Your best single source for NAIA basketball talk and analysis. Focusing on the National NAIA picture, Cascade Collegiate Conference, and a share of Oregon Tech
@jefflytle_37
One more time, for those in the back ....... STOP. Get your kids out of this. Go to the park. Take them to the gym. Set up a hoop in your driveway. What ever you believe they are gaining in basketball skills, they are losing 2x in HUMAN skills
Cancelling of the
#NAIADIIMBB
for the 'good of the athlete', let's do what is really right for the student athlete?
💯 Allow all seniors of the 32 teams at the tournament another 'graduate' year of eligibility💯
💪 Coaches stand up for your seniors!!💪
Chikara Tanaka talks about the 87-85 Bethel Pilots win over Oregon Tech tonight. Tanaka scored 19pts in the Crossroads/Cascade Classic win
@BethelHoops
@BUPilots
@bupilotsmbb
THIS is NAIA Basketball ❤❤❤
🏅 After a heart breaking loss hundreds of Bulldog fans greet the Concordia team in the arena lobby
@CUNEmbb
@CUNEathletics
#NAIAMBB
Mason Walters
@masonwalters24
@Jamestown_MBB
is the most instinctive rebounder I ever watched
✨️ He was injured and on one leg - still pulling double doubles in the tourney -- without being able to leap
✨️ Great guy. Great family. Amazing things ahead for this young man
NOT making this up. Oregon NAIA schools cannot practice or play basketball. NCAA D1 are allowed. AND ..... Oregon NCAA D1 can bring OUT OF STATE NAIA schools into Oregon to play, all while Oregon schools are shut down. The emperor has no clothes
🚨The NAIA MBB is going 30 max games to 28 next season. I am very concerned about this decision. What is the reasoning? 🧐
🏀 NAIA MBB programs need MORE cross conference/national games NOT less
🏀 The caliber and talent of NAIA basketball has exploded. Now is the time to grow!
Well we are no ESPN, but if you would have told me a year ago that almost 700 people would even care what I thought about NAIA basketball .. I would have fallen over. Now.....well I still fall over, but mainly cuz I'm old 👴
🚨 U P S E T 🚨
💪 Zach Goodline
@ZGoody0
39p 3r 7ast and Huntington
@HU_Sports
@HuntingtonHoops
puts on a shooting clinic in The Platt - taking down undefeated
#1
Grace tonight
🎯 Huntington shoots 61% overall, 61% from 3, and 82% from the line
Pass this on to all your "NCAA D1 or Nothing" friends and acquaintances. As I said before NCAA D1 will always be a step up, but the gap continues to close.
📢 Tomorrow on Cascade Hoops Talk we'll have Zach Goodline
@ZGoody0
Huntington Foresters
@HuntingtonHoops
@HU_Sports
point guard
🏀 We'll also update NAIA top scores and news
NAIA
#NAIAMBB
National Tournament
📢 Thursday 'Loudest Fans' Award - Bethel (KS). Fans & students rocked the arena
❤ Thursday 'Most Dedicated Fans' - College of Idaho. Hundreds 💥 of loud Yote fans came across the country and filled their section
👀 Which fans will win Friday?
🏀 If NAIA Basketball is the BEST entertainment value in America ...
.... then this week, it's the deal of the millennium 🏀
🚨 Get out and support these student athletes. This is amazing basketball and a fun, exciting environment
#NAIAMBB
Knock Knock says the Jimmies
@Jamestown_MBB
from California
🏀 Mason Walters
@masonwalters24
scores 37 and pulls in 19 rebounds, yes 19, to lead the Jimmies 87-76 over Vanguard
@vu_mbb
💪 My Oh My the Jimmies are 5 -0 👀
@GPACSports
NAIA
#NAIAMBB
National Tournament
📢 Sat 'Loudest Fans' Award - The Yote fans lit 💥🔥 up KC! These fans are organized!
❤ Sat 'Most Dedicated Fans' - Concordia - They came by the hundreds. Despite a heartbreak loss awaited the Bulldogs in arena lobby & greeted them as heros 🏆
💪 This man epitomizes the student athlete
* Respect
* Integrity
* Hard Work
🙏 Thank YOU Drew Lutz for being 'That Guy'
@BUPilots
@bupilotsmbb
@lutz_drew
Huntington
@HuntingtonHoops
punches their ticket to the field of 32 with a 80-69 win over Georgetown
@GtownTigersMBB
🏀 Caleb Middlesworth 24p 7r
🏀 Zach Goodline 18p 5r 6ast
Kyle Mangas is a special NAIA Basketball talent 🏀 Congrats
@Kmango2
on being a 4 time 1st Team All American - Well earned by one of the top sportsmen and teammates in the game
🙏 THANK YOU for supporting what we do 🙏
📆 Past 2 seasons we have -
🛣 Traveled over 40k miles
🚗 25k by car
🎙 Almost 200 interviews
📹 More than 30 post game interviews
😎 And tried to add some fun
🏀 All because NAIA Basketball is the BEST entertainment value in America!
Cascade Hoops Talk
🚨 2022/23 FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
🏆 Samaje Morgan
🏫 College of Idaho Yotes
@CoyoteAthletics
@YotesHoops
💪Morgan's leadership during the Championship run was absolutely amazing
🥇 As his shooting improves this PG will be unstoppable
Just Released 🚨 - You gotta check out our 1st Annual Billy Dee Awards - 🙏 Dedicated to the student athletes that play NAIA Basketball
@NAIAHoopsReport
@TweetsbyCoachP
🔗Click Link ▶️
Congrats 📢College of Idaho
@YotesHoops
doing what everyone said could not be done
🏆 Going 20-0 in the always tough Cascade Collegiate Conference
@CCCSports
🏆
🏀This is a deep team, skilled and play TOUGH defense. They will be a handful in post season
The number of NAIA schools that have either beaten or taken NCAA D1 schools down to the last possession highlights this case. The gap has been closing, NCAA D1 will always be a step higher, but NAIA is elite level scholarship college basketball
Perception is often reality; some reasons small college can B seen as a step down from HS;
Some facilities aren’t as nice & crowds can b smaller
Little/no publicity
D1 or bust mentality
Often not glamorous
BUT perception ISNT REALITY, small college IS A STEP UP!
🚨 U P S E T 🚨
Morningside
@MsideMBB
@MsideMustangs
on a roll, and upsets
#14
Indiana Wesleyan at the Small College Basketball Champions Classic
🏀 Ely Doble 24pts 9rebs
🏀 Jack Dotzler 21pts 6rebs 8asts
🏀 Cascade v Crossroad Classic 🏀
James Anderson (12p 5r) - Bethel Pilot Basketball discusses the Pilot's 119-99 win today over Bushnell
@BUPilots
@bupilotsmbb
...If you can physically get to the gym tonight....get there.
@MMCLancers
are a very good team. This is NOT a fluke.
@msidehoops
is the real deal, every bit deserving the
#1
ranking. Whatever they charge for admission....give em extra, because this will be good
With 11:57 to go in the second half in Eugene, Oregon Mitchell Fink
@TheFinkanator77
of Oregon Tech became the 12th player in College Basketball history, all levels, to reach 800 ast and 2000 pts
@NAIAHoopsReport
@OITMBB
Everyone who believes
@CoachScottMoore
Grace Lancers are only 12-5, 4-1 because of a soft schedule 🏀🏀🏀
@GraceBasketball
goes into
#9
Bethel Pilots
@BethelHoops
and knocks them off at home
Congrats to first year coach Scott Moore and the Lancers
🙏 Thank You 🙏 to Grace College for hosting our inaugural 'Crossroads/Cascade Classic' in the amazing MOCC
🦉 Look forward to seeing everyone next year in Klamath Falls at Oregon Tech
Dakota Reber of Warner Pacific Knights
@wpuknights
has a 26p 7r night in the road victory 92-87 over Multnomah
@MultnomahMBB
🏀 Reber
@dakotareber12
the former Wilsonville star is playing well for the Knights this season
NAIA
#NAIAMBB
National Tournament
📢 Friday 'Loudest Fans' Award - Concordia’s students, families and fans roared for their Bulldogs
❤ Friday 'Most Dedicated Fans' - Jamestown. Hundreds of dedicated Jimmie faithful were flag equipped 🚩 & rocked KC
👀 Which fans will win Sat?
It's great to be a part of top outlets now covering NAIA Basketball. NAIA Hoops Report puts out fantastic content
@NAIAHoopsReport
and Small College Basketball
@smcollegehoops
is now doing significant NAIA
@NAIA
coverage. 10 years ago we couldn't find a score!!! Thank you guys!
Cascade Hoops Talk
🚨 2022/23 PLAYER OF THE YEAR
🏆 Mason Walters
@masonwalters24
🏫 Jamestown Jimmies
@Jamestown_MBB
@JimmieAthletics
💪 Walters led his team to Kansas City 3 straight seasons
🥇 The only program to make KC each year since consolidation
William Penn also provides access to Chanze Cruesoe
@CruesoeChanze
and Eddie Daley
@eddiedaley23
🙏 Thank you Chanze and Eddie
🏀 William Penn takes on Montana Tech at 7pm Central in Kansas City tonight
Our last senior this week is
#25
Matt Simpson.
The Captain has scored 2,838 points, grabbed 839 rebounds, and dished out 394 assists. Matt is 38% from 3, 52% from the field, and 81% from the line for his career. Here are some of his highlights.
Kyle Mangas NAIA DII MBB Player of the Year
"..come up to you before the game, shake your hand and tell you what an honor to play you. Then he drops 45 on you, and runs over when the game is over, shakes your hand, and tells you how tough you were..."
⌛️ I will be tied up w/ a medical issue for the next few weeks. Assuming 🙏 all goes well, I will begin pre-season interviews in October
🏀 We definitely plan on being at Grace in Winona Lake early November for our historic Crossroads/Cascade Classic
🚨 Billy D Awards
🏆 Cascade Hoops Talk 'Kyle Mangas Award'
💪 Presented to the player that best demonstrates -
🏀 Tremendous basketball skills
🏀 Respect for the game & opponents
🏀 Faith & Team before self
💥 Drew Lutz, Bethel Pilots
@lutz_drew
@BUPilots
@bupilotsmbb
📺…
🚨
#5
Marian Knights UPSET 🚨
⚡️ Another home team gets the job done ⚡️
📢 Huntington
@HuntingtonHoops
@HU_Sports
beats Marian
@MarianMensBBall
in Huntington
🏀 Zach Goodline
@ZGoody0
unstoppable 💪 29p 9ast
🏀 Landen Jordan huge double double 11p 14r
🏀 Lane Sparks 18p 4r