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If you missed it, here is my UConn/Tulane Post Game Report.
And here is my UConn/Temple Pre Game Report.
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I posted this yesterday - "So much parity in WCBB this season. Other than UConn handling every challenge put in front of them, the rest of the teams can win or lose any game between the top teams."
Boy, did I ever hit that one out of the park. So many upsets and near upsets.
Five top 25 teams lost Sunday and two others were taken down to the wire before pulling out a win.
The only two games I watched was the Temple upset of No. 22 South Florida and the Missouri upset of No. 6 South Carolina.
Temple ran out to a big lead as much as 13 points. USF made a great comeback to take a lead with 5 minutes remaining in the game 62-61. A few minutes of exchanging the lead led to a 67-64 USF lead with 2:22 left in the game. But Temple was on fire from beyond the arc. Fitzgerald his a big three to tie it, hit two free throws to take the lead and then Butts hit a corner three to extend the lead to five points 72-67 with under a minute remaining. Temple put the game away at the free throw line. I'm sure this will, along with their second half against UConn, give them extreme confidence coming into Hartford to face the Huskies on Wednesday.
Missouri and No. 6 South Carolina was a very entertaining game. South Carolina had a really tough time in this one. The game was close throughout and Sophie Cunningham was just terrific for Missouri with 26 points. A'ja Wilson answered that with 23 points of her own, going 9-11 from the field. Coates only played 20 minutes before fouling out, further proving that she is not an AA candidate. Kaela Davis has totally lost her game. She only had 6 points on 2-11 from the field and missing all of her three point shots. She added 7 turnovers. Every one of those just killed SC.
Check out the other upsets in my Top 25 section. Crazy Sunday!!!
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Congrats to Washington's Kelsey Plum who scored 35 points in No. 9 Washington's 87-74 win over USC. This moves her into second place in NCAA women's history in scoring. She only needed 3 points to pass Brittany Griner and now has 3,315 points only behind Jackie Styles with 3393. That's only 78 points behind. She will either go crazy and do it in her next two games against Colorado and Utah but for sure in the following game in the PAC12 tournament. It's only a matter of time.
Congrats to Washington's Kelsey Plum who scored 35 points in No. 9 Washington's 87-74 win over USC. This moves her into second place in NCAA women's history in scoring. She only needed 3 points to pass Brittany Griner and now has 3,315 points only behind Jackie Styles with 3393. That's only 78 points behind. She will either go crazy and do it in her next two games against Colorado and Utah but for sure in the following game in the PAC12 tournament. It's only a matter of time.
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By David in Naples!!!!!
Katie Lou Samuelson is in the middle of a shooting slump, right? Just ask anyone. She went 0-5 from three point range against South Carolina and 0-7 from that distance versus Tulsa. In fact, in the last five games, KLS is only 8-35 from beyond the arc. That is just 22.8%. Revoke the scholarship, right? Not so fast...
In the three other recent games, Lou was 3-11, 3-6 and 2-6 from three point range. That is 34.7%. You can say that is bad, but it is ahead of Diamond DeShields' 34.3% for the whole season. Lou has fallen all the way to 42% from three for the year.
What about shots other than three pointers? Inside the arc, Samuelson is 23-42 or 54.8% in the last five games. What a slump..! For the season, on every shot she has taken, Katie Lou is 190-391 or 48.6%. Kelsey Mitchell, everyone's All American, has taken 487 shots and made 44.4%. In order to fall to Mitchell's accuracy rate, Lou would have to miss 70 of her next 96 shots. Not likely...
In those last five games when Lou has stunk up the arena, she has averaged 30 minutes per game and 16.2 points per contest. She also had 16 rebounds and 14 assists. Maybe hold off on sitting her on the bench or putting her down to the JV.
Go Huskies..!!
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In the three other recent games, Lou was 3-11, 3-6 and 2-6 from three point range. That is 34.7%. You can say that is bad, but it is ahead of Diamond DeShields' 34.3% for the whole season. Lou has fallen all the way to 42% from three for the year.
What about shots other than three pointers? Inside the arc, Samuelson is 23-42 or 54.8% in the last five games. What a slump..! For the season, on every shot she has taken, Katie Lou is 190-391 or 48.6%. Kelsey Mitchell, everyone's All American, has taken 487 shots and made 44.4%. In order to fall to Mitchell's accuracy rate, Lou would have to miss 70 of her next 96 shots. Not likely...In those last five games when Lou has stunk up the arena, she has averaged 30 minutes per game and 16.2 points per contest. She also had 16 rebounds and 14 assists. Maybe hold off on sitting her on the bench or putting her down to the JV.
Go Huskies..!!
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Syracuse should have played both Day sisters at the same time to get some rebounds. What do you think?
ReplyDeletemaybe, but I don't think it would have made a difference.
DeleteI say sit KLS in a game where it matters and see how much room the posts get when they are guarded and the attention is not now her ;)
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