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Iowa (17) @ Minnesota (18) - 1/14/19

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Iowa women's basketball: Hawkeyes searching for road gold as they trek to Minnesota
Iowa’s biggest road woe? Well, it’s the issue that usually appears when the Hawkeyes stumble — not enough help, outside of Megan Gustafson. In its two conference road games, Iowa is shooting 20 percent from deep (7-for-35) and has had just one double-figure performance from a guard.
A small sample size? Sure. But it’s no secret that Iowa needs much more than its all-American post to slog through the Big Ten grind.
“You can’t stop shooting,” Bluder said, “but maybe you don’t take the first one that you look at — maybe you wait until you have that in-out opportunity. We’ve got shooters on this team; they’ve got to figure out their mojo.
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Minnesota has experienced much of the same up-and-down play inside the Big Ten. The Golden Gophers roared to a 12-0 start, climbed as high as No. 13 in the Coaches Poll, then dropped three straight conference games.
Minnesota should be raring to go this week, though. Led by Kenisha Bell and Destiny Pitts, the Gophers have Iowa at their place in front of an ESPN2 audience. Former Minnesota and WNBA standout Lindsay Whalen has got Williams Arena rocking in her first year as head coach.
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From Charlie's latest bracketology article:

The Golden Gophers are out of the field this week. That might surprise people, as Minnesota was still ranking in the Top 25 heading into the week. The Gophers were expected to compete for a Big Ten championship. Despite a 12-3 record, Minnesota has done very little. The Gophers' only significant win is a home victory over Syracuse. Their nonconference schedule was shockingly poor (276 strength-of-schedule ranking), with Boston College as the only other top-100 opponent. The Gophers' RPI of 83 ranks better than that of Georgia, but the Lady Dogs are trending in the right direction. Minnesota is 1-3 in the Big Ten, with two of those losses coming by double digits.
 
Gustafson has 11 points in the first 6 minutes of the game. Iowa leads, 18-14.
 
23-19 Iowa end of first

I guess Gustafson got tired of all that scoring, so they sat her for a couple of minutes in the quarter.
She finishes quarter with 13 pts, 3 reb

Bell with 8 pts, 1 ast
 
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Nice run for MIN

29-26 MIN 3 min into second

Noticing Gustafson doesn't do much on the defensive side. Keep going at her.
 
Shades said:
Nice run for MIN

29-26 MIN 3 min into second

Noticing Gustafson doesn't do much on the defensive side. Keep going at her.
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Minnesota switched to a zone and it completely changed the momentum of the game.

Gustafson's glaring weakness is defense. She's very conservative and mainly tries to avoid foul trouble.
 
I didn't know that Kenisha Bell was a transfer from Marquette. Imagine how formidable they'd have been the past two years if she'd stayed.
 
40-32 MIN at the half

Held Gustafson to two points in the second quarter.
 
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Minny is running out of time. 4+ minutes left ...
 
What a turnaround for Iowa in the 2nd half. From an 8-point halftime deficit to a 15-point lead midway through 4Q.

Gustafson is right about at her averages, 25 points and 12 rebounds.
 
Elsewhere in the Big Ten: more carnage for ranked teams. Ohio State is leading Michigan State, 53-41 in 4Q. This could be OSU's 2nd consecutive win over an AP top 25 team.
 
Antonelli has taken 5 minutes or so to lecture the WBB world on how unfair it is that UConn knows where it will be for the regional, but other teams don't. I find her irritating, so say the least.
 
Gustafson finishes with 34 points and 13 rebounds. What a performance. Apparently a large portion of her tiny hometown of Port Wing, Wisconsin, made the trip to Minneapolis to watch this game (about 200 miles away).

I'll remind people that she was ranked #80 by Hoopgurlz coming out of high school.

Minnesota, meanwhile, is reeling from their 4th consecutive loss after starting the season 12-0.
 
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Bad game plan by Whalen. You can't expect Lamke to handle Gustafson by herself. There should have been ball denial of some sort. There wasn't much of that happening.
 
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The last minute of tOSU-MSU is gonna take about 10 minutes. Buckeyes need to keep hitting FTs. Sparty cut a double digit deficit down to 6.
 
Plebe said:
I'll remind people that she was ranked #80 by Hoopgurlz coming out of high school.
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There are a bunch of examples of this. The notion that someone has to be ranked in the top 20 or top 10 according to the "experts" in order to be an impact player has been proven false numerous times.
 
nwhoopfan said:
The last minute of tOSU-MSU is gonna take about 10 minutes. Buckeyes need to keep hitting FTs. Sparty cut a double digit deficit down to 6.
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Michigan State has had a UConn-like shooting night, only 30% on FGs and 11-19 from the FT line. Also, two of MSU's starters (Gaines and Clouden) have fouled out.

Ohio State has missed 12 free throws; otherwise, this game wouldn't be nearly as close as it is.
 
Buckeyes salt it away. Big 10 is a mess so far.
 
BigBird said:
Antonelli has taken 5 minutes or so to lecture the WBB world on how unfair it is that UConn knows where it will be for the regional, but other teams don't. I find her irritating, so say the least.
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Agree... Didn't think this was the time nor place for her to be throwing daggers at NCAA and their placement of Regionals. Her idea of Sweet 16 in one place has merit, but I suspect you run into logistics issues for teams, gyms, hotels for fans, etc... not that it can't be worked out. She clearly has an issue with UCONN...but who else goes to Albany....and who else would want to.
 
Wins by unranked over ranked teams in the first 3 weeks of Big Ten play:
  1. Rutgers over Maryland.
  2. Michigan over Minnesota.
  3. Northwestern over Michigan State.
  4. Illinois over Minnesota.
  5. Indiana over Michigan State.
  6. Purdue over Iowa.
  7. Ohio State over Indiana.
  8. Ohio State over Michigan State.
 
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Plebe said:
Minnesota switched to a zone and it completely changed the momentum of the game.

Gustafson's glaring weakness is defense. She's very conservative and mainly tries to avoid foul trouble.
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Once she stayed out of foul trouble since they need he on the court, she could go full steam on the defensive end in the 4th Q. She had 3 blocks. Some quite impressive. She also had a real nice high post reversal drive which was quite a move. I hope she can make the transition to the next level. A real testament to hard work.
 
BigBird said:
Antonelli has taken 5 minutes or so to lecture the WBB world on how unfair it is that UConn knows where it will be for the regional, but other teams don't. I find her irritating, so say the least.
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She's only pointing out, rightly enough, that UCONN fans can order tickets knowing where their team will likely be, and other fans can't. This is likely true and the reason she want's to see the final 16 in the NCAA's in one spot. Other top teams (Baylor, Louisville,) don't know which regional they'll be in; a legitimate beef in my opinion. I'm just not sure her solution is better: it solves the ticket problem, but creates others.
 
Plebe said:
Gustafson finishes with 34 points and 13 rebounds. What a performance. Apparently a large portion of her tiny hometown of Port Wing, Wisconsin, made the trip to Minneapolis to watch this game (about 200 miles away).

I'll remind people that she was ranked #80 by Hoopgurlz coming out of high school.

Minnesota, meanwhile, is reeling from their 4th consecutive loss after starting the season 12-0.
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Minn played better than I thought they would but I still think they have not earned their top 25 rank.
Iowa played a great second half after a sloppy 1st half. Big 10 is wide open and whodda thunk MCGuff would have tOSU beating Mich St? The Big10 is bizarro world...:confused:
 
mudcat said:
She's only pointing out, rightly enough, that UCONN fans can order tickets knowing where their team will likely be, and other fans can't. This is likely true and the reason she want's to see the final 16 in the NCAA's in one spot. Other top teams (Baylor, Louisville,) don't know which regional they'll be in; a legitimate beef in my opinion. I'm just not sure her solution is better: it solves the ticket problem, but creates others.
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I want to like Deb but honestly, just like the WNBA players, she is not aware of the state of the game in the public consciousness. This is not MBB or Football. Most All the other NCAA sports play their rounds at the higher seeds #1, #2, #3...etc until the semis. Softball/Baseball have a Superregional at the higher seed. For the most the 1st/2nd Rds do well at the top 16 school sites. The attendance out west and even in Texas for the Sweet 16 game series has not been good. Even hosting at Rupp Arena has been abysmal.
Albany/Bridgeport bid on the games because they sell out and the host school and venue can make money. The real issue is there’s not another top team in the Northeast like in Men’s BB so there is no uncertainty like in Chicago or the South or our West with 2/3 schools vying for top seeds.
 
DefenseBB said:
I want to like Deb but honestly, just like the WNBA players, she is not aware of the state of the game in the public consciousness. This is not MBB or Football. Most All the other NCAA sports play their rounds at the higher seeds #1, #2, #3...etc until the semis. Softball/Baseball have a Superregional at the higher seed. For the most the 1st/2nd Rds do well at the top 16 school sites. The attendance out west and even in Texas for the Sweet 16 game series has not been good. Even hosting at Rupp Arena has been abysmal.
Albany/Bridgeport bid on the games because they sell out and the host school and venue can make money. The real issue is there’s not another top team in the Northeast like in Men’s BB so there is no uncertainty like in Chicago or the South or our West with 2/3 schools vying for top seeds.
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Didn't you just list all the problems her proposal seeks to solve?
 
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