They came back nicely to cruise to a 27 point win.Yeah, losing someone many analysts were predicting would be the eventual SEC Player of the Year is a blow very few teams could absorb smoothly. But it has been a particularly awful nightmare for A&M because they are more dependent on their star than any team I’ve seen in years.
I think Tara and Muffet might disagree
Holly was able to recruit all of the talent she had because of the LV legacy. If the legacy wasn't starting to slip as teams that had never beaten the LVs started to win regularly, she would still be the coach.I admire your enthusiasm but where were you during Holly’s last 3 to 4 years amidst that not giving any best shot against the most dismal of opponents ?
What player "Shows up night in night out"? Every player has a stinker once and a while. Walker has been as consistent as anyone in the country.UConn is below their standard of excellence this season IMO.
Their “core 4” are inconsistent. Neither Williams nor Walker show up night in night out. Dangerfield seems consistsnt except she is hung over from surgery. ONO seems back to being meek They don’t start Irwin as a Senior because she is that much improved. She has gone from 4 of 4 on treys to being afraid to pull the trigger. She starts because she is the best of the remainder. The second coming of Gabby Williams see’s little playing time. Now that your guys are into conference play will Geno use these games to develop her for post season? Her defense is clearly better than Irwins. The “great” shooter from Poland doesn’t seem to be that great
Lastly I watch a fair amount of UConn on ESPN 3 and this years individual personalities don’t seem to translate to good Team chemistry. There seems to be a lack of happiness. Are Williams or Walker transfer candidates?
After that 4th quarter meltdown against Baylor this team looks beatable by many. Granted Geno put them through a grueling few days but he does that every season as prep for post season NCAAT
So you must have done really well in your creative writing course or is it that you have been infected with the fake news bug. Either way, if you are desiring credibility, posts like this are not the way to achieve it.UConn is below their standard of excellence this season IMO.
Their “core 4” are inconsistent. Neither Williams nor Walker show up night in night out. Dangerfield seems consistsnt except she is hung over from surgery. ONO seems back to being meek They don’t start Irwin as a Senior because she is that much improved. She has gone from 4 of 4 on treys to being afraid to pull the trigger. She starts because she is the best of the remainder. The second coming of Gabby Williams see’s little playing time. Now that your guys are into conference play will Geno use these games to develop her for post season? Her defense is clearly better than Irwins. The “great” shooter from Poland doesn’t seem to be that great
Lastly I watch a fair amount of UConn on ESPN 3 and this years individual personalities don’t seem to translate to good Team chemistry. There seems to be a lack of happiness. Are Williams or Walker transfer candidates?
After that 4th quarter meltdown against Baylor this team looks beatable by many. Granted Geno put them through a grueling few days but he does that every season as prep for post season NCAAT
UCLA was without one of its top players, Onyenwere, who is third in the Pac-12 in scoring with 18.9 points per game. She sprained her ankle during practice earlier in the week.
Missouri State lost because they really aren't that great a team. I doubt that they win their conference or wind up in the Top 25.
Their ranking was based on their NCAA Tourney performance last year and their win at pre-season ranked Minnesota in the first game of the year (I doubt that Minnesota will be in the Top 25 by the end of the year). They lost to Gonzaga, and Oregon State, barely beat Boise State, Missouri and Drake. Their vaunted RPI will start dropping like a stone, they don't play another Top 50 team the rest of the season.
I root for all the Missouri teams, but I call it like I see it. MoSt went 1 for 11 on three pointers. That usually won't get you a win against even a mediocre team.
Undefeated (preciously) UCLA goes down to Cal 68-70. This is a a case of an unranked team in conference (8-8 record) knocking off the #7 team in the country!
For those who are interested #19 Missouri State also goes down to S. Illinois with a score of 68-70. S. Illinois record was 9-6 coming into the game.
Both of these games could be considered “cupcake games” in the conference but turned out to be good ones.
@Raebo here is some of the parity in women’s basketball that you were so desperately searching for.
@MSUDuo anything from the Mizzu St crowd or fan boards as to what happened in this game?
I am not arguing nor am I naive that parity in the women’s game has been slower than the men’s. However I am also not naive enough to think that the sports had equal footing as far as exposure, money dumped into it, etc to have the sport grow as fast.
Well it sounds like we pretty much agree but worded it differently. You say parity has been slower than the men’s. I said it is still a problem. I do believe it is a whole lot better than when UConn/UT blewout almost everyone by 40 or 50 points and they won the NCAA every year. I hated men’s basketball when UCLA won something like 7 in a roll. When their dominance ended, men’s basketball got better, at least for me.
I did not say that I would probably get flamed because I wanted an argument. I said it because I know how some posters are. If I said it was a sunny day and if there was one tiny cloud that momentarily covered the sun, some poster would come in and say I was wrong and that it is a cloudy day. Oh well.
Hopefully she will be ok. Is Stanford still missing one or two key players to injury? Stanford and S.C. are 2 of the teams that will be in the hunt for the final 4.
I'll be at the Indiana @ Maryland game tonight, will have the honor of eyewitnessing Big 10 & Brenda's mediocrity (lol hating). Keeping my eye on the Lady Vols and the SC/MSST games too.I’m having a hard time buying 4 big 10 teams in the top 25 above us. I think as a whole that conference is considerably worse than last season. Just because they all keep beating each other doesn’t make them good.
Rutgers currently sits second in the Big 10 and has only two losses total and one conference loss to Indiana but isn’t ranked? Maryland (4 losses), Iowa (3 losses all to unranked teams), Indiana (4 losses) are all ranked above them and us. Michigan, Minnesota and Michigan State have also been ranked at times this season and fell out. Come tournament time I’ll be shocked if there is more than one Big 10 team in the sweet 16. No way they deserve to have 7 teams in the top 25 at some point this year. Obviously putting a lot of stock in SOS and RPI, the Big 10 teams aren’t passing the eye test for me though.
So you must have done really well in your creative writing course or is it that you have been infected with the fake news bug. Either way, if you are desiring credibility, posts like this are not the way to achieve it.
Agreed UConn is not the team it's been. But who has ever lost just 6 games in 5 years (that's 228 wins). No one has ever had such a dominating won lost record while playing a top 5 schedule every year. So saying we are not what we have been just means we may not be a nationally dominant team, just one of the best in the country. We don't expect to dominate ike that ever again. But the 2020, 2021, and 2022 classes do have commits that may prove this year's team is an aberration.Thanks for the tip on being credible And here I thought you guys, after the meltdown in the last 5 min or so with Baylor and got your arses beat went on to barely beat the next 3 bottom feeders in the AAC. So did I misread - you beat them more than 30 each like prior seasons?
Nah, I stand by my statement. UConn ain’t the team it’s been. And that my friend is a credible statement They may get better before NCAAT time. But my comment is before your Tulane game