*** #21 Iowa vs Rutgers WBB Game Thread ***
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This is the biggest trap game we've had in years, but it sounds like the players and coaches realize that and are giving Rutgers their full focus. Hopefully we take care of business early on.
If we win, Sunday's atmosphere will almost certainly be the best we've seen since Megan's jersey retirement. That would be a great game for our top recruiting targets to experience. I recall the crowd for the jersey retirement was part of the reason Affolter committed.
If we win, Sunday's atmosphere will almost certainly be the best we've seen since Megan's jersey retirement. That would be a great game for our top recruiting targets to experience. I recall the crowd for the jersey retirement was part of the reason Affolter committed.
This is quite literally the definition of a trap game. I agree, it's probably the biggest one there is.
I believe Caitlin was also at Megan's jersey retirement. If we take care of business tonight, I really hope we can inch near a sell-out for Sunday. We're really going to need it.
Rutgers likes to turn you over and be very physical so let's hope we stay composed and take care of the ball.
I don't care how "bad" Rutgers has been this year -- this game scares the crap out of me. We have a tendency to get a bit thrown off against physical teams and we haven't won at Rutgers since the 2017-2018 season. Ohio State is the team most similar to us in terms of offensive/defensive balance, and Rutgers played them quite close in both matches this year. Most recently, Rutgers led OSU 35-27 at half before losing by 4. They've also shown a few more signs of life recently, having won 2 of their last 3 after going winless for the majority of conference play.
I see in the Net-Rankings today that we jumped Nebraska to move up to #20. A win tonight on the road will help inch was closer to getting to host a couple NCAA tournament games.
Scared sh______ of this game. Athletic team, good defense, and they play a slow down game. Northwestern anyone ?
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Seems like we’re all a little bit scared of this trap game. Manifesting a win! In CC I trust.
The two areas that make me feel a little better about this game are: that 1) Rutgers' defense probably isn't quite as good as Northwestern's (NW gives up more points, but part of that is pace. Rutgers doesn't turn teams over or block shots at NW's level), and 2) Most of our games in Big Ten play have been shootouts, and the games Rutgers keeps close tend to be low scoring.
today hopefully is a fairly easy win.
and then a B1G Championship is right there for the taking on Sun Feb 27 vs Michigan. hopefully they get a huge crowd
and then a B1G Championship is right there for the taking on Sun Feb 27 vs Michigan. hopefully they get a huge crowd
It's Girl Scout Day, too. Girl Scouts and families get to meet the coaches and players two hours before the game. And free tickets for the scouts!
That's overblowing it a little bit. Since Rutgers joined the Big Ten in the 2014-15 season, Rutgers has beaten Iowa only once, in Kathleen Doyle's senior season, at Rutgers in overtime, in the last game of the regular season. That's the game when the then freshman Marshall showed us her prowess at 3-point shooting. Iowa was pretty good that year and was in consideration for hosting had the NCAA tourney not been cancelled. However, Iowa was stumbling a bit toward the end of the season and got blown out by Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament, down by as many as 30 points during the game.
I'm also encouraged that we beat Rutgers twice last year. Neither of those games were at Rutgers, but last year's Rutgers team was much, much more talent than this year's team while still playing the physical defense-first style.
Didn't know it was going to be Girl Scout Day too. There's always a bunch of them and they always bring that little kid energy with all their posters.
I will never forget the Girl Scout Day game with Purdue a number of years ago. A huge contingent of them chanted Thin Mints Thin Mints during every Boilermaker free throw. It sounded like they were saying Miss Miss and totally freaked out the Purdue players.
The Dan Patrick Show is a pretty famous radio program and one of the “Dan-ettes” is a huge Caitlin Clark fan. He said he was going to take his daughter to see this game. Someone on here suggested she get that girl a jersey and picture before the game. I really hope they actually do that. Huge publicity on a National radio show if they do. Was it Fritzy?
15.5? Rutgers plays slow, so we won't have as many opportunities, but we sure are throwing it away early.
Forced shots
At least 3 or 4 turnovers mid way through the 1st. Losing by 1 to one of the most incompetent teams I have seen.
I am sure we will get it going though.
Is Pauley and the DP crew there? They love Clark.
At least 3 or 4 turnovers mid way through the 1st. Losing by 1 to one of the most incompetent teams I have seen.
I am sure we will get it going though.
Is Pauley and the DP crew there? They love Clark.
Rutgers gave Ohio State a good game so I wouldn't say they are the most incompetent team
BAU.
It's not even that they're forced. They get so careless with the ball and with some of their decisions trying to play too loose or up tempo. They constantly do it to themselves, although to their credit they don't ever seem too phased by it............so they got that going for them.
Good end to the quarter. This feels like a game we went comfortably so long as we take care of the ball even a little bit and so long as we hit shots at even close to our normal rate. I can't remember many games where a team puts its 4 and 5 on the perimeter and we can sag 5 plus feet off of them defensively.
This game could do wonders for our defensive metrics. Rutgers might be the most offensively challenged team we've played this season.
Against the elite teams, our turnovers easily lose us the game by 15+. Look at the UConn Sweet 16 game.
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