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Tell me about the NEW Big Ten

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Maryland has had a good opening to their season capped off by their win over Duke this afternoon. The interesting thing is the Terps are using an 8 player rotation and DeBerry is not one of the 8 players. With Dalce in foul trouble (14 rebounds), I'm surprised Brenda didn't use her some in this game.
 
TerpWomenFan said:
Maryland has had a good opening to their season capped off by their win over Duke this afternoon. The interesting thing is the Terps are using an 8 player rotation and DeBerry is not one of the 8 players. With Dalce in foul trouble (14 rebounds), I'm surprised Brenda didn't use her some in this game.
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Really nice win for Maryland. They were excellent attacking the basket.

Duke looked rough offensively—I’ve shocked they got to 80 points with how many point blank layups they missed. Fournier reminds me a lot of Angel Reese in that she’s physical, active on the glass and athletic but not a great finisher. Donovan also blew so many open layups. If they finish better it’s a closer game. Margin was 5 but Maryland was pretty much in full control wire to wire
 
Two things can be true. Good win for Maryland. And a bad loss for Duke.

And I am sorry to say that I noticed Deberry didn’t play.
 
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