Friday, January 26, 2024

Doggy's Doghouse 1/27/2024

 


 

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GO UCONN!!!!!

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Here is my UConn/Notre Dame Pregame Report

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Geno on the Rivalry


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I just love the idea of the fans yelling BOOM after each made three pointer by the Huskies. Fan involvement is always great and it's something new. I hope they all participate.

BOOM!!!

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** Designates Upset

Games Thursday January 25th, 2024

No. 2 UCLA 62 Washington 44 
No. 3 Colorado 62 No. 25 Oregon State 68 **
No. 6 Stanford 80 Arizona State 50
No. 11 USC 70 Washington State 62
No. 16 Utah 58 Oregon 48

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Gotta love the Big O!!! Scroll right for the video

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Straight from the Dog



 
I've been hearing concerns about the size of LSU if UConn has to play them. I guess that is based on how well they played a big South Carolina team with 6'7" Cardoso and a few other good sized players.

Well, I have news for those folks and those concerns.  LSU might be a tought team, even a talented team. But a big team? Not really.

LSU size? 

Starters

Reese 6'3"
Morrow 6'1"
Williams 6'
Johnson 5'10"
Van Lith 5'7"

Bench 

Del Rosorio 6'6
Poa 5'11"

UConn matches up well with them.

Edwards 6'3"
Bueckers 6'
Muhl 5'11"
Shade 5'10" 
Arnold 5'9"

Brady 6'4"
Samuela 6'

If LSU is big, UConn is big. 

I love the matchups in this game. But my favorite is Bueckers/Morrow. You can bet that Morrow will try to take Bueckers down low. And she will be succesful some of the time. But just imagine Paige at the top of the key with the ball and UConn spreads out to let her go 1-1 with Morrow. Paige will either score or get fouled. Every time. 

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Cardosa and Reese in a stupid stare down

I was hoping they would smack the eye lashes off each other. I am so not a fan of this behavior. Just play the game.

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By PHIL

What’s up with Florida State?

Early in the season they were flirting with top 10. They were ranked 12 in week two, then curiously dropped two spots after winning two more games, then drifted down to the 20s. They have typically been in that range for much of the season with an AP ranking of 23 last Monday.

That’s about to change.

They can’t complain about the early part of January. While they lost to NC State, they took them to OT, then followed that up with three consecutive wins including over ranked teams North Carolina and Virginia Tech.

Then the wheels fell off.

They have now lost three consecutive games. First, they fell to Syracuse, but by only six points on Syracuse’s home court. Forgivable. Then they lost to Virginia, only by four points but Virginia is not remotely in contention for the NCAA tournament. Not forgivable.

Then they played Duke on Thursday. Now Duke is a decent team, have been in the rankings, then out but ranked number 23 in Massey so probably deserves to be ranked. But saying that Florida State played Duke is a bit of an overstatement. It barely evident that Florida State was there. Duke won 88 – 46, almost doubling them up. I don’t think it’s injuries? I don’t know everyone on the team, but I glanced at the players who have started this season for Florida State, and they were all there with big minutes.

Maybe Duke likes playing at home and the 1779 fans fired them up? I’m being sarcastic, that’s pathetic attendance.

Duke has been hot and cold; that would excuse a close call loss, but not a 42-point blowout.

Florida State has dropped to number 37 in Massey, and number 46 in NET. The latter is probably more important, and that’s bubble territory. They absolutely should drop out of the rankings and now should be worried about whether they make the tournament. What a turnaround!

It’s unfortunate because I’m a big fan of Latson and want to see her do well. Actually, she did okay, scoring 15, the only double-digit scorer on her team. She shot six for 17 which isn’t something to write home about. Shooting 35% from the field isn’t something to applaud but astoundingly, that’s roughly double what the rest of her team shot. They were 11 for 59.

What’s going on?

Milestone watch

• Aaliyah Edwards reached 1526 career points with her 10 points in the Marquette game. She needs 6 more points to tie Moriah Jefferson in 27th place.

• Aaliyah Edwards now has 845 rebounds with 12 against Marquette. That recently moved her ahead of Asjhia Jones (794), Barbara Turner (797), Kia Stokes (819), Kelly Faris (821), and both Jessica Moore and Leigh curl with 834. She is in sole possession of 14th place, and needs 63 more to catch Olivia Nelson-Ododa

• Nika Mühl had 556 assists after her 6 assists in the Marquette game. She is in sole possession of 8th place. She needs 3 more to tie Bria Hartley.
• Geno Auriemma now has 1197 wins and needs three more to reach the 1200 plateau.
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SPIDER STATS
 
Plus one for every assist block point rebound and steal. I don’t add extra for offensive rebounds as it already seems to favor the bigs. Minus one for every missed shot (2, 3 or foul), turnover or foul committed.

UConn 98 Marquette 47

Net positives/minutes played: All Universe Paige 29/32, Ashlynn 23/38, Nika 16/29, KK 11/29, Aaliyah 10/30, Qadence 4/16, Ice 3/21, Ines 0/3, Amari -1/2.

The fab five! Lay up practice for Ice. Zero assists for KK, some of her drives should result in beautiful dishes.

Covid is the Katie Abrahamson-Henderson of the disease world- you get beat up, it is ugly, you just hope to survive without lasting injury.

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