Brenda Frese: "We're ready now...we're going into UConn...we know what to expect."

[CocoHusky]

Walz won the national championship. And since he left all they have done is get humiliated in the Final Four.

If Frese was a good coach why is she never considered for the Olympic team staff - she is just a recruiter with minimal knowledge of the game.

There are at least three other women that have won National Championships and are not currently consider for the Olympic Team staff- Mulkey, Muffett, & Peck. All clueless? The last is rhetorical.

 

[John Glass]

Let me show you where you are wrong. Brenda has beaten Walz the last 2 of the 3 times they have met. The last one was in the elite eight when Louisville was a higher seed than MD and it was played on Louisville's home court with 14,000+ Louisville fans in attendance. MD Was winning that game by double figures with only a few minutes left and their youthful mistakes in the last two minutes of the game allowed Louisville back in it to make it close.

Regarding being humiliated in the final four, MD has only had the 18 best recruiting classes over the last 5 years. Yet, UConn and ND beat them badly with their #1 and #2 best recruiting classes over that same period. That is to be expected. Making it to the final four two years in a row with the 18 best recruiting class seems to be a pretty good accomplishment.

The #18 best recruiting classes, nice try. Link ? Alyssa Thomas a top 5 recruit carried the team for four years. BF had Lexie Brown too until she got in a fight with Brenda.

 

[CocoHusky]

Let me show you where you are wrong. Brenda has beaten Walz the last 2 of the 3 times they have met. The last one was in the elite eight when Louisville was a higher seed than MD and it was played on Louisville's home court with 14,000+ Louisville fans in attendance. MD Was winning that game by double figures with only a few minutes left and their youthful mistakes in the last two minutes of the game allowed Louisville back in it to make it close.

Regarding being humiliated in the final four, MD has only had the 18 best recruiting classes over the last 5 years. Yet, UConn and ND beat them badly with their #1 and #2 best recruiting classes over that same period. That is to be expected. Making it to the final four two years in a row with the 18 best recruiting class seems to be a pretty good accomplishment.

Allow me to simply and embellish slightly. In the era dominated by Breanna Stewart 2013-2016 UCONN & ND have been the most accomplished teams. Maryland is the third most accomplished team. Brenda can both coach and recruit with the best teams in the country.

 

[Kevin G]

I am not worried about UCONN's defense against this so called "potent" offense (1st in scoring in NCAA; Sagarin SOS #333) The only concern should be Maryland's game plan to stop or slow down UCONN's offense (2nd in scoring in NCAA; Sagarin SOS# 2).

http://www.rpiratings.com/womrate.php

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Let me show you where you are wrong. Brenda has beaten Walz the last 2 of the 3 times they have met. The last one was in the elite eight when Louisville was a higher seed than MD and it was played on Louisville's home court with 14,000+ Louisville fans in attendance. MD Was winning that game by double figures with only a few minutes left and their youthful mistakes in the last two minutes of the game allowed Louisville back in it to make it close.

Regarding being humiliated in the final four, MD has only had the 18 best recruiting classes over the last 5 years. Yet, UConn and ND beat them badly with their #1 and #2 best recruiting classes over that same period. That is to be expected. Making it to the final four two years in a row with the 18 best recruiting class seems to be a pretty good accomplishment.

Nice post.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

I am not worried about UCONN's defense against this so called "potent" offense (1st in scoring in NCAA; Sagarin SOS #333) The only concern should be Maryland's game plan to stop or slow down UCONN's offense (2nd in scoring in NCAA; Sagarin SOS# 2).

http://www.rpiratings.com/womrate.php

UConn didn't shoot the ball very well against a poor LSU team. Every starter were below 50% and the team was below 50%. Gabby Williams excellent night helped the team shooting %. Of course Stewart being out didn't help.

 

[bbsamjj]

Brenda Frese has brought two straight teams to the Final 4. She did it with and without Alyssa Thomas. That doesn't happen by accident. Whether she is a better motivator or a better X and O coach, I don't know. But I do know her team wins almost all of the time, and in the NCAA Tournament when it matters.

 

[turtlespeed]

The #18 best recruiting classes, nice try. Link ? Alyssa Thomas a top 5 recruit carried the team for four years. BF had Lexie Brown too until she got in a fight with Brenda.

I'll get that info about the 18th best recruiting class, but in the meantime here is a comparison of MD's players compared to UConn's players based on where each player ranked in their respective recruiting class. For instance, for UConn's starters below, Stewart was a #1 recruit, MoJeff was a #2 and so on for their staters and for their first two players that come off the bench and the same thing for MD's players.

UConn starters: #'s 1, 2, 6, 14, 33 First two off the bench: 1, 6
MD starters: #'s 8, 26, 43, 55, +100 First two off the bench: 55, 70

As you can UConn has a lot more talent than MD. The average number for UConn's 7 players average ranking number is 9 while MD's average player number ranking is 51. I think this certainly indicates that MD's recruiting ranking is no better than 18th.

Thomas was a great player, but not in the category of single handily carrying a team. And as I said, MD beat a higher seed Loiusville on their home court showing Brenda can beat Walz in the big game.

Regarding Lexie and Brenda getting in a fight and you indicating that is why she left, you're wrong again. First where do you come up with these things. Please show some support for a change about them fighting. Second, here is Lexie's quote about why she left and after being on Duke's team. "I didn't expect a lot of people to understand why I decided to leave,'' Brown said. ''As long as everyone here (at Duke) understands. My mom's been up here four times. That's so important for me. She's even in the stands when I'm not playing. She'll be at the South Carolina game. It's worth it to me to see her and my little siblings in the stands.''

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/using-fund-transfer-travels-duke-team-during-off-201359849--ncaaw.html

You know what, all you do is make outrageous statements without providing any support, even when your challenged to do so. Seems like you just make things up.

 

[Aluminny69]

UConn fans should show Brenda Frese a little more respect for the simple fact that she is at least willing to play UConn!! That immediately puts her ahead of a lot of other coaches, too numerous to mention. Please stop being so disrespectful. A valid reason why many people dislike SOME UConn fans.....

 

[Zorro]

Not sure what anyone expects her to say - "We will try our best but we know we suck compared to UCONN and hope to keep the loss closer than a 30 point blowout"?

I mean come on guys. You can pick on Freese for many things, but not for that comment. I do think it's pretty awful to "work on" pressing an over-matched team in the 4th quarter. Her team should work on that in the first half and maybe at the start of the 3rd quarter.

C'mon, Eric, this is a Huskies fan board. We do not deal in justice and play. We want blood, and the more of it the better!!! And if Brenda thinks that successfully pressing the Little Sisters of the Poor has prepared the Terps for the likes of MoJet, Kia, Saniya (hopefully), Gabby, KLS and Phees, she is the more deluded!

(And incidentally, where in the world are you?)

 

[Buzzyboy]

Before people write off Maryland completely - the Terripins like to shoot the three are there are, count 'em, 8 players that shoot from the arc.
Two players average over 50% (Brene Mosley is almost 60%)and as a team, MD hits 40%. If they hit threes like DePaul and ND did, it could be long night.

True but Maryland's two players over 50% on the three were shooting against less than stellar opponents whose defense probably left those players wide open. Meanwhile UConn got burnt a bit earlier in the year on threes (as mentioned) and what that means is Geno probably had them paying the Piper for their defensive lapses. I don't think you'll be seeing anything close to those type defensive performances from UConn against Maryland.

 

[EricSD]

C'mon, Eric, this is a Huskies fan board. We do not deal in justice and play. We want blood, and the more of it the better!!! And if Brenda thinks that successfully pressing the Little Sisters of the Poor has prepared the Terps for the likes of MoJet, Kia, Saniya (hopefully), Gabby, KLS and Phees, she is the more deluded!

(And incidentally, where in the world are you?)

I should probably change my name to "EricLosAngeles" because that's where I moved to... As for Maryland, I think they are one of those teams (like tOSU and Duke) who are just really bad matchups, unlike say Depaul, ND, FSU and maybe even USF. Those teams seem to give UCONN closer games than other top teams do...

Having said that, I predict a "closer" game - maybe an 18-20 point win for UCONN. This is not a game where we will slaughter them.

 

[Teacherdeb]

I'll get that info about the 18th best recruiting class, but in the meantime here is a comparison of MD's players compared to UConn's players based on where each player ranked in their respective recruiting class. For instance, for UConn's starters below, Stewart was a #1 recruit, MoJeff was a #2 and so on for their staters and for their first two players that come off the bench and the same thing for MD's players.

UConn starters: #'s 1, 2, 6, 14, 33 First two off the bench: 1, 6
MD starters: #'s 8, 26, 43, 55, +100 First two off the bench: 55, 70

As you can UConn has a lot more talent than MD. The average number for UConn's 7 players average ranking number is 9 while MD's average player number ranking is 51. I think this certainly indicates that MD's recruiting ranking is no better than 18th.

Thomas was a great player, but not in the category of single handily carrying a team. And as I said, MD beat a higher seed Loiusville on their home court showing Brenda can beat Walz in the big game.

Regarding Lexie and Brenda getting in a fight and you indicating that is why she left, you're wrong again. First where do you come up with these things. Please show some support for a change about them fighting. Second, here is Lexie's quote about why she left and after being on Duke's team. "I didn't expect a lot of people to understand why I decided to leave,'' Brown said. ''As long as everyone here (at Duke) understands. My mom's been up here four times. That's so important for me. She's even in the stands when I'm not playing. She'll be at the South Carolina game. It's worth it to me to see her and my little siblings in the stands.''

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/using-fund-transfer-travels-duke-team-during-off-201359849--ncaaw.html

You know what, all you do is make outrageous statements without providing any support, even when your challenged to do so. Seems like you just make things up.

Let's go back to the year Maryland won the National Championship- as I recall, that team had 3 outstanding freshman- and I remember thinking, WOW, and that we were screwed for the next 3 years. Then...nothing- yeah yeah, I know they went to the tournament, but they should have done better. What happened? Well Walz left, and proceeded to do pretty well at Louisville, so one might conclude he had a little to do with that. Brenda is irritating to watch and listen to, but entertaining, and certainly has done more that the Duke chick. That situation is an even bigger mystery, and leads me to appreciate Geno and CD even more. I think it's the combination of 2 basketball geniuses that explains UCONN

 

[Outside Shot]

For the record, Walz didn't leave right after Maryland won the national championship. He was on staff one more year. We live in a society where so many want to give out credit to this person or that person. It's a team effort- win or lose.

 

[Bigpetunia]

In the FF game last year, Geno elected to play MD (a team that still boasted Lexie Brown) man-to-man, and, to my surprise, the Terps nearly broke the 60 point line. I have a suspicion that he will go this time with the stifling zone that has been so effective lately, and hold them to something fewer. Brenda is a pretty good coach with a pretty good team, but the record they've compiled thus far against the Little Sisters of the Poor is meaningless given what they will be up against next week. She says she knows what to expect, and I expect she does!

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Let's go back to the year Maryland won the National Championship- as I recall, that team had 3 outstanding freshman- and I remember thinking, WOW, and that we were screwed for the next 3 years. Then...nothing- yeah yeah, I know they went to the tournament, but they should have done better. What happened? Well Walz left, and proceeded to do pretty well at Louisville, so one might conclude he had a little to do with that. Brenda is irritating to watch and listen to, but entertaining, and certainly has done more that the Duke chick. That situation is an even bigger mystery, and leads me to appreciate Geno and CD even more. I think it's the combination of 2 basketball geniuses that explains UCONN

The championship team had two freshmen (Coleman and Toliver), two sophomores (Langhorne and Harper) and a junior (Shay Doron). The year after we won the Terps lost in the round of 32. Then they went to two straight elite 8 games before the two freshmen graduated.

 

[triaddukefan]

Let's go back to the year Maryland won the National Championship- as I recall, that team had 3 outstanding freshman- and I remember thinking, WOW, and that we were screwed for the next 3 years. Then...nothing- yeah yeah, I know they went to the tournament, but they should have done better. What happened? Well Walz left, and proceeded to do pretty well at Louisville, so one might conclude he had a little to do with that. Brenda is irritating to watch and listen to, but entertaining, and certainly has done more that the Duke chick. That situation is an even bigger mystery, and leads me to appreciate Geno and CD even more. I think it's the combination of 2 basketball geniuses that explains UCONN

Look here Miss..... you dont see any Duke posters disrespecting UCONN players... coaches... mascots.... so no need for you to disrespect our WCBB coach. Her name is Joanne McCallie.. not that "Duke chick". I would say more.. but.... 1) its the holiday season and 2) dont want the dreaded mod edit

 

[Willie E.Gold]

So, yesterday, Maryland spanked Maryland Eastern Shore by 76. Final score: 106-30. Their record now stands at 11-0. They're now off for a week before meeting up with UConn on Monday the 28th at MSG.

These are Brenda's exact words after their recent victory, "We needed our nonconference to grow as a team, to get our feet wet. We're ready now. We understand we're going into UConn and conference play and we know what to expect." [LINK]

Obviously, they are playing well. Brenda is a good coach, and since she knows what to expect, and is ready, what should we do?

With LSU pretty beat up, I think it is safe to assume UConn improves to 10-0 tonight. But then, what about next week? Who goes home with the "and 1" record, UConn or Maryland?

This could be a tough one.

 

[jsloanjr]

MD's only hope is UCONN misses their bus ride from the hotel or gets stuck in traffic in NYC.....If not, playing their schedule again will be exposed early and often against UCONN....UCONN by 25+........The Garden will rock with UCONN in NYC........

 

[Teacherdeb]

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Look here Miss..... you dont see any Duke posters disrespecting UCONN players... coaches... mascots.... so no need for you to disrespect our WCBB coach. Her name is Joanne McCallie.. not that "Duke chick". I would say more.. but.... 1) its the holiday season and 2) dont want the dreaded mod edit

Yeah, I knew when I called her that I'd annoy someone- actually I really liked Coach McCallie when she was at Maine and Michigan State and followed both teams, and when she went to Duke I figured she'd do well- I am still baffled by what has happened there. You're right, I should have been more respectful.

 

[Teacherdeb]

For the record, Walz didn't leave right after Maryland won the national championship. He was on staff one more year. We live in a society where so many want to give out credit to this person or that person. It's a team effort- win or lose.

Hey, I didn't say they won because of Walz- my point was that 2 good coaches are better than one

 

[Teacherdeb]

The championship team had two freshmen (Coleman and Toliver), two sophomores (Langhorne and Harper) and a junior (Shay Doron). The year after we won the Terps lost in the round of 32. Then they went to two straight elite 8 games before the two freshmen graduated.

Thanks- I knew someone would clarify- still mystified why that group didn't do better- and didn't Geno want Harper? I wasn't paying close attention back then

 

[arty155]

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Look here Miss..... you dont see any Duke posters disrespecting UCONN players... coaches... mascots.... so no need for you to disrespect our WCBB coach. ...Her name is Joanne McCallie.. not that "Duke chick"...

SOS! Another DOOKIE in Distress !!! Feeling the stress!!!

 

[WestCoastFan]

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Look here Miss..... you dont see any Duke posters disrespecting UCONN players... coaches... mascots.... so no need for you to disrespect our WCBB coach. Her name is Joanne McCallie.. not that "Duke chick". I would say more.. but.... 1) its the holiday season and 2) dont want the dreaded mod edit

"Duke Lady" acceptable? BTW, I thought it was Joeanne P. McCallie?

Anybody know what the P. stands for?...And be nice.

 

[HuskyNan]

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Anybody know what the P. stands for?...And be nice.

Joanne Palombo McCallie. I believe Palombo is her maiden name.

 

[watanabe]

Hope they keep it close with their threes.
Love seeing the team rise to a challenge and then just put it away.
Great to say, that was a good game, did you see ______ do that?!!
Of course it always helps to win......

 

[WestCoastFan]

Joanne Palombo McCallie. I believe Palombo is her maiden name.

Hope so. If not, her middle name rivals mine in requiring multiple explanations. Thx Nan.

 

[turtlespeed]

Speculation deleted

[response to speculation deleted]

BTW, you said I was wrong stating that MD was the 18th ranked school in recruiting. Here is the list prepared by fivethirtyeight.com.

School Women's
CONNECTICUT 366,709
TENNESSEE 280,321
DUKE 193,349
SOUTH CAROLINA 164,889
NOTRE DAME 148,107
NORTH CAROLINA 92,390
RUTGERS 81,261
UCLA 80,823
GEORGIA TECH 79,994
TEXAS 69,970
STANFORD 64,723
CALIFORNIA 61,136
USC 52,917
KENTUCKY 52,405
TEXAS A&M 50,809
LOUISVILLE 43,114
LSU 42,867
MARYLAND 40,170
BAYLOR 33,109
OHIO STATE 32,497
OKLAHOMA 28,023
VANDERBILT 26,249
NORTHWESTERN 25,080
VIRGINIA 22,956
FLORIDA 21,758

 

[WestCoastFan]

Why not table the back-and-forth until after the game. Then, Fights-On!!

 

[Zorro]

With regard to McCallie, I see no reason to respect a coach who shows so little respect for her players.