Kyle, I wish you would start your women's game thread over here on the free board, instead of the Lounge.
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That's a nice assist by Ediger. She had another one at the 6:18 mark in the 4th quarter, the one I talked about. That's after Nebraska took their first lead of the game after an Iowa inbound miscue. Down to the other end of the court, Ediger grabbed the rebound from a Clark miss and immediately passed to Martin for 3 to retake the lead. Ediger to Martin for 3, Iowa needs more of those!
I may have to start doing it over here, so everyone on the board can see it.
That was a huge road win for the Hawks as Kyle's article points out. The shooting was great, especially from long range.... Warnock was on fire.
The ladies will need this type of shooting performance for wins if they continue to be sloppy with the ball and allow their opponents to dominate the boards - 23 ORBs for Nebraska... holy smokes they will get creamed by the more experienced teams in the league unless they tighten that up significantly.
Amy Williams is building Nebraska into a contender - this is tuning into a hot rivalry match-up and the players on both sides seemed to have a little extra emotional energy. Can't wait for the re-match.
The ladies will need this type of shooting performance for wins if they continue to be sloppy with the ball and allow their opponents to dominate the boards - 23 ORBs for Nebraska... holy smokes they will get creamed by the more experienced teams in the league unless they tighten that up significantly.
Amy Williams is building Nebraska into a contender - this is tuning into a hot rivalry match-up and the players on both sides seemed to have a little extra emotional energy. Can't wait for the re-match.
Great win. Good to see them get some rhythm and make shots. The defense has been marginally improved this year but it didn't matter when they collectively couldn't make 3's. Against good teams if they can just not get dominated on the glass, they stand a good chance when they are clicking offensively.
If you look at the conference-only stats from last year, Iowa rebounded about 30% of its own misses. The Iowa opponents got 36% of their own misses. Iowa overcame that to an extent (11-8 record) by shooting so well (52% from the field and 43% on 3's. Those percentages are incredible for an entire team.
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Illini haven't won in Iowa City since 2007. It would be a shame to not get to play that game.
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Hopefully, we can get it scheduled in somewhere. We might have to play back-to-back days at some point but that's no different from the Big Ten Tournament so might as well prepare now.
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After the last two games, Clark is now leading the country in scoring.
Sad but not necessarily a surprise.
The 2nd quartile of the Big Ten had a wild chain of transitive victories this past week. Previously ranked Ohio State beat Northwestern who beat #22 Iowa who beat Nebraska who beat #8 Michigan. What's more, the away team won 3 out of these 4 games! As a result, Iowa drops out and no unranked teams crack the top 25, while Michigan falls to just #12. Seems like this handful Big Ten teams will hover in the purgatory of "receiving votes" unless someone solidifies themselves as the clear #4 team in the conference.
--The conference's best wins according to the AP Poll are Maryland's and Michigan's wins over #14 Baylor, which might not hold up well if Baylor keeps slipping backwards in the Big 12.
--The conference's best win according to the current NET rankings is, surprisingly, Purdue's win over NET #19 GaTech.
As expected, Clark was named Big Ten Player of the Week again:
At least we moved up in the ncaa's ranking from 40 to 31. While Nebraska slipped from 6 to 9.
Part of our rebounding problem is scheme. We want to run a fast break and crash with fewer players expecting to get the d rebound and be behind their defense for easier scores. That's great and part of our game but both Nortwestern and Nebraska went and got way too many O rebounds. We still won at Nebraska as they converted very poorly on second chance despite those 21 extra possessions, while Northwestern converted the difference in score on theirs.
It's not the offensive scheme, it's effort that's the problem. There was a lot of standing around again vs Nebraska. Our players have been slow to go up and get it. There's a lot of ball watching going on and not a lot of blocking out or jumping/extending for the ball.
I will see Clark go up and get it but not many others. Players need to be more active, even if means we end up getting more over the back calls. Making the opponent earn it from the line is better than giving up second, third, fourth chance points and wearing down the players. You're much more likely to give up 3s with more opportunities.
Fortunately, the D had some very good moments and the offense was clicking most of the night. But we could have very easily lost. We also gave up steals inbounding the ball. Despite the win, more effort and focus will be needed going forward if we want to get back to the tourney.
I'm not convinced yet we are a tourney team until the rebounding woes and turnovers are addressed.
Thinking about this team going to NIT and not the NCAA tourney with a player like Caitlin Clark is wild to me
I don't think there's much chance we miss the NCAA Tournament barring significant injury. We've likely already seen this team's offensive floor. We saw the defensive floor last year and were still a 5 seed.
Our 4 losses this year are all to likely NCAA Tournament teams (unless IUPUI doesn't win its conference). We have 2 victories over projected NCAA Tournament teams, 1 of which is on the road (and it'd be 3 with 2 on the road if UNI gets in). That's certainly not a great resume, but it's not horrendous either.
Our 4 losses this year are all to likely NCAA Tournament teams (unless IUPUI doesn't win its conference). We have 2 victories over projected NCAA Tournament teams, 1 of which is on the road (and it'd be 3 with 2 on the road if UNI gets in). That's certainly not a great resume, but it's not horrendous either.
I watched a replay of the Nebraska game and many of their offensive boards came on their own missed 3 point attempts. They out hustled us for the long rebounds which I think is correctable. More worrisome to me is our lack of bench production.
I think it's fair to say that both Gabe and Braydon are correct. On one hand, if the regular season were suddenly over today, we'd have done enough to qualify for an at large bid. But the season is not over today, and shooting 58% from three while giving up soooo many extra possession on turnovers and poor rebounding is not a sustainable way to keep winning. We're not going to be a great team at either, but it needs to improve somewhat.
If you've got the game on tape, check out Kendall Coley at 7:26 left in the game. Should have got kicked out of the game. She's dirty dirty.
Little Sister frustration? Anneka Stewart probably didn't feel very good either.
I think my point is more what does Iowa missing the NCAA Tournament actually look like? Assuming we get the Illinois game in, we have 15 games left. 4 are against Penn State, Rutgers, Illinois, and Wisconsin, all of whom are terrible. Even a bad version of Iowa should beat all of those teams.
We play a further 3 games against teams that probably won't make the NCAA Tournament (Purdue and Minnesota x2). Iowa could lose any of those games, but realistically should go at least 2-1 in them.
Finally, Iowa plays 8 more games against likely NCAA Tournament teams (Nebraska, Indiana x2, Northwestern, Ohio State, Michigan x2, and Maryland). 5 of those games are at home. And while Iowa could absolutely lose to any of those teams, a loss against one of them doesn't hurt Iowa's resume much. If we go 0-8 or 1-7 in those games, we might miss the NCAA Tournament. But that seems pretty unlikely, especially with 5 of them at home.
She was playing dirty in the second half of the Nebraska/Michigan game as well. Big red flag.
I mean, yeah, point taken, but let's not count our hawks before they hatch, so to speak. If we give up 23 offensive rebounds plus the significant turnover margin in some of those games you are already chalking up in the W column, things can still very quickly go the other way. All I'm saying is there is merit in what Gabe is saying.
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I just think it's more of a worst case scenario than a likely outcome. Maybe I'm just an optimist, but I think it's a lot more likely that Clark finally starts hitting shots and we revert back to being a Sweet 16 contender.
Bench is a serious problem. With games being added in, kids are gonna get tired.
Can we make the tournament? Absolutely. Will we make the tournament? It's probable. Could we miss the tournament? It's possible.
My point is I haven't seen enough to not be concerned. Yes we beat Nebraska. Yes we have winnable games. But we also played poorly enough in a win to Nebraska that we could have easily lost. (We gave up a 17 point lead to lose to UIPUI). We were handled by Northwestern. Even in our wins we've struggled. The bench production is poor. Rebounding continues to be an issue. And the offense has been stagnant in long stretches this season.
I simply don't feel comfortable that this is a tournament team barring some significant improvement. We look more like a bubble team. If we can cut down on the turnovers and at least keep the rebounding close, particularly not giving up double digit offensive boards, I will feel a lot more comfortable.
I like the talent Iowa has, particularly if Warnock and Martin can consistently score in double figures (which we sorely need) to take the pressure off Clark.
We also really need some quality wins, especially with the games we missed. We need to win all the games we're likely favored in and grab an upset or two. I would feel a lot better if we can manage to sweep Indiana and get revenge against Northwestern. And I hope that we can somehow squeeze in at least one more quality non-conference opponent just to be safe.
Every game counts right now and i really hope we can continue to show improvement and overcome the issues we've seen to this point. If we can't, there's a possibility of missing the tournament even with a player like Clark.
The replay quality is not really good. I wasn't able to see what took place. But you can see the Haiby elbow that was called a common foul. No way that's a common foul. Haiby elbowed Marshall in the head. It looked pretty intentional. Haiby should have been ejected from the game.
I was pretty shocked they didn’t take a look at that play. I agree she may not have hit her hard, but she definitely forcefully threw that elbow up high.
I believe the refs did take a look, but in the end didn't call it an intentional foul.
I don't think they stopped play and went over and look at it. They did look at a different one. I'll check it when I watch the replay.
I didn’t think they looked at it either unless they looked at a commercial break. I was surprised the Haiby foul wasn’t a F1 or F2.
The one with Coley it looked like she grabbed McKenna around the neck and threw her down. Looked very dirty and worse than Haiby. Live I knew McKenna was upset as was Kate but until I saw the replay didn’t realize how severe. In my opinion the B1G office should take a look at it.
The one with Coley it looked like she grabbed McKenna around the neck and threw her down. Looked very dirty and worse than Haiby. Live I knew McKenna was upset as was Kate but until I saw the replay didn’t realize how severe. In my opinion the B1G office should take a look at it.
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