Week 10 games (Jan. 25-31)

[nwhoopfan]

New Mexico wins a 82-80 shootout w/ Fresno St. Mountain West race looks intriguing w/ these 2 and Colorado St. (Boise St. seems to have taken themselves out of contention).

 

[nwhoopfan]

NAU with another uninspired performance on the road at greeley. Northern Colorado leading 30 to 17 with a little over 4 minutes left in the half. I'm sure Loree Payne is pulling her hair out wondering what happened to defensive energy and intensity with her squad. And a team that started off the year gangbuster shooting has been in a horrific shooting slump got a month.

They were down big but have closed to within 1 in the closing seconds of the game.

edit--too bad, 59-54 final

 

[nwhoopfan]

Pacific hanging w/ Gonzaga 17-14 early in Q2.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gonzaga running away now 36-20.

edit--now 45-21 at the half; 32-9 in Q2

 

[azfan]

I don't know what's harder to believe: that it's already the last week of January, or that it's already the tenth week of the season.

But I digress. This week's slate starts off with some intriguing gems, with the Maryland-Ohio State garnering marquee status. Maryland has been mostly cruising through challengers big and small since taking an early L to Missouri State. Ohio State, paying no attention to the doubters such as myself, has gone undefeated thus far, including an impressive road win to end Iowa's 3-year-long home court streak.

Tuesday's and Wednesday's schedule features a number of under-the-radar critical clashes in some mid-major races in the Ohio Valley (Belmont–UT Martin), Mountain West (Colorado State–Boise State) and Southland (Stephen F. Austin–Abilene Christian).


Fri., Jan. 29

St. Joseph’s at UMass (1p, ESPN+)
Cal Baptist at UT Rio Grande Valley (2p, live stream)
#5 Stanford at Washington State (3p, live stream)
Colorado State at Boise State (3p, Mountain West Network)
North Dakota State at UM Kansas City (3p, live stream)

#12 Oregon at Utah (5p, P12N)
Rider at Marist (5p, ESPN3)
Florida Gulf Coast at Stetson (5p, ESPN+)
#24 South Dakota State at Denver (6p, Altitude 2)
Northern Kentucky at Milwaukee (6p, ESPN+)

Oregon State at Colorado (8p, live stream)
Arizona State at #7 UCLA (9p, P12N)


Sat., Jan. 30

Toledo at Bowling Green (12p, ESPN+)
Buffalo at Central Michigan (1p, ESPN+)
Akron at Ohio (1p, ESPN+)
Temple at Tulane (1p, ESPN+)
Delaware at Elon (1p, FloHoops)

Georgetown at Creighton (2p, FS1)
West Virginia at TCU (2p, ESPN+)
Missouri State at Valparaiso (2p, ESPN+)
Lehigh at Bucknell (2p, ESPN+)
Cal Baptist at UT Rio Grande Valley (2p)
San Diego at BYU (2p, BYUtv)
Montana State at Montana (2p, Pluto TV Channel 1056)

Florida Gulf Coast at Stetson (3p, ESPN+)
North Texas at Rice (3p, CUSA)
Sam Houston State at Stephen F. Austin (3p, ESPN+)
#16 Gonzaga at Saint Mary’s (4p, WCC Network)

Northern Kentucky at Milwaukee (5p, ESPN+)
UAB at Middle Tennessee (5p, ESPN+)
Oklahoma State at Kansas (5p, ESPN+)
#24 South Dakota State at Denver (6p, live stream)

UCF at Wichita State (8p, ESPN+)
Texas Tech at #25 Texas (8p, LHN)

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Games for the remainder of the week will be posted soon.


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Games already played:

Mon., Jan. 25

Oklahoma State at Kansas State (5p, ESPN+)
Minnesota at Penn State (6p, BTN)
Texas Southern at Mississippi Valley State (6p, YouTube). The city slickers from the Third Ward make the trek east to Itta Bena. The best commentators in the land await them. Postponed

#6 Maryland at #19 Ohio State (7p, ESPN2)
#18 Arkansas at #23 Georgia (7p, SECN)
St. John’s at Villanova (7p, FS1)
Nebraska at Illinois (8p, BTN)

Tue., Jan. 26

Miami at #1 Louisville (4p, ACCN)
Belmont at UT Martin (6p, ESPN+)
Washington at Oregon State (7p, live stream). Perhaps the most intriguing question heading into this clash of PNW titans, who are a combined 2-11 in conference play thus far, is: Which team will @nwhoopfan pull for?
TCU at #11 Baylor (8p, ESPN+)

Wed., Jan. 27

George Washington at VCU (11a, ESPN+)
Temple at #14 South Florida (4p, ESPN+). Postponed.
St. John’s at Georgetown (4p, BEDN)
Southern Illinois at Missouri State (4p, ESPN3)
Colorado State at Boise State (4p, Mountain West Network)
East Carolina at UCF (5p, ESPN+)
Central Michigan at Toledo (5:30p, ESPN+)

Stephen F. Austin at Abilene Christian (6:30p, ESPN+)
West Virginia at Texas Tech (7p, ESPN+)
Marquette at Villanova (7p, BEDN)
Butler at Creighton (7p, BEDN)
Northern Iowa at Drake (7p, ESPN+)
Bradley at Illinois State (7p, ESPN+)
Houston at Tulane (7p, ESPN+)
Ohio at Eastern Michigan (7p, ESPN+)

Nicholls at McNeese (7:30p)
Texas at Oklahoma State (7:30p, ESPN+)
Kansas at Oklahoma (8p, ESPN+)
#5 Stanford at Washington State (9:30p, P12N)

Thu., Jan. 28

Rutgers at #6 Maryland (4p, BTN). Postponed.
#3 NC State at Virginia Tech (4p, ACCNX). Can Virginia Tech finally win a game that matters? Maybe the 8th time's the charm (dedicated to @LETTERL ).
Purdue at Minnesota (5p, BTN+)

#2 UConn at #18 Arkansas (6p, ESPN2). Rescheduled from 5p (thank you @Centerstream).
#22 Northwestern at Iowa (6p, BTN)
Alabama at #13 Kentucky (6:30p, SECN)
North Carolina at #1 Louisville (7p, ACCN)
#4 South Carolina at #21 Mississippi State (7p, ESPN)

Ole Miss at Tennessee (7p, SECN+)
LSU at #23 Georgia (7p, SECN+)
Montana at Montana State (7p, Pluto TV Channel 1057). Sponsored by @triaddukefan .
Rice at North Texas (7:30p, CUSA)
Iowa State at Kansas State (7:30p, ESPN+)

#19 Ohio State at #17 Indiana (8p, BTN)
#8 Texas A&M at Auburn (8:30p, SECN)
#16 Gonzaga at Pacific (10p, WCC)

An intriguing game at 3pm MST as Idaho state travels to Phoenix to play Grand Canyon.

https://gculopes.com/watch

Molly Miller is willing to fill a Covid ravaged schedule with top level opponents.

 

[nwhoopfan]

What the heck happened to Boise St.? Clobbered by Colorado St. again, almost identical score. 75-53 this time. 4 straight losses to other conference contenders, and 3 of them were by 20+. Ouch.

 

[nwhoopfan]

An intriguing game at 3pm MST as Idaho state travels to Phoenix to play Grand Canyon.

https://gculopes.com/watch

Molly Miller is willing to fill a Covid ravaged schedule with top level opponents.

Wow, they've only gotten in 2 conference games so far? They've now played 5 Big Sky teams, maybe they should switch conferences. The WAC is a dumpster fire anyway.

Idaho St. wins 62-54, improve to 13-1 on the year. Next 6 are against Idaho, Montana and Montana St.. They have a chance to completely put the conference race to bed.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Interesting game in progress. Milwaukee is 12-0 in the Horizona and 15-1 overall. Northern Kentucky is also undefeated in the Horizon, but only 4-0, and winless out of the conference (4-5 overall). NKU with a double digit lead approaching halftime, 32-16. I'd have to say this is unexpected.

 

[DaBball]

What the heck happened to Boise St.? Clobbered by Colorado St. again, almost identical score. 75-53 this time. 4 straight losses to other conference contenders, and 3 of them were by 20+. Ouch.

Well they did lose their two leading scorers (and three of their top four), plus their PG who was one of the nation’s leader in assists.

Those losses, plus starting three freshman, typically mean a rebuilding year.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Well they did lose their two leading scorers (and three of their top four), plus their PG who was one of the nation’s leader in assists.

Those losses, plus starting three freshman, typically mean a rebuilding year.

That's a lot to lose. I meant what happened from earlier in the year, when they appeared to be fine.

Anyway Loville has blossomed into a scorer and McGwire is solid, Mark is putting up good numbers for a freshman.


Man, Loville, yet another Seattle area player who didn't stay home, who's turned into a good player. UW sure could use a scorer like her. If I had a penny for every local player that left that I've lamented, I'd have a lot of pennies!

Yeah, that PG w/ high assist numbers was also Seattle area and the #1 and #4 scorers were from Central and Eastern Washington.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Charlotte and Western Kentucky going into 3 OT! Tied at 90.


Milwaukee had cut a 14 point halftime deficit down to 3, but now it's up to 10 again.

 

[Lorcan]

Rough stretch for IUPUI who was 6-0 in the Horizon before running into the buzzsaw that was Milwaukee last week, and then dropping another one to Green Bay tonight. It seems like the Horizon is Milwaukee's to lose this year; although, Northern Kentucky is still unbeaten in conference play so in theory they could catch up.

 

[Plebe]

This is mainly why I've stopped trying to post listings for more than a few days out. I believe it was Wednesday when I posted games for today, and at latest count four of those games have since been postponed or canceled (not to mention all the games that had already been nixed before Wednesday).

Anyway, I greatly appreciate all the people who regularly chime in with the latest updates in this scheduling chaos.

I find it interesting that the South Dakota State–Denver matchup in the Summit League is being canceled outright, as opposed to postponed. There will be no attempt to make it up, I guess.

SDSU Men’s and Women’s basketball at Denver cancelled

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Both the SDSU Men’s and Women’s basketball games scheduled for this weekend have been cancelled.

www.keloland.com

 

[LETTERL]

Nicholls in a tight one with Houston Baptist, 25-21, nearing the end of the first half.

 

[LETTERL]

Houston Baptist running away from Nicholls, 47-36, going to Q4.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Fresno St. bounced back w/ a win against New Mexico. Mountain West race remains interesting.

 

[azfan]

The Jacks right the ship 84-81 with a career high 27 points from junior point guard Regan Schenck. Regan was perfect from the field, 8 for 11 from the free throw line, had 12 rebounds and six assists.

Regan was eight for eight from the field, three for three from the three point line in a game high 37 minutes of action.

The Jacks had 13 more shots than Northern Colorado and never trailed in this important game.

NAU had 13 offensive rebounds, 15 steals and had the transition game going. For the Jacks to win they have to score and their scoring is clearly this year a function of running the ball through Schenck's hands and her being more aggressive in shooting.

 

[azfan]

Alabama State and Texas Southern are demonstrating ASU Sun Devil first quarter offense in a game that's knotted at 9 - 9 at the end of the first.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Northern Kentucky beat Milwaukee again. And IUPUI finally got back in the win column. Horizon getting interesting. Wright St. is right in the middle of it and Green Bay isn't too far back.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gonzaga cruised against St. Mary's today. They really should be able to run the table this year in the WCC.

 

[LETTERL]

Nicholls falls to Houston Baptist, 70-61. The Lady Colonels falls to 5-9 overall, 5-3 Southland. Houston Baptist now 3-4, 2-1 Southland.

 

[triaddukefan]

For the second straight Saturday.. Presbyterian springs an upset over one of the conference leaders. The Blue Hose strangle the Lancers of Longwood by a score of 77-56.

 

[DefenseBB]

Wow, what a meltdown by ND in the 4th quarter! Sorry, but I am not seeing any improvement in Game coaching by the anointed Niele Ivey here. This was just poor coaching in crunch time, waiting too long for taking a time out, not having ball movement, not cutting like in the 1st half and poor shot selection.

 

[LETTERL]

Ok...Nancy Fahey has a GREAT chance of picking up a win today when Illinois travels to Wisconsin. She REALLY needs a win.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Aleah Goodman w/ a red hot start early for Oregon St. 10 of their first 12 points, then went quiet. 23-16 OSU over Utah thru Q1.