HS on ESPN page

[JasonTAlexanderJR]

Hannah Stuelke is featured in an ESPN photo. The article is behind a paywall but you can see the photo. Nice to see someone other than CC featured.

March Madness Heat Index: Which women's, men's teams are overperforming?

Neil Paine analyzes the teams that are hitting their strides and the ones that have work to do entering the Sweet 16s.

www.espn.com

 

[Ferentzfever]

Except that the connotation is that Iowa is "cold" or at least "cooling down"

Frosty forecast: These teams appear to be cooling down

No. 1 IOWA HAWKEYES

Tournament PPG Differential: plus-18.0
Versus Expected: minus-6.6

Player on the slide: Hannah Stuelke, forward (4.5 Game Score, minus-7.5 vs. expected)
[...] But Iowa's biggest underperformer is Stuelke, [...]

 

[EagleHawk]

I'm sure the writer took the time to see that Stuelke only played 10 minutes in the first game due to illness and therefore her 12 points/11 rebounds in game two is right at her average for the year. Right?

Clark's usual numbers are so good that she is running below her regular-season production despite averaging 29.5 points (granted, on 39% shooting) with 8.0 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 2.5 steals per contest. But Iowa's biggest underperformer is Stuelke, whose regular-season averages of 14.1 points (64% shooting) and 6.7 rebounds -- which gave her the Hawkeyes' second-best Game Score, behind Clark -- have turned into 6.0 PPG (38% shooting) and 6.5 RPG during the tournament. The Hawkeyes need to be better overall than they have looked so far (the nation's No. 1 regular-season offense ranks just 15th in the tourney), and Clark's shooting efficiency is part of that. But they'll be in big trouble without Stuelke providing her usual measure of secondary scoring.