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Week 13 - Jan 27 to Feb 2

southie said:
Not sure if anything's necessarily wrong, but I don't think we're playing well these last 3 games.

On MLK night, Texas routed Maryland in New Jersey; best game played all season. Three nights later Horns went down to the wire beating Tennessee at home. Three days later they tussled with Ole Miss in Oxford before squeaking out a win; starting PF Aaliyah Moore missed the game with tendinitis in her knee. So, that was 3 games in 7 days.

Last night's home game against Mizzou was supposed to be a bit of a "breather" as Mizzou was 1-6 in SEC play; Texas had Moore and backup PF Justice Carlton out with the flu. And, it was announced that Michigan transfer, Laila Phelia who had not played since early December due to a retina issue with her eye will redshirt this season. So, lots of players out last night. Still, I wasn't happy how the team played on offense and especially on defense.
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Regarding Phelia, glad to learn she was able to redshirt. Really hope the retina issue heals and she can compete again.
 
southie said:
Not sure if anything's necessarily wrong, but I don't think we're playing well these last 3 games.

On MLK night, Texas routed Maryland in New Jersey; best game played all season. Three nights later Horns went down to the wire beating Tennessee at home. Three days later they tussled with Ole Miss in Oxford before squeaking out a win; starting PF Aaliyah Moore missed the game with tendinitis in her knee. So, that was 3 games in 7 days.

Last night's home game against Mizzou was supposed to be a bit of a "breather" as Mizzou was 1-6 in SEC play; Texas had Moore and backup PF Justice Carlton out with the flu. And, it was announced that Michigan transfer, Laila Phelia who had not played since early December due to a retina issue with her eye will redshirt this season. So, lots of players out last night. Still, I wasn't happy how the team played on offense and especially on defense.
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Sorry to hear that about Phelia. When she committed to Texas I thought she’d complete a three-headed monster at guard. Hopefully she can become healthy and play next season. If she does, Texas is an early contender for best backcourt in the nation with Booker/Lee/Phelia/Harmon another year after her ACL and possibly Aaliyah Chavez too.
 
Arizona @ Utah going on currently. Beginning of Q2, the broadcast duo brought out a special guest: former Utah coach Lynne Roberts. That felt awkward to me. She ditched her team in November to join the LA Sparks.
 
What is the opposite of home cooking? Utah fans are going crazy. Arizona has drawn a bunch of questionable charging fouls. Combined w/ the Wildcats mugging the ball handler on the full court press every possession, and no fouls being called, but plenty of jump balls, the zebras are doing zero favors for the home town Utes.

Utah has imploded. Sprinted out to an 18 point lead just after half time, it's shrunk to 3.

edit--26-4 run, Arizona up by 4
 
Refs are crazy. After ignoring a bunch of fouls by Arizona, now they are calling them for everything. Utah in the bonus about 4 1/2 minutes into Q4.
 
Arizona wore themselves out with that big rally, Utah pulls away down the stretch. Big games for Gianna Kneepkens and Jada Williams for their respective teams. Utes need to work on their press break obviously.
 
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What happened to Saturdays? Used to be a big day for womens hoops. Now almost nothing. There are a ton of games, but 99.9% of them are mid major conferences. There are a couple Big 12 games, I think that's it for P4+. Weird. Day starts w/ a big one, Oklahoma St. @ West Virginia.


Okay, 3 Big 12 and 1 Big East games.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Refs are crazy. After ignoring a bunch of fouls by Arizona, now they are calling them for everything. Utah in the bonus about 4 1/2 minutes into Q4.
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Did you notice it was an old Pac12 group. Tiffany Bird, Michael Price and In'Fini Robinson. I kid that Price and Robinson are 2 of my wife's favorites because years ago Price handed her a piece of debris from the floor with the "don't say I don't give you anything" line, and around that time Robinson randomly high-fived my wife during her warmups.
 
In the CAA... The mighty Aggies of NCA&T improved to a league leading 8-1 record after a 74-51 beatdown of longtime rival Hampton.

More impressive was the attendance. 4,847 fans turned out in a 5,000 seat arena on Greek Night. Club Corbett is a definite home court advantage for my Aggies. Love to see WBB get fan support

 
There is nothing good sports wise today. I am surprised women’s college basketball didn’t put a marquee game on the schedule.
 
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GoChips20 said:
She’s another one of the sophomores who I think could get minutes in the WNBA today. Up there with Bueckers as one of the purest shooters in the nation.
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Agreed--her game reminds me of Cappie Pondexter's. She's sort of lost in the shuffle in terms of getting recognition but is having a great season.
 
Stagnant said:
There is nothing good sports wise today. I am surprised women’s college basketball didn’t put a marquee game on the schedule.
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Are you saying that High Point vs Presbyterian isn't a marquee game?







Last season, a #5 seeded Blue Hose squad knocked off #1 seeded HPU on HPU's home floor on its way to its first ever Big South Tournament championship. Tonight is the first time since that upset that the two squads meet... yes again on HPU's home floor.
 
triaddukefan said:
In the CAA... The mighty Aggies of NCA&T improved to a league leading 8-1 record after a 74-51 beatdown of longtime rival Hampton.

More impressive was the attendance. 4,847 fans turned out in a 5,000 seat arena on Greek Night. Club Corbett is a definite home court advantage for my Aggies. Love to see WBB get fan support

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Love that crowd,

A lotta’ P-4s should hang their heads in shame
 
Something had to give, in this case BYU's road woes were overcome by Arizona St.'s woes playing anywhere. BYU 77-67 win. And that was with their best player Gibb having an off game.
 
Some interesting games on Sunday. Kentucky @ Oklahoma catches my eye.
 
High Point defeated Presbyterian 62-43 coupled with Longwood's loss... moves HPU to a tie for 1st in the Big South

UNCG put the beat down on Samford 78-66 and Wofford lost to ETSU so UNC-G moves into a tie for 1st in the SoCon

Of course on Friday NC A&T solidified its spot on top of the CAA and Duke is 1 game out of first in the ACC


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Good crowd for Michigan today. They lead Oregon 21-10 early. I expect Michigan will win. I think oregon has had a good season, but they are a bit fraudulent imo.

Edit: every time I watch Michigan, I can see the vision with Olivia Olson. I can see why UConn wanted her so much.
 
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USC with 4 points in the first quarter. Who had that on their bingo card!?

Iowa up 18-4
 
Another Syracuse game where they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This time it comes against a middling UVA team. It’s just … sigh.

They sorely miss Fair. They have no one on this team who is a dynamic scorer who can pull the team up another rung.

Kyra Wood is a scrapper down in the paint, but she misses so many bunnies and putbacks. Woolley and Burrows can get hot from 3, but they’re just inconsistent.

Feels like a huge letdown from last season. No one has really shown up and balled out. What a shame. I have no lost love for Syracuse, but this is the only major team in basically the whole state (yes, we have other teams but people don’t care about Le Moyne, Buffalo, or UAlbany), and it would be nice to at least have some decent WBB to watch in person.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Great interview w/ Caitlin Clark during the 3rd quarter of this Iowa-USC game. I just don't see how anyone can dislike her if you actually listen to her.
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You can say the same for a lot of popular players in various sports (Brady, Mahomes, the Manning brothers, Gretzky, Crosby, etc.). There's no logical answer. It's human nature.
 
Upset alert: Iowa up 7 with 4:21 to go. Would be a massive win for the program if they can hold on. Lucy Olsen and Addy O'Grady are outplaying Watkins/Iriafen right now. Crowd is insane with it being Clark's jersey retirement day.
 
This is about as close to a must win, without being an actual must win, for Iowa. You're a bubble team that has a chance to snatch a huge win against #4 Southern Cal on Caitlin Clark jersey retirement day.
 
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