It’s getting 1-2 more scorers that is the biggest difference between this year and last year.
2024-25 ISU WBB Season Thread
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I think this year it’s the way they come and go. Some games we hardly put up any and others it’s a deluge. It’s like watching the stock market zip up and down.
I agree completely and the thing that is most puzzling is there does not seem to be a common reason for this games where we just seem to forget how to shoot.
I have come to the conclusion that the athletic department is feeding the basketball teams incorrectly. I’m not sure how else to explain both the women’s and men’s teams forgetting how to shoot a basketball at about the same time. (Total sarcasm)
Of course if we're getting into this much precision, we maybe should be calculating each player's age to the day, then weighing their precise age on the date of each game by the number of minutes played in that game.
Then we'd need to account for the fact that this season isn't complete yet, so my proposed method would bias the 24-25 age younger than the 23-24 age just because we haven't completed the season -- the individual player ages in future games are higher than the player ages of games already played.
But that's my engineering/actuarial background talking. The ratio between the amount of effort needed and how interesting the output would be is way too high, so lets just stick with your analysis instead.
Haha Fair enough. I was just trying to gauge if I should have expected a more mature team. By my calcs I would say no.
Of course I could have calculated the average by pts scored, and the data would probably show we are older as Audi and Addy pretty much score everything
My take away from this data . . . . Emily Ryan is the only one old enough to drink (legally).
Darned engineers…never thought I’d see a thread get so numbers oriented…but ISU is an engineering school and it’s kind of awesome!
On a different note…who would have thought that the men and women’s teams would both be struggling to score at the same time? The women brought in Hansford expecting big things and the men brought in Heise With the same expectations. Both are struggling to find the net.
That is really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to do that.
I know that this is the wrong thread, but it would be fun to see this to information for the men''s team.
(Please...)
Thanks!
Excited to see Diew again on Saturday. Looks like she is having a pretty solid season!
| GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | FG% | 3P% | FT% | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 22.8 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 46.5 | 36.4 | 83.3 | 2.0 |
Using mred's generator, it appears about the worst we can finish in conference is 8th, about the best is 6th. Pretty much locked in to 6th or 7th barring a collapse by one of the teams above us. Problem is Utah, WVU and OK ST all have tiebreakers over us, so even if we end up same record, they are seeded higher.
She had a rough year last year at Iowa State, but I think she could have helped this team. We miss her length and versatility.
I feel like Diew leaving was a bigger deal than we maybe thought. Positional versatility and a good defender, She's not exactly lighting the world on fire at CU but she's shooting 36% from 3. She would have been a nice piece on this year's team.
I think she went to Colorado as a grad transfer. So my understanding is she left for school reasons more than basketball reasons. So, I welcome her back!
