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Week 10 - Jan 5 to 11

Two tremendous games!

The Broncos overcome the road AND an injury to star Sophie Glancy 5 minutes into the game to beat the Cougs in Spokane 95-92 and Santa Clara moves to 5-1 in conference. Early the Broncos trailed 16-4 then exploded to score 50 in the first half and withstands a furious Washington State comeback

And, at Global Financial Arena the Lopes upset Fresno State 70-66.
 
Kinda weird day in the Mountain West. Nevada beat New Mexico on the road, Boise St. beat Colorado St. UNM and CSU knocked 2 games behind the leaders because of their losses. San Diego St. barely beat Utah St. on the road. UNLV crushed Wyoming on the road. SDSU and UNLV atop the standings at 6-0.

How did Wyoming get so bad? They were always in the thick of things. 1-5 in conference and 4-11 overall.
 
DePaul w/ a come from behind win over Georgetown, their first Big East W of the season.
 
Oregon St. throttled Seattle U. Beavs were fairly up and down last year, but have started 5-0 in WCC this season.

edit--Villa led them in scoring again w/ 19, but some serious stat sheet stuffing from Kennedie Shuler--18 pts (9-15 shooting), 7 reb, 6 assists and 7 steals.

edit #2--Seattle U. scored 11 points in the 2nd half...total
 
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There are a lot of bad teams, but there are differing levels of badness. Currently Cal St. Bakersfield (0-5 in conference, 5-10 overall) is hammering Long Beach St. (0-4 in conference, 1-13 overall) 45-17. Beach has been one of the better programs in the Big West, wonder what happened to them?

Similar type of game in the Missouri Valley. Southern Illinois (1-5 4-11) wiped the floor w/ Valparaiso (0-6 0-17) 97-59. How bad is Valpo? In the conversation for worst team in the country?


edit--oof, Valpo has a few single digit losses, but a bunch in the 30-40 point range, against middle of the road mid major teams
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Kinda weird day in the Mountain West. Nevada beat New Mexico on the road, Boise St. beat Colorado St. UNM and CSU knocked 2 games behind the leaders because of their losses. San Diego St. barely beat Utah St. on the road. UNLV crushed Wyoming on the road. SDSU and UNLV atop the standings at 6-0.

How did Wyoming get so bad? They were always in the thick of things. 1-5 in conference and 4-11 overall.
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Key win for Amanda Levins - the Pit is a tough place to win to this is a quality victory. She has struggled over the past 5 years and I hope this signals a change in direction.
 
Whut?! Gonzaga only managed 6 points in the first quarter against Portland, but just exploded for 34 in Q3 to take control of the game. That's...quite a swing.

edit--Zags won 69-55

There was a family rivalry in this game w/ GU junior McKynnlie Dalan and UP freshman Julia Dalan. It's not even the only sister vs sister match up for Portland in conference play. They also have Rhyan Mogel whose younger sister Dylan plays for Seattle U.
 
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Utah was up 19 thru 3 quarters at Kansas St. Furious rally got the lead down to 4, but Utah has built it back up to 10 w/ a bit over a minute left. Utes will improve to 4-1 in the Big 12. They keep proving me wrong.

edit--just looked at the box score, didn't realize Tess Heal ended up at K State (or more likely I saw that at some point but then forgot, because there are just way too many transfers to keep track of them all)
 
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Vowelguy said:
How dare you disrespect Chicago St like that.
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You know I poke a lot of fun at them, but they are actually 2-13 and both wins are against D1 schools.

Chicago St. and Valpo have a common opponent--Bradley. Scores were 85-57 and 80-44, so fairly similar.
 
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Davidson and Richmond are in double OT in a big A10 showdown.

edit--I think it's going to a 3rd OT
 
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Richmond pulls away in 3 OT 91-84. 1 player from Davidson and 3 from Richmond logged over 50 minutes. 3 more from Davidson were 45 minutes or more. 1 from Richmond played all 55 minutes. That is insane!

edit--whoa missed this, Doogan went off w/ 48 points, played 53 minutes
 
nwhoopfan said:
Kinda weird day in the Mountain West. Nevada beat New Mexico on the road, Boise St. beat Colorado St. UNM and CSU knocked 2 games behind the leaders because of their losses. San Diego St. barely beat Utah St. on the road. UNLV crushed Wyoming on the road. SDSU and UNLV atop the standings at 6-0.

How did Wyoming get so bad? They were always in the thick of things. 1-5 in conference and 4-11 overall.
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Wyoming had a 6'4 center from Douglas, WY the past four seasons. Centers like that in the Mountain West are rare. It's also rare for an in-state talent to stay in Wyoming. Everyone wants to leave. Even before her though they were competitive. I'm hoping this is just a down year. They recruit internationally a lot. Often their international players stay a year or two and then transfer to someplace warm. Laramie doesn't have a lot going on.
 
I am surprised that Ole Miss beating Oklahoma isn't getting the attention it deserves. That was a huge upset. Coach Yo doesn't get the respect she deserves. She has created a nice vision for her program, and the players have bought in. All the Way In. Great win for Ole Miss and hopefully we see them get a bump in the rankings.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
UCF 58 Arizona 55. Bad loss.
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We watched on TV instead of going.

  • Our (arguable) best offensive player, Micki Purdue, was out with a wrist injury.
  • While we should have won, in the abstract, it isn't like Arizona is good enough to call anything a bad loss.
  • And the last 30+ seconds were, um, flabbergasting. Down 3, Arizona needed to foul. They didn't. They stood around. They looked disinterested - or lost. Coach Burke literally had steam coming out of her ears at the end of the game, although she managed to gather herself. For a team that plays really, really hard, it was completely inexplicable.
 
nwhoopfan said:
You know I poke a lot of fun at them, but they are actually 2-13 and both wins are against D1 schools.

Chicago St. and Valpo have a common opponent--Bradley. Scores were 85-57 and 80-44, so fairly similar.
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Don't know about Valpo, but another team that has to be in the conversation is Bellarmine. While they played and lost to some very decent teams, their 2 wins are Wright State and a non-D1 team.
 
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Huge day ahead in the ACC. In the feature matchup, you got the elitist, uppity, snooty Private School with a tree for a mascot VS. the commoners from the wrong side of the tracks of West Durham. 5pm EST on ESPN

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JellyBean said:
I am surprised that Ole Miss beating Oklahoma isn't getting the attention it deserves. That was a huge upset. Coach Yo doesn't get the respect she deserves. She has created a nice vivison for her program and the players have bought in. All the Way In. Great win for Ole Miss and hopefully we see them get a bump in the rankings.
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Maybe it's because some are waiting for another ranked win to balance out their losses to KSU and Michigan State this season? 🤷🏾‍♀️ Regarding Coach Yo not getting respect, for me, it's that I don't recall her having much success developing her own recruits over the transfers she brings in.

Her hiring of Hillsman and downplaying what transpired in Syracuse also rubbed me the wrong way. She wants to give him a second chance, okay. But her comments came across as what happened there wasn't a big deal or people made too big a deal of it.
 
triaddukefan said:
Huge day ahead in the ACC. In the feature matchup, you got the elitist, uppity, snooty Private School with a tree for a mascot VS. the commoners from the wrong side of the tracks of West Durham. 5pm EST on ESPN

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Or as I like to think of it, tech bros vs. Lax bros. Duke is obviously already up 1 in the hair department.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Richmond pulls away in 3 OT 91-84. 1 player from Davidson and 3 from Richmond logged over 50 minutes. 3 more from Davidson were 45 minutes or more. 1 from Richmond played all 55 minutes. That is insane!

edit--whoa missed this, Doogan went off w/ 48 points, played 53 minutes
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I watched the second half of that game. Triple overtime! Doogan was amazing. 17-28, 8-12 from 3, 6-6 FT, 13 rebounds. She was ice in final overtime. Both teams played at a high level. Very entertaining.
 
Floridaduck said:
I watched the second half of that game. Triple overtime! Doogan was amazing. 17-28, 8-12 from 3, 6-6 FT, 13 rebounds. She was ice in final overtime. Both teams played at a high level. Very entertaining.
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Davidson is a pretty decent squad. I’m sure Richmond is too, I haven’t watched them yet.
 
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Interesting SEC Network game today at 4PM, #5 Oklahoma at #6 Kentucky. Both teams trying to rebound from a loss in their previous game.
I'm guessing that Key is still unavailable for UK which is a big deal, IMO.
And it's unlikely that both will be this highly ranked come tomorrow afternoon.
 


Nice to see the Canadian version of ESPN, TSN has a slate of games on today. While I use other resources to watch NCAAW during the season, I do what I can to support because heaven knows TSN could do a lot more.
 
NFL wildcard weekend with a game at 1. Also typically busy Sunday in WCBB.

SURELY there will be a good wcbb game starting at Noon, getting in partially before the football game starts.

Not. A. Single. One.

What are people thinking?
I get that in certain areas you can't have gametime too close to churchtime, but No games ... ?
 
JellyBean said:
I am surprised that Ole Miss beating Oklahoma isn't getting the attention it deserves. That was a huge upset. Coach Yo doesn't get the respect she deserves. She has created a nice vision for her program, and the players have bought in. All the Way In. Great win for Ole Miss and hopefully we see them get a bump in the rankings.
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Was it an upset though? OU got handled pretty easily by UCLA; and, needed OT to beat NC State at home. When else had they been pushed or challenged this season? Ole Miss has plenty of athleticism; they just need the offense to show up consistently.
 
And I mention the NFL, because as any follower to TV ratings knows, the NFL is THE massive freight train of tv viewership that you want to avoid going up against if you can.
 
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