I mean what do you mean by established? They had a lot of years where it was 4-5k per game prior to Clark
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I mean what do you mean by established? They had a lot of years where it was 4-5k per game prior to Clark
I don't think we've had an inordinate amount of injures compared to the norm. Some top teams are better rostered with other ranked players to step up though. And we've actually been pretty lucky in avoiding ACL's with the exception of Stephanie Soares.
Carleton and Joens (five seasons) without missing more than a game or two (think Joens once with COVID protocol and Carleton maybe missed a game after getting hit in the face in a holiday tourney in Cancun?
You have to be bit lucky to avoid injures and stay mostly healthy. Although having both Brown and Jackson out is admittedly pretty bad luck.
Bill Is a legend. But it you aren’t in
He's right. Bluder used to hound people to come to games early in her career during press conferences. They also had a black tarp up to cover seats.
You are forgetting the Angie Lee years between Bluder and Stringer and how awful that was
He's right. Bluder used to hound people to come to games early in her career during press conferences. They also had a black tarp up to cover seats.
You are forgetting the Angie Lee years between Bluder and Stringer and how awful that was
Compared to the VAST majority of P4 schools across the country, 4-5k is HUGE. The top 25 in attendance all average 4K and up. After that it's all under 4k. After #45 it drops under 3k.
Three of the five years she was there they won the conference or tournament title. Now the last two...ugh...In Lee's last year attendance was just over 3k per game while ISU was at 11k and Drake at 3.6k. Iowa was still 29th in attendance in the nation. It's hard to quantify C. Vivian's impact as women's basketball had minimal following at that time as compared to the explosion that was to come in the early 2000's. Her last year Iowa averaged under 1000 per game, but her influence on interest was immense.
ok. thanks. wasn't sure if she just wanted to play at ISU or for BF. that is going to start to hurt the program if there isn't some talk soon.
I was at several of the games during the Lee tenure. It was pretty quiet. I also remember what happened when Stacy Freese left to go to Iowa State.
I also went to Carver during Stringers time when Tia Jackson was dominating The crowds were good for the early 90s but it was a very different time and the interest in women’s sports and the crowds were very different.
Don't know who would do such a thing, but they should have parked a few U'Hauls out front instead.
Walden's teams always seemed to pull of that one surprise upset each season that gave the AD hope for the following season and saved his job.
Metrics-wise this defense so far is arguably our worst defense in the history of WBB metrics.
Torvik Adjusted Defense:
2026: 88.2 (#93)
2025: 85.6 (#52)
2024: 86.2 (#56)
2023: 82.1 (#26)
2022: 85.3 (#63)
2021: 88.7 (#83)
Early on this season my "eye test" said we were playing with more intensity and effort on defense than typical, but lately it's looked like the usual afterthought to me.
I was saying the "sick people" stuff in kind of joking. I was gonna do the same thing to McCarney when I was in school after the season went downhill in 2002.
Oof, if Billy did take over the defense (the clip I remember he didn’t mention exactly who) he has not proven to be a good coach in that aspect.
That has been puzzling me as well. Beginning of the season they are aggressive and it was a fresh breath of air to watch. All gone now. Why?
Not so sure…they were still very aggressive against Iowa. That’s probably the best team we’ve played all year. Something happened. Perhaps the thinner bench?
Well, early on I remember the sideline reporter from our home broadcast team saying how upset Fennelly was in the 2nd half of some game about us fouling. Tighter D comes with a risk of fouling. You can't have good D and no fouls and he wants no fouls so tighter D across the board is simply incompatible with his decades old approach. And some of that "better" D was against Quad 4 level teams. We gave up 90 to Indiana.
Play tighter D! Get yelled at for fouling. Don't play as tight to avoid getting yelled at and grabbing bench. And now with a shorter bench we really can't afford anyone getting in foul trouble so I'd not expect the D intensity to ratchet up.
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Something happened all right. It's called better competition. Outside of Iowa and maybe Marquette our non-con was cupcake after cupcake.
You’re missing the point. Against the good competition we did face the defense was still very aggressive.
