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It was kinda crazy to watch last night. Not the buckets although she has some great euros, but the steals. Once again I know it's only pre season. But Graves may be starting the wrong guards I fear.

 
Stagnant said:
I watched 3 quarters of the Iowa exhibition game. Hard to reach any conclusions given the opponent.

I will say. Michigan and Iowa are the only teams I have really watched so far. And Iowa looked more polished than Michigan. They actually ran some sets.
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Iowa looked pretty decent. Michigan didn't look too bad. Just needs to figure out their identity.
 
Iowa seemed like a team that had a lot of players that can hit a shot from the perimeter.
 
cancontent said:
FYI for the Maryland fans. A couple redshirts for this season, but one is for development reasons per this SB Nation article.

www.testudotimes.com

Two Maryland women’s basketball players to redshirt 2024-25 season

Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu and Breanna Williams have chosen to redshirt the 2024-25 season.
www.testudotimes.com www.testudotimes.com
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IOM wasn't a surprise because she is coming off an ACL injury. Williams was a little surprising but make sense for one reason. The Terps 2025 class is just one player. This way the Terps indirectly add two player to that class.
 
TerpWomenFan said:
IOM wasn't a surprise because she is coming off an ACL injury. Williams was a little surprising but make sense for one reason. The Terps 2025 class is just one player. This way the Terps indirectly add two player to that class.
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Considering the article notes she wasn't going to see much playing time, the redshirt also lets her retain her full eligibility versus losing it.

I like the approach as it gives her a chance to develop and be ready to prover herself next season. Personally, I would have liked to have seen Bostock do this instead of enrolling early in 2022-2023. Joining the team midway felt like she was short-changing herself.

Sometimes I wonder why programs don't do this more often. Is it a cost factor? No idea but it's something that I wonder about on occasion.
 
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jdote33 said:
It was kinda crazy to watch last night. Not the buckets although she has some great euros, but the steals. Once again I know it's only pre season. But Graves may be starting the wrong guards I fear.

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Monday night versus a tournament team in Cal Baptist will be interesting. New players Mevius, Fiso, and Etute were most impressive in the exhibition. Speed, defense, disruption, shooting %. No doubt Graves will go with the "experience" factor with Deja Kelly, Sofia Bell, and Payton Scott. But those young guns are exciting. Both Kelly and Kyei were limited in the exhibition due to recent leg problems. I expect they will play. There was an offhand comment in a Graves interview that transfer Salimatou Kourouma may be looking at a career ending situation. Not sure I caught it exactly.
 
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cancontent said:
Considering the article notes she wasn't going to see much playing time, the redshirt also lets her retain her full eligibility versus losing it.

I like the approach as it gives her a chance to develop and be ready to prover herself next season. Personally, I would have liked to have seen Bostock do this instead of enrolling early in 2022-2023. Joining the team midway felt like she was short-changing herself.

Sometimes I wonder why programs don't do this more often. Is it a cost factor? No idea but it's something that I wonder about on occasion.
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Brenda botched the Summer Bostock playing time. She was good enough to play several minutes per game and she refused to play her. There were several games where Brenda played walk-ons before she put Summer in the game. I wish Summer well at her new college.
 
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Ironically an upcoming Canada Basketball camp impacts 2 BIG10 teams. Considering it's during the non-conference portion of the season, I get it. It will likely be about a week.
 
TerpWomenFan said:
Brenda botched the Summer Bostock playing time. She was good enough to play several minutes per game and she refused to play her. There were several games where Brenda played walk-ons before she put Summer in the game. I wish Summer well at her new college.
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I agree on the playing time part. Personally, I wasn't a fan of her enrolling early. Will be making the effort to watch a few Houston games this season.
 
Bostock scored 5 points in her debut for Houston. Glad she is getting an opportunity to show what she can do at Houston. Gigi Cooke another former Terp scored 18 points. Lately, Brenda has been criticized for not getting her freshmen playing time.
 
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12au said:
Looking at title odds Ohio State jumped out at 500/1
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Title odds are so strange.in draftkings they are the same as Oklahoma+10000.

I watched a bit of Iowa last night. They looked pretty good. Lucy is so solid and so is the rest of the team. I'll be interested to see how they do Sunday against Virginia Tech.

I also caught a little bit of Oregon. Fell asleep being on the east Coast but it may have been a top 3 deja Kelly game in terms of efficiency. I think I'll definitely bet on them vs Baylor and Iowa vs VTech. Go big ten!
 
Iowa looked fine yesterday. Played a bad first quarter. They were probably a little nervous.

They don’t seem to have a lot of options if they want to rest Lucy. Not a lot of options they are confident in anyway.
 
For those who have BIG10+, I highly recommend checking out the Indiana-Harvard game.

Game has gone into OT with Harvard up by one with 1:40 to go. Entertaining game to view when you have time regardless how this ends.
 
Stagnant said:
Early opinion. Michigan and Iowa will both be better than Indiana.
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Very early, but I could see that. Congrats to Harvard though for sticking to their game and winning in OT.
 
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Stagnant said:
Early opinion. Michigan and Iowa will both be better than Indiana.
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Easily. It would not surprise me if this was the year that Indiana failed to make the NCAA Tournament.

The loss of Mackenzie Holmes is something they were going to have to contend with the best they could, and I'm sure they knew that replacing her would be nearly impossible. However, the loss of Sara Scalia (also to graduation) is something that they may not have anticipated having as huge an effect on them. I said it in the spring (when the transfer happened), but Shay Ciezki is not an adequate replacement for Scalia. She's too short, a poor ballhandler and defender (I understand that Scalia was not a great defender, either, but she did improve from her first to second seasons at IU), and is too streaky a shooter. I hope that Teri Moren has another plan up her sleeve because this ain't it. They do have injuries on the perimeter, so maybe help is on the way when those players (who fit more of the IU guard mold--taller and better defensively) return.

That said, Harvard absolutely deserved to win. Carrie Moore is a rising star of a coach and Harmoni Turner is the real deal.
 
Scalia turned herself into an okay defender. And that is definitely good enough since she was also one of the best shooters in the country last year (top 10 imo).

Indiana has a smaller margin for error now. They can't afford for someone like Parrish to have an off night. And that is exactly what happened yesterday.

The last couple of seasons. Indiana was really great. They had great crowds. They had all americans. They were fun to watch. You have to take advantage of that in recruiting. And I don't think Indiana did that.
 
Stagnant said:
The last couple of seasons. Indiana was really great. They had great crowds. They had all americans. They were fun to watch. You have to take advantage of that in recruiting. And I don't think Indiana did that.
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Didn't break through to a Final 4 either, despite many projecting them to do that a couple of seasons. Might be a long time before they are anywhere close to that level again.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Didn't break through to a Final 4 either, despite many projecting them to do that a couple of seasons. Might be a long time before they are anywhere close to that level again.
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They really blew their best opportunity in 2023 when they lost to Miami on their home floor. They were the #2 overall seed and had a legitimate path to Dallas with Utah and LSU as the other top seeds in their region (yes LSU won the title but I think that would have been a highly competitive game).

The thing that baffles me is how few ranked recruits Indiana lands despite being a consistent NCAA tournament team with a very good coach and excellent fan support in a great college town.
 
Last year the draw was bad for Indiana. But they gave South Carolina maybe their most competitive ncaa tournament game.
 
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cancontent said:
For those who have BIG10+, I highly recommend checking out the Indiana-Harvard game.

Game has gone into OT with Harvard up by one with 1:40 to go. Entertaining game to view when you have time regardless how this ends.
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Kudos to Carrie Moore who was an assistant coach here in Ann Arbor for a hot second before heading to Harvard.
 
DRR25 said:
Kudos to Carrie Moore who was an assistant coach here in Ann Arbor for a hot second before heading to Harvard.
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If I'm Northwestern, I'm sending her a blank check after the season.
 
Stagnant said:
Last year the draw was bad for Indiana. But they gave South Carolina maybe their most competitive ncaa tournament game.
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That was one of the team's big blown leads down the stretch last year.

Up 20+ at one point.

Trended towards one on one play sometimes in those situations.
 
Minnesota with the help of the Killer B's (Battle and Braun) beat Vermont. Battle and Braun are a nice 1-2 punch. Minnesota just lacks a lot of quickness & skill development.
 
That Harvard team Indiana lost to? Now about to lose by 20 to Quinnipiac...
 
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