Well, crap: Knee injury ends season, collge career for Jillian Alleyne, Oregon Ducks star forward
Remember when IUPUI was really awful. Thursday, they took down the Wabbits. They get to play the Coyotes today….
For the first time in 25 games, Siena beat Marist.
SNICK. The C-USA got tight as Western Kentucky took care of Middle Tennessee, 62-51.
The WCC continues to be interesting: San Diego over Gonzaga, Saint Mary’s over Santa Clara.
#13 Stanford knocked the teeth outta the #7 Beavers, 76-54.
Princeton is licking their Ivy League championships chops: Cornell pulled off the stunner, topping Penn, 51-46.
Looking ahead to Saturday:
#5 Ohio State v. #20 Michigan State. Can the Buckeyes recover their moxie? Can the Spartans get folks to believe in them?
Temple v. #21 USF. An Owl win could make the the NCAAs a realistic goal – which makes this news intriguing: Two players exit women’s basketball program
2nd place in the Horizon: Wright State v. Milwaukee
Always pay attention to the WCC: San Francisco will battle Saint Mary’s, BYU v. Gonzaga.
Big Sky is up for grabs: Idaho (12-3) v. Eastern Washington (12-3).
#22 Oklahoma State v. West Virginia. The Mountaineers have made enough noise to get the attention of the Selection Committee. Both teams are 10-6 in the Big 12. An upset would really seal the deal.
It’s a home game, so I don’t thing UTEP will be looking a head… ’cause the 49ers sure deserve their attention.
Senior Day at UConn prompts ESPN’s MC Barrett to ask: Is Breanna Stewart the best UConn player in history?
Harvey is back! (And writing long form) Breanna Stewart, UConn’s Wow Factor, Always Had a Sweep in Mind
With Auriemma’s standard roster of multipositional excellence beside her, Stewart has, in her time at Connecticut, indisputably qualified as one of those rare raise-the-bar talents. She has occasionally been heralded by pundits as potentially the best female player ever.
“And if you want to be considered that good, you’ve got to have those wow moments — in games, in practices,” Auriemma said. “Every day, Michael Jordan did something that made you say, What?”
That is what Auriemma believes Stewart is capable of on the women’s scale of athletic enhancement. And while he does not deal in ranking individuals across playing eras, given Connecticut’s parade of elite alumnae, he did offer contextual elaboration by recounting another of Stewart’s wow moments, from this season, one with a better result, if not a perfect one.
Sunday:
Georgia @ Tennessee. A battle of unranked SEC teams will garner a lot of attention.
An interesting A-10 battle: Duquesne (13-2) v. St. Bonaventure (11-4)
Equally interesting battle between two 16-3 teams in MAAC: Quinnipiac v. Iona.
Duke v. UNC: Two blue teams – literally and psychically.
Minnesota v. #6 Maryland. Obviously, the Gophers have to play a better out-of-conference schedule… but Rachel they are sure are doing their best to get noticed. Will the Terps have gotten the message?
From Salt Lake: Alta product Makenzi Morrison Pulsipher exceeding expectations at BYU
About that great Dane: Albany’s Caribbean-born Shereesha Richards an aspiring pro
About that Grand Bahamian: Despite Injury, Jonquel On Pace To Be Wnba Draft Lottery Pick
Speaking of the draft: Countdown to the 2016 WNBA Draft: No. 8 South Florida’s Courtney Williams
Looking ahead: Diana Taurasi refreshed for Phoenix Mercury return, 4th Olympics
Interesting: Her Love Of Basketball Knows No Boundaries, But U.S. Law Says Otherwise
Jo had 26 points and 10 rebounds that March night in 2009 in San Antonio, and those numbers don’t begin to tell half of her story. The New England prep school player of the year in 2005, she would go on to be a two-time Division II player of the year and the all-time D-II leading scorer. Drafted by the Connecticut Sun in 2010, Jo played for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics and tied Erika de Souza of Brazil as leading scorer. Jo Leedham, who played in a few exhibition games in 2013 with the Sun, plays for Bourges in France. She scored 28 points Thursday for Great Britain in a stirring comeback over Montenegro in a Eurobasket qualifier.
Kirsty, meanwhile, starred at Cheshire Academy and at Caldwell (N.J.) College before becoming a graduate assistant while getting her MBA in sports management at New Haven. She returned to coach Cheshire Academy for two years before becoming coordinator of player development at Binghamton this season.
No family has given any more to New England small college basketball, to New England basketball, in the past decade. That’s worth remembering today as Jen Leedham fights to remain in this country.
A little audio: Swin Cash On Internet Trolls, Life After Basketball
Even though it’s 2016, Cash has still dealt with the less-than-desirable underbelly of the internet. You know, the ones who are dumbfounded that a black woman would be able to talk about professional sports from merit and experience. No mind that the WNBA star is one of the most decorated athletes with her pair of NCAA National Titles, treble of WNBA Championships as well as two Olympic gold medals, of course.
Cash brushes off the ignorant, baseless criticism.
“You have to have a sharp mind to have discernment of what’s coming in and what you’re actually putting out,” said Cash.
Have you listened to the new audio source: ‘Around the Rim’: Talking Women’s College Hoops
Speakin’ of audio: Dishin & Swishin 2/25/16 Podcast: Moriah Jefferson ready to join the Huskies of Honor, but what comes next?
Lady Swish asks: Is your team going to the NCAA tournament?
In theory, each of the state’s 13 teams could qualify for the NCAAs by winning their conference tournaments. Barring that, we feel that only four Virginia schools have even an outside chance of nabbing an at-large bid. Virginia schools have gone five years without receiving an at-large bid. Based on what our teams have done so far, that streak is likely to continue in 2016.
Here’s our thinking on what’s going to happen as we approach postseason:
Mike Siroky’s SEC Notebook: The Upperclasswomen Lead the Way
The Ben-Gals won their third SEC game this season by one. The Orange lightning is crashing over the once-proud UT program that hit its bottom. Doesn’t matter how they lost.It’s that they lost.The Lady Vols proved once again they have no clue this season. This should be the death knell for the assistant coaches because that’s the only way an embattled coach makes a perception she is willing to accept blame and make changes.The urban legend that former Pat Head Summitt players make good coaches is dead. D-E-A-D dead.Not Holly Warlick, not anyone else.The campus is embroiled in too many other coming lawsuits and other distractions in the important campus sports to make a direct move on Warlick.It is over. As in so many other things.
A little history: 40 years later: Judi Warren stole the show at first girls basketball state finals
“Judi Warren,” Brown said. “Anybody who was there would tell you they were impressed with Judi Warren. She pretty much dominated play and she was such an exciting personality. If it was just ho-hum, who knows how it would have gone. But she was so fun to watch.”
The girls basketball finals will be played on Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 40 years after Warsaw’s 5-1 Warren captured the hearts of Hoosiers. She played with the exuberance of a first-grader allowed 20 minutes extra at recess. For Warren and her Warsaw teammates, the 1976 state finals marked the culmination of four years of playing mostly in front of family and close friends.
If Warren had graduated one year earlier, she would have never had the opportunity.
USA Basketball: Geno Auriemma pleased with camp, but questions linger for Team USA and Geno Auriemma, USA Basketball Face Tough Decisions With A Luxury Of Riches
