This #3 girl interview just said "win the f**kin game" live on air lol.
*****Seattle 4 Regional Discussion: #1 Stanford LOSES to #8 Ole Miss, Opening Door for #2 IOWA (Next Game: Fri, 6:30 pm CT, ESPN)*****
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I don't that story. Did they pay them before the NIL was in place? Tampered while w/ another college?
Had something to do with a booster, I believe the one that got Pack there for the men, and the coach knowing about it or something like that.
Sounds like the Head Coach facilitated impermissible contact with the two twins and the booster.
This would be a great tournament so far if CO takes down Duke.
Our bracket
8 Ole Miss
5 Louisville
6 Colorado
2 Iowa
You couldn't ask for much more. Gotta go win it now.
8 Ole Miss
5 Louisville
6 Colorado
2 Iowa
You couldn't ask for much more. Gotta go win it now.
Door is open. Just hope they don’t do what every Iowa team with an opportunity seems to do…
It'll still be tough.
Colorado relies on their bigs to be physical and clog the lane and have their high guard ball chase and be disruptive. My guess is they'll just do what Georgia did and turn that up to 11 defensively. "There will be blood"...........
Meanwhile, Louisville will have to survive basketball on grass in their own right, but they are peaking at the right time and have the athleticism and previous success to give Iowa a tough challenge as well.
It seems like aggressive defenses are winning the day in this year's tournament, and Iowa was one of the lucky ones to escape becoming a victim of this latest trend.
Anyone else see the classless BS by the Texas girl in the handshake line versus Louisville?
You just got throttled by 22 points and talking shit? 😂
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You just got throttled by 22 points and talking shit? 😂
CRAWFORD | Van Lith's response to Texas postgame trash talk was, well, honorable
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – It was a curious moment, in the postgame handshake line after Hailey Van Lith had just scored 21 points to lead the Louisville women’s basketball team
The NCAA blew the seeding this year. Stanford and Indiana did not deserve No. 1 seeds with multiple losses late in the stretch and w/o conference tournament titles. Their losses in the second round confirmed this. Iowa had multiple wins against top ten teams, with the loss at Maryland the blemish. The win against Indiana and performance in the B1G Tourney more than exorcised the Maryland loss.
I think she got that passion from her mom Jennie…tough loss but at least made it a game
Didn‘t realize until before how nasty women’s college basketball can get. There’s bound to be some cat fights, right?
I disagree about bench usage. Wetering has played 110 minutes in her college career. All of them were in garbage time. We have no good idea how good she is against the starters of an NCAA Tournament team. Plus Warnock had 14 and 8 in the game. Yeah the turnovers were bad, but that's not a great situation to throw an unexperienced player into.
McCabe's problem is that she can only play the 2. Marshall is too hot to take out on offense, and her defense is vital. Playing McCabe and Marshall at the 2 and 3 also isn't really an option because it would put us at an even bigger size and athleticism deficit.
I like O'Grady, but when she's in the game we have basically no low-post offense. Czinano was vital in the second half offensively. We couldn't have her out for more than the time that we did.
The only bench player that I think could've gotten more time is Affolter. Martin did have a pretty bad game. That said, Affolter isn't much of a ball handler. I don't think the coaches trust her enough yet to not get trapped or to float to the high post like Martin was pretty consistently.
The bench stuff is a little deceiving because Georgia has two starters that average significantly fewer minutes than two of their bench players. Why those players don't start, I don't know, but it definitely skews a stat like bench points.
In the Iowa game, Georgia had 7 players play at least 22 minutes. 2 others played 3 each. If 2 of those 7 regulars got hurt before or during the game, their rotation probably would've been as shallow as ours was.
Regarding the Georgia game...Hannah's absence skews the entire substitution argument.
Completely different scenario if HS was available.
Completely different scenario if HS was available.
Good analysis and I will take your word for it. I haven't watched much of Colorado and only a few parts of Louisville games. I do know they were peaking.
Anyway, I wasn't trying to insinuate that it would be a cakewalk but if you said for the Sweet 16, Iowa wouldn't have to play the 1 seed (ranked 5), 3 seed (ranked 13) or 4 seed (ranked 15). I think we all would take that in a second.
Obviously it will be about the matchups. We need to shoot well and REBOUND well. Eliminate second chance points, especially against #21 Colorado.
I also know rankings don't matter at this point but I was throwing them in there for people who may not know where these teams were at.
By the way, how many head coaches in this tournament are from Iowa? Help me if I am missing some. Is it 6?
Iowa
Maryland
Georgia
Oklahoma
Drake
Iowa St.
Iowa
Maryland
Georgia
Oklahoma
Drake
Iowa St.
Here you go:
Seattle 4 Regional Semifinals (Friday/Sunday Games):
Friday March 24, 6:30 pm CT, ESPN
#2 IOWA (28-6)
vs
#6 Colorado (25-8)
AND
Friday March 24, 9:00 pm CT, ESPN
#8 Ole Miss (25-8)
vs
#5 Louisville (25-11)
Who would have thought Iowa's path to the Final Four would so attainable? If it doesn't happen this year, it isn't in the cards.
Not to mention it’s Seattle.
What kind of attendance can they possibly expect in Seattle especially with these four teams? My guess is that the arena will be half empty.
You're correct that Wetering has only in garbage time and that's on the coaching staff for not getting her minutes up to this point. I disagree that we have no idea how good she can be. I've observed both men's and women's basketball for 20+ years and it's possible to evaluate players and have an idea of their skillset. Wetering has all the tools to be an excellent 3/4. She's a good shooter who can hit from the wing as well as penetrate and drive to the rim. We really could have used her driving ability. She doesn't need to play 40 minutes. She could have been effective only playing 5 minutes against GA. Bench minutes should never be 9 minutes combined when you have capable players.
Warnock had stretches where she was effective. She hit some big threes for sure. She also turned the ball over multiple times. O'Grady did not shoot well but she was a defensive presence and crashed the boards when she was in. Czinano was hit and miss. She was clearly flustered by the double team and turned the ball over multiple times under the basket. I actually thought Bluder should have put O'Grady in at the 4 to counter the double and let Addie/Monica play high/low.
We do not know that McCabe can only play the two. The 2 is certainly her natural position. She would have added another shooter. Gabbie was the backup point when she was a freshman. We could have played Gabbie, Taylor and Clark and the 1-2-3 if needed. And again she didn't need to play a ton of minutes. Even just 5 minutes could have been a plus. Bluder is afraid to take risks and is overly reliant on her starters. The starters pulled it out but there were lengthy stretches when the starters played like sh!t and we went scoreless for those stretches and gave up too easy shots on the other end.
I disagree with prejudice that Affolter is not a good ball handler. You tend to overly rely on analytics instead of focusing in on how the players are playing the game. I've observed Affolter has plenty of ball skills. She has advanced the ball, drives well to the basket, has the ability to be an effective passer. She may be a better ball handler than Kate although Kate is the better shooter of the two.
Bluder likes to roll the dice on experience and most of the time it works. But when we're facing more athletic teams, she needs to trust her bench because there is much more athleticism with the bench than with the starters.
We won and I'm thankful for the win. But we were lucky to pull it out and it could have easily gone the other way. We blew some big leads and played like garbage for several 3-5 minute stretches when we should have been able to put GA away. We got slaughtered on the boards and did not take care of the ball. Playing a taller/more athletic lineup maybe we fair better on the boards and at valuing the ball. No guarantees either way and again I'm happy for the win. But I've been disappointed in Bluder's handling of the bench for several seasons. We have a really good team that is poor defensively and turns the ball over way too much. We've been a better rebounding team this season but it's been an issue in the past. Every year it's the same weaknesses and Bluder and her staff need to figure it out because if we don't make a Final Four it will be because of those weaknesses.
And Iowa has had the same starting lineup for 3 consecutive seasons now, so I agree; if Iowa doesn't make the Final 4 this year, it will be a huge disappointment.
Iowa's path to the Final 4 would have them beating:
#15 seed (at Carver, sold out crowd)
#10 seed (at Carver, sold out crowd; could have been a #7)
#6 seed (could have been a #3)
#5 or #8 seed (could have been a #1)
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