***#16 Iowa vs Minnesota Game Thread***
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Making sure everyone saw. Lisa Bluder said yesterday that Kate Martin and Gabbie Marshall will play tonight.
This is Lindsay Whalen's 5th season as Minnesota's head coach. I honestly thought that she would have turned things around by now in Minnesota.
In 2018 she took over coaching duties at Minnesota while continuing to play for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. She retired from playing professional basketball in the summer of 2018 (at the end of the 2018 WNBA season).
Year 1 was pretty good. Years 2 through 5? Not good.
Her Minnesota coaching record:
21-11, 9-9: 2018-2019 (NIT)
16-15, 5-13: 2019-2020 (no postseason; COVID)
8-13, 7-11: 2020-2021 (no postseason)
15-18, 7-11: 2021-2022 (NIT)
5-4, 1-0: 2022-2023
In 2018 she took over coaching duties at Minnesota while continuing to play for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. She retired from playing professional basketball in the summer of 2018 (at the end of the 2018 WNBA season).
Year 1 was pretty good. Years 2 through 5? Not good.
Her Minnesota coaching record:
21-11, 9-9: 2018-2019 (NIT)
16-15, 5-13: 2019-2020 (no postseason; COVID)
8-13, 7-11: 2020-2021 (no postseason)
15-18, 7-11: 2021-2022 (NIT)
5-4, 1-0: 2022-2023
The key to winning will be defending Braun (and Battle too). I'm not expecting us to have any issues getting high percentage looks at the basket on offense, but if we don't put energy into getting stops it's just going to become a running match. Braun in particular has the ability to go off if left unchecked, and she's also very capable of passing to the open shooter. Even if Kate gets the primary assignment on her it will take a team effort. Having watched a few Minnesota games this season, their team morale is much higher than the last few seasons.
She's got a really young group this year. If they all stay I expect them to improve a lot in the future, especially with Mara Braun.
Spot on. Warnock checking Heyer is also an interesting matchup. Warnock moving a little better this year. May need to vs Heyer. Also, Braun, Battle and Heyer were all 3 top 55 per ESPN. Quite a freshman haul that is already panning out.
Agreed... Grow the lead, then see if she can get a couple shots up to find her stroke....Only shooting 20% from 3 on the year...
She's a pretty dang good freshman. Would look better in Black & Gold instead of ugly maroon.
Agree & the longer I listen to them, the more painful it becomes. I thought Dickie V. talked a lot, but these two are trying to give him a run for spoken words per minute.
I'm not a lip reader but it doesn't look good for Kate. Fractured ankle seems to be what I could gather from the medical staff.
The trainer turned her foot back straight
On the bench now. With ice wrapped on the ankle. Hopefully not a fracture
That injury seems to have taken the wind out of them..
Hoping Steulke brings it
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