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Addy Brown taking herself out of that game with silly fouls cost Iowa State that game. She has a history of doing that. For them to be successful she has to be on the floor with Crooks, they don’t haven enough offense otherwise.

Iowa cleaned up their turnovers and forced Iowa State into a lot more tonight. Came down to turnovers and free throws in the end.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Big-time references by the game announcers to the Lady Vols dominant defensive performance against Iowa during a major rivalry game between Iowa and Iowa State!
The Tennessee brand is back.
If it wasn’t for that game, Iowa probably doesn’t have this comeback win over a good Iowa State team!
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Nice finish. Very similar script to ours. Bolsters Iowa as a Q1 for us.
 
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I was watching the UConn coaches show last night and Geno mentioned that the Basketball Classic that we all just played will have the same 4 teams next year. Iowa will face UConn and Tennessee will go against Louisville. The difference is that the games will be played at MSG instead of Barclays. The following year they will have different teams, but for next year, the same 4. Playing at MSG is a surreal experience, with such a great history for college and pro basketball. It's always fun playing there.
 
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StorrsCentral said:
I was watching the UConn coaches show last night and Geno mentioned that the Basketball Classic that we all just played will have the same 4 teams next year. Iowa will face UConn and Tennessee will go against Louisville. The difference is that the games will be played at MSG instead of Barclays. The following year they will have different teams, but for next year, the same 4. Playing at MSG is a surreal experience, with such a great history for college and pro basketball. It's always fun playing there.
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Hmm, maybe I’ll make the trip down to MSG for the games next year! I’ve actually never seen a game there …
 
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maple said:
Hmm, maybe I’ll make the trip down to MSG for the games next year! I’ve actually never seen a game there …
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The only time I was there myself was last years Big East mens tournament championship game. The trains into NYC were packed, as well as the bars surrounding the MSG area. Talk about atmosphere, nothing like it.
 
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As for the UConn/ND game tonight ... I'm nervous. Geno described it as one of those games that feels like a March Madness game (and he also mentioned that games against TN against Pat always felt like that too).

ND is one of those teams I hate playing because they always seem to bring their A+ game against us no matter what. Between Hidalgo, Miles, and Citron ... I think that UConn's talent on the floor (even without Azzi) should balance out nicely against them. But we will see. Last year the game was close until UConn got into foul trouble and couldn't defend as aggressively in the paint. ND ate us alive inside, especially Hidalgo. Ugh. That was a painful experience.

That said, I don't expect UConn to shoot as poorly as they did last time around. Shade went 0-6 from 3PT and 6-12 on FG. Paige went 5-17 FG and 1-3 3PT. Ice was also 1-5 and 1-2, respectively. Overall, UConn was 43.3% (FG) and 28.6% (3PT), compared to the Irish 55% (FG) and 41.2% (3PT). Free throw shooting % was too close to matter.

I think how Strong plays this game will have a huge impact on who wins.

Whatever happens, I predict the outcome will start a narrative on ESPN that we will have to hear for the rest of the season. :rolleyes:
 
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maple said:
As for the UConn/ND game tonight ... I'm nervous. Geno described it as one of those games that feels like a March Madness game (and he also mentioned that games against TN against Pat always felt like that too).

ND is one of those teams I hate playing because they always seem to bring their A+ game against us no matter what. Between Hidalgo, Miles, and Citron ... I think that UConn's talent on the floor (even without Azzi) should balance out nicely against them. But we will see. Last year the game was close until UConn got into foul trouble and couldn't defend as aggressively in the paint. ND ate us alive inside, especially Hidalgo. Ugh. That was a painful experience.

That said, I don't expect UConn to shoot as poorly as they did last time around. Shade went 0-6 from 3PT and 6-12 on FG. Paige went 5-17 FG and 1-3 3PT. Ice was also 1-5 and 1-2, respectively. Overall, UConn was 43.3% (FG) and 28.6% (3PT), compared to the Irish 55% (FG) and 41.2% (3PT). Free throw shooting % was too close to matter.

I think how Strong plays this game will have a huge impact on who wins.

Whatever happens, I predict the outcome will start a narrative on ESPN that we will have to hear for the rest of the season. :rolleyes:
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I think it will be close for sure. ND is going to be hype, they always get up for UConn.

Going to come down to how well Strong plays imo. She’s a tough matchup for ND with her ability to play inside out. Without Westbeld they don’t have a player to check her properly. Either going to have to guard her small and risk getting tasked at the rim or force Koval out of the paint.

Bueckers is going to have to get with the program. Hasn’t been working to get herself looks like normal the last couple games. She has to be more involved.

ND has had some really ugly games lately though, just looked disengaged in their tournament.
 
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Connecticut won the recruiting war by far against Notre Dame. It’ll be interesting to see if they win by the double digits they should win by.

The ESPNW high school rankings:

Connecticut

Page Bueckers - 1
Azzi Fudd - 1
Sarah Strong - 1
Ayanna Patterson - 4
Caroline Ducharme - 5
Ice Brady - 5
KK Arnold - 6
Allie Ziebell - 7
Morgan Cheli - 11
Ashlynn Shade - 15
Aubrey Griffin - 21
Qadence Samuels - 41
Kaitlyn Chen - 66
Jana El Alfy - ?????


Notre Dame

Hannah Hidalgo - 5
Kateryna Koval - 5
Olivia Miles - 8
Sonia Citron - 16
Cassandre Prosper - 16
Maddy Westbeld - 20
Emma Risch - 20
Allison Campbell - 27
Kk Branford - 29
Natalija Marshall - 34
Liatu King - ???
Kylee Watson - ???
Sarah Cernugel - ???
Liza Karlen - ???
 
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lvocd said:
Connecticut won the recruiting war by far against Notre Dame. It’ll be interesting to see if they win by the double digits they should win by.

The ESPNW high school rankings:

Connecticut

Page Bueckers - 1
Azzi Fudd - 1
Sarah Strong - 1
Ayanna Patterson - 4
Caroline Ducharme - 5
Ice Brady - 5
KK Arnold - 6
Allie Ziebell - 7
Morgan Cheli - 11
Ashlynn Shade - 15
Aubrey Griffin - 21
Qadence Samuels - 41
Kaitlyn Chen - 66
Jana El Alfy - ?????


Notre Dame

Hannah Hidalgo - 5
Kateryna Koval - 5
Olivia Miles - 8
Sonia Citron - 16
Cassandre Prosper - 16
Maddy Westbeld - 20
Emma Risch - 20
Allison Campbell - 27
Kk Branford - 29
Natalija Marshall - 34
Liatu King - ???
Kylee Watson - ???
Sarah Cernugel - ???
Liza Karlen - ???
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UConn's six top 5 picks and three of those #1s looks pretty dang good. However, 3 of the 6 either aren't playing or have played very sporadically throughout their career. And very few of the 6 top 5 picks have played much together. One of Geno's top recruiting runs has also been the most injury plagued.

ND not shoddy w 3 top 10s starting and 3 next playeres all top 20. I'd take that for sure.
 
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glv98 said:
UConn's six top 5 picks and three of those #1s looks pretty dang good. However, 3 of the 6 either aren't playing or have played very sporadically throughout their career. And very few of the 6 top 5 picks have played much together. One of Geno's top recruiting runs has also been the most injury plagued.

ND not shoddy w 3 top 10s starting and 3 next playeres all top 20. I'd take that for sure.
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I think you may be underestimating the rankings value of the UConn bump, specifically within the ESPN HS rankings.
 
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lvocd said:
Glv98, I noticed in looking at these old rankings that Justine Pissott outranked Talaysia Cooper out of high school. Wow!

I hate it that Pissott has never gotten anything going. You really never know.
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That is why it is hard to follow the ESPN rankings. No way Pissott was ever in the same category with Cooper. I think the problem arose when they didn't take into account the league she was playing in. She was dominating in that Catholic league where all the players were 5'6". She was not the best player on her AAU team watched them play several times you could always see that Hildago was the top player and they had a player named Rayanne Allen that went to Vanderbilt which played great on that team as well, but not at Vanderbilt. She has transferred can't remember where. Pissott still at Vandy can play a similar role to Darby if she would embrace it. She can't guard a perimeter player just no foot speed. Pissott has dropped down the depth chart there see how this season works out.
 
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