I’ll just start off by saying this was one of the ugliest games the ladies have been involved with all season. There was no flow ever established by the team. It was more a series of fits and starts. Out of the blocks it was a rain of three's by Oklahoma led by Robertson. In the first half alone she hit seven of them. Fortunately she wasn’t that hot in the second half.
The best way to describe this game is chaos. For nearly all of the game it “appeared” OU was the team that wanted this more. They hustled their butts off. The chaos the sisters experienced was a series of missed free throws, missed shots, weird turnovers and strange bounces. Neither team was ever able to pull away. If you watched the last two minutes only you would have gotten a feel for this one. ISU has the ball down three and on the inbounds our player inexplicably falls down. Fortunately OU didn’t score and Ashley Joens hits a shot to pull ISU within one (this was the first basket we had scored in nearly four minutes). On OU's inbounds play the run over Joens and turn the ball over. Joens scores again for a one point lead, but there are ten seconds left with non timeouts, no fouls to give and the possession arrow is in OU's favor. OU misses and after some crazy bounces the ball ends up in the Sisters' hands. Game.
I’m chalking this game up to just being an off night. The shots weren’t falling and we were being outhustled at every turn. The ladies seemed to forget what team ball was at times. BUT they found a way. Karma was obviously saying, “just kidding.”
Observations
Ashley Joens showed why she is an All-American. She went for 32 points and 16 points. Pure guts and determination.
Freshmen - for most of the night they looked like freshmen. Outside of Donarski no one on the team scored in double figures. That was on 4-15 shooting. The rest? Not much good happened. No one had more than one basket.
Seniors - same thing. Not much happened. Scott had ONE point.
Free throws. These fit the mold of the game. The team only hit 8-13. Both the number of misses and the small number of shots says something about this game.
Throw the game film out. Take the win. Time to get ready for Coach Fen's 700th win. Against Texas no less.
The best way to describe this game is chaos. For nearly all of the game it “appeared” OU was the team that wanted this more. They hustled their butts off. The chaos the sisters experienced was a series of missed free throws, missed shots, weird turnovers and strange bounces. Neither team was ever able to pull away. If you watched the last two minutes only you would have gotten a feel for this one. ISU has the ball down three and on the inbounds our player inexplicably falls down. Fortunately OU didn’t score and Ashley Joens hits a shot to pull ISU within one (this was the first basket we had scored in nearly four minutes). On OU's inbounds play the run over Joens and turn the ball over. Joens scores again for a one point lead, but there are ten seconds left with non timeouts, no fouls to give and the possession arrow is in OU's favor. OU misses and after some crazy bounces the ball ends up in the Sisters' hands. Game.
I’m chalking this game up to just being an off night. The shots weren’t falling and we were being outhustled at every turn. The ladies seemed to forget what team ball was at times. BUT they found a way. Karma was obviously saying, “just kidding.”
Observations
Ashley Joens showed why she is an All-American. She went for 32 points and 16 points. Pure guts and determination.
Freshmen - for most of the night they looked like freshmen. Outside of Donarski no one on the team scored in double figures. That was on 4-15 shooting. The rest? Not much good happened. No one had more than one basket.
Seniors - same thing. Not much happened. Scott had ONE point.
Free throws. These fit the mold of the game. The team only hit 8-13. Both the number of misses and the small number of shots says something about this game.
Throw the game film out. Take the win. Time to get ready for Coach Fen's 700th win. Against Texas no less.