Hard to keep them straight..... Maybe it's because my brother was born in Topeka. Who knows.... KSU is real good right? KU is just good enough to whoop the heck up ASU? Or is it the other way around. I don't think it matters cuz I don't think either Arizona school can beat either Kansas School
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Kansas St. is the better team. Probably the odds on favorite to win the Big 12. The rock, chalk thing is KU. You'd get some really dirty looks if you said something about that if you were in Manhattan, KS.
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"This year" Or even "Recent History". Last victory vs. Kansas was in 2015, with 2 losses since.
K State is a good team. I'm not fond of Mittie, no particular reason. Rutgers played and beat his team at TCU in the NCAA's and Vivian explained to the fan club before the game that there was a "wrinkle" to his style of play that made preparing difficult, apparently in general. No idea if he still does whatever it was.
Kansas OTH is more up and down, I would say. I'm guessing they are and will remain a solid middle of the pack conference team, sometimes moving higher for a season or 2.
Like every team, NIL and all the other considerations going forward are going to have an affect.
We were considering going to the Kansas games as a road trip but decided to do Utah and Colorado in a couple weeks instead. We have been in Missouri / Kansas City a couple times in the last few years and probably will go to the Big 12 Tourney there in another year or 2.
I think both would be challenging road games for the kitties. If you're making it a road trip in spite of the weather it should be fun. I've always found Utah to be really beautiful.
As the season trudges on for the two Arizona schools I certainly do not hope that the dirty t is facing the same prospects that we've suffered in Tempe since the retirement CTT. No amount of nil will help the Sun Devils until there's a coaching change and more importantly a commitment from the administration to support women's basketball. The commitment proceeds the coaching change as no decent coach is going to show up in Tempe without some sort of assurance there will be a commitment to the program.
The dirty t on the other hand always supports their basketball and I suspect even more NIL would be available for the right prospect. I think there must be a growing doubt in people's mind whether Barnes is the coach.
So I'm the second half of the vacation to the Sunshine State the Sun devils will notch another l on their way to a third consecutive 20 loss season. In fact looking at the schedule other than UCF it's hard for me to see any prospect for a win although given the up and down, down and down season with the kitties we might be able to get a split particularly if Cunningham falls out in the pregame shoot around.
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Was watching Iowa/Nebraska and checked the box at half of the KSU/Arizona game and saw Lee only played 5 minutes and wasn't in fouled trouble. I've noticed Mittie seems to be metering her minutes this season (a lot) but thought maybe she had been injured. Final shows she played 20 minutes without much scoring but had a million blocks.
Looking at her individual stats and she is only playing 20 minutes a game, I wouldn't have guessed that low. Will be interesting to see how Mittie manages minutes versus ISU (two games) and TCU. Not sure if we have any KSU fans here or not but I am wondering if she can't play more or if they are trying to protect her knees/ankle. Seeing her limp around some years was hard to watch.
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There may have been something nagging in the first half, but whatever it was, she played 15 in the 2nd half. Guessing it wasn't too bad. I thought Arizona did a really good job defending her last night, not even letting her get the ball. She didn't have a FG attempt until the 4th quarter. That said, she was a big difference for us on defense. 8 blocks in the game.
On the year, she has definitely been on limited minutes. A bit of that has been foul trouble, but we have definitely saved her. I think a lot of that has been trying to save her and have her as fresh as we can late in the year. Bringing in Taylor out of the portal and having Lester develop a bit has really allowed us to do that.