofF 86

This is a lot of possessions and will be the fastest paced game Hope plays this year, probably by a lot.  A typical game will be somewhat just above 140 combined, this was 37 over that.

Offensive  Efficiency:  129.63
This isn't astronomical but its up there, I genuinely think Hope made a strong effort to keep the scoring down.  Hope hovered around shooting 60 to 70 percent from the floor the whole game.

Deffensive Efficiency:  23.15
This looks like a number I made up because I was too lazy to figure it out, but its not, its real.  In about 10 years of doing this I've come to expect under 85 to be a pretty bad number at this level.  Ever seeing a number this low just never crossed my mind.  Nobody really plays defense at a level below the high eighties consistently, anything below that starts measuring offensive ineptness.  Hope's not this good on defense, really they aren't.

Moment or Play of the game:

I don't know, the tip maybe?  Keeping it under 100?

My game ball goes to:

It has to be Nate Snuggerud, he put up video game numbers in 17 minutes, even taking into account the level of competition that is game ball material.

Going Forward:

I guess we wait on official word if this game even counts, as it stands it really shouldn't so Hope's either 1-0 or 0-0.  The real game is tomorrow night.

I don't think you can take anything from this game, except maybe all the extra minutes some of the first year players played, good experience.....maybe.   This really was nothing like any game Hope will play this year or has played in probably many decades.   Hopefully Hope will never play an opponent so over-matched as this one.