NC State likely won't crack the national rankings again until it has beaten a ranked team. Maybe wins over Louisville and UNC would do it; Reynolds Coliseum has been a house of horrors for the Cardinals in its last few trips to Raleigh. Unfortunately, State has 4 losses (3 of them to ranked teams and 3 of them of 5 points or less) and that plays a role in who the voters believes deserves a ranking.
Finally got to watch her last night. Just looking at her stats I was thinking she may be playing her way into 2nd round or 3rd round of the draft. In watching her she is a very good player. Really soft touch and good mid range shooter. She had a couple of hook shots. So can play a bit back to the basket and then face up. She also got a steal and took it full court with ease. I will say she struggled a bit with Ava Heiden who I was really impressed with. She's not the most physical or athletically gifted player. But I liked watching Northwestern, they were highly competitive.
She is a rebounding machine, for sure. And when you watch her, it's just effortless, like it is completely natural for her to go after the ball. I'm definitely glad she's wearing the Red and White this season.
The coach's poll is out and ND is still ranked (I mean what are we doing?), Duke getting 0 votes and State is behind Stanford getting only 4 votes.
I think you mean, "what are they doing?". The list of voters are well respected coaches including Coach Ralph, Coach Fennelly, Coach Dillon to name a few.
I'm calling some of the votes "The Death of Expertise", which is also a book. It's unclear that the voters have both a deep and wide grasp of WBB these days. And if they are only voting based on what they saw in the prior week, then we have a lot of recency bias. I don't know how they are supposed to vote,. And I will scream this to the sky until my last day that polls shouldn't start until January, with the concurrence of conference play. In other words, with certain teams, the math ain't mathin'
Are you referring to the AP or the Coaches poll? The last few posts have been about the coaches poll. If it is the coaches poll, then I'm kind of perplexed considering who is on the list of voters which I noted in an earlier post.
Don't be perplexed. I lost the plot and thought it was an AP poll thing.
That head cold got you again. Hope it clears up soon!
Maybe we should have a weekly coaches' poll thread?
Really? They were bad with her against UCLA but with out her vs. Oregon....YIKES
I am really puzzled by NC St. I just watched a replay of the game against Cal and was stunned by how slow and uninspired the Wolfpack looked against a pretty plodding Cal squad. On the plus side, Pierre occasionally looked energetic enough to dominate, and the action was slow enough that Qadence actually drove the lane a couple times. But this level of play does not bode well for March. Maybe it was just holiday doldrums. I hope this is the explanation. There’s enough team speed to play to a higher level.
