2019 WNIT Tournament Central

[Vowelguy]

Ohio @ Northwestern
TCU v Cinci
Georgetown @ James Madison
Pepp/Wyom v Idaho/Ariz

 

[Plebe]

Ohio @ Northwestern
TCU v Cinci
Georgetown @ James Madison
Pepp/Wyom v Idaho/Ariz

TCU will host Cincinnati.

TCU just played a tremendous game to beat Arkansas. They played from behind for most of the game, and then they held Arkansas scoreless for about a 3-minute stretch late in 4Q to surge ahead.

Amy Okonkwo had a career-high 36 points, which more than compensated for the off night from Jordan Moore, who sat much of the game with foul trouble. Okonkwo was 12-13 from the FT line and her free throws down the stretch were crucial.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Huh. I thought Arkansas was kind of a team of destiny that was on a roll and was going to just keep winning games. TCU had other ideas.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Pepperdine overcame an early double digit deficit to tie the game down the stretch, but Wyoming escapes with a 1 point win. Arizona up 10 at halftime. McDonald struggling shooting but Reese is picking up the slack.

 

[Plebe]

Pepperdine overcame an early double digit deficit to tie the game down the stretch, but Wyoming escapes with a 1 point win. Arizona up 10 at halftime. McDonald struggling shooting but Reese is picking up the slack.

The final college game of one of the best players no one knew about: Pepperdine's Yasmine Robinson-Bacote, who had 26 points in the loss. She was the WCC player of the year.

Robinson-Bacote is making waves in California

 

[nwhoopfan]

Idaho had sliced the lead down to 2, but now Arizona is up 16.


Interesting stat line for McDonald--only 1-9 on 3's. She doesn't take that many behind the arc normally. But 6-8 inside the arc and also 9 assists.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Attendance at Arizona was 6307 tonight

Az leads 64-54 in the last minute.


68 - 60 final
Sunday vs Wyoming 2pm Arizona time @UA
It should be streamed on the Pac12 website

 

[Plebe]

Attendance at Arizona was 6307 tonight

Az leads 64-54 in the last minute.
Sounds like next game will be at Wyoming

Apparently it'll be at Arizona. Adia Barnes just asked the crowd to show up in strength; she's asking for 7000.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Georgetown and Northwestern have already advanced to the final 8.
The remaining six Sweet 16 games are tonight.

9:30pm
Idaho @ Arizona (Arizona Live Stream)

Thank you for the link. At the last minute, the wife felt poorly and we didn't make the game. Watched on my computer. Getting our tickets for the next game, and hope to make it - if AZ hosts after that we will be out of town unfortunately (convention in Las Vegas). Bear Down.

 

[Plebe]

Attendance in WNIT Sweet 16 games:

6307 Arizona
5287 Arkansas
5134 Wyoming
2872 James Madison
2450 Cincinnati
1491 Ohio
1314 West Virginia
No attendance listed for Providence

 

[Plebe]

Looks like Final 8 schedule is set:

Sat., Mar. 30
Ohio at Northwestern (7pm ET)

Sun., Mar. 31
Cincinnati at TCU (2pm ET)
Georgetown at James Madison (2pm ET)
Wyoming at Arizona (5pm ET)

 

[Plebe]

Aari McDonald ran blind into a screen in 4Q and got laid out flat. She did return to the game for the final few minutes, but had a swollen lip to show for it:

 

[triaddukefan]

VPI

 

[Plebe]

Going down to the wire in Evanston. Northwestern leads Ohio 57-56 with 24 seconds left.

 

[Plebe]

A really disastrous 4Q for Ohio. They led by 8 after 3Q and then were outscored 20-9 thereafter, including a scoreless patch that lasted more than 3 minutes down the stretch.

Northwestern advances to the semifinals and will play the winner of JMU/Georgetown.

 

[nwhoopfan]

James Madison beat Georgetown 54-44 and TCU beat Cincinnati 69-55. Only 1 spot remaining in the semifinals.

 

[Plebe]

James Madison beat Georgetown 54-44 and TCU beat Cincinnati 69-55. Only 1 spot remaining in the semifinals.

Cincinnati actually played really well for roughly the middle third of the game. Played a great 2nd quarter and stormed ahead to take a 4-point lead midway through 3Q. They were playing aggressively and up tempo, turning TCU over and scoring a lot in transition, and it was the best I'd seen them play all season. Unfortunately they flatlined after that, and were outscored 23-5 in the final 15 minutes.

But I tell ya, Michelle Clark-Heard has made me a believer. It's almost incredible how much that team improved from early in the season. A lot of us were rightly sore at the Cincy administration for firing Jamelle, but credit is owed to MCH for the direction she has them moving in.

 

[Plebe]

The final quarterfinal game between Arizona and Wyoming is under way now.

Live stream here:
Arizona Live Stream

 

[Plebe]

Arizona asserted control right out of the gate, jumping out to an 11-0 lead and now up 26-12 midway through 2Q. McDonald has 12 points.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Wow, low scoring 2nd quarter for both teams.

 

[Plebe]

Holy cow. They just announced the attendance in Tucson: 7,717

Adia Barnes was hoping for 7,000. They got that and then some.

 

[Plebe]

A completely dominating win by AZ over Wyoming, 67-45, led by Aari McDonald's 24 points.

WNIT semifinals are set for Wed., April 3:

Northwestern at James Madison (7 pm ET)
TCU at Arizona (9:30 pm ET)

 

[nwhoopfan]

That's great attendance for UA. That's better than quite a few of the 1st/2nd round hosts for the NCAA Tourney.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

That's great attendance for UA. That's better than quite a few of the 1st/2nd round hosts for the NCAA Tourney.

Never forget, Tucson is a college town (city). And a basketball town (city). Of course, that would be men's basketball, but . . .

Great game, unfortunately, we can't make the next game (or final, if it comes to that) - convention in Las Vegas. Still, bought our seats and our friends that sit general admission will be happy to sit on the floor.

Very proud of Adia, who apparently can't stop smiling. And it was a good swag day - McDonald game me a hat in the pre-game handouts (first time I got something, although 2 years ago Griffey game my wife an autographed plastic ball. Post game, Adia gave my wife a visor. And the team always circles the arena after games giving high fives to the front row / court seat folks. Nice.

PS - then headed over to Hillenbrand (Softball) Stadium and watched the 3rd shut-out of the Arizona Normal School of Tempe during the 3 game series. Woo-hoo.

 

[Plebe]

Arizona women's basketball head coach Adia Barnes on postseason community support, competing in the WNIT