How is that even possible? They only play ONE team twice?
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How is that even possible? They only play ONE team twice?
Everyone looks to get USC & UCLA together as both at home or both away. My local Gophers get the Cali road trip this year and then the Cali's at The Barn in 2025.
Well, there are eight hundred teams in the league, the other option is to have some teams not play each other at all. With our own league being bigger it will be interesting to see who we get two games with and who we only solo with. The "super" conferences might need to do divisions. We were neither screwed or gifted last year in our first season of not playing everyone twice but it will be even more unbalanced this coming season.
@ Nebraska
v. Nebraska
v. UCLA
@ tOSU
v. Indiana
v. USC
v. Maryland
Cushy B1G schedule still tougher than most.
As a Big 12 guy I will have to note that the Nebraska games versus Iowa the last few years have been some very entertaining games. Decent games and think a couple of Clark triple doubles i there. I sort of casually pay attention to the Huskers WBB because a work buddy of mine is from NU and knew Connie Yori.
Going out on the highest note she'll ever reach…
Check out this article from Des Moines Register:
Lisa Bluder announces retirement as head coach of Iowa women's basketball
Check out this article from Des Moines Register:
Lisa Bluder announces retirement as head coach of Iowa women's basketball
Iowa women's basketball head coach Lisa Bluder retiring; associate Jan Jensen takes over
Iowa women's basketball head coach Lisa Bluder announces her retirement after 24 years at helm; associate Jan Jensen to take over.
www.desmoinesregister.com
Jan Jensen has always been the primary recruiter there and with her taking over doubt they will lose many of the recruits.
Made me look. They return their starters. Going to be a deep and senior heavy team. On paper it looks like a good roster. A lot of the returning players were transfers so overall LOTS of transfers there from last years portal. Nine of the currently listed players are transfers to TCU, that has to be tops in the nation for a P6 team.
Maryam Dauda, a 6'4" F transfer from Arkansas that fans of many teams were really pushing for (including Iowa and Tennessee), has narrowed her choice down to Baylor or South Carolina. Sounds like she'll make that decision this week.
Iowa fans on social media were ready to dump existing players to add Dauda.
Chad wrote about adding her without a scholarship available.
How can Iowa make the scholarships work? Don’t worry about that at all. Iowa wouldn’t be pursuing Dauda if it couldn’t offer her a full scholarship. While Iowa is full with 15 scholarships already, it’s common in today’s NIL era (the same thing football is currently dealing with) for a player to be moved to walk-on status and have that tuition, room and board covered by the outside collective. Remember, NCAA legislation in recent years allows programs to feed walk-ons, too, so it can become just a clerical thing to be walk-on vs. scholarship. The only restriction by the NCAA is that a maximum of 15 players can travel to games, and scholarship forward Ava Jones (recovering from serious injuries when she was struck by a car in the summer of 2022) didn’t travel with the team last year.
Also, from Chad regarding Iowa adding Dauda.
How would she fit at Iowa? Awesomely. And if the Hawkeyes are in pursuit, they probably have done their homework on character fit, too. Dauda could become an instant-impact starter at Iowa’s “5” spot, allowing Hannah Stuelke to fully slide back to her more natural “4” (power forward) position. A time-share of Dauda and incoming freshman Ava Heiden (a top-40 prospect out of Oregon) sounds like a dream over the next two years for head coach Lisa Bluder, especially since Stuelke has two more years of eligibility as well. Throw seniors Olsen and Sydney Affolter into a 2024-25 starting lineup with possibly Taylor McCabe or Kylie Feuerbach, plus Stuelke and Dauda with Heiden and her fellow talented freshmen coming off the bench, and Iowa might be right back in the Final Four conversation.
Getting the great players we did off the transfer portal I may reconsider my ideas. If we do our best and show who we are honestly, and they walk, well maybe there are players as good out there who will come here to replace them. Not a bad thing.
I just assume the coaches know what they are doing in the NIL world. Trying to guess what is going thru 18-22 yr olds brains is way beyond my capabilities.
Even preNIL you don't know what they were thinking now throw a little money on top who knows. It would be interesting to know the % of players that chose the school on academics in addition to the BB program.
I missed this but Stanford added two transfers one was Purdue's Big Ten FROSH of the year Mary Ashley Stevenson. The other was Tess Heal from Santa Clara 19.5 PPG and 5 assists.
gostanford.com
Stevenson to Join the Cardinal - Stanford University Athletics
Mary Ashley Stevenson, the 2024 Big Ten Media Freshman of the Year at Purdue, has transferred to Stanford for the 2024-25 season, Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's
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Geno just signed a five year extension to coach UConn. $3.74M/year average.
Geno Auriemma signs 5-year extension to continue run as UConn women's basketball coach
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma seemingly put retirement rumors to rest by inking a five-year contract extension.
www.usatoday.com
