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Week 2 - Nov 11 to 17

Cal Baptist has started the season 0-3. That seems fairly unusual for them. All 3 by double digits, blow outs against Oregon and Liberty and just lost to Pepperdine, who was horrible last year but has a new coach this season.
 
Cal Baptist has started the season 0-3. That seems fairly unusual for them. All 3 by double digits, blow outs against Oregon and Liberty and just lost to Pepperdine, who was horrible last year but has a new coach this season.
And an entirely new roster including Mastora sisters and 4 year Golden Bear Muca who scored 27 and looked amazing. The Waves absolutely dominated on CBU home court.

The Lancers offense appeared to be feed the ball to Schmidt as they couldn't buy a three-pointer.
 
Miami up 10 in the closing seconds against Florida. 43 combined points from the Cavinders, 29 for Haley. I would guess that's the most the 2 of them have scored in a game at Miami.
As Taurasi would say the twins are now grown women playing against 18 year olds.

They are really only 7 deep, but should still be a tournament team.
 
Sun Devils' Brianna January Classic ... Shows both indifference and incompetence by host ASU. Marketing for this two day event generated 9,000 fans disguised as empty seats and actual attendance appears somewhere between 100 and 109.

Adair's squad after winning the tip comes down and runs an offense that generates two turnovers, three travels and two shots that don't hit the rim before Ty Skinner hits a three. No worries because a team less ready for prime time than the Sun Devils is the Mustangs

At the first Media time out the Sun Devils have eight shot attempts and eight turnovers in what is a clinic on indifference, incompetence, and a performance that matches the home court marketing for former ASU grad Briann January.

Jaylen Brown who never met a shot she didn't like is the only Sun Devil to show up as she scores 11 in the first quarter as SMU leads 15-14 at the end of the first quarter.

SMU guard and high volume scorer Robertson is rocking a fluorescent left pink shoe and a fluorescent green shoe. She's also easy to identify from her deep red hair color. She's also rocking the ASU defense cuz I'm sure she's delighted to square up against a team that is a lock for a third consecutive 20 loss season.

Edit/add: the Mustangs 16th in the 18 team ACC in the preseason poll appear to be a great match for the Sun Devils 15th in the 16 team 12 preseason poll. I'm certain both conferences are delighted to welcome these newcomers if for no other reason than impact on won loss percentage for the incumbents in the conferences.

So at the half Brown/Skinner 34 - Mustangs 29.

Based on the first half Minnesota may well score a hundred on the Mustangs. The Beavers would be a slight dog to the Sun Devils.

With this 4 "team" field I wonder if the case could be made that this would be the all-time worst two day preseason "tournament" ever held.
 
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Just saw the score for Oregon St versus Minnesota …. Just absolutely embarrassing. What is going on there??

OK State and Villanova squeaked out 2 and 1 point wins, respectively … I know it’s early on in the season but …

Louisville trying to hang on to not be upset by Kentucky.
 
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ASU 80 SMU 73

Both of these are 20 loss teams.

Highlights of the second half Basham pulling up to shoot a three which she missed on a 3 on 1 fast break. (Her other attempt and miss in the game was a baseline mid-range that didn't catch iron) ...Lol

Another highlight of the second half was as the third quarter winds down with three seconds left and SMU fighting for a shot the Sun Devils foul on the floor in the bonus.

Curtain of distraction worked down the stretch with under 2 minutes left.

Lowlight..... With 4 minutes left in the game both teams were obviously gassed which doesn't really reflect well on their conditioning or their performance with the quick turnaround tomorrow.

Devils end with 23 turnovers,

Commentators were providing color and evidently Natasha has coined the nickname for Courtney Paris want to be Parkinson of baby Barkley.

Circle January 4th on your calendar. That's when the Sun Devils travel to Houston for their only chance at a Big 12 victory against the hapless Cougars. Assuming the Devils prevail there Natasha Adair can avoid a 20 loss season by sweeping this following imposing non-conference schedule of South Dakota, Coppin State, Maryland Eastern, UC Davis, San Francisco, and Penn. Wonder what the over under is on the Devil's ability to complete that sweep? :). After tomorrow's game against Oregon State the Sun Devils have seven straight road games in their next home contest is December 30th. That should really help with their effort to avoid a third consecutive season of 20 losses.

So there's a possibility that Adair dodges the bullet and avoids the third 20 loss season although the difference between 19 and 20 losses is razor thin. As razor thin ss the prospects of a .500 season for the Sun Devil over the next decade.
 
All their talent left.

Apparently they didn't score for the last 9 minutes. So it went from being bad to being really bad.
If you want really bad tune into the Briann January games tomorrow.
 
If you want really bad tune into the Briann January games tomorrow.
I might just watch ….

Louisville and Kentucky in a mid-off right now. Louisville misses a layup to tie it; Kentucky misses two FTs; Louisville gets the late 2pt bucket; Kentucky’s Amoore holds for a last minute shot and it ends up being a total dud. Atrocious decision making there.

Going into OT now.

Edit: Kentucky wins with the upset. Neither of these teams looked stellar.
 
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Patting myself on the back for predicting KY would be pretty good this year.
 
What happened to South Dakota? The 'Yotes used to be right there w/ their neighbors the Jackrabbits at SDSU. USD is 0-3 w/ losses to St. Louis, Air Force and Loyola Marymount, and they are currently getting absolutely boat raced by Nebraska 60-33...at the half!
 
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Nebraska dropped 113 on South Dakota. Britt Prince w/ 23, I'm assuming that's her highest scoring output early in her career.
 
They're gonna hang on, but BYU struggled all game long to put away an Idaho St. team they shouldn't have had that much trouble with.
 
Is there relegation in D1 sports? Chicago St. is just so sad. In 4 games have given up 96, 87, 111 and 104 points. 52 at the half today. Losing margin has been under 40 only once, and then just barely.
They do have a new coach. It is apparently possible - I'm not holding my breath - that they may improve in future seasons, at least according to the write-up. They have been consistently awful for a number of years.
 
I will be at the Syracuse/FDU game today. Will be interesting to get eyes on the team that UConn plays next.

I expect Syracuse to get the W, but with the way this current group is playing, nothing feels certain just yet.
 
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Good tv day for me:

My favorite P-5 team, South Carolina, v East Carolina.

Followed by my favorite mid major, South Dakota State, vs Duke
 
What happened to South Dakota? The 'Yotes used to be right there w/ their neighbors the Jackrabbits at SDSU. USD is 0-3 w/ losses to St. Louis, Air Force and Loyola Marymount, and they are currently getting absolutely boat raced by Nebraska 60-33...at the half!
Dawn Plitzuweit left three years ago and they’re on their second head coach since. It’s a real shame, as they were a great example of building a great team from pretty good parts. Ay least the Jacks are still good.

Jacks-Blue devils at three this afternoon in Brookings should be a fun game.
 
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Iowa and Drake is a battle so far. Drake dominating the perimeter. And Iowa is dominating the paint.
O'Grady was unstoppable. Hawkeyes went on a run to end the half.
 
Apparently it was Stanford you needed to worry about embarrassing the conference today. If you are claiming them.
The Cardinal lose at 1-2 IN by 13 in an ugly game, with a combined 47 personal fouls called on both teams.
 
Van Lith just hit 2000 career points. Yes it's her 5th year, but early on, so only a small * is necessary.


They just showed other active career 2000 point scorers, and most if not all of them have used extra eligibility.
 
Georgia Tech with a fairly easy win over Georgia. Lower level SEC teams continuing to look very unimpressive so far this year.
Ga is not good

Ga-Mizzou are a disaster
 
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