Kolek planning to go pro
Don't strain yourself trying to pick one season out of 33 while ignoring decades. I stated the record, the facts. And then I expanded upon them. Because you follow Women's basketball so closely, I know you are aware Ivey had a knee injury in November of 1996. (she had a few over the years) And because you aren't disingenous, I know you aren't trying to prop up 1 season out of 33, as if somehow that makes the point any different. And you forgot one small little thing about Ivey's playing career.McGraw won 2 National Titles in 33 years at Notre Dame. The first came with Ivey playing as the star point guard. Ivey set the school record for assists in a season. She averaged 17 points and 6 steals a game in the 2001 Final Four helping Notre Dame secure McGraw's first National Title. She finished in the top 10 in 16 different statistical categories while at Notre Dame. Seems decent.
Will/Does the loss hurt MU's seeding? Or will it depend on what happens with the other tournaments this week?Would be great to avoid the 8/9 seed!
Their NET dropped from 30 to 34 after the loss. I’m expecting the dreaded 8/9 but am excited to hear MU’s name called Monday and have a chance to be excited watching the selection show for the first time in 3 years. There was no tournament last year of course and ESPN took the fun out of the selection show in 2019 when they leaked the bracket early...
What are the odds of us ending up having to play UConn a third time if we won the first round game? Does the women's bracket try to separate same conference teams like the men's?
I’m not straining at all. Or ignoring “decades”. McGraw had been at ND less than a decade when she made her first FF. A program with no success before her. and You claimed that she had never progressed past the S16 until Ivey, as if implying Ivey was the driver of the success. I merely stated that her first FF was when Ivey was not a major contributor. I know Ivey was injured, but she was hardly a major contributor beforehand. Unless you’re trying to say an injured 18 year old Ivey was key factor in that. But I see you’re gonna focus on just the national titles now. And 2001, again, taking nothing away from her and her great career, but highlighting her as the “star” when Riley was by far the best player on the team and indeed the entire country is just pushing a narrative. I took nothing away her as a coach, and admitted she pushed McGraw and the program to the next level. I don’t need you to puke a bunch of know it all facts to try and prove anything. Merely suggesting you overstated her effects as a player relative to McGraw’s success pre-mid 2000s.Let’s hope Duffy can find her Riley and Ivey and explode upwards the same way.
UConn Women impact on the Big East?This year's Big East Tourney viewership was up 202%.UConn's title game win over Marquette was the 2nd most watched FS1 Women's game in history, 292,000. (The most watched game was UConn v South Carolina)
There's a P5 opening right up the road now. Wisconsin just fired Jonathan Tsipis after 5 seasons:https://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2021/3/9/22322501/wisconsin-badgers-womens-basketball-uw-fires-head-coach-jonathan-tsipisAnd no I don't think Duffy will end up there. But it is of interest as a near by Women's Basketball program. They have really struggled since firing Jane Albright - Lisa Stone, Bobbi Kelsey and Jonathan Tsipis now have not been able to have the success Albright enjoyed for much of her tenure at UW.
Gonna be interesting to see if they’re are any transfers. Lot of talented Illinois kids there who I could see moving closer to home.DePaul/Northwestern May be the beneficiary
Wow - I had forgotten how long ago Jane Albright coached at UW - she was there 1994-2003. They haven't reached the success she had there since then. Lisa Stone was there for 8 seasons after her and then Bobbi Kelsey and Jonathan Tisipis each were there for 5 seasons.Barb Frankie and Keisha Anderson were quite the combo. (My memory could be way off in this)
Geno Auriemma tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday:https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2021/3/15/womens-basketball-geno-auriemma-tests-positive-for-covid-19.aspx
Well that'll change things. Shame it didn't happen last week... would've been great to actually have one big East championship while UConn was in the big East
I don’t think it would have changed anything. It’s only Geno out - no players are out. They aren’t going to lose much with long time assistant Chris Daley in charge. And he can be back coaching by their 2nd round game.They’ll probably spend 10 minutes talking about this during the selection show though.
MUWBB is a 10 seed.They play 7 seed Virginia Tech, Sunday 11am Central, ESPNU.They potentially play #2 seed Baylor in 2nd round. UConn is the #1 seed on the other side of their bracket.