Benefit of the doubt and still consistent with last polling and our loss was at least on the road. Next five games should be interesting, first two at home vs Kansas and Utah (both middle of the pack) than the Arizona road trip versus cellar dweller ASU and middle of the pack Arizona. Finish off with middle of the pack TT at Hilton before we play a team projected to be in the top third of the league. Can't stumble too much over this stretch.
2024-25 ISU WBB Season Thread
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Benefit of the doubt and still consistent with last polling and our loss was at least on the road. Next five games should be interesting, first two at home vs Kansas and Utah (both middle of the pack) than the Arizona road trip versus cellar dweller ASU and middle of the pack Arizona. Finish off with middle of the pack TT at Hilton before we play a team projected to be in the top third of the league. Can't stumble too much over this stretch.
Good catch. The new one just out has us as a ten seed. Maybe that’s appropriate with a good dose of “benefit of the doubt” still tossed in! The cool part is the matchups it shows. They are really quite good.
Yeah, 10 seed sounds about right for a snapshot of where we are right now on 12/25/24.
My Christmas Day prognostication is for us to be a 7/8 somewhere, repeat of last year. I'll revisit that 5 or 6 games into conference play but that will still be prior to playing a top tier team. Good news is the conference isn't running a gantlet of great teams, number of decent teams but not loaded with ranked teams and no one looks to have a super tough schedule draw. Bad news is a winning record in Big 12 might not be the near automatic invite it used to be. Better get 11 or 12 wins and not flirt with NIT with 10 or 9 wins.
Thru 12/22/24, Kayba Laube is scoring 14.9 PPG and leading the NCAA in 3PT% at 53.95%. She's from Marion, playing her 5th year at UNI - too bad we didn't negotiate a package deal for Nate Heise & Kayba Laube, since he's been a steadying influence on the men's team and she's exactly what we're missing in 24/25!
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I wonder why there are no ISU women listed, as Sydney Harris is shooting .510 and Addy Brown is shooting .417, which would qualify both for top 50? It's not that there's a minimum number of shots that hasn't been met, as EIU's Taylor McCabe is on the list with only 24 attempts.
I was an assistant GBB coach for Grinnell when we played Marion in the 4A final (2018). We had a brief 7 pt lead in the first half. Unfortunately, we laid an egg the rest of the game & got beat fairly handily. Laube was a Sophomore - but, by far, their best player. The thing with her shots against the Cyclones this year was that she was shooting & MAKING Caitlyn Clark threes that game - she is a good shooter, but hitting those types of threes was an anomaly, imho.Thru 12/22/24, Kayba Laube is scoring 14.9 PPG and leading the NCAA in 3PT% at 53.95%. She's from Marion, playing her 5th year at UNI - too bad we didn't negotiate a package deal for Nate Heise & Kayba Laube, since he's been a steadying influence on the men's team and she's exactly what we're missing in 24/25!
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I wonder why there are no ISU women listed, as Sydney Harris is shooting .510 and Addy Brown is shooting .417, which would qualify both for top 50? It's not that there's a minimum number of shots that hasn't been met, as EIU's Taylor McCabe is on the list with only 24 attempts.
Makes me think they depend on the schools to submit the statistics and Iowa State is not doing that?
What is this, 1987? Someone waiting by the fax for the weekly stats submission?
The NCAA has all the data.
Thru 12/22/24, Kayba Laube is scoring 14.9 PPG and leading the NCAA in 3PT% at 53.95%. She's from Marion, playing her 5th year at UNI - too bad we didn't negotiate a package deal for Nate Heise & Kayba Laube, since he's been a steadying influence on the men's team and she's exactly what we're missing in 24/25!
NCAA College Women's Basketball DI current individual Stats | NCAA.com
Discover the current NCAA Division I Women's Basketball leaders in every stats category, as well as historic leaders.
I wonder why there are no ISU women listed, as Sydney Harris is shooting .510 and Addy Brown is shooting .417, which would qualify both for top 50? It's not that there's a minimum number of shots that hasn't been met, as EIU's Taylor McCabe is on the list with only 24 attempts.
Not listed in Big 12 stats either although they list Harris in threes per game at 1.9.
From the NCAA…”The NCAA collects statistical data from schools by having them submit self-reported data through online forms, where schools input information like game results, player statistics, and demographic details directly into the NCAA system.“
To qualify, a player must play in 75% of their team’s games and have a minimum of 2 made three-pointers per game played.
Sydney Harris is 26 of 51 (.510) in 14 games.
