Especially with no Diamond Miller. Shyanne Seller has done an outstanding job of replacing her. But if Diamond is out for those games, I think the Terps only beat Baylor because it's a home game.
Indiana maybe yes. because they can play defense. watched Iowa UNH game. Iowa defense is not much better than last year. if UNH could have made layups the game would have been closer. when you say you want to contend for the final four and spent all summer working on defense and you open your season playing zone defense against and far less opponent that says something. Maryland doesn’t play defense either but they are far more talented than Iowa as a whole. I’m really interested to see how the big 10 fats against non conference this year because most of there conference is bad on the defense end. it’s all offense and while that exciting, you have to do both to win on the national stage
False. Yesterday Iowa played a mix of player to player, traditional 2-3 zone, and a matchup 2-3 zone. I'll be the first to critique Iowa's defense, but if you're gonna spout poop about a team, at least get your facts straight, SMH....
42 seconds into the game, first defensive possession, she leaps in to secure the rebound and on her way down it seemed her left foot got hung up on a teammate's foot and she landed very awkwardly. Ugh I hate this.Dilk reportedly injured her knee at the very beginning of the game, appeared scarily similar to an ACL
Hard to say. Feels like it though.
The Big 10 had 3 of the top 12 teams in the Massey defensive ratings last season. And 5 of the top 31 (including Maryland, which didn't have Reese for long). Massey Ratings - College Basketball Women's : NCAA D1 Ratings
Totally agree. I saw that game. Patberg and Berger were running circles around KY . Non stop motion and very skillful drivers into the paint. I really enjoy most teams in the B10.
I'm an Indiana fan so I agree with the sentiment of your post, but "decent" is not a word I would use to describe Butler.
Nowhere to go but up for Marisa.
Wisconsin also lost by double digits to NJIT, who along with Chicago State was among the bottom 10-15 teams in all of Division I last season.
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Fordham is a decent team, but not St Francis Brooklyn. It's a terrible loss. Not quite as awful as losing at home to Chicago State, but then again Michigan State wasn't supposed to be in as bad a shape as Wisconsin
Ooph that is awful. I just looked and they finished 341 out of 343 for NET rankings last year. They also lost to NJIT who was #285 last year. Their lone win is over St. Thomas who is in their first year of D1. It's kind of remarkable how bad Wisconsin has become considering the amount of local in state talent and how successful almost all of their other athletic programs have been. Women's basketball has been a glaring black hole the past decade and even when they were at their peak (mid-late 90s/early 00s), the program was never very strong.
They have to watch out for Colorado's soul crushing defense.