WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff

[BoxsterCy]

Counterpoint: Texas is the #5 team in the country.

I'm not saying who should win it. I'm saying who will win it. There's a reason Booker was one of only three freshmen in the country (and the only one in the Big 12) to be named to the Naismith mid-season list.

Sometimes you don't "lose" an award, you just get "beat" for it. Like in MLB with Ohtani being MVP one year and Judge the next. I am a Judge fan but Ohtani also had an MVP year in 2022 the year Judge won. Crooks and Booker have both been great in league play but Booker playing PG as a forward as an emergency sub and keeping them Top 10 is the tie breaker. Unless they figure a way to have Booker as POY and Crooks as FOY.

Booker has stepped into the shoes of the consensus pre-season pick for POY (Harmon) and played like she's the POY. Doesn't fit our typical fan scenario that ISU, our players and Bill aways somehow get screwed by some sort of coaches bias against ISU and other silly nonsense.

 

[Three4Cy]

Counterpoint: Texas is the #5 team in the country.

I'm not saying who should win it. I'm saying who will win it. There's a reason Booker was one of only three freshmen in the country (and the only one in the Big 12) to be named to the Naismith mid-season list.

It all comes down to voting. Bill can't vote for Audi, and Vic can't vote for Booker. It comes down to the other 12 coaches in the league.

 

[NWICY]

Sometimes you don't "lose" an award, you just get "beat" for it. Like in MLB with Ohtani being MVP one year and Judge the next. I am a Judge fan but Ohtani also had an MVP year in 2022 the year Judge won. Crooks and Booker have both been great in league play but Booker playing PG as a forward as an emergency sub and keeping them Top 10 is the tie breaker. Unless they figure a way to have Booker as POY and Crooks as FOY.

Booker has stepped into the shoes of the consensus pre-season pick for POY (Harmon) and played like she's the POY. Doesn't fit our typical fan scenario that ISU, our players and Bill aways somehow get screwed by some sort of coaches bias against ISU and other silly nonsense.

Texas is leaving why not screw them over on the way out

 

[mred]

Brown is averaging 13.3 ppg, 8.5 rpg, and 5.1 apg. Using herhoopstats for WBB going back to 09-10 and sports-reference for MBB going back to 92-93, I see no other Div I freshman who averaged 13/8/5. It's incredible that she's an afterthought when it comes to conference FOY, but she has the unfortunate luck of being a freshman the same year as Booker and Crooks.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Sooners and Texas win. Baylor squeaks by WVU. Baylor, down by one, steals with 4 seconds left, WVU foul with 1 second. Baylor makes two free-throws to win by one.

 

[mred]

Sooners and Texas win. Baylor squeaks by WVU. Baylor, down by one, steals with 4 seconds left, WVU foul with 1 second. Baylor makes two free-throws to win by one.

The Baylor win is big for ISU's chances for a top 4 seed in the conference tournament. We need to catch up with WVU or KSU to do that.

 

[CloneSt8]

KSU just lost 58-55 at KU. So the Cyclones go into Manhattan against a team wanting revenge against us and coming off a loss.

 

[AlCyJim]

KSU just lost 58-55 at KU. So the Cyclones go into Manhattan against a team wanting revenge against us and coming off a loss.

were they looking ahead?

 

[theshadow]

KSU just lost 58-55 at KU. So the Cyclones go into Manhattan against a team wanting revenge against us and coming off a loss.

Lee played 30 minutes and didn't attempt one free throw. Seems almost impossible, but KU was only called for 9 fouls total.

K-State was only 4-11 from 3pt and 3-5 FT.

 

[BoxsterCy]

were they looking ahead?

On the road in a rivalry game? Think you forgot this:

 

[BoxsterCy]

Lee played 30 minutes and didn't attempt one free throw. Seems almost impossible, but KU was only called for 9 fouls total.

K-State was only 4-11 from 3pt and 3-5 FT.

Taiyanna Jackson with eight blocks and only three fouls. She's usually in perpetual foul trouble.

 

[acoustimac]

K-State has been living dangerously since the TCU forfeit. Lot of one-score games since then.

They have definitely been struggling much like Iowa State did in the middle of the season. Earlier on they looked like a top six team in the country even without Lee. Now?

 

[dafarmer]

Lee still showing effects of layoff.

 

[Shawker]

Lee played 30 minutes and didn't attempt one free throw. Seems almost impossible, but KU was only called for 9 fouls total.

K-State was only 4-11 from 3pt and 3-5 FT.

Classic KU home officiating.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Lee still showing effects of layoff.

I'd think they will be limiting her minutes in KC. She is recovering from a bone break in her ankle.

 

[farm85]

Gonzaga women's basketball star Yvonne Ejim to return for fifth year

The senior announced her intent to use her COVID year eligibility to return to Gonzaga for a fifth year before Gonzaga's home game against San Francisco.

www.krem.com

Yvonne Ejim to return for fifth year for the Zags.​

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

K-State has been living dangerously since the TCU forfeit. Lot of one-score games since then.

I've often scoffed at my elderly mother's long-practiced philosophy of "say it often enough and eventually you'll come to believe it's true", but I'll be damned if you haven't convinced me the TCU forfeit jinx is a thing...

 

[WBBfan15]

I've often scoffed at my elderly mother's long-practiced philosophy of "say it often enough and eventually you'll come to believe it's true", but I'll be damned if you haven't convinced me the TCU forfeit jinx is a thing...

I think the forfeit killed the momentum.

 

[theshadow]

Two chances for ISU to get help tonight, but I don't trust either home team.

Baylor at Cincinnati - BU already up 15 in the 2nd
West Virginia at Oklahoma State

 

[BoxsterCy]

I actually wish I had a ticket to this. 14,000 in the old "Barn" would be quite a spectacle and fan experience. Been a long time since that place has really rocked. Was there for a couple of full houses back versus Iowa when Gopher men were decent but that was decades ago. Too bad Mara Braun is out, not thinking my Gophers stand much of a chance in this one.