The foul on CC when she didn’t touch the offensive player in the first minute should definitely not be called in last minute.
But clear and blatant fouls must be called or you get basketbrawl like WV game where they swallowed whistle so early it was full of cr@p.
If that call isn’t called, Hannah should have been allowed to two hand push Paige into the bench before getting a shot.
Part of me thought with a foul to give, she should have anyways.
Define “talent”?
I’ll take Gabby as a 5th year with over 100 career starts over most 5* freshmen.
ESPN ranked top 25 players in final four:
Iowa 1, 7, 11, 13, 18
UConn 2, 4, 9, 15, 19, 23
Pretty even
You are talking about Greatest of ALL TIME.
Every year, more people play so the standard to be 1 of 1 is going to get tougher.
That doesn’t stop current players from being great, but does factor in being GREATEST.
Swoopes and Lobo are not in the conversation.
However, if 2 years ago, you had the...
She won zero NCAA player of the year. If you aren’t best player in country while winning title, the title does not get you in the conversation.
There are 8 multi-year Wcbb players of the year. Those are the starting point to discuss GOAT.
I’m talking vs Brianna Stewart
4x championship
3x player of the year
Vs Chamique Holdsclaw
3x champion
2x player of year
Vs Diana Taurasi
3x champion
2x player of year
Vs Cheryl Miller
2x champion
3x player of the year
These are the only other ones in my discussion
Here is the thing, to be THE GOAT, that means top overall EVER.
Taking Iowa to Final 4 is equal to winning 1 championship at UCON or Tenn back in the day.
However, some of people in conversation have 3+ titles.
To be the CLEAR winner, something more is needed.
Right now, CC is having the...
There are two big differences.
1. Making 1.8 in a year will pay significantly more in taxes
2. Some who makes 60k per year budgets and is conservative and gets a check monthly. Big payouts like lottery spend wildly thinking they have it made, until it runs out.
This is reason there are a...
That’s the thing, playing at Iowa’s tempo is exhausting to even watch, let alone defend. When you get tired defensively, plays tend to reach and get fouls. During UConn game, they said all their losses to athletic teams in sweet sixteen. No one in country scores more than Iowa which means the...
UConn is playing w/ 6-7 players right now due to injuries. They were in trouble w fouls going into 4th quarter.
Iowa need to RUN them into the ground which will rack up fouls. They might win individual 1:1 but collectively, Iowa can win this.
She “should” stay in college and bank more NIL money. Her game is built on being bigger & faster than the players around her. However, she will not have those advantages in the WNBA. There are a lot of players who were great in college who you never hear from again. On average about 10...
With women’s basketball, there is a huge leap from 32 to 16. With the top 16 teams getting homecourt, being #17 still puts you at losing 60%+. With men’s neutral court, the 4/5 matchup is about 50/50
Honestly, I was trying to figure out if the one ref was the same from NCAA championship last year where the crew was rated worst in recent history.
In the second quarter, W Virginia got away with a ton of fouls.
The refs would call some fouls, then look at stat sheet and say, swallow whistle...
Honestly, I wish Fran an Bluder each had 12th ranked Salaries in Big 10.
Then stack bonuses:
33% Big 10 reg season title
25% BTT title
25% NCAA bid
50% sweet sixteen
100% Final 4
100% NCAA championships
So terrible base pay, but chance to make over 3x salary with great year
Basketball has become soft compared to twenty years ago. Go back and watch Bulls/knicks/pistons from the 90s. They hit harder than the Lions, Bears and Giants.