2024-25 ISU WBB Season Thread

[mred]

Cross posted as this may be the better place to discuss.

Of course if we're getting into this much precision, we maybe should be calculating each player's age to the day, then weighing their precise age on the date of each game by the number of minutes played in that game.

Then we'd need to account for the fact that this season isn't complete yet, so my proposed method would bias the 24-25 age younger than the 23-24 age just because we haven't completed the season -- the individual player ages in future games are higher than the player ages of games already played.

But that's my engineering/actuarial background talking. The ratio between the amount of effort needed and how interesting the output would be is way too high, so lets just stick with your analysis instead.

 

[ZorkClone]

Of course if we're getting into this much precision, we maybe should be calculating each player's age to the day, then weighing their precise age on the date of each game by the number of minutes played in that game.

Then we'd need to account for the fact that this season isn't complete yet, so my proposed method would bias the 24-25 age younger than the 23-24 age just because we haven't completed the season -- the individual player ages in future games are higher than the player ages of games already played.

But that's my engineering/actuarial background talking.

Haha Fair enough. I was just trying to gauge if I should have expected a more mature team. By my calcs I would say no.

Of course I could have calculated the average by pts scored, and the data would probably show we are older as Audi and Addy pretty much score everything

 

[qwerty]

Cross posted as this may be the better place to discuss.

My take away from this data . . . . Emily Ryan is the only one old enough to drink (legally).

 

[acoustimac]

Haha Fair enough. I was just trying to gauge if I should have expected a more mature team. By my calcs I would say no.

Of course I could have calculated the average by pts scored, and the data would probably show we are older as Audi and Addy pretty much score everything

Darned engineers…never thought I’d see a thread get so numbers oriented…but ISU is an engineering school and it’s kind of awesome!

 

[acoustimac]

On a different note…who would have thought that the men and women’s teams would both be struggling to score at the same time? The women brought in Hansford expecting big things and the men brought in Heise With the same expectations. Both are struggling to find the net.

 

[farm85]

Cross posted as this may be the better place to discuss.

That is really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

I know that this is the wrong thread, but it would be fun to see this to information for the men''s team.
(Please...)

Thanks!

 

[DGC]

On a different note…who would have thought that the men and women’s teams would both be struggling to score at the same time? The women brought in Hansford expecting big things and the men brought in Heise With the same expectations. Both are struggling to find the net.

I feel like Hansford is getting better and Heise is getting worse.

 

[acoustimac]

I feel like Hansford is getting better and Heise is getting worse.

Hansford has at least had one good game mixed in with all the misses.

 

[ZorkClone]

Excited to see Diew again on Saturday. Looks like she is having a pretty solid season!

GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG%	3P%	FT%	PF
22	22.8	7.4	3.0	0.9	0.6	0.5	1.0	46.5	36.4	83.3	2.0

 

[qwerty]

Using mred's generator, it appears about the worst we can finish in conference is 8th, about the best is 6th. Pretty much locked in to 6th or 7th barring a collapse by one of the teams above us. Problem is Utah, WVU and OK ST all have tiebreakers over us, so even if we end up same record, they are seeded higher.

 

[bozclone]

Excited to see Diew again on Saturday. Looks like she is having a pretty solid season!

GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG%	3P%	FT%	PF
22	22.8	7.4	3.0	0.9	0.6	0.5	1.0	46.5	36.4	83.3	2.0

She had a rough year last year at Iowa State, but I think she could have helped this team. We miss her length and versatility.

 

[theshadow]

Reminder for Saturday:

 

[Clonefan32]

Kind of amazing this roster was 2 bad calls away from beating Stanford on their home court. View attachment 142473

I feel like Diew leaving was a bigger deal than we maybe thought. Positional versatility and a good defender, She's not exactly lighting the world on fire at CU but she's shooting 36% from 3. She would have been a nice piece on this year's team.

 

[NWICY]

I feel like Diew leaving was a bigger deal than we maybe thought. Positional versatility and a good defender, She's not exactly lighting the world on fire at CU but she's shooting 36% from 3. She would have been a nice piece on this year's team.

Did she grad student out? I really don't remember?

 

[ZorkClone]

Did she grad student out? I really don't remember?

I think she went to Colorado as a grad transfer. So my understanding is she left for school reasons more than basketball reasons. So, I welcome her back!

 

[acoustimac]

She had a rough year last year at Iowa State, but I think she could have helped this team. We miss her length and versatility.

I’m glad basketball has given her the opportunity to get her grad degree in a program that helps her long term. What people often don’t understand is that academic diversity is huge in one's career. Even if ISU had the same program as CU, learning from other faculty is a very big deal.

 

[mred]

I think she went to Colorado as a grad transfer. So my understanding is she left for school reasons more than basketball reasons. So, I welcome her back!

Yes, she was kind of like Morgan Kane: she participated in senior night activities, and we didn't really know if she might grad transfer or just hang it up until she entered the portal in late March. She'll probably get hugs from both the players and coaches in the post-game handshake line. Unless she scores 32 points to lead Colorado to an upset victory.

 

[bozclone]

I’m glad basketball has given her the opportunity to get her grad degree in a program that helps her long term. What people often don’t understand is that academic diversity is huge in one's career. Even if ISU had the same program as CU, learning from other faculty is a very big deal.

Great for her if she can get a Grad Degree from CU. I'm sure that played a part in her decision to leave. She had a pretty rough senior year at Iowa State with her minutes decreasing significantly as the year progressed, I'm sure that played a part too. I'm glad she has found some success at CU. She always seems to have a great attitude.

 

[Three4Cy]

I feel like Diew leaving was a bigger deal than we maybe thought. Positional versatility and a good defender, She's not exactly lighting the world on fire at CU but she's shooting 36% from 3. She would have been a nice piece on this year's team.

In their game last night vs. Arizona, she scored 8 points in the first quarter and didn't score again. Her numbers this year at CU mirror her numbers last year at ISU.

The benefit of having her on the roster this year would have been another senior, and she could play multiple positions.

 

[bozclone]

In their game last night vs. Arizona, she scored 8 points in the first quarter and didn't score again. Her numbers this year at CU mirror her numbers last year at ISU.

The benefit of having her on the roster this year would have been another senior, and she could play multiple positions.

She had a very uneven season at Iowa State. She played an average of 30 plus minutes a game over the first 14 games last year. She struggled and her minutes by the end of the season were decreased significantly. She had several games where she played less then 10 minutes down the stretch.