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 thru 2007-08 season
The 2007-08 Flying Dutch posted a 30-1 advancing to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Division III championship before bowing to eventual national champion Howard Payne, Tex.
In 12 seasons under Morehouse the Flying Dutch are 288-56 (84%). Coach Morehouse was chosen the 2005-06 Division III national coach of the year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and the publication DIII News. The Detroit Free Press included coach Brian Morehouse among the state's top sports figures in 2006 and among the candidates for the newspaper's annual "Michigan's Best" honor roll. In 2001-02, and again in 2002-03, he was voted the District Coach of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). He has twice (2001-02 and 2007-08) been named the Michigan Collegiate women's basketball coach of the year by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan. He was named the Division III Coach of the Month for December, 2002 by the publication D3News. He entered the 2007-08 season ranked fifth among NCAA Division III coaches by winning percentage. A 1991 Hope graduate who serves as director of the college's Dow Physical Education and Health Center and DeVos Fieldhouse, Morehouse is familiar with the Hope basketball scene having served in the men's program for a number of years. He was the men's junior varsity coach for two years, compiling a record of 30-9. He was a student assistant coach through his undergraduate years.
 He graduated with honors from Hope with a major in business administration and minors in history, psychology and sociology and earned a teaching certificate for secondary education. Morehouse's basketball roots run deep. His father, Dean, was the boy's basketball coach at Fremont (Mich.) High School. He joined son Brian as an assistant coach in 2000-01. Brian and Dean were honored as "Hometown Heroes" during the 2006 National Baby Food Festival in Fremont. His wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Hain, a 1993 Hope graduate, played in the college's basketball program for two years. The Morehouses have two daughters, Megan and Emma. The Morehouses are members of Calvary Reformed Church in Holland. He is involved the Holland Area Hospice and is a member of the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM) and Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). He serves on the coach of the year selection committee of the WBCA and the NCAA Great Lakes region advisory committee.
 Hope Under Coach
Seasons: 12
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Under coach Brian Morehouse < morehouse@hope.edu > the Flying Dutch over
the past decade have won 20-or-more games ten consecutive seasons, claimed seven Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (MIAA) titles, made seven trips to the NCAA tournament, and won the Division
III national championship in 2006.