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I saw the 2nd half. Soares definitely makes Iowa St. a much better team (at least for 1 season). She gets up and down the floor a lot better than, say, Ayoka Lee did. So she will be tougher to deal with than Ayoka was last season. But I don't think Vic is gonna just let her stand there under the basket like UNC did most of the night. Pretty sure we will run plays at her and try to get her in foul trouble. To me, the game tonight proved that Iowa St. still has problems with teams that have good athleticism. Soares went 19 pts 12 boards and Joens went 18 & 9, and they still lost this game. Deja Kelly going for 29 & 9 certainly had a lot to do with that [still really hurts that she originally committed to Texas in 7th grade]. As usual, good defense will be the key when we play them.Iowa St blows a 17 point lead and loses by 9 to North Carolina
ISU had 3 turnovers in a row trying to run inbounds plays in the last 30 seconds
Soares definitely adds a competent post presence and makes ISU a better team, but I was really surprised to see her get her shot blocked several times.I saw the 2nd half. Soares definitely makes Iowa St. a much better team (at least for 1 season). She gets up and down the floor a lot better than, say, Ayoka Lee did. So she will be tougher to deal with than Ayoka was last season. But I don't think Vic is gonna just let her stand there under the basket like UNC did most of the night. Pretty sure we will run plays at her and try to get her in foul trouble. To me, the game tonight proved that Iowa St. still has problems with teams that have good athleticism. Soares went 19 pts 12 boards and Joens went 18 & 9, and they still lost this game. Deja Kelly going for 29 & 9 certainly had a lot to do with that [still really hurts that she originally committed to Texas in 7th grade]. As usual, good defense will be the key when we play them.
I think so, too. Our perimeter players have got to learn to look for Jones earlier in the possessions (and they need to learn to feed the post with better passing) because she's down there getting good position early.Soares vs Jones is going to be a really good matchup to watch.
If Rori is half as salty about this as you and I still are, other guards in the Big XII better look out.Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, Lexi Donarski
It's not that I was upset that Rori didn't win. I'd have been okay if Ayoka Lee had won it. Donarski? EhIf Rori is half as salty about this as you and I still are, other guards in the Big XII better look out.
Going to be a rough first year for Joni Taylor. aggy is 4-3 but their victories came against A&M-CC, Army, Texas Southern and Texas State with losses to Duke (71-52), Rice (66-58) and Kansas (74-42). They have 5 games before the SEC gauntlet and they will almost certainly lose at least 2 of those (SMU and Purdue) before kicking off conference play on the road against South Carolina.
AC is a head case prompted by her parents to believe she is the next coming of wbb royalty. I feel bad for her in a way. She will go through the rest of her life with a chip on her shoulder believing her bb career was stolen from her. ttu took her not because of her playing skills but as a childish way for their coach to throw shade at Vic. I think brnkj is correct. At the right school she might be a standout but probably not at a D-1 level.
How about that TCU player? Defender accidentally gets an arm tangled in her hair, and she responds by deliberately starting a fight.
Then again I can't leave the refs blameless. Even accidentally, it's still a foul, and a painful one, and on top of that the GW player got the steal. When you blow a call that results in someone both in pain and having their opponent gain an in-game advantage, you end up with people looking for some way to "even things up".
I was channel surfing and happened across this game. At the time ISU was 3 points up and they were trading baskets. However, I saw this giant of a player on Iowa State (Soares) and I remembered the chatter about her. Her mom being a Texas legacy and all that. Then I saw her make a 3! But with that length, she can't run up and down the court very fast, which wouldn't have worked with Vic's defense.Iowa State lost their 5 point halftime lead at Iowa and now trails by 10 points with 5 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter.
If that outcome holds, is the Big 12 conference gonna go without any non-conference wins over a Top 10-15 team?
Baylor still plays Arizona in Dallas. Was it KSU that beat Iowa at home?
Iowa State lost their 5 point halftime lead at Iowa and now trails by 10 points with 5 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter.
If that outcome holds, is the Big 12 conference gonna go without any non-conference wins over a Top 10-15 team?
Baylor still plays Arizona in Dallas. Was it KSU that beat Iowa at home?
At some point, these recruits we lost to Arizona are going to realize Adia Barnes is not the great coach she may be made out to be. They had one good season where they made the champ. game during the covid season. They lost. Then she couldn't even get out of her own gym in the NCAAs last season and had a mass-exodus after that. Getting punked at home by almost 30 to a KU team should tell recruits all they need to know. And it looks like we dodged one in not getting Fields too. Her stats are way below Shaylee's and Sonya's despite Zona's very weak non-conf. schedule.Ha! Unranked, 7-0 Kansas destroying #12 Arizona at Arizona. 54-33 at the end of three quarters.
And now Blackwell has to leave the game again... probably trying to come back too soon.Watched the Baylor-Arizona game. Why is Baylor ranked?
Yep, I've been watching some of their games on ESPN+. Today they play another 2-8 team (I don't think they played anyone with a winning record), but boy are they gonna be surprised on 12/31!I get a little chuckle every time something comes across my Facebook timeline about Tech WBB’s “winning streak” (currently at ten I believe). I can’t help myself but to click on the comments to see how their oblivious fans are praising the coach for “turning that program around” and the complaints of not being ranked when they are currently at “#1 in the Big 12 Standings”. They have no idea their SOS is #312 out of 361 and Gerlich is all about the smoke and mirrors.
And their loss was to Jackson State in Lubbock. I watched that one.Yep, I've been watching some of their games on ESPN+. Today they play another 2-8 team (I don't think they played anyone with a winning record), but boy are they gonna be surprised on 12/31!
Yikes. OU with 30 points in the 1st quarter at West Virginia. WVU with 19.And their loss was to Jackson State in Lubbock. I watched that one.
The only surprise for me is that the final margin wasn't 35 points or more.Tech got scorched today. Not at all surprising.
And Ashley, doing all she could to keep it close, had one assist in 9 minutes.
I'll say it again... you play almost zero defense and it'll kill you when you're not shooting it at about 50%.Baylor wins in Norman
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