First Day of Games (11/7/)

[Jmsdawg]

IMO, South Carolina is going to be better this year, Raven Johnson is the real deal. Going to be hard to beat!

 

[cancontent]

Saw that Diamond Miller was held out of the second half of yesterday's game. Hoping that whatever happened wasn't serious. Pulling for her to have a healthy season this year. And they have South Carolina Thursday night.

 

[Rb335]

Big East goes 8-0 on the opening day of play. Doesn’t mean much but good to see teams in the conference winning the games they should.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Let's see how she does against Tennessee and South Carolina.

She did just fine last year.

20/10 7/19 shooting.

Now, SCar has a lot more to throw at her this year.

Looking at box, I forgot how ugly the Maryland-SCar game was with SCar using Amihere at point and Osuwu having a really day.

 

[Iluvacc2]

Saw that Diamond Miller was held out of the second half of yesterday's game. Hoping that whatever happened wasn't serious. Pulling for her to have a healthy season this year. And they have South Carolina Thursday night.

She went down with an apparent knee injury, Brenda said they held her out of the second half as precaution, but waiting for further evaluation this week. A height challenged Terps roster desperately needs her to play.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Opening Day/Night scorers with 30 points or more, D1.

2022-23​	Callie Cavanaugh​	Fairfield​	36​
2022-23​	Cayla King​	Virginia Tech​	33​
2022-23​	Amoria Neal-Tysor​	Mercer​	32​
2022-23​	Sam Breen​	Massachusetts​	31​
2022-23​	Angel Reese​	LSU​	31​
2022-23​	Harmoni Turner​	Harvard​	31​
2022-23​	Trinity San Antonio​	California Baptist​	31​
2022-23​	Lauren Jensen​	Creighton​	30​

 

[azfan]

This one is going down to the wire, must be a nail biter.

edit--NAU down 1 w/ the ball, 14 seconds left. Entertaining game. ASU is in for a long long season.

Fun matchup between the guards. Junior ASU point guard Jadden Simmons was dominant on both ends of the court. Game high score but her defense and rebounding was really evident.

Senior point guard Reagan Schenck had a double-double including 13 assists. She played the full 40 minutes and really demonstrated her experience and quickness.

The Devil's overcame a three-point deficit in the final minute to hold on and win. NAU coach Loree Payne has to be pleased with this effort. As you recall last year the lumberjacks were in the top 10 in three-point shooting and one of their ace outside Marksman Emily Rodebaugh was one for 12. That's not going to happen much during the season so it'll be interesting how far Payne can take this team.

Huge difference under new coach Natasha Adair. The trademark CTT line change was absent as Adair had a 7 deep rotation. Adair is in a really tough position having gotten the job late she had to fill holes on the roster through the portal. Three of the bigs that Adair brought with her are not ready for prime time and were really not in basketball shape. NAU outrebounded the Sun devils, out hustled the Sun Devils, and if not for the heroics of Jadden Simmons would have lost. While the Sun Devils have a cupcake non-conference schedule I wouldn't be surprised for them to be under .500 entering Pac play, this could be a 20 loss team.

The contrast yesterday with the afternoon game I attended over at Grand Canyon demonstrated an amazing facility perfectly suited for basketball, huge student turnout that was enthusiastic, and a really well produced event.

Over in Tempe ASU Sun Devils played after the men. While there was a huge student turnout they were there to get swag and setting aside those merchandise seekers it was another tiny attendance with a very vocal NAU contingent behind the visitor bench.

Super fun day although I'm a little tired from the drive down and back. It was totally worth it.

In an interesting schedule ASU travels over to Phoenix to play the Grand Canyon Lopes on November 30h. Although the Lopes don't have the size that the Devils present, given the lack of conditioning and the amazing speed that Molly Miller can put on the court I would mark this as an upset special.

This is really hilarious. ASU President Michael Crow said ASU would never play Grand Canyon due to their for-profit status. Another exemplar of the somewhat self-aggrandizing philosophy of the ASU president. Crow was in the news recently for the governor debategate fiasco.

 

[triaddukefan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

I thought everybody agreed Iowa is defensively. What is this?

 

[triaddukefan]

I thought everybody agreed Iowa is defensively. What is this?

Maybe Southern is just a offensive team.

 

[BruinGold]

Osborne might not be quite ready to take a supporting role at UCLA just yet. 20 pts/9 reb/5 assists in their season opener. Rice had 12 pts/7 assists. Have Bessoir and Maskiwech ever both been healthy at the same time? I'm thinking no.

Masikewich has basically never been healthy. She played in parts of two games last year, and a total of nine in her career. UCLA has two posts out with injury right now and still was able to field two and three bigs at a time AND rotate them! Crazy stuff in Pauley. All of the freshmen looked pretty good (Rice/Jaquez/Iwuala/Jones/Sontag) against Cal Poly, but the return of Bessoir and the ability of Osborne to play without the ball were the real revelations. I mean, besides having an actual bench.

Last year, the "big" lineup was anytime that Anstey was in, and the small lineup was anytime Anstey was not in. (Anstey is injured currently)

 

[nwhoopfan]

Maybe Southern is just a offensive team.

Too simple of an explanation. Occam's razor?

 

[Figurehead]

In case I didn’t hint around enough last season there was a reason I was not upset by the transfers of Parrish, Scherr, and Watson. All the best to them … nice people. But…cohesion, respect, and camaraderie are so much part of the culture of a successful team.

I like this years group. Back to playing Oregon ball after a couple of so so years. They will be fun to watch.

Yeah I felt the same about the reasons too, Any solid specifics out there on why the last freshmen group was such a bust. I have heard some low level mumblings but nothing concrete that it was actually chemistry problem and some work ethic issues. This group just seems different in a good way. This new group compliments each other well and are fun to watch develop. I forgot how much I missed watching fun basketball. Btw, Northwestern looked gassed in the 4th quarter but Oregon does not lose alot in substitutions.

 

[cancontent]

Masikewich has basically never been healthy. She played in parts of two games last year, and a total of nine in her career. UCLA has two posts out with injury right now and still was able to field two and three bigs at a time AND rotate them! Crazy stuff in Pauley. All of the freshmen looked pretty good (Rice/Jaquez/Iwuala/Jones/Sontag) against Cal Poly, but the return of Bessoir and the ability of Osborne to play without the ball were the real revelations. I mean, besides having an actual bench.

Last year, the "big" lineup was anytime that Anstey was in, and the small lineup was anytime Anstey was not in. (Anstey is injured currently)

It's unfortunate as she had a lot of potential coming out of Canada and the OSBA league here. I'm rooting for her big time. I hope she gets the opportunity to play throughout the season.

 

[VA Huskie]

Enjoyed being at UVA, Coach Mox’s 1st game. 85-59 win against GW, after being down by 4 at the half. All 5 starters scored in double figures. Played a much more up tempo game than during the TIna era. Players seemed really motivated. Totally different feel from the last few years. Sam Brunelle looked ok (10 pts, 5 boards), but seemed to have difficulty creating her own shot. Mir McLean didn’t play due to injury. She appeared to have a soft cast on her right wrist/hand.

 

[triaddukefan]

Enjoyed being at UVA, Coach Mox’s 1st game. 85-59 win against GW, after being down by 4 at the half. All 5 starters scored in double figures. Played a much more up tempo game than during the TIna era. Players seemed really motivated. Totally different feel from the last few years. Sam Brunelle looked ok (10 pts, 5 boards), but seemed to have difficulty creating her own shot. Mir McLean didn’t play due to injury. She appeared to have a soft cast on her right wrist/hand.

Yall would have lost that game last season.

 

[Floridaduck]

Yeah I felt the same about the reasons too, Any solid specifics out there on why the last freshmen group was such a bust. I have heard some low level mumblings but nothing concrete that it was actually chemistry problem and some work ethic issues. This group just seems different in a good way. This new group compliments each other well and are fun to watch develop. I forgot how much I missed watching fun basketball. Btw, Northwestern looked gassed in the 4th quarter but Oregon does not lose alot in substitutions.

You need gym rats and I think VanSlooten, Tsai, and Gray are. That is one difference.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Should I be worried that the same Hawaii team that took Oregon St. to the wire just got thumped by Portland?

 

[triaddukefan]

I thought Jackson State was supposed to be good. They got the brakes beaten offa them by 30 down in Chapel Hill.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I thought Jackson State was supposed to be good. They got the brakes beaten offa them by 30 down in Chapel Hill.

Can't be because that team you can't name is good, right?

 

[nwhoopfan]

So...Oregon St. wasn't very good last year. They had a bunch of outgoing transfers after the season. 2 started the first game for Duke, 1 started the first game for Michigan, and I'm expecting another to be a starter for Texas. I don't think there was a lack of talent in Corvallis. Not sure exactly what went wrong.

 

[SECbbfan24]

I thought Jackson State was supposed to be good. They got the brakes beaten offa them by 30 down in Chapel Hill.

They will probably end up being decent down the road but they truly lost a lot between losing Rogan and Williams-Holiday. I watched briefly but definitely didn't look like the team I watched last year. Chemistry looked much different.

 

[Plebe]

Should I be worried that the same Hawaii team that took Oregon St. to the wire just got thumped by Portland?

I saw the Pilots were picked 2nd in the WCC preseason poll, so maybe they're just a good team.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I saw the Pilots were picked 2nd in the WCC preseason poll, so maybe they're just a good team.

I like UP. Fowler has been a stud since Day 1 and now she's a Sr. Cochrane was a nice pickup as a transfer. I think the Pilots are a good team. The knock was more against Oregon St. than Portland.

Although...even in the midst of their dark ages, Washington has regularly beaten the snot out of WCC teams, including upper half of the conference teams San Diego, Portland and BYU.

 

[cancontent]

I thought Jackson State was supposed to be good. They got the brakes beaten offa them by 30 down in Chapel Hill.

They're one of the few teams who put together a challenging non-conference schedule. They'll likely have a few of these games but will be better for it by the end of the season.