Recent content by JoePgh

I believe it had been stated that the Vanderbilt series begins the year after next.

I think Jana's on-court performance (by itself and in comparison to Serah) has reached the point where Geno needs to consider replacing Serah with Jana in UConn's starting lineup. Moreover, I think Geno may be thinking along those lines also, based on his "quick hook" for Serah in recent games...

In the case of medical disability to play basketball, the NCAA has the discretion to allow players more than 5 years to complete their 4 years of playing eligibility. In both of these cases, I think it's pretty clear based on history that extra years would be granted to both of these players...

I assume you are talking about Breya Cunningham and Kyla Oldacre. So, to get some insight and actual data into this comparison, I posed the following question to Gemini (the AI component of Google Chrome). After some tuning, my specific query was this: How do Kyla Oldacre and Breya...

OK, I'll bite and ask a question about this formula. What is the basis of the "0.44" weighting of free throw attempts in the denominator of both formulas? I would think that it should be 0.5, since the free throw, if made, would be worth exactly half as much as a 2-point field goal. I see...

I generally agree with you, except that I think this is by design and is directed by Geno. Sarah and Azzi are the most talented scorers on the team, and if it is possible to get them a good shot, that is what the team is instructed to do. If the effect of this is to make the defense unbalanced...

Game is at Finneran, eh? If UConn wins the game by a blowout margin, will Thursday be scheduled on the Villanova campus for "Finneran's Wake"?

Do you care to elaborate? UConn and Texas both faced "oranges"; neither faced an apple.

In the last week or two, a consensus seems to have emerged (possibly including Geno as well as less informed talking heads) that while UConn is very good in many aspects of basketball, it is at best undistinguished and perhaps even weak in the area of rebounding. One of the local newspaper...

Watching today's SEC game between Texas and Tennessee, I was naturally curious to see if any conclusions could be drawn from it about how UConn might match up with Texas if that game should occur in the NCAA tournament. At a very high level, the fact that UConn blew out Tennessee, while Texas...

There is a lot of discussion in this thread about guard talent next year and later, but I saw only one quick mention of Morgan and ZERO mentions of Kelis. Morgan is injured this year and Kelis (really through no fault of her own) is at the end of the bench because of the more experienced talent...

It would ordinarily be concerning that a team whose tallest player with significant minutes is 6-1 outdid UConn 11-3 on offensive boards, but it helps that Creighton had exactly ZERO second chance points from those offensive rebounds. And here is another telling set of stats: Creighton made...

So maybe Saturday against Marquette is the game when Blanca returns? Geno seemed to suggest that was possible.

I'm not so sure that the football revenue will give P4 schools such a big advantage over UConn, since I'm not sure that many of those football dollars will find their way to the schools' women's basketball programs. Economically it makes more sense for the football powers to reinvest their...

Here are a couple of observations from someone who watched the game in person: Kelis Fisher is amazingly fast when she is rushing the ball up the court. I thought she was at top speed on her first scoring play and then she shifted into high gear and went even faster. It reminded me of the...