Totally agree!! Not only did Heiden have good play after good play...for a freshman...I really didn't see any bad/freshman plays from her. Top notch stuff. I hope she feels good tonight, she really shined!!
*****Iowa vs Mich St (BTT) Game Thread*****
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Tonight's leading scorers:
21: Lucy...................................(32 min)
12: McCabe............................(35 min)
12: Hannah.............................(22 min)
11: Ava freakin' Heiden.........(12 min)
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9: Kylie....................................(36 min)
6: Syd......................................(36 min)
3: Addie.....................................(8 min)
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74 Points Scored
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21: Lucy...................................(32 min)
12: McCabe............................(35 min)
12: Hannah.............................(22 min)
11: Ava freakin' Heiden.........(12 min)
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9: Kylie....................................(36 min)
6: Syd......................................(36 min)
3: Addie.....................................(8 min)
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74 Points Scored
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Tomorrow will be tough but it is a winnable game. Low turnovers and 35%+ 3 point shooting can win it. If McMahon is under 22 points we have a real shot at advancing.
Tuned in to watch a ballgame. Saw this instead...
Movin' on up!
Movin' on up!
Lots of girls had great games tonight. Hannah had a very productive 20 minutes
Unlikely unless we win the BTT. Prob locked at a 6, maybe a 5 if we make the finals.
The culture of this team is impressive. Listen to the player interviews. Credit to Jan for carrying that over. This is a top notch program for people and player development.
To me it seems some of these teams get good players but the coaches aren’t very elite. Iowa staff usually shows up the staff on the other sideline.
Top flight program period, and it’s about to get reaaaaallly fun again.
N doubt, I just feel when things were teetering on the brink and Hannah got her 4th foul Ava righted the ship.
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Jensen totally schooled MSU's Izzo-wannabe coach.
Two things about Heiden: She is starting to pin her defenders deep on a more consistent basis, and she is quick and efficient on the one-step move to the hoop after getting the ball.
Two things about Heiden: She is starting to pin her defenders deep on a more consistent basis, and she is quick and efficient on the one-step move to the hoop after getting the ball.
She's very fundamentally sound for a freshman and has solid spacial awareness. She has so much upside with Jan over the next 4 years.
Aside from Taylor the rest of the team was 2-15 from 3, I like the odds they shoot better tomorrow.
I’ve always been a glass half full guy.😀
I’m guessing it’s because theoretically that would give them the most rest between games if they continue to advance?
Regardless how the rest of the season plays out...she's just too wildly inconsistent.
Especially for an upperclassman that's played as much as she has.
Worth a mention.. Olsen 8-8 from the free throw line tonight!
Edit: Saw Fran had it in the Lucy thread.. oh well double shout out!!
Edit: Saw Fran had it in the Lucy thread.. oh well double shout out!!
I was thinking that I've seen her riding an old bicycle around in a tornado. Maybe it was all a dream?
Not always pretty but a great win. MSU is really an unlikeable team from the coach on down. Lucy has been great once she hit her stride. Stuelke missing bunnies early but came back with some makes. Kylie wasn't close early but hit a couple huge shots late. McCabe was thankfully on this game. Ava with an incredible game. Syd struggled with passing and ball security and couldn't get on track. Stremlow with similar struggles as Syd. Thankfully people stepped up and MSU was missing shots and turned it over a ton. That Haddock carries the ball like crazy when dribbling.
Ava provided impact
Lucy is the player of the game, takes a lot to handle the ball against pressure and score 21 points.
The team looks significantly different when Lucy is not in the game
And yet, they hung in there with two key stretches without Hannah and/orLucy. Great team win!
Do you think the coaches can work on inbounding after made baskets? Syd was planted on the baseline, and 3 players were standing good distances away, completely covered and not moving, just standing like they were trying to position themselves in the lane. I didn't get why MSU let up on their inbound defense the last few minutes, because we had a hard time getting it in. I think Hannah took one out and finally moved along the baseline to make a decent pass.
I don't know. We've averaged almost 79 ppg the past 4 games so we must be doing something right on offense.................
This was one of those games, when it was over you are thankful for the foul trouble.
Lucy played smart and worked through foul trouble.
Hannah Sat the bench for half the game and is hopefully better rested for Ohio State, since she will be needed against McMahon
Lucy played smart and worked through foul trouble.
Hannah Sat the bench for half the game and is hopefully better rested for Ohio State, since she will be needed against McMahon
WOW!!!!! What a game….I'm working on disconnecting. So I put my phone up & didn’t follow the game thread last night, but …..WOW!
Stream of consciousness….
This team continues to amaze me, even during their slump they were gritty, and determined. I don’t want to hear anybody have concerns about a “physical game“ again.😊 we ARE PHYSICAL!!!
When was the last time either of the men’s or women’s teams had multiple different people step up game after game after game. The whole team is full of gamers….
I know many people probably had issue with the officiating, I did, but the biggest problem there was inconsistency. Later on in the game. I thought we got several favorable calls.
With that said if we had made a normal amount of our 3ptrs, This game wouldn’t have been close at all.
As a result of that, a couple girls, Sydney in particular, passed up a few open shots down the stretch and by open, I mean no one within three steps. But you know who didn’t?! Taylor McCabe and for all intents & purposes she struggled a bit, but she kept gunning and kept playing hard on defense, and she ended up being a hero.
So a quick mention of the elephant in the room. AVA PLAYED AWESOME. Now I’m certain plenty of our fans believe that’s proof positive of, God knows what they think it means?! to me it means this… She’s engaged, she loves her teammates, she’s practicing hard, and when her ticket got pulled, she was ready to rock ‘n’ roll!! no more talk about her leaving the program. I’m convinced some of you almost hope that at times because you think the “coaches” deserve it for not playing who you think they should play!
Kudos Ava !!!!
This team is sooooo resilient and so physically tough, they will grind you out in a battle of attrition.
I personally don’t think we played particularly great, and as has been a theme of mine, we once again routinely have one bad quarter defensively. Now to be fair Michigan State knocked down some shots there in that third quarter and we were still playing hard. But in those other 3/4 we literally beat the shit out of them. They were throwing the ball away right and left because we were constantly in their grill!!! It is criminal Kylie didn’t make All-defense. There is not a better defender in the league.
I do not like Michigan State, AT ALL. And we were the better team last time and we are definitely the better team now we’re more athletic, more physical and have more talent up and down the roster. With that said, I will give them credit. They have a solid team. They have a terrific coach and that Julie Ayrault is a hell of a ball player. I haven’t given her enough credit. She’s the only reason they stayed in that game.
As for Jan Jensen… What a hell of a year she’s had. I’m certain I won’t get unanimous support for this, but in my opinion, she has managed this roster and rotations and substitutions and matchups about as well as any coach could, especially being in her first year. She navigated that Hannah foul situation beautifully. She moved Kylie all over the floor on players trying to stem momentum. I am extremely impressed with her. I came into it thinking she would be a great coach maybe even better than…..,”I want say it” And I know that’s blasphemous to say, but her focus on defensive intensity will take this program along long ways. Go ask Fran McCaffrey if you don’t believe me😂😜
I also think she’s done a marvelous job of improving a few things that they weren’t so great at early in the season, inbound plays, and press break… They handled Michigan States press quite wonderfully last night. Unfortunately, they still made a bunch of dumb ass passes in the half court, but it’s a process, right…🤣
Last thing… On the fouls, after the technical, I did feel like I detected a bit of a change in the officiating and again, I thought we got some pretty favorable calls down the stretch. Some touch foul type stuff that they hadn’t been calling earlier.
However, those two bullshit blocking/charging calls in that one stretch were a very dangerous moment for us, and they were a complete crock of shit. And I swear Hannah Stuelke is the most unfairly officiated player, possibly in the history of women’s basketball. That girl gets more bullshit calls against her, charges where she doesn’t move, charges were a girl slides up under with her head turned (not supposed to be able to do that) and she gets knocked silly down low because she’s usually going against girls bigger to way bigger than she is.
Great game !!!
Stream of consciousness….
This team continues to amaze me, even during their slump they were gritty, and determined. I don’t want to hear anybody have concerns about a “physical game“ again.😊 we ARE PHYSICAL!!!
When was the last time either of the men’s or women’s teams had multiple different people step up game after game after game. The whole team is full of gamers….
I know many people probably had issue with the officiating, I did, but the biggest problem there was inconsistency. Later on in the game. I thought we got several favorable calls.
With that said if we had made a normal amount of our 3ptrs, This game wouldn’t have been close at all.
As a result of that, a couple girls, Sydney in particular, passed up a few open shots down the stretch and by open, I mean no one within three steps. But you know who didn’t?! Taylor McCabe and for all intents & purposes she struggled a bit, but she kept gunning and kept playing hard on defense, and she ended up being a hero.
So a quick mention of the elephant in the room. AVA PLAYED AWESOME. Now I’m certain plenty of our fans believe that’s proof positive of, God knows what they think it means?! to me it means this… She’s engaged, she loves her teammates, she’s practicing hard, and when her ticket got pulled, she was ready to rock ‘n’ roll!! no more talk about her leaving the program. I’m convinced some of you almost hope that at times because you think the “coaches” deserve it for not playing who you think they should play!
Kudos Ava !!!!
This team is sooooo resilient and so physically tough, they will grind you out in a battle of attrition.
I personally don’t think we played particularly great, and as has been a theme of mine, we once again routinely have one bad quarter defensively. Now to be fair Michigan State knocked down some shots there in that third quarter and we were still playing hard. But in those other 3/4 we literally beat the shit out of them. They were throwing the ball away right and left because we were constantly in their grill!!! It is criminal Kylie didn’t make All-defense. There is not a better defender in the league.
I do not like Michigan State, AT ALL. And we were the better team last time and we are definitely the better team now we’re more athletic, more physical and have more talent up and down the roster. With that said, I will give them credit. They have a solid team. They have a terrific coach and that Julie Ayrault is a hell of a ball player. I haven’t given her enough credit. She’s the only reason they stayed in that game.
As for Jan Jensen… What a hell of a year she’s had. I’m certain I won’t get unanimous support for this, but in my opinion, she has managed this roster and rotations and substitutions and matchups about as well as any coach could, especially being in her first year. She navigated that Hannah foul situation beautifully. She moved Kylie all over the floor on players trying to stem momentum. I am extremely impressed with her. I came into it thinking she would be a great coach maybe even better than…..,”I want say it” And I know that’s blasphemous to say, but her focus on defensive intensity will take this program along long ways. Go ask Fran McCaffrey if you don’t believe me😂😜
I also think she’s done a marvelous job of improving a few things that they weren’t so great at early in the season, inbound plays, and press break… They handled Michigan States press quite wonderfully last night. Unfortunately, they still made a bunch of dumb ass passes in the half court, but it’s a process, right…🤣
Last thing… On the fouls, after the technical, I did feel like I detected a bit of a change in the officiating and again, I thought we got some pretty favorable calls down the stretch. Some touch foul type stuff that they hadn’t been calling earlier.
However, those two bullshit blocking/charging calls in that one stretch were a very dangerous moment for us, and they were a complete crock of shit. And I swear Hannah Stuelke is the most unfairly officiated player, possibly in the history of women’s basketball. That girl gets more bullshit calls against her, charges where she doesn’t move, charges were a girl slides up under with her head turned (not supposed to be able to do that) and she gets knocked silly down low because she’s usually going against girls bigger to way bigger than she is.
Great game !!!
The officiating is so bizarre, you just hope it evens out in the end. That first half seemed more like rugby, then it flips, i don't know how players keep from wigging out
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