Week 2 - Nov 11 to 17

[Stagnant]

41-38. Stanford leads. Barely. They aren’t playing well tonight.

 

[nwhoopfan]

41-38. Stanford leads. Barely. They aren’t playing well tonight.

Looks like they pulled away in the 4th quarter. Big game for Agara--25/10. I knew their 3 point shooting couldn't keep up that torrid pace. Only 5-20 today.

 

[cancontent]

Iowa looks like they have good balance and lots of options. Toledo might be rebuilding and has a new coach, but they've beaten Michigan the 2 previous years and have won the MAC 3 years in a row. Hawkeyes had a huge run in Q1 and never looked back.

Toledo is rebuilding. There's no "might be".

 

[stanfordnyc]

I knew their 3 point shooting couldn't keep up that torrid pace.

Name a single women's college basketball fan who wouldn't have known this.

 

[undersized]

Name a single women's college basketball fan who wouldn't have known this.

you mean stanford's not going to shoot 57% from 3 on 26 attempts per game on their way to a championship?

 

[jdote33]

 

[TheFarmFan]

you mean stanford's not going to shoot 57% from 3 on 26 attempts per game on their way to a championship?

 

[Bone Dog]

Duke - SDSU is looking to be a more interesting game than I expected.

 

[azfan]

Tip off at Phoenix Footprint arena between Grand Canyon and ASU is in 5 minutes.

Story lines including a tale of two coaches who stepped up in conference with wildly different results.

The Lopes have the Erikstrup twins on their roster who began their careers at a ASU in the CTT era

 

[azfan]

End of first quarter ASU 23-Grand Canyon ,13.

Boy this was a real ugly first quarter, resembles a rugby match - 13 fouls. In addition to Bascom ASU has Parkinson who's a Paris Courtney want to be. Bascom towers over everyone! So the Devils are huge and in an odd set of choices the Lopes. continue to try to get into the paint.

Lots of surprises. Very rare to see a Molly Miller team that's out hustled and really unorganized at the offensive end. One would expect a Big 12 team to have little trouble with a WAC team. So even the pre-ultimate bottom team in the Big 12 seems to be a position to take advantage of the preseason pick for the championship in the WAC.

So I made the decision to take advantage of the ESPN plus special offer $99 a year this morning. Got to see a thrilling double overtime win by St Mary's over UC SD, and now this matchup of Arizona teams. Glad I parted with a c note looks like it'll definitely be worth it. By the way the 99 dollar ESPN plus special runs through November 21. They're advertising it as 12 months for the price of 9.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Boy this was a real ugly first quarter, resembles a rugby match

So...throw back to the CTT era?

 

[azfan]

So...throw back to the CTT era?

Actually Grand Canyon was playing physical in an effort to neutralize the height advantage of the Sun Devils. Lopes lead in fouls 16>14.


Grand Canyon back in the game outscoring the Sun Devils 14 to 4 in the third quarter to make it a one-point game.

Lopes senior point guard Trinity San Antonio and member of the Puerto Rican Olympic team played minimal minutes in the first half after picking up two quick fouls in the first quarter. She's really ignited the Lopes and we've got a game.

The announcers in pregame did mention CTT and the recent hard times as Adair struggles to avoid a third consecutive 20 loss season.

 

[azfan]

Actually Grand Canyon was playing physical in an effort to neutralize the height advantage of the Sun Devils. Lopes lead in fouls 16>14.


Grand Canyon back in the game outscoring the Sun Devils 14 to 4 in the third quarter to make it a one-point game.

Lopes senior point guard Trinity San Antonio and member of the Puerto Rican Olympic team played minimal minutes in the first half after picking up two quick fouls in the first quarter. She's really ignited the Lopes and we've got a game.

The announcers in pregame did mention CTT and the recent hard times as Adair struggles to avoid a third consecutive 20 loss season.

Lopez lead by one at the end of the 3rd as point guard Trinity San Antonio and Tierra Brown come alive.

Devils benefit from 4 made FT rising from an administrative technical before the game and a delay of game technical with 2 minutes left in the third quarter as the Devils hit 16 of 18 free throws. In another uncharacteristic development Lopes miss 9 of 20 free throws

Note: coach Molly Miller is third among active coaches with a 836 winning percentage trailing only Geno and Kim.

 

[azfan]

Lopez lead by one at the end of the 3rd as point guard Trinity San Antonio and Tierra Brown come alive.

Devils benefit from 4 made FT rising from an administrative technical before the game and a delay of game technical with 2 minutes left in the third quarter as the Devils hit 16 of 18 free throws. In another uncharacteristic development Lopes miss 9 of 20 free throws

Note: coach Molly Miller is third among active coaches with a 836 winning percentage trailing only Geno and Kim.

Lopez on a 24-8 run and it's gut check time for the Sun Devils with 8 minutes left in the game. Adair takes the time out to try to calm her troops down.

Under Adair the Sun Devils have been inept at defending the perimeter. In giving up 100 points in their last game to Arkansas State they allowed 13 for 30 from behind the arc. Through three quarters plus the Lopes are 8 for 20 from threeland

 

[nwhoopfan]

Ayoka Lee scored 28 points in 16 minutes against Creighton. Taking candy from a baby. 13-18 shooting, all pretty much point blank. K State won handily, it was never close after opening few minutes.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Actually Grand Canyon was playing physical

As an Arizona St. fan during the CTT reign, you are never, ever allowed to complain about physical play.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Georgia lost to Georgia St. The SEC is top heavy, it gets awfully soft in the middle and the bottom.

 

[azfan]

As an Arizona St. fan during the CTT reign, you are never, ever allowed to complain about physical play.

Didn't complain merely observed.

The announcers are now talking about what experience ASU will have in the Big 12. I think we all know what that experience will be.

As to the current state of the program ASU opens the 4th quarter by going scoreless during the first five minutes And finds themselves trailing by 9 with 2 minutes left in the game as they've scored three points so far in the fourth quarter. Wonder what the over-under is that the Devils can get within five before the whistle blows.

 

[MSGRET]

Georgia lost to Georgia St. The SEC is top heavy, it gets awfully soft in the middle and the bottom.

Massey had Georgia rated #41 with a 97% chance of winning over #260 Georgia St of the Sun Belt Conference.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Yikes. Utah had a double digit lead but is flirting with losing on the road against a bad Northwestern team. Maybe playing close to home for several of their players was a distraction.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Northwestern was 0-2 w/ losses to Illinois St. and Lehigh. Outscored Utah by 12 in the second half to take a 2 point win. I think that's gonna go down as a really bad loss for the Utes.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Haven't done that in a long time, listened to a game on the radio. Eastern Washington was pesky in the first half, but Washington ran away in the second half. 83-59 final.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gonzaga's 37 game home winning streak just got snapped. Was second longest in the country. Cal was in control pretty much the whole way. I think I overestimated the Zags' potential for reloading rather than rebuilding this year. Big game for Ejim and I'm officially a believer in Fr. Allie Turner. Shooting a high %, 18, 18 and 20 in 3 games so far and two of them were against ACC teams.

3 headed monster of Williams, Twidale and Krimili was too much for GU.

 

[Stagnant]

I am thinking Arizona state is going to have to make a change after this season.