WBB: General Thread of Cyclones Women's Hoops 2021-2022 Season
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Wow, the way she was dancing around later I was thinking no way she had a broken nose and was thinking just a bloody nose. I'll give myself a pass on my prognostication as my only experience was with a fastball to the face with a pretty bad outcome.
This might have been posted before and I missed it. ISU and Iowa both playing in a loaded Thanksgiving tournament next year. ISU, Iowa, UNC and UConn should all be ranked Top 15 or so. The other four have had their moments, just not this last year.
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Got the easier bracket there not playing in the one with UConn. I am always one who wants to challenge ourselves, so wouldn't have minded being with UConn instead. Overall good stuff though.
It was, but it's buried several pages earlier in this thread so it's easy to miss.
Do not disagree - but watched UNC play USC and they are a VERY good team. The Kelly girl can really score and have some big bodies. Oregon it appears is losing half their team to the portal and Mich St has dropped off a little.
While we have the easier bracket, I'll take playing schools from Power 5 leagues versus playing lower-level mid-majors. Oregon has 4 top 100 recruits coming in, including a 6-7 post player.
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ISU women end up #8 in the Coaches Poll. Top Ten are:
South Carolina
UConn
Stanford
Louisville
NC State
Texas
Michigan
Iowa State
Maryland
Indiana
South Carolina
UConn
Stanford
Louisville
NC State
Texas
Michigan
Iowa State
Maryland
Indiana
Got to be something wrong with this list. Three teams from the big 10 made it none are iowa who has the best player in the country, just ask them.
PS also Baylor did not make it and we all know they are the best in the Big 12.
PS also Baylor did not make it and we all know they are the best in the Big 12.
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Pretty impressive considering the game was not a good game right out the gate. It was never in question who the better team was just in the first 3-5 minutes alone. UConn did reel it back in a bit later on but there was no way they were winning that game unless they just started hitting an insane amount of 3’s.
I love how ESPN is tossing out numbers without any context.
The championship viewership total is for all 3 channels that offered coverage (including the Bird/Taurasi gamewatch).
This was also only the second tournament where each game had its own dedicated window/channel, instead of whiparound-style coverage on just ESPN and ESPN2.
The championship viewership total is for all 3 channels that offered coverage (including the Bird/Taurasi gamewatch).
This was also only the second tournament where each game had its own dedicated window/channel, instead of whiparound-style coverage on just ESPN and ESPN2.
The takeaway from this game was it was TEAM effort that won.
Superstars were held to less than stellar outputs (except for Boston's 16 rebounds). Boston had more assists than Bueckers 3-2.
Paige had some, not many, highlights, with one fantastic series of dribble, drive, pull back, quick pivot, and fast release for a 2-pointer.
Point Guard, 5'11" Paige Bueckers, G, UConn: 14 PTS, 6 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK
Boston stats were anemic for the foremost player in WBB, but her mere presence was massive, in my opinion.
Others in the win for South Carolina made the difference primarily: Destanni Henderson, G, SC: 26 PTS, 2, REB, 4 AST, 3 STL
Destanni is a quick, sure-shot 5'7" Guard, and was lethal to UCONN.
Team effort is what took Iowa State out of the tourney by Creighton, too.
UConn is still a huge name in WBB, plus the hype of Geno never dropping a championship game was a good tag line.
