ISU at Drake
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Good first quarter. Maggie the freshman had a 7 points in 4 minutes. Thurman had a really good short stint of 3 minutes with an assist and a steal. Nezerwa was pretty effective. Wonder how Scott's back is doing as she hasn't played much.
I'm trying to remember why it's been so long since I've been to a ISU Drake game in Des Moines. This first half gave me my answer, the drake pep band are first class *****.
2nd quarter was all Drake while we managed only 11 points. Drake 39-34 at half. They stayed with our hot start in the 1st and totally outplayed us in the 2nd.
Five point deficient feels like 10 if you weren't checking the score.Drake has pretty much taken Joens out of the game although she is leading us in assists. Other folks made up for that in the 1st but not in the 2nd while Drake continued some hot shooting.
86-81 Drake, final. ISU just dug too deep a hole to start the 3rd. They clawed back to within two in the 4th, but Drake kept hitting timely threes (15 overall, which is NOT good perimeter D on our part) and ISU could not get closer. Joens found her shot in the second half and ended with 21 points. Scott had 19, Rae Johnson had 10, while three others each had 9 points apiece. Drake out-rebounded us, but I don't recall by how many.
edit to acknowledge the errors in the stats: I was following ESPN online and they obviously didn't get the right figures. sorry!
edit to acknowledge the errors in the stats: I was following ESPN online and they obviously didn't get the right figures. sorry!
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Box Score
Seems like the newest status quo. We beat Drake at Hilton. They beat us in DSM. We beat Iowa at Hilton. Iowa beats us in IC.
2019 86 - 81 L
2018 86 - 81 W
2017 83 - 80 L
2016 75 - 67 W
2015 74 -70 L
2014 84 - 67 W
Could have been worse, was looking like a possible blowout in the middle of the 3rd quarter.
And the ESPN+ feed was great, no stuttering, freezing screen and buffering nonsense like Cy TV.
Seems like the newest status quo. We beat Drake at Hilton. They beat us in DSM. We beat Iowa at Hilton. Iowa beats us in IC.
2019 86 - 81 L
2018 86 - 81 W
2017 83 - 80 L
2016 75 - 67 W
2015 74 -70 L
2014 84 - 67 W
Could have been worse, was looking like a possible blowout in the middle of the 3rd quarter.
And the ESPN+ feed was great, no stuttering, freezing screen and buffering nonsense like Cy TV.
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I agree with Lyndsey on post game show. If this team scores 81 points in a game I think we will be on the winning side more often than not.
Two things were the difference...horrendous defense on the 3 line by us and we shot terribly from 3. Need more scoring support...only three primary scorers won’t cut it. As we found out a team can focus on Joens or Scott and we will struggle. Really disappointed about literally no contribution from Camber.
Joens kept us from getting blown out in the 3rd and Scott shot us back into the game in the 4th but we had three players in double figures and three more with 9 each. I think we'd take that most games. Other than a drought from 3 point range in the 2nd and 3rd quarter scoring wasn't the problem.
Well they sure didn't quit. Nice comeback by the ladies amazing shooting night by Drake from the 3 point line. I've seen ISU teams go down there get down big and fold this team didn't do that. I thought if anything the refs gave us a few calls. Glad we shot good free throws. It was an entertaining game, hopefully it will be a great learning experience for them to grow on. Pretty sure this won't count as a bad loss come March.
Bought a ticket from a Drake fan and set next to him interesting fellow. His wife wasn't feeling well thus the extra ticket. He actually has season tickets for Drake, Iowa, and ISU MBB. he tries to make them all but on conflict nights he picks what he hopes will be the best game. A true fan of BB not just a team fan. Pretty knowledgeable about the game and just likes watching hoops retired coach, he was fun to sit with. Hit the snow about half way home bah humbug.
Bought a ticket from a Drake fan and set next to him interesting fellow. His wife wasn't feeling well thus the extra ticket. He actually has season tickets for Drake, Iowa, and ISU MBB. he tries to make them all but on conflict nights he picks what he hopes will be the best game. A true fan of BB not just a team fan. Pretty knowledgeable about the game and just likes watching hoops retired coach, he was fun to sit with. Hit the snow about half way home bah humbug.
I watched both this game and the one with Southern. My oh my is there a vast difference between the quality of espn+ and CYTV. I only subscribed for a month to CYTV so I'll be canceling that in 30 days.
After watching the Southern game I concluded that Carleton and Middleton are going to be missed severely this year. It looks like Joens and Scott will carry the scoring load now. POST!! Need help in the post. It's going to be rough when they hit a team with athletic posts. Drake is a well coached team - very impressive. They were giving them room so they just kept bombing away at the three point line. Twas the big difference in the game.
After watching the Southern game I concluded that Carleton and Middleton are going to be missed severely this year. It looks like Joens and Scott will carry the scoring load now. POST!! Need help in the post. It's going to be rough when they hit a team with athletic posts. Drake is a well coached team - very impressive. They were giving them room so they just kept bombing away at the three point line. Twas the big difference in the game.
Agreed. Drake shot lights out from 3, but I told my daughters as we left the game that every team will shoot better than their average when they are basically unguarded as soon as they spot up.
I think this team will get better at that, though. And I think they will ultimately be a decent 3 point shooting team.
Other observation - Maggie is going to be a very good player.
