A short week with Christmas. Most teams have another non conference game, and then Pac 10 play starts on January 1st.
Arizona 5-4
Lost at UC Riverside 65-53 as the Wildcats shot 28%. Another head scratching loss for a Pac 10 school. Davelynn Whyte scored 20 points for the ‘Cats. Ify Ibewke scored 12 and had 13 rebounds but was 3 for 14 from the floor. Soana Lucet scored 11 with 10 rebounds but was 3 for 16 from the floor.
Next Games: Dec 29 Alabama A&M,
Jan 1, UCLA; Jan 3, USC
ASU 7-3
Next Games: Dec 28 Furman, Jan 1, USC, Jan 3, UCLA.
Cal 5-4
Beat Long Beach in Long Beach 80-71. Layshia Clarendon scores a career high 21 points and added 6 assists while DeNesha Stallworth matched her career high with 19 points. Talia Caldwell had 10 points and 10 rebounds and Natasha Vital had a season high 17 points.
Next Games: Dec 28, Boston College in San Diego, Dec 30, Nevada or San Diego, Jan 2 at Stanford (TV, Noon )
Oregon 9-3
Lost at Utah in Overtime 89-86. Three Utah players score between 23 and 29 points. For the Ducks Amanda Johnson scored 20 points, Taylor Lilley 18 and Victoria Kenyon 16. The Ducks were out rebounded 48-33.
Next Games: Jan 1, Washington; Jan 3, Washington State
Oregon State 7-2
Next Games: Dec 29 at Portland State, Jan 1 Washington State, Jan 3, Washington
UCLA 6-4
Beat St Mary’s 83-58. Darxia Morris scored 20 points for the Bruins. Markel Walker had 17 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists. Dorenna Campbell added 13 points for the Bruins who shot 49% from the field.
Next Games: Dec 28, Loyola Marymount, Jan 1 at Arizona, Jan 3 at ASU
USC 6-4
Next Games: Dec 30, North Carolina State, Jan 1 at ASU, Jan 3 at Arizona
Washington 5-5
Beat Western Michigan in Michigan 71-63. The Huskies shot 48% with MacKenzie Argens 8 for 10 for 16 points and added 8 rebounds. Sami Whitcomb scored 20 points. Regina Rogers only played 13 minutes and had 5 turnovers.
Next Games: Jan 1 at Oregon, Jan 3 at Oregon State
Washington State 5-6
Lost at Nevada (6-5) 75-54 as Nevada shot 51%. June termed it a good defensive game for her team, though. Why? Jasmine Perkins didn’t start and came off the bench to shot 1 for 13, maybe a story there. Nevada out rebounded the Cougars by 17. April Cook scored 17 points, but went 8 for 23.
Next Games: Jan 1 at Oregon State, Jan 3 at Oregon
Happy Holidays to all
December 23, 2009
December 20, 2009
Games through Dec 20th
Arizona 5-3
Lost at Georgia Tech 72-48. Ga Tech shot 53 % and the Wildcats were 2 for 21 from three. The bright spot for the Wildcats was Soana Lucet who scored 19 points and added 6 rebounds. Ify Ibeweke scored 8 points but had 11 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 23 at UC Riverside; Dec 29 Alabama A&M,
Jan 1, UCLA; Jan 3, USC
ASU 7-3
Lost to Texas A&M in Las Vegas 72-62. ASU committed a ghastly 27 turnovers. Danielle Orsillo had 14 points, Tenaya Watson 13 and Becca Tobin 12 points and 2 blocked shots.
Lost to Baylor 70-66 in Las Vegas. Brittany Griner was 12 for 16, 27 points and 8 blocked shots. Baylor shot 60%, still ASU almost upset them. Becca Tobin had 16 points and 7 rebounds for the Sun Devils. Orsillo scored 14 points. Janae Fulcher scored 12 points.
Next Games: Dec 28 Furman, Jan 1, USC, Jan 3, UCLA.
Cal 4-4
Did not play, finals
Next Games: Dec 21 at Long Beach State, Dec 28, Boston College in San Diego, Dec 30, Nevada or San Diego, Jan 2 at Stanford (TV , Noon )
Oregon 9-2
Played their first ranked team and lost at # 25 GaTech, 87-69. Micaela Cocks scored 19 points, but Taylor Lilley was 1 for 11 from three and scored only 7 points. The Ducks were 6 for 27 from three. She who lives by the three…..died. GaTech had 20 offensive rebounds and had 19 total rebounds more than the Ducks. Nicole Canepa had 14 points.
Beat Wyoming in Wyoming 78-66. Oregon was only 5 for 18 from three, but shot 47% overall in the win. Six Ducks scored 8 or more points led by Micaela Cocks 17 points. Taylor Lilley and Nia Jackson had 14 points and Lilley had 6 steals.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Utah; Jan 1, Washington; Jan 3, Washington State
Oregon State 7-2
Beat UC Irvine, Molly Goodenbour’s team 58-42. The Beavers had a 49-21 rebounding edge. Julie Futch had 15 points and El Sara Greer had 10 points and 8 rebounds.
Beat Seattle 64-48 as Talisa Rhea scored 20 points. Kristen Tilleman had 13 points and 8 rebounds. The Beavers had only 10 turnovers in the game.
Next Games: Dec 29 at Portland State, Jan 1 Washington State, Jan 3, Washington
UCLA 5-4
Beat Santa Barbara 61-49. Jasmine Dixon played her first game as a Bruin, after sitting out her one year transfer and led the Bruins with 19 points, 4 steals and 10 rebounds. Darxia Morris added 17 points. Markel Walker scored 8 points and had 10rebounds. UCSB blocked 13 UCLA shots.
Lost to Texas Tech 59-58 at UCLA. A note, Texas Tech lost by 38 to Tennessee early this season. Texas Tech had 15 steals and UCLA totaled 22 turnovers. Dixon had 14points and Moniquee Alexander 10 points and 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 21, St Mary’s; Dec 28, Loyola Marymount, Jan 1 at Arizona, Jan 3 at ASU
USC 6-4
Beat Dartmouth 78-46. Ashley Corral and Heather Oliver each had 18 points and each had 4 three’s. Oliver was 4 of 6 from three. Daniela Roark was 2 of 3 from three, 6points, as USC was 11 of 22 from three. Aarika Hughes had 10 rebounds and Hailey Dunham had 5 assists and 3 steals.
Beat Bakersfield 93-56. USC has played only 8 players the past two games, indicative of the injuries they have suffered. USC shot 48% and had 25 assists. Ashley Corral had 15 points and 7 assists. Roark, from Pinewood, hit both her shots, both three’s. All 8 players scored between 6 and 15 points. Dunham had 10 points and 13 rebounds, while Kari LaPlante had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 30, North Carolina State, Jan 1 at ASU, Jan 3 at Arizona
Washington 4-5
Lost at Michigan State 69-52. Washington shot just 30% was out rebounded by 16, and had only 5 assists. Sami Whitcomb hit the Huskies only 2 three’s and scored 14 points.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Western Michigan; Jan 1 at Oregon, Jan 3 at Oregon State
Washington State 5-5
Beat USF, the San Francisco version, 74-57. The game was played before over 6,000 fans in Kennewick, WA. Congrats to the fans in Kennewick area. Jasmine Perkins scored 11 points but also had 5 assists and 9 rebounds. April Cook scored 15, with frosh Katie Grad and Carly Noyes scoring 12 each. The Cougars were 7 for 15 from three.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Nevada; Jan 1 at Oregon State, Jan 3 at Oregon
Lost at Georgia Tech 72-48. Ga Tech shot 53 % and the Wildcats were 2 for 21 from three. The bright spot for the Wildcats was Soana Lucet who scored 19 points and added 6 rebounds. Ify Ibeweke scored 8 points but had 11 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 23 at UC Riverside; Dec 29 Alabama A&M,
Jan 1, UCLA; Jan 3, USC
ASU 7-3
Lost to Texas A&M in Las Vegas 72-62. ASU committed a ghastly 27 turnovers. Danielle Orsillo had 14 points, Tenaya Watson 13 and Becca Tobin 12 points and 2 blocked shots.
Lost to Baylor 70-66 in Las Vegas. Brittany Griner was 12 for 16, 27 points and 8 blocked shots. Baylor shot 60%, still ASU almost upset them. Becca Tobin had 16 points and 7 rebounds for the Sun Devils. Orsillo scored 14 points. Janae Fulcher scored 12 points.
Next Games: Dec 28 Furman, Jan 1, USC, Jan 3, UCLA.
Cal 4-4
Did not play, finals
Next Games: Dec 21 at Long Beach State, Dec 28, Boston College in San Diego, Dec 30, Nevada or San Diego, Jan 2 at Stanford (TV , Noon )
Oregon 9-2
Played their first ranked team and lost at # 25 GaTech, 87-69. Micaela Cocks scored 19 points, but Taylor Lilley was 1 for 11 from three and scored only 7 points. The Ducks were 6 for 27 from three. She who lives by the three…..died. GaTech had 20 offensive rebounds and had 19 total rebounds more than the Ducks. Nicole Canepa had 14 points.
Beat Wyoming in Wyoming 78-66. Oregon was only 5 for 18 from three, but shot 47% overall in the win. Six Ducks scored 8 or more points led by Micaela Cocks 17 points. Taylor Lilley and Nia Jackson had 14 points and Lilley had 6 steals.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Utah; Jan 1, Washington; Jan 3, Washington State
Oregon State 7-2
Beat UC Irvine, Molly Goodenbour’s team 58-42. The Beavers had a 49-21 rebounding edge. Julie Futch had 15 points and El Sara Greer had 10 points and 8 rebounds.
Beat Seattle 64-48 as Talisa Rhea scored 20 points. Kristen Tilleman had 13 points and 8 rebounds. The Beavers had only 10 turnovers in the game.
Next Games: Dec 29 at Portland State, Jan 1 Washington State, Jan 3, Washington
UCLA 5-4
Beat Santa Barbara 61-49. Jasmine Dixon played her first game as a Bruin, after sitting out her one year transfer and led the Bruins with 19 points, 4 steals and 10 rebounds. Darxia Morris added 17 points. Markel Walker scored 8 points and had 10rebounds. UCSB blocked 13 UCLA shots.
Lost to Texas Tech 59-58 at UCLA. A note, Texas Tech lost by 38 to Tennessee early this season. Texas Tech had 15 steals and UCLA totaled 22 turnovers. Dixon had 14points and Moniquee Alexander 10 points and 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 21, St Mary’s; Dec 28, Loyola Marymount, Jan 1 at Arizona, Jan 3 at ASU
USC 6-4
Beat Dartmouth 78-46. Ashley Corral and Heather Oliver each had 18 points and each had 4 three’s. Oliver was 4 of 6 from three. Daniela Roark was 2 of 3 from three, 6points, as USC was 11 of 22 from three. Aarika Hughes had 10 rebounds and Hailey Dunham had 5 assists and 3 steals.
Beat Bakersfield 93-56. USC has played only 8 players the past two games, indicative of the injuries they have suffered. USC shot 48% and had 25 assists. Ashley Corral had 15 points and 7 assists. Roark, from Pinewood, hit both her shots, both three’s. All 8 players scored between 6 and 15 points. Dunham had 10 points and 13 rebounds, while Kari LaPlante had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 30, North Carolina State, Jan 1 at ASU, Jan 3 at Arizona
Washington 4-5
Lost at Michigan State 69-52. Washington shot just 30% was out rebounded by 16, and had only 5 assists. Sami Whitcomb hit the Huskies only 2 three’s and scored 14 points.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Western Michigan; Jan 1 at Oregon, Jan 3 at Oregon State
Washington State 5-5
Beat USF, the San Francisco version, 74-57. The game was played before over 6,000 fans in Kennewick, WA. Congrats to the fans in Kennewick area. Jasmine Perkins scored 11 points but also had 5 assists and 9 rebounds. April Cook scored 15, with frosh Katie Grad and Carly Noyes scoring 12 each. The Cougars were 7 for 15 from three.
Next Games: Dec 22 at Nevada; Jan 1 at Oregon State, Jan 3 at Oregon
December 13, 2009
Games through Deember 13th
With many schools taking Finals there weren’t many games this past week.
Arizona 5-2
Lost to New Mexico 81-61 as New Mexico hit on 12 of 20 three’s. Davelynn Whyte had 19 points, 5 assists and no turnovers to be the sole bright spot for the Wildcats. Ify Ibekwe was held to 7 points and 6 rebounds in 33 minutes.
Next Games: Dec 20 at Ga Tech; Dec 23 at UC Riverside
ASU 7-1
Beat North Dakota 67-43. Kayli Murphy scored 15 points for the Sun Devils. Becca Tobin added 10 rebounds as the Wildcats won the Rebounding battle 53-31. An amazing stat, ASU had 26 baskets and 22 assists. 12 Sun Devils played and all 9 or more minutes. 24 turnovers for the Sun Devils though, on the down side.
Next Games: Dec 19 Texas A&M in Las Vegas, Dec 20; Baylor in Las Vegas
Cal 4-4
Lost to San Jose State 68-67 in a stunner. SJS was 1-7 prior to the game. Chasity Shavers game into the game averaging 13 points and dropped 32 on the Bears. She was 4 for 21 for three’s prior to the game and 3 for 7 in this game. Despite SJS’s lack of size rebounding was even. Alexis Gray-Lawson was 6 of 9 from three and scored 21 points with 9 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 21 at Long Beach State
Oregon 8-1
No Games
Next Games: Dec 16 at Ga Tech; Dec 20, at Wyoming; Dec 22 at Utah.
Oregon State 5-2
Beat Weber State 76-64 behind Talisa Rhea’s 20 points and 6 assists. Kristen Tilleman had 12 points and 10 rebounds while Julie Futch had 15 points, making both three’s and had 6 assists against only one turnover.
Next Games: Dec 15, UC Irvine, Dec 18, Seattle
UCLA 4-3
No Games
Next Games: Dec 15 at UCSB; Dec 18, Texas Tech, Dec 21, St Mary’s
USC 4-3
No Games
Next Games: Dec 19, Dartmouth; Dec 20, Bakersfield or Delaware State
Washington 4-4
Just got by Seattle, in Seattle in what was described as a hostile crowd in a packed Gym. Six miles away from the Washington home court? The Huskies did win, 58-53. Only one player in double figures for the Huskies, Mackenzie Argens with 10.
An injury note, Liz Lay will have a knee operation for her tendonitis and is out for the season.
Next Games: Dec 19 at Michigan State; Dec 22 at Western Michigan
Washington State 4-5
Beat Montana State in Bozeman 73-61. Five Cougars in double figures led by Carly Noyes and Jazmine Perkins with 16 points each. Rosie Tarnowski added 13 rebounds. The Cougars shot only 37% but they had 16 steals, 5 by Kiki Moore and only had 10 turnovers.
Lost to the University of Portland 76-53 in another huge defeat for the Pac 10. Portland shot 53% to the Cougars 29%. Perkins and April Cook were 4 for 23. Things are not going well in the Palouse.
Next Games: Dec 13, Portland, Dec 19, USF; Dec 22 at Nevada
Special Feature, Average Attendance at Pac 10 schools (as of Dec 11):
Arizona: 1,988
Arizona State: 3,251
Cal: 1,157
Oregon: 1,896
Oregon State: 826
Stanford: 3,860
UCLA: 760
USC: 793
Washington: 2,038
Washington State: 825
Arizona 5-2
Lost to New Mexico 81-61 as New Mexico hit on 12 of 20 three’s. Davelynn Whyte had 19 points, 5 assists and no turnovers to be the sole bright spot for the Wildcats. Ify Ibekwe was held to 7 points and 6 rebounds in 33 minutes.
Next Games: Dec 20 at Ga Tech; Dec 23 at UC Riverside
ASU 7-1
Beat North Dakota 67-43. Kayli Murphy scored 15 points for the Sun Devils. Becca Tobin added 10 rebounds as the Wildcats won the Rebounding battle 53-31. An amazing stat, ASU had 26 baskets and 22 assists. 12 Sun Devils played and all 9 or more minutes. 24 turnovers for the Sun Devils though, on the down side.
Next Games: Dec 19 Texas A&M in Las Vegas, Dec 20; Baylor in Las Vegas
Cal 4-4
Lost to San Jose State 68-67 in a stunner. SJS was 1-7 prior to the game. Chasity Shavers game into the game averaging 13 points and dropped 32 on the Bears. She was 4 for 21 for three’s prior to the game and 3 for 7 in this game. Despite SJS’s lack of size rebounding was even. Alexis Gray-Lawson was 6 of 9 from three and scored 21 points with 9 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 21 at Long Beach State
Oregon 8-1
No Games
Next Games: Dec 16 at Ga Tech; Dec 20, at Wyoming; Dec 22 at Utah.
Oregon State 5-2
Beat Weber State 76-64 behind Talisa Rhea’s 20 points and 6 assists. Kristen Tilleman had 12 points and 10 rebounds while Julie Futch had 15 points, making both three’s and had 6 assists against only one turnover.
Next Games: Dec 15, UC Irvine, Dec 18, Seattle
UCLA 4-3
No Games
Next Games: Dec 15 at UCSB; Dec 18, Texas Tech, Dec 21, St Mary’s
USC 4-3
No Games
Next Games: Dec 19, Dartmouth; Dec 20, Bakersfield or Delaware State
Washington 4-4
Just got by Seattle, in Seattle in what was described as a hostile crowd in a packed Gym. Six miles away from the Washington home court? The Huskies did win, 58-53. Only one player in double figures for the Huskies, Mackenzie Argens with 10.
An injury note, Liz Lay will have a knee operation for her tendonitis and is out for the season.
Next Games: Dec 19 at Michigan State; Dec 22 at Western Michigan
Washington State 4-5
Beat Montana State in Bozeman 73-61. Five Cougars in double figures led by Carly Noyes and Jazmine Perkins with 16 points each. Rosie Tarnowski added 13 rebounds. The Cougars shot only 37% but they had 16 steals, 5 by Kiki Moore and only had 10 turnovers.
Lost to the University of Portland 76-53 in another huge defeat for the Pac 10. Portland shot 53% to the Cougars 29%. Perkins and April Cook were 4 for 23. Things are not going well in the Palouse.
Next Games: Dec 13, Portland, Dec 19, USF; Dec 22 at Nevada
Special Feature, Average Attendance at Pac 10 schools (as of Dec 11):
Arizona: 1,988
Arizona State: 3,251
Cal: 1,157
Oregon: 1,896
Oregon State: 826
Stanford: 3,860
UCLA: 760
USC: 793
Washington: 2,038
Washington State: 825
December 6, 2009
Games through Dec 6th
Arizona 5-1
Beat Nevada 84-57. Usually we start with Ify Ibekwe’s stats, in this game 12 points and 4 rebounds, but, 5 blocks and 5 steals are her highlights. Davelynn Whyte with 19 points. Jennifer Kioa with 12 points and 6 rebounds in 21 minutes. The Wildcats shot 51%.
Next Games: Dec 9, New Mexico, Dec 20 at Ga Tech; Dec 23 at UC Riverside
ASU 6-1
Beat Idaho State 65-56 behind Danielle Orsillo’s 18 points. Not a stellar win against a now 1-7 Idaho State.
Beat Pepperdine 62-52. Orsillo led again with 13 points. Becca Tobin added 12 points and 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 9, North Dakota, Dec 19 Texas A&M in Las Vegas, Dec 20; Baylor in Las Vegas
Cal 4-3
Crushed Colorado State 78-44. Five Bears with 8 or more points, led by Alexis
Gray-Lawson’s 15. Gennifer Brandon with 10 points and 12 rebounds and Talia Caldwell with 12 points and 9 rebounds. Only 517 at Cal.
Lost to Texas A&M 68-61. DeNehsa Stallworth had 19 points and 8 rebounds, Lawson had 18 points but was only 6 of 25 from the field. Cal had 21 turnovers, Texas A&M only 7.
Next Games: Dec 9, San Jose State; Dec 21 at Long Beach State
Oregon 8-1
Beat the University of Portland 95-68. Earlier this season, Portland beat Sac State by 30 and Sac State best Washington, for an interesting comparison. Amanda Johnson had a career high 32 points, tops in the Pac 10 this year, and added 11 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 8 assists. Nicole Canepa had 9 points and 9 rebounds. The Ducks hit 13 of 22 three’s, Johnson 4 of 5. Center Victoria Kenyon hit 3 of 4 three’s, for 13 points.
Beat Boise State 88-61, Boise’s first loss of the season. The Duck fullcourt press caused 18 first half turnovers as Oregon led Boise 53-24 at the half. Amanda Johnson with 20 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, and 4 of 7 from three. Taylor Lilley had 15 points, 4 of 9 from three. Jasmin Holliday had 13 points and 13rebounds.
Beat Long Beach State 102-70. Micaela Cocks was 5 for 5 from three and scored 27 points, Lilley was 7 for 13 from three and scored 25 points. Oregon shot 45% from three 14 for 31, and 53% for the game.
Next Games: Dec 16 at Ga Tech; Dec 20, at Wyoming; Dec 22 at Utah.
Oregon State 4-2
Lost to UCSB 59-53. Talisa Rhea was the only bright spot for the Beavers, scoring
20, although El Sara Greer did have 17 rebounds. The Beavers shot 32%. Greer is a 6-2 JC transfer who had started every game but before this game only had 23 rebounds in the previous five games.
Next Games: Dec 12, Weber State; Dec 15, UC Irvine, Dec 18, Seattle
UCLA 4-3
Lost at # 24 Kansas 54-49. UCLA was down 2 with 16.8 seconds left when they committed an intentional foul. Kansas made both free throws, then UCLA had to foul to get the ball and Kansas made 4 more free throws. Darxia Morris led the Bruins with 13 points. Moniquee Alexander had 10 rebounds but did not score. UCLA had only 8 assists and 21 turnovers.
Next Games: Dec 15 at UCSB; Dec 18, Texas Tech, Dec 21, St Mary’s
USC 4-3
Beat Long Beach State, 83-77. Briana Gilbreath had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 6 blocked shots. Ashley Corral had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists. Hailey Dunham had the 3rd double, double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. USC had only 11 turnovers.
Lost at Duke in a great game 78-72. Ashley Corral was the star for the Trojans with 26 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds. Corral was 7 of 12 from three. Gilbreath added 12 points and 7 rebounds. Heather Oliver added 12 points on 4 of 7 from three. Overall USC was 12 of 22 from three.
Next Games: Dec 19, Dartmouth; Dec 20, Bakersfield or Delaware State
Washington 3-4
Lost at the Univ of South Florida, the defending NIT champs, 61-50. Mollie Williams had 12 points but 7 turnovers as the Huskies committed 27 turnovers. Regina Rogers had 11 points.
Beat Central Florida in Florida 62-59. The Huskies lost starters Laura McLennan and Sara Moisman to injuries during the game. They will be evaluated on Monday. Sami Whitcomb had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 9 at Seattle, Dec 19 at Michigan State; Dec 22 at Western Michigan
Washington State 3-4
Lost to St Mary’s in Pullman 80-70. St Mary’s shot 67% but committed 36 turnovers, many on the Cougars 20 steals, allowing Washington State to stay close. After being down by 20 at the half, the Cougars came back to within 3 before losing. Washington took 103!!! shots. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a team taking that many shots in a game. But they only shot 25%, while St Mary’s took only 37 shots but hit on 67% of them. Another amazing stat, Washington had 38 offensive rebounds to 3 for St Mary’s.
Jazmine Perkins had 19 points and 10 rebounds but was 7 of 20. Katie Madison had an amazing 13 offensive rebounds and missed 13 of 19 shots. Kiki Moore had 8 steals. If you like passing, St Mary’s had 21 assists on 25 baskets.
Beat Wyoming 63-50. Perkins had 17 points and April Cook scored 16. The Cougars had 14 assists and 13 turnovers, great numbers for them this far for the season. Both teams shot 33%.
Next Games: Dec 11 at Montana State; Dec 13, Portland, Dec 19, USF; Dec 22 at Nevada
Beat Nevada 84-57. Usually we start with Ify Ibekwe’s stats, in this game 12 points and 4 rebounds, but, 5 blocks and 5 steals are her highlights. Davelynn Whyte with 19 points. Jennifer Kioa with 12 points and 6 rebounds in 21 minutes. The Wildcats shot 51%.
Next Games: Dec 9, New Mexico, Dec 20 at Ga Tech; Dec 23 at UC Riverside
ASU 6-1
Beat Idaho State 65-56 behind Danielle Orsillo’s 18 points. Not a stellar win against a now 1-7 Idaho State.
Beat Pepperdine 62-52. Orsillo led again with 13 points. Becca Tobin added 12 points and 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 9, North Dakota, Dec 19 Texas A&M in Las Vegas, Dec 20; Baylor in Las Vegas
Cal 4-3
Crushed Colorado State 78-44. Five Bears with 8 or more points, led by Alexis
Gray-Lawson’s 15. Gennifer Brandon with 10 points and 12 rebounds and Talia Caldwell with 12 points and 9 rebounds. Only 517 at Cal.
Lost to Texas A&M 68-61. DeNehsa Stallworth had 19 points and 8 rebounds, Lawson had 18 points but was only 6 of 25 from the field. Cal had 21 turnovers, Texas A&M only 7.
Next Games: Dec 9, San Jose State; Dec 21 at Long Beach State
Oregon 8-1
Beat the University of Portland 95-68. Earlier this season, Portland beat Sac State by 30 and Sac State best Washington, for an interesting comparison. Amanda Johnson had a career high 32 points, tops in the Pac 10 this year, and added 11 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 8 assists. Nicole Canepa had 9 points and 9 rebounds. The Ducks hit 13 of 22 three’s, Johnson 4 of 5. Center Victoria Kenyon hit 3 of 4 three’s, for 13 points.
Beat Boise State 88-61, Boise’s first loss of the season. The Duck fullcourt press caused 18 first half turnovers as Oregon led Boise 53-24 at the half. Amanda Johnson with 20 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, and 4 of 7 from three. Taylor Lilley had 15 points, 4 of 9 from three. Jasmin Holliday had 13 points and 13rebounds.
Beat Long Beach State 102-70. Micaela Cocks was 5 for 5 from three and scored 27 points, Lilley was 7 for 13 from three and scored 25 points. Oregon shot 45% from three 14 for 31, and 53% for the game.
Next Games: Dec 16 at Ga Tech; Dec 20, at Wyoming; Dec 22 at Utah.
Oregon State 4-2
Lost to UCSB 59-53. Talisa Rhea was the only bright spot for the Beavers, scoring
20, although El Sara Greer did have 17 rebounds. The Beavers shot 32%. Greer is a 6-2 JC transfer who had started every game but before this game only had 23 rebounds in the previous five games.
Next Games: Dec 12, Weber State; Dec 15, UC Irvine, Dec 18, Seattle
UCLA 4-3
Lost at # 24 Kansas 54-49. UCLA was down 2 with 16.8 seconds left when they committed an intentional foul. Kansas made both free throws, then UCLA had to foul to get the ball and Kansas made 4 more free throws. Darxia Morris led the Bruins with 13 points. Moniquee Alexander had 10 rebounds but did not score. UCLA had only 8 assists and 21 turnovers.
Next Games: Dec 15 at UCSB; Dec 18, Texas Tech, Dec 21, St Mary’s
USC 4-3
Beat Long Beach State, 83-77. Briana Gilbreath had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 6 blocked shots. Ashley Corral had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists. Hailey Dunham had the 3rd double, double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. USC had only 11 turnovers.
Lost at Duke in a great game 78-72. Ashley Corral was the star for the Trojans with 26 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds. Corral was 7 of 12 from three. Gilbreath added 12 points and 7 rebounds. Heather Oliver added 12 points on 4 of 7 from three. Overall USC was 12 of 22 from three.
Next Games: Dec 19, Dartmouth; Dec 20, Bakersfield or Delaware State
Washington 3-4
Lost at the Univ of South Florida, the defending NIT champs, 61-50. Mollie Williams had 12 points but 7 turnovers as the Huskies committed 27 turnovers. Regina Rogers had 11 points.
Beat Central Florida in Florida 62-59. The Huskies lost starters Laura McLennan and Sara Moisman to injuries during the game. They will be evaluated on Monday. Sami Whitcomb had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 9 at Seattle, Dec 19 at Michigan State; Dec 22 at Western Michigan
Washington State 3-4
Lost to St Mary’s in Pullman 80-70. St Mary’s shot 67% but committed 36 turnovers, many on the Cougars 20 steals, allowing Washington State to stay close. After being down by 20 at the half, the Cougars came back to within 3 before losing. Washington took 103!!! shots. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a team taking that many shots in a game. But they only shot 25%, while St Mary’s took only 37 shots but hit on 67% of them. Another amazing stat, Washington had 38 offensive rebounds to 3 for St Mary’s.
Jazmine Perkins had 19 points and 10 rebounds but was 7 of 20. Katie Madison had an amazing 13 offensive rebounds and missed 13 of 19 shots. Kiki Moore had 8 steals. If you like passing, St Mary’s had 21 assists on 25 baskets.
Beat Wyoming 63-50. Perkins had 17 points and April Cook scored 16. The Cougars had 14 assists and 13 turnovers, great numbers for them this far for the season. Both teams shot 33%.
Next Games: Dec 11 at Montana State; Dec 13, Portland, Dec 19, USF; Dec 22 at Nevada
December 1, 2009
Thanksgiving Week Results
Arizona 4-1
Beat Mississippi at home 65-59. It was Mississippi’s first loss, and although they have started against weak teams they won the previous three games by 35-40 points. And they are an SEC team who plays Texas and Ohio State soon. Arizona played Monday afternoon, a kids come from school game? And drew 3,000 fans. Ify Ibewke scored 10 points and had 16 rebounds. Brooke Jackson hit 3 of 5 from three and scored 20 points. Soana Lucet scored 15. The Wildcats had 14 assists on 22 baskets and only 14 turnovers. A fine win.
Beat University of San Diego 65-55 in San Diego to cap a fine 4-1 start. Ibewke scored 15 points and had 11 rebounds, while Lucet scored 22 points on 10 of 17 from the floor. All the starters played 30 or more minutes.
Next Games: Dec 4, Nevada; Dec 9, New Mexico
ASU 4-1
Playing in Hawaii, beat Hawaii 65-53. Kali Bennett scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds, 10 offensive in only 17 minutes. Danielle Orsillo added 15 points. Kayli Murphy scored 9. On the down side ASU shot only 35% and had 11 assists to 18 turnovers.
Beat East Tennessee State 80-67 in Hawaii. Bennett again led the way with 15 points and 10 rebounds in only 19 minutes. Orsillo scored 18 points. Murphy had 11 points and 8 rebounds. ASU played much better this day shooting 46% and had 22 assists to 14 turnovers. Sabrina McKinney had 6 assists in 19 minutes. In the two games in Hawaii, 11 Sun Devils played 8 or more minutes in each game.
Next Games: Dec 4, Idaho State; Dec 5, Pepperdine or Utah State; Dec 9, North Dakota
Cal 3-2
Beat Southern in Columbus Ohio, 78-47. All the healthy Cal players played 19 or more minutes in the easy win. Gennifer Brandon had 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Lost at Ohio State, ranked # 3, 83-71. Alexis Gray Lawson scored 25 points, but on 9of 24 shooting. DeNesha Stallworth had 13 points and 8 rebounds, Brandon 12 points and 6 assists.
Next Games: Dec 5, Colorado State; Dec 6, Texas A&M or Southern Illinois; Dec 9, San Jose State.
Oregon 5-1
Beat Santa Clara 88-71. Amanda Johnson had 19 points, including 2 three’s and 13 rebounds for the Ducks. Michaela Cocks scored 18 points, hitting 3 three’s. Nicole Canepa scored 19 points and had 7 rebounds.
Beat Fullerton 117-69. Amanda Johnson had another double, double, 13 points and 16 rebounds. Taylor Lilley hit 6 of 9 three’s on her way to 22 points. Canepa had 17 points as seven Ducks scored in double figures.
Lost to Wisconsin is the last seconds, 58-57. Oregon’s Taylor Lilley hit a three with 4 seconds left and then knocked the ball out of bounds to give Wisconsin only 1.8 seconds to score, and they did, to win. A real heartbreaker for the Ducks. Johnson again with a fine game, 19 points and 6 rebounds. Canepa scored 6 points but added 10 rebounds.
Beat Portland State 87-58, Johnson with 10 points and 14 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists. Canepa 12 points and 9 rebounds. The Ducks were only 4 for 20 from three, but 50% from inside the arc.
Next Games: Dec 2, Portland; Dec 4, Boise State; Dec 6, Long Beach State
Oregon State 4-1
Beat Belmont 76-52 at a tournament in Arizona. Talisa Rhea scored 25 points with 6 of 9 from three. Kristen Tilleman had 12 rebounds.
Beat Northern Arizona, 62-33. Haiden Palmer scored a career high 18 points for the Beavers. Rhea, the tourney MVP, only scored 6 points but had 7 assists.
Next Games: Dec 5, UCSB, Dec 12, Weber State
UCLA 4-2
Beat Princeton 69-59 as Moniquee Alexander may have had a career game with 15 points and 11 rebounds in 20 minutes. Frosh Markel Walker added 17 points and 11 rebounds.
Lost to Tennessee in a great game at Knoxville, 61-47. Walker had a great game for the Bruins with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 3 at Kansas; Dec 15 at UCSB
USC 3-3
Lost to Rutgers 66-51 as Ashley Corral scored 24 points, 6 of 13 from three. Corral also had 5 assists, half the USC total. The Trojans were only 6 of 38 from inside the three point line.
Beat # 13 Texas, 61-54, despite Corral only scoring 5 points. Corral was outstanding despite not scoring much as she had 7 rebounds, 8 assists and only 1 turnover. USC shot 46% and were led by four players scoring between 10 and 13 points. Of the 47 points scored by the four, LaPlante, Gilbreath, Oliver and Hughes, all but 3 were from inside the three point line, a complete reversal for the Trojans versus the Rutgers game.
Beat # 18 Mississippi State 64-60. Down 49-48, former Pinewood star Daniela Roark hit 3 three points to give USC a 59-51 lead that they held. Aarika Hughes had 14 points and 6 rebounds for the Trojans.
Next Games: Dec 3 at Long Beach State; Dec 6 at Duke
Washington 2-3
Beat Eastern Washington 64-46. Regina Rogers scored 12 points and had 6 rebounds in 18 minutes, her high for the year. Five players scored between 8 and 12 points for the Huskies.
Lost to Sacramento State 74-71. Rogers had 13 points and 9 rebounds. Sami Whitcomb had 21 points but on 5 of 19 shooting. Liz Lay missed both games this week. Lay has tendonitis in her knee.
Also two reserves are out for the year, Lydia Young and Amanda Johnson, both with knee injuries. Neither had played this year.
Next Games: Dec 4 at Univ of South Florida; Dec 6 at Univ of Central Florida; Dec 9 at Seattle
Washington State 2-3
Beat Bradley 80-66 in Las Vegas as Jazmine Perkins scored 20 points including 3 of 5 from three. Kiki Moore added 16 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 6 assists, but had 7 turnovers.
Lost to Boise State 68-64 also in Las Vegas. April Cook scored 19 points, Perkins had 13 rebounds and Rosie Tarnowski added 10 rebounds. Kiki Moore had 18 points, 8 of 12, but 6 turnovers. The Cougars were only 3 of 18 from three.
Next Games: Dec 3, St Mary’s; Dec 5, Wyoming; Dec 11 at Montana State
Beat Mississippi at home 65-59. It was Mississippi’s first loss, and although they have started against weak teams they won the previous three games by 35-40 points. And they are an SEC team who plays Texas and Ohio State soon. Arizona played Monday afternoon, a kids come from school game? And drew 3,000 fans. Ify Ibewke scored 10 points and had 16 rebounds. Brooke Jackson hit 3 of 5 from three and scored 20 points. Soana Lucet scored 15. The Wildcats had 14 assists on 22 baskets and only 14 turnovers. A fine win.
Beat University of San Diego 65-55 in San Diego to cap a fine 4-1 start. Ibewke scored 15 points and had 11 rebounds, while Lucet scored 22 points on 10 of 17 from the floor. All the starters played 30 or more minutes.
Next Games: Dec 4, Nevada; Dec 9, New Mexico
ASU 4-1
Playing in Hawaii, beat Hawaii 65-53. Kali Bennett scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds, 10 offensive in only 17 minutes. Danielle Orsillo added 15 points. Kayli Murphy scored 9. On the down side ASU shot only 35% and had 11 assists to 18 turnovers.
Beat East Tennessee State 80-67 in Hawaii. Bennett again led the way with 15 points and 10 rebounds in only 19 minutes. Orsillo scored 18 points. Murphy had 11 points and 8 rebounds. ASU played much better this day shooting 46% and had 22 assists to 14 turnovers. Sabrina McKinney had 6 assists in 19 minutes. In the two games in Hawaii, 11 Sun Devils played 8 or more minutes in each game.
Next Games: Dec 4, Idaho State; Dec 5, Pepperdine or Utah State; Dec 9, North Dakota
Cal 3-2
Beat Southern in Columbus Ohio, 78-47. All the healthy Cal players played 19 or more minutes in the easy win. Gennifer Brandon had 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Lost at Ohio State, ranked # 3, 83-71. Alexis Gray Lawson scored 25 points, but on 9of 24 shooting. DeNesha Stallworth had 13 points and 8 rebounds, Brandon 12 points and 6 assists.
Next Games: Dec 5, Colorado State; Dec 6, Texas A&M or Southern Illinois; Dec 9, San Jose State.
Oregon 5-1
Beat Santa Clara 88-71. Amanda Johnson had 19 points, including 2 three’s and 13 rebounds for the Ducks. Michaela Cocks scored 18 points, hitting 3 three’s. Nicole Canepa scored 19 points and had 7 rebounds.
Beat Fullerton 117-69. Amanda Johnson had another double, double, 13 points and 16 rebounds. Taylor Lilley hit 6 of 9 three’s on her way to 22 points. Canepa had 17 points as seven Ducks scored in double figures.
Lost to Wisconsin is the last seconds, 58-57. Oregon’s Taylor Lilley hit a three with 4 seconds left and then knocked the ball out of bounds to give Wisconsin only 1.8 seconds to score, and they did, to win. A real heartbreaker for the Ducks. Johnson again with a fine game, 19 points and 6 rebounds. Canepa scored 6 points but added 10 rebounds.
Beat Portland State 87-58, Johnson with 10 points and 14 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists. Canepa 12 points and 9 rebounds. The Ducks were only 4 for 20 from three, but 50% from inside the arc.
Next Games: Dec 2, Portland; Dec 4, Boise State; Dec 6, Long Beach State
Oregon State 4-1
Beat Belmont 76-52 at a tournament in Arizona. Talisa Rhea scored 25 points with 6 of 9 from three. Kristen Tilleman had 12 rebounds.
Beat Northern Arizona, 62-33. Haiden Palmer scored a career high 18 points for the Beavers. Rhea, the tourney MVP, only scored 6 points but had 7 assists.
Next Games: Dec 5, UCSB, Dec 12, Weber State
UCLA 4-2
Beat Princeton 69-59 as Moniquee Alexander may have had a career game with 15 points and 11 rebounds in 20 minutes. Frosh Markel Walker added 17 points and 11 rebounds.
Lost to Tennessee in a great game at Knoxville, 61-47. Walker had a great game for the Bruins with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Next Games: Dec 3 at Kansas; Dec 15 at UCSB
USC 3-3
Lost to Rutgers 66-51 as Ashley Corral scored 24 points, 6 of 13 from three. Corral also had 5 assists, half the USC total. The Trojans were only 6 of 38 from inside the three point line.
Beat # 13 Texas, 61-54, despite Corral only scoring 5 points. Corral was outstanding despite not scoring much as she had 7 rebounds, 8 assists and only 1 turnover. USC shot 46% and were led by four players scoring between 10 and 13 points. Of the 47 points scored by the four, LaPlante, Gilbreath, Oliver and Hughes, all but 3 were from inside the three point line, a complete reversal for the Trojans versus the Rutgers game.
Beat # 18 Mississippi State 64-60. Down 49-48, former Pinewood star Daniela Roark hit 3 three points to give USC a 59-51 lead that they held. Aarika Hughes had 14 points and 6 rebounds for the Trojans.
Next Games: Dec 3 at Long Beach State; Dec 6 at Duke
Washington 2-3
Beat Eastern Washington 64-46. Regina Rogers scored 12 points and had 6 rebounds in 18 minutes, her high for the year. Five players scored between 8 and 12 points for the Huskies.
Lost to Sacramento State 74-71. Rogers had 13 points and 9 rebounds. Sami Whitcomb had 21 points but on 5 of 19 shooting. Liz Lay missed both games this week. Lay has tendonitis in her knee.
Also two reserves are out for the year, Lydia Young and Amanda Johnson, both with knee injuries. Neither had played this year.
Next Games: Dec 4 at Univ of South Florida; Dec 6 at Univ of Central Florida; Dec 9 at Seattle
Washington State 2-3
Beat Bradley 80-66 in Las Vegas as Jazmine Perkins scored 20 points including 3 of 5 from three. Kiki Moore added 16 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 6 assists, but had 7 turnovers.
Lost to Boise State 68-64 also in Las Vegas. April Cook scored 19 points, Perkins had 13 rebounds and Rosie Tarnowski added 10 rebounds. Kiki Moore had 18 points, 8 of 12, but 6 turnovers. The Cougars were only 3 of 18 from three.
Next Games: Dec 3, St Mary’s; Dec 5, Wyoming; Dec 11 at Montana State
November 22, 2009
Non conference play continues
Arizona 2-1
Lost at San Diego State 57-38 shooting only 31% and committing 27 turnovers. Ify Ibewke was the only Wildcat with more than 6 points as she scored 11 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Sadly not enough to offset her 10 turnovers. San Diego State blocked 10 Wildcat shots.
Next Games: Nov 23rd, Mississippi. Nov 27 at USD
ASU 2-1
Beat Yale 82-46 as Charlie Turner Thorne beat her former mentor at the University of Washington, Chris Gobrecht. Becca Tobin scored 14 points and Alex Earl returned to score 12, while hitting the only three pointers, two, for the Sun Devils. ASU had a 61-21 Rebounding edge but committed 28 turnovers.
ASU was down 2 with 11 minutes to play and made only one shot from the floor the remainder of the game to lose at # 9 Xavier 59-46. ASU shot only 29% and had 8 assists to 22 turnovers.
Next Games Nov 27 at Hawaii, Nov 28 ETSU at Hawaii.
Cal 2-1
Behind most of the game Cal rallied to beat St Mary’s 68-65. Natasha Vital scored 17 points to lead the Bears. Frosh DeNesha Stallworth and Talia Caldwell both had 10 points and 8 rebounds. Cal shot only 37% and didn’t make a single three.
Baylor beat Cal 69-48. Brittany Griner blocked 5 shots and disrupted several more for Baylor. Stallworth had 15 points for the Bears and Alexis Gray-Lawson had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Cal had 21 turnovers and only 8 assists making only 16 shots and shooting 29%.
Next Games: Nov 28 in Ohio, Southern, Nov 29 in Ohio, Ohio State or IUPUI
Oregon 2-0
Beat Eastern Washington 86-48. Taylor Lilly hit 7 of 14 three’s for 28 points and Nicole Canepa scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds.
Beat Montana 86-81 at Montana. Canepa continued her fine start to the season with a career high 18 points and 9 rebounds. Amanda Johnson scored 17 points and had 15 rebounds and the rugged post hit 3 of 6 three’s. Nia Jackson had 12 points and 6 steals.
Next Games: Nov 24 Santa Clara, Nov 27, Cal State Fullerton, Nov 28, Wisconsin, Nov 29, Portland State
Oregon State 2-1
Lost badly to Houston 49-32, yes only 32 points by the Beavers. Only 373 in Houston to watch the game. Oregon State shot 27% and had 7 assists vs 27 turnovers.
The Beavers beat Houston Baptist 70-42. Kristen Tilleman scored a career high 26 points and also had 13 rebounds in the win. The Beavers shot 54%.
Next Games: Nov 27 Belmont in Arizona, Nov 28 at Northern Arizona or vs Siena.
UCLA 3-1
Beat Hawaii 98-52. UCLA tied a school record with 12 three’s led by Erica Tukiainen’s 6 three’s, and 24 points. Frosh Markel Walker had 12 points, 12 rebounds and 8 steals. Darxia Morris had 18 points, connecting on 3 of 4 from three. Mariah Williams, another frosh, had 8 assists in only 19 minutes.
Beat Utah 69-33. The game started with Utah scoring, but at the wrong Basket. Walker led the way with 10 points and 8 rebounds as lots of Bruins played and they subbed freely. The Bruins had 19 assists vs only 11 turnovers.
Next Games: Nov 25, Princeton, Nov 28 at Tenn (TV)
USC 1-2
Lost to Gonzaga 70-58 in Spokane. Ashley Corral scored 23 points for the Trojans who played very poorly. Michelle Jenkins went down with a knee injury. USC shot 29% and had only 5 assists the whole game. Gonzaga is a top 20 team, who we play Sunday.
Next Games: Nov 26, Rutgers, Nov 27, Texas, Nov 28, Mississippi, all in the Virgin Islands.
Washington 1-1
The Huskies Beat BYU on a 3 pointer by Sami Whitcomb with 4 seconds left. This, after losing to Portland State with .3 seconds left last week. Whitcomb had 25 points for Washington. There were 53 turnovers in the game, 31 by BYU.
The Huskies lost at Gonzaga 81-52. Regina Rogers scored 12 points in 16 minutes as the Huskies had 24 turnovers and shot 30%. For Gonzaga, who Stanford plays Sunday, Courtney Vandersloot had 18 points and 11 assists while Katelan Redmon played against her former team and scored 18 points on 9 of 12 shooting. Gonzaga outrebound the Huskies by 20. A near capacity 4400 people saw the game.
Next Games: Nov 27, Eastern Washington, Nov 29, Sacramento State
Washington State 1-2
Lost at Kansas State 70-63. 5 for 27 from three doomed the Cougars. I trust June will point out 20 for 41, almost 50% from inside the arc. Kiki Moore had 17 points, 6 assists and steals as the Frosh continues to make an impact.
Lost at Nebraska 107-54.
Next Games: Nov 28 Bradley in Las Vegas, Nov 29, UNLV or Boise State
Lost at San Diego State 57-38 shooting only 31% and committing 27 turnovers. Ify Ibewke was the only Wildcat with more than 6 points as she scored 11 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Sadly not enough to offset her 10 turnovers. San Diego State blocked 10 Wildcat shots.
Next Games: Nov 23rd, Mississippi. Nov 27 at USD
ASU 2-1
Beat Yale 82-46 as Charlie Turner Thorne beat her former mentor at the University of Washington, Chris Gobrecht. Becca Tobin scored 14 points and Alex Earl returned to score 12, while hitting the only three pointers, two, for the Sun Devils. ASU had a 61-21 Rebounding edge but committed 28 turnovers.
ASU was down 2 with 11 minutes to play and made only one shot from the floor the remainder of the game to lose at # 9 Xavier 59-46. ASU shot only 29% and had 8 assists to 22 turnovers.
Next Games Nov 27 at Hawaii, Nov 28 ETSU at Hawaii.
Cal 2-1
Behind most of the game Cal rallied to beat St Mary’s 68-65. Natasha Vital scored 17 points to lead the Bears. Frosh DeNesha Stallworth and Talia Caldwell both had 10 points and 8 rebounds. Cal shot only 37% and didn’t make a single three.
Baylor beat Cal 69-48. Brittany Griner blocked 5 shots and disrupted several more for Baylor. Stallworth had 15 points for the Bears and Alexis Gray-Lawson had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Cal had 21 turnovers and only 8 assists making only 16 shots and shooting 29%.
Next Games: Nov 28 in Ohio, Southern, Nov 29 in Ohio, Ohio State or IUPUI
Oregon 2-0
Beat Eastern Washington 86-48. Taylor Lilly hit 7 of 14 three’s for 28 points and Nicole Canepa scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds.
Beat Montana 86-81 at Montana. Canepa continued her fine start to the season with a career high 18 points and 9 rebounds. Amanda Johnson scored 17 points and had 15 rebounds and the rugged post hit 3 of 6 three’s. Nia Jackson had 12 points and 6 steals.
Next Games: Nov 24 Santa Clara, Nov 27, Cal State Fullerton, Nov 28, Wisconsin, Nov 29, Portland State
Oregon State 2-1
Lost badly to Houston 49-32, yes only 32 points by the Beavers. Only 373 in Houston to watch the game. Oregon State shot 27% and had 7 assists vs 27 turnovers.
The Beavers beat Houston Baptist 70-42. Kristen Tilleman scored a career high 26 points and also had 13 rebounds in the win. The Beavers shot 54%.
Next Games: Nov 27 Belmont in Arizona, Nov 28 at Northern Arizona or vs Siena.
UCLA 3-1
Beat Hawaii 98-52. UCLA tied a school record with 12 three’s led by Erica Tukiainen’s 6 three’s, and 24 points. Frosh Markel Walker had 12 points, 12 rebounds and 8 steals. Darxia Morris had 18 points, connecting on 3 of 4 from three. Mariah Williams, another frosh, had 8 assists in only 19 minutes.
Beat Utah 69-33. The game started with Utah scoring, but at the wrong Basket. Walker led the way with 10 points and 8 rebounds as lots of Bruins played and they subbed freely. The Bruins had 19 assists vs only 11 turnovers.
Next Games: Nov 25, Princeton, Nov 28 at Tenn (TV)
USC 1-2
Lost to Gonzaga 70-58 in Spokane. Ashley Corral scored 23 points for the Trojans who played very poorly. Michelle Jenkins went down with a knee injury. USC shot 29% and had only 5 assists the whole game. Gonzaga is a top 20 team, who we play Sunday.
Next Games: Nov 26, Rutgers, Nov 27, Texas, Nov 28, Mississippi, all in the Virgin Islands.
Washington 1-1
The Huskies Beat BYU on a 3 pointer by Sami Whitcomb with 4 seconds left. This, after losing to Portland State with .3 seconds left last week. Whitcomb had 25 points for Washington. There were 53 turnovers in the game, 31 by BYU.
The Huskies lost at Gonzaga 81-52. Regina Rogers scored 12 points in 16 minutes as the Huskies had 24 turnovers and shot 30%. For Gonzaga, who Stanford plays Sunday, Courtney Vandersloot had 18 points and 11 assists while Katelan Redmon played against her former team and scored 18 points on 9 of 12 shooting. Gonzaga outrebound the Huskies by 20. A near capacity 4400 people saw the game.
Next Games: Nov 27, Eastern Washington, Nov 29, Sacramento State
Washington State 1-2
Lost at Kansas State 70-63. 5 for 27 from three doomed the Cougars. I trust June will point out 20 for 41, almost 50% from inside the arc. Kiki Moore had 17 points, 6 assists and steals as the Frosh continues to make an impact.
Lost at Nebraska 107-54.
Next Games: Nov 28 Bradley in Las Vegas, Nov 29, UNLV or Boise State
November 16, 2009
The first week of real play
Arizona 2-0
Arizona wins their first game beating Iona at Iona 75-70. The Wildcats led by 21 at one point, lost their lead but then came back to win in Overtime. Davellyn Whyte made her debut as the frosh scored 27 points and had 8 rebounds and 0 turnovers in 44 minutes. Whyte hit 4 of 10 three’s. Soph JC transfer Brooke Jackson added 13 points hitting 3 of 4 three’s. Ify Ibekwe only scored 11 points and had 8 turnovers, but had an amazing 21 rebounds.
The Wildcats moved to 2-0 by beating Miami of Ohio 91-67. Ibekwe had 15 points and 16 rebounds and Tournament MVP Whyte had 11 points including 3 three’s. Reiko Thomas added 17 points off the bench. The Wildcats had 20 assists and 19 turnovers, a plus on that side for the first time in my memory. Ibekwe turned around in this game with 5 assists and only 2 turnovers.
Next Games: Nov 21st at San Diego State. Nov 23rd, Mississippi.
ASU 1-0
Beat South Dakota State 73-64. Becca Tobin had a career high 18 points to lead the Sun Devils to a home victory over a team that was in the NCAA last year. Kayli Murphy added 11 points and 12 rebounds. New Point Guard Tenaya Watson had 7 rebounds and 7 assists in 17 minutes, but also 6 turnovers.
Next Games Nov 19 at Yale, Nov 21 at Xavier (big Game)
Cal 1-0
The Bears beat Idaho State 100-43, the first time Cal has reached 100 in 13 years. Natasha Vital led the Bears with 16 points and 6 steals in 17 minutes. Two frosh started, DeNesha Stallworth who had 17 points and 8 rebounds and Gennifer Brandon who scored 10 points and had 8 rebounds. Alexis Gray-Lawson hit 3 three’s and had 16points. Cal had 1900 fans at the game, a good attendance.
Next Games, Nov 17, St Mary’s, Nov 22, Baylor
Oregon 0-0 Starts tonight.
Next Games: Nov 16, Eastern Washington Nov 22nd at Montana, Nov 24th Santa Clara
Oregon State 1-0
Beat Cal Poly 71-61 in their opener. Kirsten Tilleman, who played with Jos Tinkle in HS scored 19 points on 8 of 11 shooting and added 8 rebounds. Talisa Rhea scored 20 points. Kate Lanz had 5 assists in 17 minutes.
Next Games: Nov 19th at Houston, Nov 22nd at Houston Baptist.
UCLA 1-1
Lost in OT to Illinois State in a bad loss for the Pac 10, 61-55. No Bruin with more than 12 points. Frosh Markel Walker with 10 points and 9 rebounds. The 2 UCLA centers scored 6 points and had 7 rebounds in 30 minutes. Neither started.
Beat Santa Clara 77-51. Erica Tukiainen scored 21 points on 5 of 7 from three. Frosh Mariah Williams scored 10 points and had 6 assists. Moniquee Alexander had 10 rebounds. Rebekah Gardner scored 14 points making a pair of three’s.
Next Games: Nov 19, Hawaii, Nov 21 Utah at San Diego
USC 1-1
USC dropped their opener in OT to a strong Xavier team 81-71. Ashley Corral scored 25 points going 5 of 10 from three. Brianna Gilbreath scored 19 points and had 8 rebounds, Aarika Hughes had 14 points and 7 rebounds. USC had only 12 assists and 24turnovers.
USC came back to beat Fresno State 68-63, led by Brianna Gilbreath’s 17 points and 7 rebounds. Ashley Corral added 10 points and 7 assists, but went 0 for 6 from 3. Christina Marinacci had 12 points and 7 rebounds, Kari LaPlante 12 points and 6 rebounds.
Next Games: Nov 19 at Gonzaga
Washington 0-1
Washington lost to Portland State 67-66 despite 22 points and 10 rebounds by Sami Whitcomb. Kristi Kingma missed the game with an illness. Liz Lay played her first game, playing 9 minutes. Sarah Morton had 7 assists. Regina Rodgers could only play 11 minutes and had 6 turnovers. Portland State is the favorite to win the Big Sky and is coached by Sherri Murrell who was the Washington State coach.
Washington State 1-0
Beat UC Davis 64-54, led by frosh Kiki Moore with 17 points, although she also had 7 turnovers. April Cook had 14 points and 8 rebounds. Katie Madison, who played so well in the exhibitions, only scored 4 points with 6 rebounds.
Next Games: Nov 20th at Kansas State, Nov 22nd at Nebraska
Arizona wins their first game beating Iona at Iona 75-70. The Wildcats led by 21 at one point, lost their lead but then came back to win in Overtime. Davellyn Whyte made her debut as the frosh scored 27 points and had 8 rebounds and 0 turnovers in 44 minutes. Whyte hit 4 of 10 three’s. Soph JC transfer Brooke Jackson added 13 points hitting 3 of 4 three’s. Ify Ibekwe only scored 11 points and had 8 turnovers, but had an amazing 21 rebounds.
The Wildcats moved to 2-0 by beating Miami of Ohio 91-67. Ibekwe had 15 points and 16 rebounds and Tournament MVP Whyte had 11 points including 3 three’s. Reiko Thomas added 17 points off the bench. The Wildcats had 20 assists and 19 turnovers, a plus on that side for the first time in my memory. Ibekwe turned around in this game with 5 assists and only 2 turnovers.
Next Games: Nov 21st at San Diego State. Nov 23rd, Mississippi.
ASU 1-0
Beat South Dakota State 73-64. Becca Tobin had a career high 18 points to lead the Sun Devils to a home victory over a team that was in the NCAA last year. Kayli Murphy added 11 points and 12 rebounds. New Point Guard Tenaya Watson had 7 rebounds and 7 assists in 17 minutes, but also 6 turnovers.
Next Games Nov 19 at Yale, Nov 21 at Xavier (big Game)
Cal 1-0
The Bears beat Idaho State 100-43, the first time Cal has reached 100 in 13 years. Natasha Vital led the Bears with 16 points and 6 steals in 17 minutes. Two frosh started, DeNesha Stallworth who had 17 points and 8 rebounds and Gennifer Brandon who scored 10 points and had 8 rebounds. Alexis Gray-Lawson hit 3 three’s and had 16points. Cal had 1900 fans at the game, a good attendance.
Next Games, Nov 17, St Mary’s, Nov 22, Baylor
Oregon 0-0 Starts tonight.
Next Games: Nov 16, Eastern Washington Nov 22nd at Montana, Nov 24th Santa Clara
Oregon State 1-0
Beat Cal Poly 71-61 in their opener. Kirsten Tilleman, who played with Jos Tinkle in HS scored 19 points on 8 of 11 shooting and added 8 rebounds. Talisa Rhea scored 20 points. Kate Lanz had 5 assists in 17 minutes.
Next Games: Nov 19th at Houston, Nov 22nd at Houston Baptist.
UCLA 1-1
Lost in OT to Illinois State in a bad loss for the Pac 10, 61-55. No Bruin with more than 12 points. Frosh Markel Walker with 10 points and 9 rebounds. The 2 UCLA centers scored 6 points and had 7 rebounds in 30 minutes. Neither started.
Beat Santa Clara 77-51. Erica Tukiainen scored 21 points on 5 of 7 from three. Frosh Mariah Williams scored 10 points and had 6 assists. Moniquee Alexander had 10 rebounds. Rebekah Gardner scored 14 points making a pair of three’s.
Next Games: Nov 19, Hawaii, Nov 21 Utah at San Diego
USC 1-1
USC dropped their opener in OT to a strong Xavier team 81-71. Ashley Corral scored 25 points going 5 of 10 from three. Brianna Gilbreath scored 19 points and had 8 rebounds, Aarika Hughes had 14 points and 7 rebounds. USC had only 12 assists and 24turnovers.
USC came back to beat Fresno State 68-63, led by Brianna Gilbreath’s 17 points and 7 rebounds. Ashley Corral added 10 points and 7 assists, but went 0 for 6 from 3. Christina Marinacci had 12 points and 7 rebounds, Kari LaPlante 12 points and 6 rebounds.
Next Games: Nov 19 at Gonzaga
Washington 0-1
Washington lost to Portland State 67-66 despite 22 points and 10 rebounds by Sami Whitcomb. Kristi Kingma missed the game with an illness. Liz Lay played her first game, playing 9 minutes. Sarah Morton had 7 assists. Regina Rodgers could only play 11 minutes and had 6 turnovers. Portland State is the favorite to win the Big Sky and is coached by Sherri Murrell who was the Washington State coach.
Washington State 1-0
Beat UC Davis 64-54, led by frosh Kiki Moore with 17 points, although she also had 7 turnovers. April Cook had 14 points and 8 rebounds. Katie Madison, who played so well in the exhibitions, only scored 4 points with 6 rebounds.
Next Games: Nov 20th at Kansas State, Nov 22nd at Nebraska
November 10, 2009
Play begins for Pac 10 Teams
Arizona beat Arizona 75-60 in an exhibition game. All five starters scored in double figures. The lineup included three newcomers, two JC transfers and one frosh. Ify Ibekwe had 11 points and 14 rebounds in 24 minutes. JC transfer Brooke Jackson had 17 points and 11 rebounds. The Wildcats played with three Guards and two Forwards most of the game.
Arizona won their final exhibition, beating Grand Canyon 83-56. Foothill transfer Jennifer Kioa had 9 points, 9 rebounds and 8 blocked shots. Arizona hit 12 of 21 three’s.
Next Games: Nov 14th at Iona, Nov 15th at Iona against either Bucknell or Miami of Ohio.
ASU won their exhibition beating Vanguard 97-64. Kali Bennett, the transfer from Washington, made her Sun Devil debut and scored 18 point with 13 rebounds in only 15 minutes of play. Two other post players played very well. Kimberly Brandon had 19 points and 7 rebounds and Redshirt Frosh Janae Fulcher made her ASU debut with 12 points and 8 rebounds. Impressive and just when we wondered how strong ASU might be in the Post.
Next game Nov 15 vs South Dakota St.
Cal opened their season with an exhibition win over Vanguard, 101-81. DeNesha Stallworth debut with 21 points and 9 rebounds. Fellow frosh Brenna Heater scored 9 points and had 17 rebounds. Alexis Gray-Lawson had 18 points, building on the 4 three’s she made. On the down side Cal had 23 turnovers.
Next game, Nov 15, Idaho State.
Oregon beat Southern Oregon 109-47 in their first exhibition. Micaela Cocks had 22 points and Center Amanda Johnson had 19 points and 9 steals. The run and gun Ducks took 98 shots. Compare that to Stanford’s Sunday total of 72.
Oregon then beat Western Oregon 109-65 in their final exhibition. In this game they took 91 shots and hit 53%. Johnson had 25 points and 11 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 23 points and 6 assists.
Next Game: Nov 18, Eastern Washington.
Oregon State went over 100 in their exhibition win over Concordia 113-35. Seven Beavers scored in double figures. Talisa Rhea hit 4 of 8 three’s on her way to 23 points, and 8 assists. Frosh Kate Lenz had 16 points, 8 assists and only 2 turnovers in her debut. Frosh Guard Haiden Palmer debuted with 20 points, 3 of 6 from three, and had 6 steals.
The Beavers beat Lewis and Clark for their 2nd exhibition win, 103-25. Six players scored in double figures, led by Frosh Kate Lenz with 16. Four others had 6 or 8 points.
Next Game: Nov 13 vs Cal Poly.
UCLA beat Masters College 80-66. It seems that Atonye Nyingifa had a knee operation in May and will be out for a while, I don’t know how long. She would be a starter, so a big blow. Frosh Markel Walker made her debut with 8 points and 11 rebounds. Erica Tukiainen had 16 points and 3 blocks, Doreena Campbell had 13 points and 7 assists, Darxia Morris had 10 points and 6 assists and 3 steals. Candice Brown a little used post player has left the team.
Next Games: Nov 14th, Illinois State in Iowa, Nov 15th, Iowa or Santa Clara in Iowa.
USC hasn’t played yet although they did scrimmage UC Riverside and lost.
Next Games: Nov 13, Xavier, Nov 15, Fresno State
Washington edged Seattle Pacific 69-61 in their first game. A Seattle Pacific played hit 5 of 6 three’s. Liz Lay sat out this game, resting the knee that did NOT have the ACL a year and a half ago. Washington started four Guards and Regina Rogers at Center, but Laura McLellan came off the bench for Rogers and scored 18 points. Sami Whitcomb had 15 points, Sara Mosiman 14 points and Kristi Kingma 9 points and 9 rebounds.
Washington beat Corban 106-34. Sami Whitcomb led the Huskies with 23 points.
Next Games: Nov 14th at Portland State
Washington State won their Exhibition over Lewis and Clark, 76-58. The Cougars had 26 steals and Lewis and Clark 39 Turnovers. The down side: The Cougars only shot 30% and only 6 of 25 from three. Idaho transfer Katie Madison, at 6’, started at Center for the Cougars and had 11 points and 15 rebounds, 10 offensive. Quite a debut. Frosh Kiki Moore from San Francisco had 12 points and 6 steals but 5 turnovers. Jasmine Perkins led the way with 19 points.
Arizona won their final exhibition, beating Grand Canyon 83-56. Foothill transfer Jennifer Kioa had 9 points, 9 rebounds and 8 blocked shots. Arizona hit 12 of 21 three’s.
Next Games: Nov 14th at Iona, Nov 15th at Iona against either Bucknell or Miami of Ohio.
ASU won their exhibition beating Vanguard 97-64. Kali Bennett, the transfer from Washington, made her Sun Devil debut and scored 18 point with 13 rebounds in only 15 minutes of play. Two other post players played very well. Kimberly Brandon had 19 points and 7 rebounds and Redshirt Frosh Janae Fulcher made her ASU debut with 12 points and 8 rebounds. Impressive and just when we wondered how strong ASU might be in the Post.
Next game Nov 15 vs South Dakota St.
Cal opened their season with an exhibition win over Vanguard, 101-81. DeNesha Stallworth debut with 21 points and 9 rebounds. Fellow frosh Brenna Heater scored 9 points and had 17 rebounds. Alexis Gray-Lawson had 18 points, building on the 4 three’s she made. On the down side Cal had 23 turnovers.
Next game, Nov 15, Idaho State.
Oregon beat Southern Oregon 109-47 in their first exhibition. Micaela Cocks had 22 points and Center Amanda Johnson had 19 points and 9 steals. The run and gun Ducks took 98 shots. Compare that to Stanford’s Sunday total of 72.
Oregon then beat Western Oregon 109-65 in their final exhibition. In this game they took 91 shots and hit 53%. Johnson had 25 points and 11 rebounds. Nia Jackson had 23 points and 6 assists.
Next Game: Nov 18, Eastern Washington.
Oregon State went over 100 in their exhibition win over Concordia 113-35. Seven Beavers scored in double figures. Talisa Rhea hit 4 of 8 three’s on her way to 23 points, and 8 assists. Frosh Kate Lenz had 16 points, 8 assists and only 2 turnovers in her debut. Frosh Guard Haiden Palmer debuted with 20 points, 3 of 6 from three, and had 6 steals.
The Beavers beat Lewis and Clark for their 2nd exhibition win, 103-25. Six players scored in double figures, led by Frosh Kate Lenz with 16. Four others had 6 or 8 points.
Next Game: Nov 13 vs Cal Poly.
UCLA beat Masters College 80-66. It seems that Atonye Nyingifa had a knee operation in May and will be out for a while, I don’t know how long. She would be a starter, so a big blow. Frosh Markel Walker made her debut with 8 points and 11 rebounds. Erica Tukiainen had 16 points and 3 blocks, Doreena Campbell had 13 points and 7 assists, Darxia Morris had 10 points and 6 assists and 3 steals. Candice Brown a little used post player has left the team.
Next Games: Nov 14th, Illinois State in Iowa, Nov 15th, Iowa or Santa Clara in Iowa.
USC hasn’t played yet although they did scrimmage UC Riverside and lost.
Next Games: Nov 13, Xavier, Nov 15, Fresno State
Washington edged Seattle Pacific 69-61 in their first game. A Seattle Pacific played hit 5 of 6 three’s. Liz Lay sat out this game, resting the knee that did NOT have the ACL a year and a half ago. Washington started four Guards and Regina Rogers at Center, but Laura McLellan came off the bench for Rogers and scored 18 points. Sami Whitcomb had 15 points, Sara Mosiman 14 points and Kristi Kingma 9 points and 9 rebounds.
Washington beat Corban 106-34. Sami Whitcomb led the Huskies with 23 points.
Next Games: Nov 14th at Portland State
Washington State won their Exhibition over Lewis and Clark, 76-58. The Cougars had 26 steals and Lewis and Clark 39 Turnovers. The down side: The Cougars only shot 30% and only 6 of 25 from three. Idaho transfer Katie Madison, at 6’, started at Center for the Cougars and had 11 points and 15 rebounds, 10 offensive. Quite a debut. Frosh Kiki Moore from San Francisco had 12 points and 6 steals but 5 turnovers. Jasmine Perkins led the way with 19 points.
November 6, 2009
The Bruins want to Dance
Last year UCLA had a decent 19-12 record, but only 9-9 in Pac 10 play as Nikki Caldwell made her Coaching debut for the Bruins. Two years ago UCLA was 16-15, but 10-8 in league play, for Kathy Olivier’s last season. And three years ago UCLA had a losing record for both the season and league play. In 2005-06 UCLA went to the NCAA winning their first game, after going 21-11 overall and 12-6 in the Pac 10. So four years later, UCLA wants to return to the Dance, the NCAA tournament.
UCLA lost only two players from last year and replace them with three newcomers with far more potential. Tierra Henderson averaged 6 points per game and Chinyere Ibekwe averaged 5 points and 6 rebounds per game. Both have graduated.
UCLA welcomes three newcomers, and two of them, Markel Walker and Jasmine Dixon were top 10 players in High School.
In the Post position the Bruins have three players led by 6-4 Jr Christina Nzekwe. Nzekwe hit a couple of Three’s at Stanford and 10 on the year, so we know she can step out and shoot, however she only 39% on all her attempts. She was UCLA’s 4th leading scorer, 6.3 and tied for 3rd leading rebounder, 4.8 per game, last season. Moniquee Alexander is a 6-6 Sr, who averaged 4.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. Alexander only played 15 minutes per game. Candice Brown is a 6-3 Jr who didn’t play much this past season.
At the forward position UCLA has skill and depth. Markel Walker is a 6-1 frosh and a top 5 recruit. She was recruited from Philadelphia by Coach Caldwell and should have an immediate impact. Atonye Nyingifa is a 5-11 Soph who was a top 20 High School player and did have an immediate impact as a frosh. Atonye started 16 games and averaged 6.1 points, 6th on the team, and 4.9 rebounds, 2nd on the team.
Jasmine Dixon is a 5-1l Soph who transferred from Rutgers and will be eligible Dec 12th. She’s listed as a Guard, but could well be an Ashley Walker type player. Her game is power, but she is highly skilled, a top 10 player in High School. Nina Earl is a 6-1 Jr who averaged 16 minutes a game last season, scoring 6 points per game.
The top three scorers for the Bruins last season were Guards and they all return. Doreena Campbell is an all star candidate. She’s a 5-10 Jr who lead the team in scoring, 12.9, Assists, with a ratio of 1.25:1 assists to turnovers, and three point shooting, 40%. It should be noted that Campbell’s 26 three’s were only one behind the leader. UCLA does not shoot a lot of three’s. Erica Tukiainen is a 6-0 Sr and the # 2 scorer from last season at 8.3 points per game. Erica started all but one game.
Darxia Morris is a 5-8 Jr who was the # 3 scorer last season with an 8.1 average per game. Morris is very, very quick and was the 3rd Guard last year behind Tukiainen and Campbell. Rebekah Gardner is a 6-0 Soph who averaged 14 minutes and 4.4 points per game. 5-8 Sr Allison Taka saw action in every game last season. 5-3 Frosh Mariah Williams is a super quick Point Guard from Colorado and will add depth to this group.
UCLA’s non conference schedule includes Utah, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas Tech and maybe Iowa. They open Pac 10 at ASU then at home to Stanford and Cal. They are looking to make the NCAA Tournament, and being consistently a Post Season Player.
UCLA lost only two players from last year and replace them with three newcomers with far more potential. Tierra Henderson averaged 6 points per game and Chinyere Ibekwe averaged 5 points and 6 rebounds per game. Both have graduated.
UCLA welcomes three newcomers, and two of them, Markel Walker and Jasmine Dixon were top 10 players in High School.
In the Post position the Bruins have three players led by 6-4 Jr Christina Nzekwe. Nzekwe hit a couple of Three’s at Stanford and 10 on the year, so we know she can step out and shoot, however she only 39% on all her attempts. She was UCLA’s 4th leading scorer, 6.3 and tied for 3rd leading rebounder, 4.8 per game, last season. Moniquee Alexander is a 6-6 Sr, who averaged 4.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. Alexander only played 15 minutes per game. Candice Brown is a 6-3 Jr who didn’t play much this past season.
At the forward position UCLA has skill and depth. Markel Walker is a 6-1 frosh and a top 5 recruit. She was recruited from Philadelphia by Coach Caldwell and should have an immediate impact. Atonye Nyingifa is a 5-11 Soph who was a top 20 High School player and did have an immediate impact as a frosh. Atonye started 16 games and averaged 6.1 points, 6th on the team, and 4.9 rebounds, 2nd on the team.
Jasmine Dixon is a 5-1l Soph who transferred from Rutgers and will be eligible Dec 12th. She’s listed as a Guard, but could well be an Ashley Walker type player. Her game is power, but she is highly skilled, a top 10 player in High School. Nina Earl is a 6-1 Jr who averaged 16 minutes a game last season, scoring 6 points per game.
The top three scorers for the Bruins last season were Guards and they all return. Doreena Campbell is an all star candidate. She’s a 5-10 Jr who lead the team in scoring, 12.9, Assists, with a ratio of 1.25:1 assists to turnovers, and three point shooting, 40%. It should be noted that Campbell’s 26 three’s were only one behind the leader. UCLA does not shoot a lot of three’s. Erica Tukiainen is a 6-0 Sr and the # 2 scorer from last season at 8.3 points per game. Erica started all but one game.
Darxia Morris is a 5-8 Jr who was the # 3 scorer last season with an 8.1 average per game. Morris is very, very quick and was the 3rd Guard last year behind Tukiainen and Campbell. Rebekah Gardner is a 6-0 Soph who averaged 14 minutes and 4.4 points per game. 5-8 Sr Allison Taka saw action in every game last season. 5-3 Frosh Mariah Williams is a super quick Point Guard from Colorado and will add depth to this group.
UCLA’s non conference schedule includes Utah, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas Tech and maybe Iowa. They open Pac 10 at ASU then at home to Stanford and Cal. They are looking to make the NCAA Tournament, and being consistently a Post Season Player.
November 2, 2009
Basketball on Roller Skates at Oregon
Last season the Ducks were 9-21, the year before 14-17, and the year before 17-14. The Ducks were getting worse and worse and not attracting top players. The result, Paul Westhead was hired to replace Bev Smith. Now if you go by contracts, this is a huge upgrade. Plus, Westhead is the only Coach to ever win both an NCAA title and a WNBA Title. His record coaching college men is a 56% winning percentage. He is best known for his run and gun style of play with Loyola Marymount and the NBA Denver Nuggets. The huge question is can Westhead come back to college and give 5 years or so to build a program? It remains to be seen.
The Ducks losses were minimal. Center Ellie Manou was their # 3 scorer, 8 points per game, and # 2 rebounder, 5 per game. Manou returned to her native Australia. Guard Darriel Gaynor was their # 11 scorer and she did not return.
Now the next question is, will Oregon really play a run and gun, get to 100 type of game? Well I don’t know, but I really doubt that they have that kind of team today. They have a very light schedule, GaTech, Wisconsin and Utah being their toughest games by far. So maybe they will run. It’s a team with only four players over 6 feet, if that’s any indication.
Oregon returns two big Centers, 6-5 JR Nicole Canepa, and 6-4 Jr Ellyce Ironmonger. Canepa averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds per game as a frosh, but injuries held her to 6 points and 2 rebounds per game last season. She’s athletic and can run. Ironmonger is, well a banger. She started 17 games two years ago as a frosh, averaging 6.5 points and 4 rebounds per game. Her highs were 18 points and 14 rebounds. However she fell off as a Soph to only 7.5 minutes per game. Both Centers played behind the departed Manou.
Amanda Johnson had a fine Frosh year, she’s a 6-2 Soph who led the Ducks in rebounding at 5.4 per game while averaging 7.9 points per game. Johnson was Honorable Mention All Pac 10 Frosh, and was the first Duck Frosh to lead the team in rebounding in 30 years, or since…Bev Smith, the former Head Coach. Victoria Kenyon is a 6-2 Jr from Australia. Kenyon has been mostly a back up Post for two seasons, although she did start 12 games as a frosh.
The Ducks have two fine Sr Guards in Taylor Lilley, 5-6, and Jillian Harmon’s Olympic teammate, 5-8 Micaela Cocks. Cocks was the leading scorer for the Ducks at 13.5 point per game, including 68 three’s at 39%. Cocks is also the all time Free Throw % leader at Oregon. Lilly was the # 2 scorer with 10 points per game, and hit 31% of her three’s. As a soph, two years ago, Lilly made 74 three’s. In High School Lilly made 275 three’s at a 44% rate.
Oregon has a number of players who could move into the rotation. 6-0 Soph Jasmin Holliday started 20 games and averaged 5 points per game last season. 5-10 Sr Lindsey Stafford started 14 games and averaged 4 points per game. 5-11 Jr Tatianna Thomas started 8 games and averaged almost 3 points per game. All three of these players should receive quite a bit of playing time. A note on all three, none are three point shooters.
Aliyah Green is a 5-11 Frosh from Portland, the only player signed by the old coaching staff last November. Nia Jackson is a 5-7 Soph. Nia lost last year to an ACL and had two difficult injuries as a frosh. She had a 9 point, 7 rebound game early in her career though, so has shown potential.
Two players were signed by the new Staff in April. Kristi Fallin was the Oregon JC Player of the Year. She’s a 5-10 Jr who scored 23 points per game. In her two JC years she hit 208 three’s and last year hit 118 at 45%. She could be a big addition and the 3rd outside bomber for the Ducks.
Candyce Flynn is another JC transfer, although she played her frosh year at Morehead State. Flynn is a 5-6 Point Guard who could start. She averaged 14 points and 5 assists a game last year in JC.
It’ll be an interesting year for Westhead and the Ducks. Not a great year but playing a very up tempo game.
The Ducks losses were minimal. Center Ellie Manou was their # 3 scorer, 8 points per game, and # 2 rebounder, 5 per game. Manou returned to her native Australia. Guard Darriel Gaynor was their # 11 scorer and she did not return.
Now the next question is, will Oregon really play a run and gun, get to 100 type of game? Well I don’t know, but I really doubt that they have that kind of team today. They have a very light schedule, GaTech, Wisconsin and Utah being their toughest games by far. So maybe they will run. It’s a team with only four players over 6 feet, if that’s any indication.
Oregon returns two big Centers, 6-5 JR Nicole Canepa, and 6-4 Jr Ellyce Ironmonger. Canepa averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds per game as a frosh, but injuries held her to 6 points and 2 rebounds per game last season. She’s athletic and can run. Ironmonger is, well a banger. She started 17 games two years ago as a frosh, averaging 6.5 points and 4 rebounds per game. Her highs were 18 points and 14 rebounds. However she fell off as a Soph to only 7.5 minutes per game. Both Centers played behind the departed Manou.
Amanda Johnson had a fine Frosh year, she’s a 6-2 Soph who led the Ducks in rebounding at 5.4 per game while averaging 7.9 points per game. Johnson was Honorable Mention All Pac 10 Frosh, and was the first Duck Frosh to lead the team in rebounding in 30 years, or since…Bev Smith, the former Head Coach. Victoria Kenyon is a 6-2 Jr from Australia. Kenyon has been mostly a back up Post for two seasons, although she did start 12 games as a frosh.
The Ducks have two fine Sr Guards in Taylor Lilley, 5-6, and Jillian Harmon’s Olympic teammate, 5-8 Micaela Cocks. Cocks was the leading scorer for the Ducks at 13.5 point per game, including 68 three’s at 39%. Cocks is also the all time Free Throw % leader at Oregon. Lilly was the # 2 scorer with 10 points per game, and hit 31% of her three’s. As a soph, two years ago, Lilly made 74 three’s. In High School Lilly made 275 three’s at a 44% rate.
Oregon has a number of players who could move into the rotation. 6-0 Soph Jasmin Holliday started 20 games and averaged 5 points per game last season. 5-10 Sr Lindsey Stafford started 14 games and averaged 4 points per game. 5-11 Jr Tatianna Thomas started 8 games and averaged almost 3 points per game. All three of these players should receive quite a bit of playing time. A note on all three, none are three point shooters.
Aliyah Green is a 5-11 Frosh from Portland, the only player signed by the old coaching staff last November. Nia Jackson is a 5-7 Soph. Nia lost last year to an ACL and had two difficult injuries as a frosh. She had a 9 point, 7 rebound game early in her career though, so has shown potential.
Two players were signed by the new Staff in April. Kristi Fallin was the Oregon JC Player of the Year. She’s a 5-10 Jr who scored 23 points per game. In her two JC years she hit 208 three’s and last year hit 118 at 45%. She could be a big addition and the 3rd outside bomber for the Ducks.
Candyce Flynn is another JC transfer, although she played her frosh year at Morehead State. Flynn is a 5-6 Point Guard who could start. She averaged 14 points and 5 assists a game last year in JC.
It’ll be an interesting year for Westhead and the Ducks. Not a great year but playing a very up tempo game.
October 22, 2009
Does new Coach equal new results at USC?
Michael Cooper started as the Head Coach the other day, months after he hired a staff. It’s a funny world. Funnier still is USC has 3 recruits already, and Michael will meet them soon. The firing of Mark Trakh and his staff was disappointing to many, but the truth is the Trojans have been very disappointing for several seasons. Three years ago 17-13, 10-8 in the Pac 10. Two years ago, the same and last year 17-15, and 9-9 in the Pac 10. Add to the barely winning records, three years without an NCAA trip. Combined with poor attendance in a beautiful new arena, and you have a new coaching staff.
USC lost their coaching staff and their top two scorers and their sixth best scorer. Graduated are Camille LeNoir, 13 points, 4 assists per game. She shot 40 % from Three, and had a 4:3 Turnover to Assist ratio. Also graduated is the # 2 scorer, Nadia Parker, 11 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. Nadia only started 17 games last season due to injuries. The 3rd graduate is Brynn Cameron, who led the team with 52 Three’s, 35% and averaged 8 points per game.
The sad part is, of course, the USC injuries. Jacki Gemelos, a fantastic change the game performer out of High School, has missed 3 seasons with knee injuries and is not expected back until the start of Pac 10 play at the earliest. When and if healthy, maybe she will be a game changer again. Even if her mobility is hindered, she is an even better catch and shoot performer than Cameron has been. Gemelos is a 6-0 Guard who is on schedule to graduate in June. Least we forget, Jacki averaged 39 points per game as a High School Sr.
Stefanie Gilbreath is a 6-1 Wing, a redshirt Soph, who has missed her first two seasons at USC and will miss her 3rd, this year, with a knee injury. Like Gemelos, Stefanie was a McDonald’s All American.
The Trojans have 11 healthy players, including 4 Srs to keep them in the top five of the Pac 10, and they hope an NCAA berth. At Center will be Jr Kari LaPlante. Kari averaged 5.6 points and 3.8 rebounds a game last season, while starting half the games. She is the only true Center on the team and must really step up for USC to succeed. She was a top 100 player out of High School. Kari was also a Travel teammate of Kayla Pederson.
The back up Center, and also a Power Forward, is 6-3 Soph Michelle Jenkins, a High School teammate of JJ Hones. Jenkins averaged 10 minutes, 2 points and 1.4 rebounds as a frosh last season. Michelle is an excellent student, and needs that to carry onto the floor. USC needs a big jump in her numbers if they want to make the NCAA Tournament.
USC is talented in the back court and pretty weak and thin in the front court. Eight of their 10 healthy scholarship players are wings and guards. Frosh Christina Marinacci is a 6-1 wing and was a McDonald’s All American. She is one of the two incoming players of the four in her class. The other two, top rated players at that, asked for and received their Letter of Intent Release. Both were front court players. Marinacci has an excellent chance of starting, and at worse will see many minutes. She’s an athletic player and an excellent three point shooter.
Briana Gilbreath is a 6-1 Soph wing who was the Pac 10 Frosh of the Year last season. She was also a McDonald’s All-American, one of five of the team. She averaged 10.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game last season. Briana was 3rd on the team in scoring and 2nd, almost 1st, in rebounding.
Aarika Hughes, a 6-2 Sr is also in the mix at a wing/forward position. Last year she averaged 4 points and 5 rebounds, but does bring some ruggedness to the mix. And yes, former teammate of JJ’s.
One of the most interesting happenings at USC will be replacing LeNoir at the Point. I suspect Hailey Durham with Ashley Corral her backcourt mate. Dunham is a 6-2 Sr who is a wonderfully gifted athlete who could really benefit from the new coaching. She is not a three point shooter, only 2 in her career, and averaged just 4.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per game last season. Corral is an excellent shooter, led the team with 53 Three’s although only shot 31% from Three. The 5-9 Soph had a positive Assist to Turnover ratio as a frosh. Corral was a McDonald’s All American.
Heather Oliver is a 5-10 Sr who can shoot. Oliver, an Aussie, shot 42% from Three and averaged 9 points per game. Whether Oliver starts or comes off the bench, her shooting and good defense, Honorable Mention All Pac 10 defense, will merit her a lot of playing time.
Two guards round out the roster, 5-7 Sr Daniela Roark from Pinewood High School and 5-9 Frosh Vicky Tagalicod. Roark played her first two years at Fordham and made 104 Three’s at a clip of 37%. Tagalicod was HoopGrulz 21st rated Point Guard as a High School Sr, despite missing the year with a knee injury.
With the new coaching staff this will be an interesting team to follow. If they were healthy, this would be an excellent team to follow.
USC plays a solid schedule with Gonzaga, Rutgers, Texas and Duke headlining it. No cupcakes for USC, let’s see how they develop. If they do, and Jackie Gemelos can contribute, this team could surprise in 2010, instead of disappointment as in the past.
USC lost their coaching staff and their top two scorers and their sixth best scorer. Graduated are Camille LeNoir, 13 points, 4 assists per game. She shot 40 % from Three, and had a 4:3 Turnover to Assist ratio. Also graduated is the # 2 scorer, Nadia Parker, 11 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. Nadia only started 17 games last season due to injuries. The 3rd graduate is Brynn Cameron, who led the team with 52 Three’s, 35% and averaged 8 points per game.
The sad part is, of course, the USC injuries. Jacki Gemelos, a fantastic change the game performer out of High School, has missed 3 seasons with knee injuries and is not expected back until the start of Pac 10 play at the earliest. When and if healthy, maybe she will be a game changer again. Even if her mobility is hindered, she is an even better catch and shoot performer than Cameron has been. Gemelos is a 6-0 Guard who is on schedule to graduate in June. Least we forget, Jacki averaged 39 points per game as a High School Sr.
Stefanie Gilbreath is a 6-1 Wing, a redshirt Soph, who has missed her first two seasons at USC and will miss her 3rd, this year, with a knee injury. Like Gemelos, Stefanie was a McDonald’s All American.
The Trojans have 11 healthy players, including 4 Srs to keep them in the top five of the Pac 10, and they hope an NCAA berth. At Center will be Jr Kari LaPlante. Kari averaged 5.6 points and 3.8 rebounds a game last season, while starting half the games. She is the only true Center on the team and must really step up for USC to succeed. She was a top 100 player out of High School. Kari was also a Travel teammate of Kayla Pederson.
The back up Center, and also a Power Forward, is 6-3 Soph Michelle Jenkins, a High School teammate of JJ Hones. Jenkins averaged 10 minutes, 2 points and 1.4 rebounds as a frosh last season. Michelle is an excellent student, and needs that to carry onto the floor. USC needs a big jump in her numbers if they want to make the NCAA Tournament.
USC is talented in the back court and pretty weak and thin in the front court. Eight of their 10 healthy scholarship players are wings and guards. Frosh Christina Marinacci is a 6-1 wing and was a McDonald’s All American. She is one of the two incoming players of the four in her class. The other two, top rated players at that, asked for and received their Letter of Intent Release. Both were front court players. Marinacci has an excellent chance of starting, and at worse will see many minutes. She’s an athletic player and an excellent three point shooter.
Briana Gilbreath is a 6-1 Soph wing who was the Pac 10 Frosh of the Year last season. She was also a McDonald’s All-American, one of five of the team. She averaged 10.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game last season. Briana was 3rd on the team in scoring and 2nd, almost 1st, in rebounding.
Aarika Hughes, a 6-2 Sr is also in the mix at a wing/forward position. Last year she averaged 4 points and 5 rebounds, but does bring some ruggedness to the mix. And yes, former teammate of JJ’s.
One of the most interesting happenings at USC will be replacing LeNoir at the Point. I suspect Hailey Durham with Ashley Corral her backcourt mate. Dunham is a 6-2 Sr who is a wonderfully gifted athlete who could really benefit from the new coaching. She is not a three point shooter, only 2 in her career, and averaged just 4.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per game last season. Corral is an excellent shooter, led the team with 53 Three’s although only shot 31% from Three. The 5-9 Soph had a positive Assist to Turnover ratio as a frosh. Corral was a McDonald’s All American.
Heather Oliver is a 5-10 Sr who can shoot. Oliver, an Aussie, shot 42% from Three and averaged 9 points per game. Whether Oliver starts or comes off the bench, her shooting and good defense, Honorable Mention All Pac 10 defense, will merit her a lot of playing time.
Two guards round out the roster, 5-7 Sr Daniela Roark from Pinewood High School and 5-9 Frosh Vicky Tagalicod. Roark played her first two years at Fordham and made 104 Three’s at a clip of 37%. Tagalicod was HoopGrulz 21st rated Point Guard as a High School Sr, despite missing the year with a knee injury.
With the new coaching staff this will be an interesting team to follow. If they were healthy, this would be an excellent team to follow.
USC plays a solid schedule with Gonzaga, Rutgers, Texas and Duke headlining it. No cupcakes for USC, let’s see how they develop. If they do, and Jackie Gemelos can contribute, this team could surprise in 2010, instead of disappointment as in the past.
October 11, 2009
Cougars are on the Rise
This is June Daugherty’s third year as Head Coach at Washington State. In the year before June arrived, the Cougars won 5 games and lost 24, winning only one conference game. In June’s first season the Cougars improved by one, winning 5 total and 2 conference games. However last season, June’s second in the Palouse, the Cougars won 11, lost 19 and went 4-14 in league play. This season they could challenge for the first division.
The former Stanford Assistant has won 330 games in her 20 year Head Coaching career, at a 56% win rate. She also has a built in Associate Head Coach of some acclaim, her husband Mike. All three Assistants and the support staff begin their 3rd season with June in Pullman.
First, what did the Cougars lose from last year? Well eight players is the simple answer. However this is very much a team on the rise. Four graduated and four did not return. However there are six newcomers to take the place of those who left.
The two Centers from last season, Ebonee Coates and Heather Molzen, both graduated. Top 3 Point shooter Katie Appleton also graduated. Coates and Molzen played some together, and they combined to average 44 minutes, 9 points and 11 rebounds per game. Appleton scored 8.5 points per game averaging 31 minutes per game and hit 35% of her Three’s, a total of 45.
Two who didn’t play at all are gone, Brynn Bemis who graduated, and Alexa Price.
Also gone from last year’s team are Jasmine Williams, who played 2 games, Salena Dickson, who played 38 minutes for the season, and Kezia Kelly who played as a reserve but did not start. Kelly’s case is quite interesting, she is from New Zealand and was
Pre med. She needed to finish her undergrad degree in New Zealand to get into Med School there.
Bottom line, some loses to graduation, and not earthshaking.
Having now been in Pullman for three years, and I’m sure has read the “How the Stanford Fast Break Club got Started” book by Harriett Benson, June has started the Cougar Pawz Club, a booster group.
On to this season. The Center position is big and young and talented. 6-5 Frosh Carly Noyes is the probable starter. Noyes could be a double, double type of player. Carly was a three time League MVP and played for a solid Travel team, the Spokane Stars. She’s aggressive, good footwork and can score.
Jessica Oestreicher, a 6-8 Soph will also play quite a bit at Center. She was held to only 18 games and only 8 minutes per game last year by a knee injury and the two Seniors ahead of her. She was ranked as high as # 25 and # 71 in the nation by two publications. She also missed her Jr year in High School with an ACL. As a Sr she was the Homecoming Queen. If her knees are fine, Jessica will be a big factor for the Cougs.
A third Center might enroll in January, Aussie Razz Muir, 6-4. She was not cleared to play by the NCAA to start the school year.
6-1 Soph Rosie Tarnowski will play the 4. Last year she debuted starting 20 games and averaging 7 points and 5 rebounds. Rosie had a high of 10 rebounds, and that should be her forte. Also at the 3 or 4 will be 6-0 Jr Katie Calderwood. She played little last season but as a Frosh the year before Katie started 20 games averaging 4.6 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Katie Madison is a 6-0 Jr who transferred from Idaho and sat out last season. Katie may well start, as a Soph at Idaho she averaged 14 points and 7 rebounds a game and as a frosh 19 points and 9 rebounds. Her high game was 35 points. Idaho is in the WAC, so she has a solid background.
Lexie Pettersen is a 6-1 Soph who played in every game last season. Amy Waltenburg is a 6-0 Sr who has walked on. She played two years in JC.
All this and you might wonder how is this a team on the rise? It’s the Guards. This is a team whose best players are quick, high scoring Guards. And they are young.
April Cook is a 5-8 Soph who led the team at 14 points per games. April shot 33% from Three while making 43 on the season. She was 5th in the Pac 10 in scoring, 7th in scoring among the Nation’s Frosh.
Danielle LeNoir, is a 5-6 Frosh, whose sister played the past four years for USC. Danielle played 17 minutes a game behind the graduated Appleton, and scored 4 points per game. We remember her when she made 3 Three’s against Stanford.
Jazmine Perkins is a 5-10 Soph who started every game last season scoring 14 points per game, and added 2 steals per game. Like Cook she needs to take care of the ball, Perkins had 4 turnovers per game, Cook 2.5. Perkins did lead the Cougs with 2.6 assists per game.
5-8 Frosh KiKi Moore comes from the fabled Scared Heart Cathedral High School and might move right in as the Point Guard. Moore was All State, Top 100 in the Nation, and as a Sr in High School averaged 16 points, 10 rebounds, 7 steals and 6 assists per game. KiKi could bring the stability, even as a frosh, this team needs.
Two other Guards are 5-8 Soph Katie Grad and 5-9 Frosh Ireti Amojo. Grad suffered a foot injury and didn’t play last season. As a High School Sr she was named by one newspaper as the State of Washington Player of the Year while scoring 21 points grabbing 11 rebounds and adding 5 steals per game. Amojo is from Germany but spent a year as an exchange student playing with Katie Grad at a Washington High School. Amojo has already played for the German National 16U, 18U and 20U teams.
Washington State is guard oriented with some very big post players. They play Kansas State and Nebraska early, so we should see how they mesh. The remainder of the pre- season schedule is pretty easy, so it’s very possible, really probable, that the Cougars will open the Pac 10 season with a winning record.
The former Stanford Assistant has won 330 games in her 20 year Head Coaching career, at a 56% win rate. She also has a built in Associate Head Coach of some acclaim, her husband Mike. All three Assistants and the support staff begin their 3rd season with June in Pullman.
First, what did the Cougars lose from last year? Well eight players is the simple answer. However this is very much a team on the rise. Four graduated and four did not return. However there are six newcomers to take the place of those who left.
The two Centers from last season, Ebonee Coates and Heather Molzen, both graduated. Top 3 Point shooter Katie Appleton also graduated. Coates and Molzen played some together, and they combined to average 44 minutes, 9 points and 11 rebounds per game. Appleton scored 8.5 points per game averaging 31 minutes per game and hit 35% of her Three’s, a total of 45.
Two who didn’t play at all are gone, Brynn Bemis who graduated, and Alexa Price.
Also gone from last year’s team are Jasmine Williams, who played 2 games, Salena Dickson, who played 38 minutes for the season, and Kezia Kelly who played as a reserve but did not start. Kelly’s case is quite interesting, she is from New Zealand and was
Pre med. She needed to finish her undergrad degree in New Zealand to get into Med School there.
Bottom line, some loses to graduation, and not earthshaking.
Having now been in Pullman for three years, and I’m sure has read the “How the Stanford Fast Break Club got Started” book by Harriett Benson, June has started the Cougar Pawz Club, a booster group.
On to this season. The Center position is big and young and talented. 6-5 Frosh Carly Noyes is the probable starter. Noyes could be a double, double type of player. Carly was a three time League MVP and played for a solid Travel team, the Spokane Stars. She’s aggressive, good footwork and can score.
Jessica Oestreicher, a 6-8 Soph will also play quite a bit at Center. She was held to only 18 games and only 8 minutes per game last year by a knee injury and the two Seniors ahead of her. She was ranked as high as # 25 and # 71 in the nation by two publications. She also missed her Jr year in High School with an ACL. As a Sr she was the Homecoming Queen. If her knees are fine, Jessica will be a big factor for the Cougs.
A third Center might enroll in January, Aussie Razz Muir, 6-4. She was not cleared to play by the NCAA to start the school year.
6-1 Soph Rosie Tarnowski will play the 4. Last year she debuted starting 20 games and averaging 7 points and 5 rebounds. Rosie had a high of 10 rebounds, and that should be her forte. Also at the 3 or 4 will be 6-0 Jr Katie Calderwood. She played little last season but as a Frosh the year before Katie started 20 games averaging 4.6 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Katie Madison is a 6-0 Jr who transferred from Idaho and sat out last season. Katie may well start, as a Soph at Idaho she averaged 14 points and 7 rebounds a game and as a frosh 19 points and 9 rebounds. Her high game was 35 points. Idaho is in the WAC, so she has a solid background.
Lexie Pettersen is a 6-1 Soph who played in every game last season. Amy Waltenburg is a 6-0 Sr who has walked on. She played two years in JC.
All this and you might wonder how is this a team on the rise? It’s the Guards. This is a team whose best players are quick, high scoring Guards. And they are young.
April Cook is a 5-8 Soph who led the team at 14 points per games. April shot 33% from Three while making 43 on the season. She was 5th in the Pac 10 in scoring, 7th in scoring among the Nation’s Frosh.
Danielle LeNoir, is a 5-6 Frosh, whose sister played the past four years for USC. Danielle played 17 minutes a game behind the graduated Appleton, and scored 4 points per game. We remember her when she made 3 Three’s against Stanford.
Jazmine Perkins is a 5-10 Soph who started every game last season scoring 14 points per game, and added 2 steals per game. Like Cook she needs to take care of the ball, Perkins had 4 turnovers per game, Cook 2.5. Perkins did lead the Cougs with 2.6 assists per game.
5-8 Frosh KiKi Moore comes from the fabled Scared Heart Cathedral High School and might move right in as the Point Guard. Moore was All State, Top 100 in the Nation, and as a Sr in High School averaged 16 points, 10 rebounds, 7 steals and 6 assists per game. KiKi could bring the stability, even as a frosh, this team needs.
Two other Guards are 5-8 Soph Katie Grad and 5-9 Frosh Ireti Amojo. Grad suffered a foot injury and didn’t play last season. As a High School Sr she was named by one newspaper as the State of Washington Player of the Year while scoring 21 points grabbing 11 rebounds and adding 5 steals per game. Amojo is from Germany but spent a year as an exchange student playing with Katie Grad at a Washington High School. Amojo has already played for the German National 16U, 18U and 20U teams.
Washington State is guard oriented with some very big post players. They play Kansas State and Nebraska early, so we should see how they mesh. The remainder of the pre- season schedule is pretty easy, so it’s very possible, really probable, that the Cougars will open the Pac 10 season with a winning record.
October 4, 2009
Washington looks forward to continuity
Head Coach Tia Jackson started her Washington Husky career with a 13-18 record, 8-10 in the Pac 10. After a number of young players left in the off season, Washington fell to 8-22, 3-15 in the Pac 10. However the losses from last season are minimal so Tia can hope for improvement in her 3rd season.
Graduation took Heidi McNeill, who scored 4 points a game from the Center position and wing Michelle Augustavo who also scored 4 points per game. Also Aussie Nicole Romero, who didn’t get much playing time, decided not to return.
Bottom line, 12 players return, and however one might feel about their 8-22 record, its good having that experience. Tia needs the continuity.
The schedule has some interesting games. At home against BYU and Memphis and on the road at Gonzaga and Michigan State.
Regina Rogers returns to her native Seattle after a frosh year at UCLA. She sat out last season. At UCLA she averaged about 6.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, starting half the games. Her high was 12 points and 16 rebounds against Pepperdine. She’s 6-3 and has three years remaining, and may cause Washington to revamp their offense a bit to get the Centers more involved. This will help 6-2 Sr Laura McLellan who was the Huskies second leading scorer with almost 9 points per game, leading the team by making 47% of her shots.
Liz Lay, a 6-1 Soph returns at the 4 position. Liz had knee surgery in February of her Sr year of High School and missed 10 games last season coming back from this injury. She averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds a game, but did start 9 of the last 20 games. She was a top 20 player out of High School, and with a year to recover from the surgery she will really help the Huskies. Fans have yet to see the real Liz Lay. I saw her play several games in High School and she is a skilled, extremely high energy player. Having Rogers and a healthy Lay in the post with McLellan with make the Huskies a much different team from last year.
Sami Whitcomb will start at a wing position. The 5-10 Sr was the leading scorer last season, 12.8 points per game, and hit 33% of her Three point shots, the team high for those who took more than one Three per game. She has twice been Honorable Mention All Pac 10 and also twice Honorable Mention Defensive All Pac 10. Her high game was 29 points against ASU last season.
The other wing should be Kristi Kingma a 5-10 Soph. Kingma averaged 8.2 points per game and was the # 3 scorer for the Huskies. She only shot 27% from Three, but with stronger offensive post play, she should improve quite a bit. Her high game was 25 against UCLA, and she was the Husky Defensive Player of the Year. A side note, her Dad was a small school All American basketballer and Mom qualified four times for the Olympic Marathon trials.
Christina Rozier returns as the Point Guard, she is a 5-8 Sr who transferred from a JC. She averaged 5 points per game, but her assist to turnover ration was 1:1.2, a ratio that must improve quite a bit for the Huskies to have any success. The back up appears to be 5-8 Jr Sarah Morton, who scored 2 points per game while averaging 17 minutes. However she was the only player with a 1:1 assist to turnover ration on the team.
Other Forward type players will be: Mackenzie Argens, a 6-3 So who scored 4 points per game while averaging 11 minutes; Charmaine Barlow a 5-10 Soph who played just 8 games; 6-2 Soph Mollie Williams who scored 2.6 points per game while averaging 10 minutes; 5-11 Sr Lydia Young who scored 2.5 points per game averaging 13 minutes; and 6-0 frosh Jeneva Anderson.
Argens missed her Frosh year with an ACL then missed 8 games mid season last year with an MCL knee injury. If healthy she will contribute. 15 rebounds a game as a High School Sr.
Sara Mosiman is a 5-9 Sr Guard who scored 3.5 points per game last year. She averaged 4.5 points per game as a Soph. However she has yet to make a Three.
Amanda Johnson is the Huskies top recruit, a 5-5 Guard.
So much depends on Rogers and Lay being in great shape and being able to play 28-30 minutes per game. They are the keys to this season. Kingma and Whitcomb can score from the outside, but the keys are the two post players. Washington appears to be in the 8-10th place level in the Pac 10.
Graduation took Heidi McNeill, who scored 4 points a game from the Center position and wing Michelle Augustavo who also scored 4 points per game. Also Aussie Nicole Romero, who didn’t get much playing time, decided not to return.
Bottom line, 12 players return, and however one might feel about their 8-22 record, its good having that experience. Tia needs the continuity.
The schedule has some interesting games. At home against BYU and Memphis and on the road at Gonzaga and Michigan State.
Regina Rogers returns to her native Seattle after a frosh year at UCLA. She sat out last season. At UCLA she averaged about 6.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, starting half the games. Her high was 12 points and 16 rebounds against Pepperdine. She’s 6-3 and has three years remaining, and may cause Washington to revamp their offense a bit to get the Centers more involved. This will help 6-2 Sr Laura McLellan who was the Huskies second leading scorer with almost 9 points per game, leading the team by making 47% of her shots.
Liz Lay, a 6-1 Soph returns at the 4 position. Liz had knee surgery in February of her Sr year of High School and missed 10 games last season coming back from this injury. She averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds a game, but did start 9 of the last 20 games. She was a top 20 player out of High School, and with a year to recover from the surgery she will really help the Huskies. Fans have yet to see the real Liz Lay. I saw her play several games in High School and she is a skilled, extremely high energy player. Having Rogers and a healthy Lay in the post with McLellan with make the Huskies a much different team from last year.
Sami Whitcomb will start at a wing position. The 5-10 Sr was the leading scorer last season, 12.8 points per game, and hit 33% of her Three point shots, the team high for those who took more than one Three per game. She has twice been Honorable Mention All Pac 10 and also twice Honorable Mention Defensive All Pac 10. Her high game was 29 points against ASU last season.
The other wing should be Kristi Kingma a 5-10 Soph. Kingma averaged 8.2 points per game and was the # 3 scorer for the Huskies. She only shot 27% from Three, but with stronger offensive post play, she should improve quite a bit. Her high game was 25 against UCLA, and she was the Husky Defensive Player of the Year. A side note, her Dad was a small school All American basketballer and Mom qualified four times for the Olympic Marathon trials.
Christina Rozier returns as the Point Guard, she is a 5-8 Sr who transferred from a JC. She averaged 5 points per game, but her assist to turnover ration was 1:1.2, a ratio that must improve quite a bit for the Huskies to have any success. The back up appears to be 5-8 Jr Sarah Morton, who scored 2 points per game while averaging 17 minutes. However she was the only player with a 1:1 assist to turnover ration on the team.
Other Forward type players will be: Mackenzie Argens, a 6-3 So who scored 4 points per game while averaging 11 minutes; Charmaine Barlow a 5-10 Soph who played just 8 games; 6-2 Soph Mollie Williams who scored 2.6 points per game while averaging 10 minutes; 5-11 Sr Lydia Young who scored 2.5 points per game averaging 13 minutes; and 6-0 frosh Jeneva Anderson.
Argens missed her Frosh year with an ACL then missed 8 games mid season last year with an MCL knee injury. If healthy she will contribute. 15 rebounds a game as a High School Sr.
Sara Mosiman is a 5-9 Sr Guard who scored 3.5 points per game last year. She averaged 4.5 points per game as a Soph. However she has yet to make a Three.
Amanda Johnson is the Huskies top recruit, a 5-5 Guard.
So much depends on Rogers and Lay being in great shape and being able to play 28-30 minutes per game. They are the keys to this season. Kingma and Whitcomb can score from the outside, but the keys are the two post players. Washington appears to be in the 8-10th place level in the Pac 10.
September 28, 2009
Two out of three ain’t bad
Arizona State has been to the Elite Eight two of the past three seasons. Their record for the three seasons has been 79-25 and 45-9 in the Pac 10. Stanford Grad Charli Turner Thorne enters her thirteenth as the Sun Devil Head Coach and is on a roll with five straight 20 win seasons, joining Tara and “Sit Down” Chris Gobrecht as the only Pac 10 Coaches to do this in the past 24 years. Also ASU has had the same staff together for seven seasons.
Then there is the bad news. Two Sun Devils will miss the season. Standout Guard Dymond Simon suffered her second knee injury in three years last March at Stanford, and will sit out this season, returning for her final season next year. Simon was ASU’s leading scorer last season with a 13.8 average per game and shot 38 % from three. She will really be missed.
JC transfer Markisha Patterson will also sit out this season with a knee injury. Patterson was a top JC recruit and the 5-9 Guard will be counted on next season.
Also gone is Guard Jazlyn Davis, a 5-9 Guard who played in just 3 games last year then hurt her knee. She has left due to academics.
Now the graduation losses, all six of them. Sybil Dosty and Lauren Lacy both graduated from the Post positions. Dosty averaged 8 points and 7 rebounds in 19 minutes and Lacy averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds in 17 minutes. The big loss is Briann January, All Pac 10 and certainly one of the top players in the league over the past several years. She averaged 14 points almost 5 assists in 27 minutes and made nearly twice as many three point shots than anyone else while shooting a great 45% from Three. Also graduating were Kristen Thompson, Nia Fanaika and Kate Englebrecht who was 3rd on the team in minutes per game.
Nine big losses must leave Charli scratching her head, OK she wouldn’t do that.
However the losses are huge and it’ll take all her wiles to get the Sun Devils near the top of the Pac 10 again.
At Center will be 6-5 Jr Becca Tobin who averaged almost 19 minutes, 5 points and 5 rebounds a game. The other post will be 6-2 Sr Kayli Murphy. Kayli’s brother is a freshman football player at Stanford. Except for missing the first 6 games last year with a hand injury, she has played in every game during her three year ASU career. Last season Kayli averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds in 19 minutes.
Two newcomers will see lots of playing team at the post positions as Charli runs her players in and out of games with her ice hockey style substitutions. Kali Bennett transferred from Washington a year ago and is now ready to play. She is 6-5 with 3 years left. At Washington she averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds two years ago. Her best game? 11 points and 11 rebounds against Stanford. Kali was a High School All American and will immediately help the Sun Devils. Joy Burke is a 6-5 frosh, highly recruited after averaging 20 points, 14.5 rebounds, and 5.5 blocks per game as a High School Sr... Joy suffered a knee injury last year, but is expected to be ready to practice by mid October.
Kim Brandon is a 6-2 Soph, her sister is at Cal, who can play both the 3 and the 4. Last year she averaged 6 minutes per game. however she was the # 27 Forward out of High School.
The Point Guard will be 5-10 soph Alex Earl. Alex was the High School teammate of JJ Hones and during Alex’s 4 years at Southridge they won four straight State titles. She also played soccer with Kelsy Hones, JJ sister. Last year as a frosh Alex only played 99 minutes. So she lacks experience, but has talent. Other Point Guards are 5-5 frosh Sabrina McKinney, and 5-5 redshirt frosh Haley Parsons. McKinney was not a big scorer in High School, but Charli loves her passing and defense.
5-9 5th year Sr Danielle Orsillo returned last season from her knee injury suffered in the previous season and averaged 9 points per game, the top returning scorer. She scored 21 points in her only Jr game and 10 points per game as a true Soph. She shot 38% from Three last season, making only 37, but expect her to double that number or more. Frosh Deja Mann is a 5-7 frosh, who could play either Guard position. Deja averaged 16 points per game as a High School soph, then missed her Jr season with a knee injury. Hoop Gurlz ranked her as the # 37 shooting guard, and mentions that she appears to have recovered from her injury.
Tenaya Watson is a 5-9 JC transfer who is expected to contribute right away. Playing the Point for the number one team in the country, she averaged 16 points and 8 assists. Charli called Tenaya the top JC Guard in the country.
Janae Fulcher is a 6-3 Soph with 4 years left to play . She sat out last season. She’ll be in the mix at a post position. Another who will see action is 5-11 Sr Gaby Fage.
ASU has a fairly easy non conference schedule, the big games are at Xavier early in the season, then games 9 and 10 against Texas A&M and Baylor at a tournament in Las Vegas. The Sun Devils open the Pac 10 at home against the LA schools, then close against them in LA. It’ll be an interesting season for the young Sun Devils.
Then there is the bad news. Two Sun Devils will miss the season. Standout Guard Dymond Simon suffered her second knee injury in three years last March at Stanford, and will sit out this season, returning for her final season next year. Simon was ASU’s leading scorer last season with a 13.8 average per game and shot 38 % from three. She will really be missed.
JC transfer Markisha Patterson will also sit out this season with a knee injury. Patterson was a top JC recruit and the 5-9 Guard will be counted on next season.
Also gone is Guard Jazlyn Davis, a 5-9 Guard who played in just 3 games last year then hurt her knee. She has left due to academics.
Now the graduation losses, all six of them. Sybil Dosty and Lauren Lacy both graduated from the Post positions. Dosty averaged 8 points and 7 rebounds in 19 minutes and Lacy averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds in 17 minutes. The big loss is Briann January, All Pac 10 and certainly one of the top players in the league over the past several years. She averaged 14 points almost 5 assists in 27 minutes and made nearly twice as many three point shots than anyone else while shooting a great 45% from Three. Also graduating were Kristen Thompson, Nia Fanaika and Kate Englebrecht who was 3rd on the team in minutes per game.
Nine big losses must leave Charli scratching her head, OK she wouldn’t do that.
However the losses are huge and it’ll take all her wiles to get the Sun Devils near the top of the Pac 10 again.
At Center will be 6-5 Jr Becca Tobin who averaged almost 19 minutes, 5 points and 5 rebounds a game. The other post will be 6-2 Sr Kayli Murphy. Kayli’s brother is a freshman football player at Stanford. Except for missing the first 6 games last year with a hand injury, she has played in every game during her three year ASU career. Last season Kayli averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds in 19 minutes.
Two newcomers will see lots of playing team at the post positions as Charli runs her players in and out of games with her ice hockey style substitutions. Kali Bennett transferred from Washington a year ago and is now ready to play. She is 6-5 with 3 years left. At Washington she averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds two years ago. Her best game? 11 points and 11 rebounds against Stanford. Kali was a High School All American and will immediately help the Sun Devils. Joy Burke is a 6-5 frosh, highly recruited after averaging 20 points, 14.5 rebounds, and 5.5 blocks per game as a High School Sr... Joy suffered a knee injury last year, but is expected to be ready to practice by mid October.
Kim Brandon is a 6-2 Soph, her sister is at Cal, who can play both the 3 and the 4. Last year she averaged 6 minutes per game. however she was the # 27 Forward out of High School.
The Point Guard will be 5-10 soph Alex Earl. Alex was the High School teammate of JJ Hones and during Alex’s 4 years at Southridge they won four straight State titles. She also played soccer with Kelsy Hones, JJ sister. Last year as a frosh Alex only played 99 minutes. So she lacks experience, but has talent. Other Point Guards are 5-5 frosh Sabrina McKinney, and 5-5 redshirt frosh Haley Parsons. McKinney was not a big scorer in High School, but Charli loves her passing and defense.
5-9 5th year Sr Danielle Orsillo returned last season from her knee injury suffered in the previous season and averaged 9 points per game, the top returning scorer. She scored 21 points in her only Jr game and 10 points per game as a true Soph. She shot 38% from Three last season, making only 37, but expect her to double that number or more. Frosh Deja Mann is a 5-7 frosh, who could play either Guard position. Deja averaged 16 points per game as a High School soph, then missed her Jr season with a knee injury. Hoop Gurlz ranked her as the # 37 shooting guard, and mentions that she appears to have recovered from her injury.
Tenaya Watson is a 5-9 JC transfer who is expected to contribute right away. Playing the Point for the number one team in the country, she averaged 16 points and 8 assists. Charli called Tenaya the top JC Guard in the country.
Janae Fulcher is a 6-3 Soph with 4 years left to play . She sat out last season. She’ll be in the mix at a post position. Another who will see action is 5-11 Sr Gaby Fage.
ASU has a fairly easy non conference schedule, the big games are at Xavier early in the season, then games 9 and 10 against Texas A&M and Baylor at a tournament in Las Vegas. The Sun Devils open the Pac 10 at home against the LA schools, then close against them in LA. It’ll be an interesting season for the young Sun Devils.
September 22, 2009
The Wildcats go in a different direction.
Head Coach Niya Butts finished her first year at the University of Arizona with a 12-19 record, 4-14 in the Pac 10. After the season she cleaned house and released four of her five frosh players. Gone are Courtney Clements who started 19 games and averaged 10 points per game, Amani Butler, Malia Nahinu and Jhakia McDonald who started all five games she played, averaging 7 points per game. That and graduation left the Wildcats with five players in the spring.
Butts replaced the seven who graduated or left with four JC transfers and an incoming frosh. They also have a transfer from Arkansas who will sit out this season.
Arizona does have four returnees who started at least 13 games last season, and one of the top players in the West, Ify Ibekwe, but the JC players will be asked to contribute many minutes and results immediately. History doesn’t indicate that this is likely to happen.
Arizona plays a decent non conference schedule this season with San Diego State, Mississippi, Georgia Tech and New Mexico. Last year they were 8-4 pre Pac 10, and that would be good start for the Wildcats this year.
Ify Ibekwe is a 6-1 Jr who is one of only four West Coast Players on the Wooden Watch List. Last season she really came on as a Pac 10 star, scoring almost 16 points per game and a great 11.6 rebounds per game. Ify will be at the 4 position, and will certainly be the player other teams have to shut down. She’s fun to watch and the backbone of the Wildcat team.
Jennifer Kioa is a 6-4 Center and a transfer from Foothill College where she averaged almost 12 points per game and 7 rebounds while being named all State JC. She was ranked the 7th and 9th Center and 26th and 32nd overall player by two JC publications. I saw her play several times in the San Francisco ProAm and I think she will contribute right away. That’s good for the Wildcats, as she has to be the starting Center immediately. Jennifer will be backed by another JC transfer, 6-3 Amanda Pierson. Amanda averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds as a JC sophomore last year. As a Sr in High School she averaged 16 points and 8 rebounds per game. Amanda comes from Kansas.
Soana Lucet is another JC player and the only other Wildcat player over 5-10. That’s right; only four Wildcats are taller than 5-10. Soana is a native of New Caldedonia and transferred from the College of Southern Idaho. She is the first female player from her country to play college basketball in the US. She was ranked the # 3 Power Forward and # 4 overall JC player. At JC last season she averaged 21 points and 8 rebounds. While the Wildcats may often use three guards, Soana will certainly see quite a bit of playing time.
5-6 Sr Ashley Frazier stated every game last year for the Wildcats at the Point Guard. Last season she averaged 7 points and 4 assists per game, and a 1:1 assist to turnover ratio. Ashley was in her first season as she was also a JC transfer.
Reiko Thomas will be the other starting guard, as she started 19 games last season while averaging 10 points per game. She was the top 3 point shooter, of those taking more than one per game, but only hit 30%. Reiko is a 5-8 soph and the only player of the 5 person frosh class to stay at Arizona. She did hit 82% of her Free Throws, and was a High School teammate of Ify’s.
Davellyn Whyte is a 5-10 frosh who was the Gatorade POY in Arizona last year. She is the daughter of former Major Leaguer Devon Whyte. She will fight for a starting position if three guards, with returnee 5-10 redshirt soph Tasha Dickey. Tasha sat out last season with an injury, after averaging 7 points per game while starting 21 games in 2007-08. Tasha’s Father was a Football player at Arizona and her Mother was a Basketball player at Arizona.
Other players are 5-5 Jr Guard Faihza Hill, a walk on who scored 2.5 points per game while starting 13 games. Her Dad played Football at Purdue and her Mom played Basketball at Cal. Her major: Molecular and Cellular Biology. Brooke Jackson is another JC transfer and will be a soph. She had a storied High School career in Arizona, scoring 2,250 points and averaging 18 per game over her four year career. This included 271 Three’s and 41% from the deep line. She scored 16 points per game including hitting 45% from Three as a JC frosh last year.
The Wildcats will have 10 players, 9 on scholarship for the season, but also have Shanita Arnold who must sit out this season after transferring from Arkansas. Last season she started every game for the Razorbacks and scored almost 6 points per game. Her high was 22 points on 6 of 11 from Three. Mike White rated Arnold the # 24 High School player in the country 3 years ago. She will have two seasons to play starting next season.
The Wildcats will certainly struggle in the Pac 10 this year. It’ll be hard to finish above 8th place. However they certainly have an opportunity to prove themselves with some good non conferences wins.
Butts replaced the seven who graduated or left with four JC transfers and an incoming frosh. They also have a transfer from Arkansas who will sit out this season.
Arizona does have four returnees who started at least 13 games last season, and one of the top players in the West, Ify Ibekwe, but the JC players will be asked to contribute many minutes and results immediately. History doesn’t indicate that this is likely to happen.
Arizona plays a decent non conference schedule this season with San Diego State, Mississippi, Georgia Tech and New Mexico. Last year they were 8-4 pre Pac 10, and that would be good start for the Wildcats this year.
Ify Ibekwe is a 6-1 Jr who is one of only four West Coast Players on the Wooden Watch List. Last season she really came on as a Pac 10 star, scoring almost 16 points per game and a great 11.6 rebounds per game. Ify will be at the 4 position, and will certainly be the player other teams have to shut down. She’s fun to watch and the backbone of the Wildcat team.
Jennifer Kioa is a 6-4 Center and a transfer from Foothill College where she averaged almost 12 points per game and 7 rebounds while being named all State JC. She was ranked the 7th and 9th Center and 26th and 32nd overall player by two JC publications. I saw her play several times in the San Francisco ProAm and I think she will contribute right away. That’s good for the Wildcats, as she has to be the starting Center immediately. Jennifer will be backed by another JC transfer, 6-3 Amanda Pierson. Amanda averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds as a JC sophomore last year. As a Sr in High School she averaged 16 points and 8 rebounds per game. Amanda comes from Kansas.
Soana Lucet is another JC player and the only other Wildcat player over 5-10. That’s right; only four Wildcats are taller than 5-10. Soana is a native of New Caldedonia and transferred from the College of Southern Idaho. She is the first female player from her country to play college basketball in the US. She was ranked the # 3 Power Forward and # 4 overall JC player. At JC last season she averaged 21 points and 8 rebounds. While the Wildcats may often use three guards, Soana will certainly see quite a bit of playing time.
5-6 Sr Ashley Frazier stated every game last year for the Wildcats at the Point Guard. Last season she averaged 7 points and 4 assists per game, and a 1:1 assist to turnover ratio. Ashley was in her first season as she was also a JC transfer.
Reiko Thomas will be the other starting guard, as she started 19 games last season while averaging 10 points per game. She was the top 3 point shooter, of those taking more than one per game, but only hit 30%. Reiko is a 5-8 soph and the only player of the 5 person frosh class to stay at Arizona. She did hit 82% of her Free Throws, and was a High School teammate of Ify’s.
Davellyn Whyte is a 5-10 frosh who was the Gatorade POY in Arizona last year. She is the daughter of former Major Leaguer Devon Whyte. She will fight for a starting position if three guards, with returnee 5-10 redshirt soph Tasha Dickey. Tasha sat out last season with an injury, after averaging 7 points per game while starting 21 games in 2007-08. Tasha’s Father was a Football player at Arizona and her Mother was a Basketball player at Arizona.
Other players are 5-5 Jr Guard Faihza Hill, a walk on who scored 2.5 points per game while starting 13 games. Her Dad played Football at Purdue and her Mom played Basketball at Cal. Her major: Molecular and Cellular Biology. Brooke Jackson is another JC transfer and will be a soph. She had a storied High School career in Arizona, scoring 2,250 points and averaging 18 per game over her four year career. This included 271 Three’s and 41% from the deep line. She scored 16 points per game including hitting 45% from Three as a JC frosh last year.
The Wildcats will have 10 players, 9 on scholarship for the season, but also have Shanita Arnold who must sit out this season after transferring from Arkansas. Last season she started every game for the Razorbacks and scored almost 6 points per game. Her high was 22 points on 6 of 11 from Three. Mike White rated Arnold the # 24 High School player in the country 3 years ago. She will have two seasons to play starting next season.
The Wildcats will certainly struggle in the Pac 10 this year. It’ll be hard to finish above 8th place. However they certainly have an opportunity to prove themselves with some good non conferences wins.
August 4, 2009
The Ducks Want to Fly
In April the Oregon Ducks decided to go in a new direction for their Women’s Basketball program. Now that’s a cliché that is used often, however in this case it was a really new direction. Former Oregon All American and Head Coach of about 8 years, Bev Smith, was replaced by the inventor of run and gun basketball, 70 year old Paul Westhead.
Westhead has a long 39 year resume. He has an NBA Championship with the Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Magic Johnson Lakers and a WNBA Championship in 2007 with the Diana Taurasi Phoenix Mercury. In the mid to late 80’s, Westhead coached Loyola Marymount of LA to the Elite 8 in Men’s College Basketball, and owns a .561 winning percentage over 18 years of D1 Men’s Basketball.
Still this is a head shaker for a team that was the slowest in the Pac 10 last season, won’t be much quicker this year, and as mentioned Westhead is already 70. Well, it’s that new direction.
However Westhead did hire a decent coaching staff. He lured Don Muscatell from Sacramento State back to Oregon. Muscatell was an Assistant coach at Oregon before leaving for Sac State after the 2003 season. Now lure may be strong word, as Muscatell averaged 6 wins a year in his six seasons at Sac State. However he is from the Northwest and may be a key to recruiting in the Oregon, Washington and Idaho states, something that Bev could not do.
Keila Whittingham comes to the Ducks from Marist College, a team that went 61-7 in her two seasons there, and 2 NCAA appearances including one we loved at Stanford. Keila also spent six seasons at Penn State.
Kai Felton joins the staff after five seasons at USC, where she helped recruit seven McDonalds All Americans.
In my opinion the biggest downfall of the Bev Smith regime, was the inability to recruit ranked West Coast women into the program.The rosters have been full of women from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but usually few top players from the West, and seldom getting a Top 100 American player. I expect this to all change under Westhead.
That change in recruiting will help his fun and gun style of play. At Loyola Marymount it was gun and little defense, we’ll have to see how Westhead defines it in his first time coaching Women’s College Basketball. A note, scores of Westhead’s teams at Loyola Marymount were often in the 140-125 range.
The Ducks return 9 players from last season and have added three recruits, two of whom are JC transfers. Their top players were guards, Taylor Lilly and Micaela Cocks who had trouble at times getting shots off in the slow down offense of 2008-09. However with the run and gun they could well have many open looks per game. Oregon’s ability to run will depend on rebounding however, and that doesn’t look promising at this point. However a whole new style may change that.
Smith had only one recruit in the November signing period, but Westhead and staff found two JC transfers who may help. Kristi Fallin hit on an amazing 118 three pointers last season, 45% from three. Candyce Flynn is a 5-6 Point Guard who scored 14 points and had 5 assists per game last year at an Illinois JC. She played at Morehead State as a frosh.
It’ll be an interesting year in Eugene, at least some excitement for their excellent fan base. However it’ll take Westhead and Staff several years to challenge for the upper half of the Pac 10. There are some very good recruits in the Northwest this year. We’ll see how the Duck recruiting goes between now and November Letter of Intent Day.
Westhead has a long 39 year resume. He has an NBA Championship with the Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Magic Johnson Lakers and a WNBA Championship in 2007 with the Diana Taurasi Phoenix Mercury. In the mid to late 80’s, Westhead coached Loyola Marymount of LA to the Elite 8 in Men’s College Basketball, and owns a .561 winning percentage over 18 years of D1 Men’s Basketball.
Still this is a head shaker for a team that was the slowest in the Pac 10 last season, won’t be much quicker this year, and as mentioned Westhead is already 70. Well, it’s that new direction.
However Westhead did hire a decent coaching staff. He lured Don Muscatell from Sacramento State back to Oregon. Muscatell was an Assistant coach at Oregon before leaving for Sac State after the 2003 season. Now lure may be strong word, as Muscatell averaged 6 wins a year in his six seasons at Sac State. However he is from the Northwest and may be a key to recruiting in the Oregon, Washington and Idaho states, something that Bev could not do.
Keila Whittingham comes to the Ducks from Marist College, a team that went 61-7 in her two seasons there, and 2 NCAA appearances including one we loved at Stanford. Keila also spent six seasons at Penn State.
Kai Felton joins the staff after five seasons at USC, where she helped recruit seven McDonalds All Americans.
In my opinion the biggest downfall of the Bev Smith regime, was the inability to recruit ranked West Coast women into the program.The rosters have been full of women from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but usually few top players from the West, and seldom getting a Top 100 American player. I expect this to all change under Westhead.
That change in recruiting will help his fun and gun style of play. At Loyola Marymount it was gun and little defense, we’ll have to see how Westhead defines it in his first time coaching Women’s College Basketball. A note, scores of Westhead’s teams at Loyola Marymount were often in the 140-125 range.
The Ducks return 9 players from last season and have added three recruits, two of whom are JC transfers. Their top players were guards, Taylor Lilly and Micaela Cocks who had trouble at times getting shots off in the slow down offense of 2008-09. However with the run and gun they could well have many open looks per game. Oregon’s ability to run will depend on rebounding however, and that doesn’t look promising at this point. However a whole new style may change that.
Smith had only one recruit in the November signing period, but Westhead and staff found two JC transfers who may help. Kristi Fallin hit on an amazing 118 three pointers last season, 45% from three. Candyce Flynn is a 5-6 Point Guard who scored 14 points and had 5 assists per game last year at an Illinois JC. She played at Morehead State as a frosh.
It’ll be an interesting year in Eugene, at least some excitement for their excellent fan base. However it’ll take Westhead and Staff several years to challenge for the upper half of the Pac 10. There are some very good recruits in the Northwest this year. We’ll see how the Duck recruiting goes between now and November Letter of Intent Day.
June 8, 2009
Sparks are flying at USC.
USC finally decided on a Women’s Basketball Coach and it’s the WNBA LA Sparks Head Coach Michael Cooper. Wait, not yet, for now it is former Rhode Island Associate Head Coach Ervin Monier. Confused? Imagine how fans of Women’s Basketball must be.
Mark Trakh finally was forced to resign as the USC Coach six weeks after the season ended. Trakh’s five seasons as the Head Coach were certainly up and down, with great recruiting, a number of serious injuries to key players, and losses to teams that baffle the mind. However many felt that because of the injuries, Trakh deserved a couple more seasons to right the ship, as it were.
I think the deciding factor may have been the lack of Trojan fans in the new and beautiful Galen Center. USC averaged only 1,300 a game. It’s one thing not to live up to their promise, it’s another than so few care.
So enter Mr Cooper, Michael, who is entered his 8th season as Head Coach of the Sparks. He was also for a short time in 2005 the interim Head Coach of the NBA Denver Nuggets. So he has the coaching pedigree but can he relate to teens? Can he recruit? And can he even be involved?
Here we are 5 ½ weeks after the hiring of Cooper and what do we know? The May 1st Press Release stated that Cooper was hiring a great staff. Thus far USC has only Monier. Top recruit Monique Oliver (# 6 in the country) asked early for her release and with only Monier on the job, it was granted. Oliver then signed with Rutgers. Wing Kendall Hackney (# 55 in the country) asked for her release more recently, and it has not been granted. The clock is ticking on Hackney’s LOI as USC must respond yay or nay soon.
Thus far the other two recruits of USC’s once outstanding class seem set on attending USC. Wing Christina Marinacci (# 35 in the country) and PG Vicky Tagalicod (# 21 PG, not top 100) have not asked for their release.
However High School Jr Cassie Harberts (# 6 Center and # 48 overall in the country) committed to the Mark Trakh Trojans then decommitted from the Cooper/Monier Trojans. USC has no other commits from the 2010 class.
USC lost to graduation three starters, PG Camille LeNoir, Wing Brynn Cameron and Post Nadia Parker. Now they have lost top recruit Oliver and in danger of losing another highly rated recruit in Hackney. Probable offsets are the return from injury of Jackie Gemelos and Stefanie Gilbreath.
So we have the savior in Gemelos, trying to come back after missing three seasons, one Associate Head Coach, no Head Coach and no Assistants. I’m not sure all this will increase attendance or make USC a better team.
Mark Trakh finally was forced to resign as the USC Coach six weeks after the season ended. Trakh’s five seasons as the Head Coach were certainly up and down, with great recruiting, a number of serious injuries to key players, and losses to teams that baffle the mind. However many felt that because of the injuries, Trakh deserved a couple more seasons to right the ship, as it were.
I think the deciding factor may have been the lack of Trojan fans in the new and beautiful Galen Center. USC averaged only 1,300 a game. It’s one thing not to live up to their promise, it’s another than so few care.
So enter Mr Cooper, Michael, who is entered his 8th season as Head Coach of the Sparks. He was also for a short time in 2005 the interim Head Coach of the NBA Denver Nuggets. So he has the coaching pedigree but can he relate to teens? Can he recruit? And can he even be involved?
Here we are 5 ½ weeks after the hiring of Cooper and what do we know? The May 1st Press Release stated that Cooper was hiring a great staff. Thus far USC has only Monier. Top recruit Monique Oliver (# 6 in the country) asked early for her release and with only Monier on the job, it was granted. Oliver then signed with Rutgers. Wing Kendall Hackney (# 55 in the country) asked for her release more recently, and it has not been granted. The clock is ticking on Hackney’s LOI as USC must respond yay or nay soon.
Thus far the other two recruits of USC’s once outstanding class seem set on attending USC. Wing Christina Marinacci (# 35 in the country) and PG Vicky Tagalicod (# 21 PG, not top 100) have not asked for their release.
However High School Jr Cassie Harberts (# 6 Center and # 48 overall in the country) committed to the Mark Trakh Trojans then decommitted from the Cooper/Monier Trojans. USC has no other commits from the 2010 class.
USC lost to graduation three starters, PG Camille LeNoir, Wing Brynn Cameron and Post Nadia Parker. Now they have lost top recruit Oliver and in danger of losing another highly rated recruit in Hackney. Probable offsets are the return from injury of Jackie Gemelos and Stefanie Gilbreath.
So we have the savior in Gemelos, trying to come back after missing three seasons, one Associate Head Coach, no Head Coach and no Assistants. I’m not sure all this will increase attendance or make USC a better team.
May 4, 2009
Shhh! USC has a new coach
Last Friday USC named Michael Cooper as the women's basketball head coach to replace Mark Trakh, who resigned in April. Two sports columnnists had interesting things to say about the announcement, which was very low-key, to say the least:
- Shhh! Don’t tell anyone … but USC has a new coach, by Mechelle Voepel in her blog.
- Coop's hire at USC doesn't spell co-op, by Ramona Shelburne in the L.A. Daily Breeze
March 19, 2009
A Peek at the San Diego Bracket
A Guest Column this week as FBC Member Sue Bair looks at the teams in the San Diego Regional. Thanks to Sue for this insight into our opponents and sharing it on our Site.
NCAA First Round, Saturday March 21st at approximately 7:30 PM in San Diego
Opponent – #15 seeded UC Santa Barbara
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos are 22-9 overall and 15-1 in the Big West conference. They made the NCAA tournament by winning their conference tournament and earning the automatic bid. Former Cal assistant Lindsay Gottlieb was named Big West Coach of the Year in her first season as the head coach of the Gauchos.
UCSB has a Sagarin ranking of #102. They are 1-1 against Sagarin top 50 teams and have played no games against top 25 teams. The Gauchos are a very experienced team; they start 4 seniors. The Gauchos do not pack much offensive punch, however, and tend to play close games. They average 60.2 points and give up an average of 54.9. UCSB shoots 41.7% and allows opponents to shoot 34.4%. By contrast Stanford scores 76.0 points per game on 47.4% shooting and gives up 55.2 points per game on 34.8% shooting. The Gauchos out-rebound their opponents 38.2 to 33.4. They do not take particularly good care of the ball and have a negative assist to turnover ratio. The Gauchos are not very big, although they do have size and experience inside in 6’ 4” Sr C Jenna Green. Against Stanford, they will be at a serious size disadvantage at almost every position. This season UCSB played 3 Pac-10 teams and lost all three games: Arizona 54-47 in November, USC 62-53 in November, and Oregon State 70-51 in late February.
Best win: Gonzaga
Worst losses: Harvard, CSU Bakersfield, Pacific
Probably UCSB starters:
Sr G Lauren Pedersen (5’ 10”) – 13.0 ppg, 34.1% shooting, 32.1% three-point shooting, 5.1 rpg, 4.2 apg, 3.3 TOs
Sr C Jenna Green (6’ 4”) – 11.4 ppg, 54.0% shooting, 5.9 rpg, 1.9 blocks
Sr G Sha’Rae Gibbons (5’ 7”) – 8.1 ppg, 41.8%, 35.6% threes
So F Margaret Johnson (5’ 11”) – 3.6 ppg, 55.4%
Sr G-F Whitney Warren (5’ 8”) – 5.3 ppg, 46.8%
Reserves:
Jr G-F Jordan Franey (6’) – 6.4 ppg, 41.3%, 4.4 rpg
Fr G Emilie Johnson (5’ 6”) – 6.1 ppg, 34.5%, 39.2% threes
Sr F-C Kat Suderman (6’ 4”) – 3.9 ppg, 40%, 2.8 rpg
So G-F Christine Spencer (6’ 1”) – 2.9 ppg, 35.4%
NCAA second round, Monday March 23rd in San Diego
Possible Opponent – #7 seeded DePaul Blue Demons
The DePaul Blue Demons received an at-large bid after finishing 23-9 overall and 10-6 (tied with 2 others for 4th) in the tough Big East conference. Doug Bruno is the head coach. DePaul went 6-4 in their last 10 games. They bowed out of the Big East tournament in the quarterfinals to #16 (USA Today/ESPN poll) Pittsburgh.
The Blue Demons have a Sagarin ranking of #26 and went 2-6 against the Sagarin top 25 and 3-8 against the Sagarin top 50. They have a balanced attack featuring the inside play of 6’ 3” Sr F Natasha Williams (14.2 ppg) and the outside play of 5’ 10” Jr G Deirdre Naughton (15.5 ppg). DePaul scores an average of 71.3 points and gives up an average of 62.6. They shoot 42.6% to their opponents’ 38.6%. They are not a particularly good three-point shooting team (31.3%) or rebounding team (rebounding margin is only +2.4). Naughton and G Sam Quigley take around 5 three-pointers a game apiece but they do not hit that many (30.5% and 35.3% respectively). The Blue Demons do take good care of the ball (A/T ratio = 1.1 and 14.7 turnovers per game).
DePaul plays in the Big East so they are no strangers to top competition. In conference the Blue Demons lost to #1 Connecticut 77-62, #7 Louisville 78-60, #20 Notre Dame 86-62 and 62-59, unranked Villanova, and unranked South Florida. They did beat Rutgers 60-58 and #16 Pittsburgh 69-62. In non-conference games they lost to #23 Tennessee and unranked New Mexico. DePaul does not appear to be a very deep team but unlike the other two teams in Stanford’s bracket in San Diego, they have balance, size, and plenty of experience against top opponents.
Best wins: #16 Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida
Worst loss: Mew Mexico
Probable DePaul starters:
Jr G Deidre Naughton (5’ 10”) – 15.5 ppg, 37% shooting, 30.5% threes, 5.1 rpg, 4.5 apg, 2.8 TO
Sr F Natasha Williams (6’ 3”) – 14.2 ppg, 61.6%, 6.7 rpg, 1.3 blocks
Fr F Keisha Hampton (6’ 2”) – 10.5 ppg, 41.2%, 32.1% threes, 4.7 rpg
So G Sam Quigley (5’ 6”) – 10.2 ppg, 40.4%, 35.3% threes, 3.6 apg, 2.2 TOs
So F Felicia Chester (6’ 3”) – 7.2 ppg, 52%, 5.8 rpg, 1.2 blocks
Reserves:
Jr G China Threatt (5’ 9”) – 5.3 ppg, 34.1%, 30.5% threes
Sr F Erin Cattell (6’ 1) – 3.0 ppg
Possible Opponent – #10 seeded San Diego State Aztecs
The San Diego State Aztecs are a young team coached by former Stanford strength and conditioning coach (2004-05) Beth Burns. The Aztecs’ record is 23-7 overall and 13-3 in the Mountain West Conference. They came in second to Utah in the Mountain West tournament but claimed an NCAA bid as an at-large team.
The Aztecs have a Sagarin ranking of #53. They did not play a difficult schedule and out of 3 games against top 50 teams, they won only one, but it was a whooper – an upset of then #4 Texas by a score of 60-55 in San Diego in late December. Since then Texas has struggled to 11 losses, so the win is not quite what it was cracked up to be at the time, but Texas is still a top 25 team and that victory is by far the Aztecs’ best.
San Diego State scores 64.6 points per game on 42.6% shooting and allows 57.4 points per game on 38.3% shooting. They shoot 32.4% from three-point range but for a guard-oriented team (they start 3 guards), they do not shoot all that many threes. Stanford has made 201 threes while the Aztecs have made 143. The Aztecs have been out-rebounded by an average of 2.5 rebounds per game. They do have quick guards including Jene Morris, who played for Cal as a freshman and then transferred, and they get a lot of steals. They have only one player with size who sees much playing time, 6’ 4” C Paris Johnson, who goes for 14.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Only one other regular tops six feet.
It may seem daunting to play any opponent on their home court and San Diego State has been great at home this season and did beat a ranked team there, but the Aztecs are not a particularly good shooting team, have little size or depth to combat all the bigs Stanford can throw at them, and don’t rebound very well. If given the choice between playing the Aztecs on their home court or a more balanced DePaul team that has been through the wars in a major conference, I’d take the Aztecs and my chances on the home court edge. The Card have dealt with quick guards before. Just ask Camille LeNoir of USC.
Best wins: Texas, New Mexico, Utah, TCU, BYU
Worst loss: San Diego
Probable San Diego State starters:
Jr G Jene Morris (5’ 9”) – 15.5 ppg, 41.6%, 31.7% threes, 2.4 apg, 2.9 TOs, 3.2 steals
So C Paris Johnson (6’ 4”) – 14.0 ppg, 53.8%, 8.5 rpg, 3.1 blocks
Jr G Quenese Davis (5’ 9”) – 11.4 ppg, 37.8%, 34.5% threes, 4.1 rpg, 6.0 Apg, 4.1 TOs, 2.5 steals
Jr F Jennifer Layton-Bailes (6’ 1”) – 9.3 ppg, 48.8%, 32.6% threes, 5.1 rpg
So G Coco Davis (5’ 9”) – 4.2 ppg, 29.6%, 3.7 rpg, 3.1 apg, 2.6 TOs, 1.4 steals
Reserves:
Jr G Jerica Williams (5’ 8”) – 4.9 ppg, 37.2%, 38.9% threes
Sr G LaSandra Dixon (5’ 7”)
Conclusions: My theory is when in doubt feel better facing smaller conference teams than BCS types because the latter have had plenty of experience playing top-level opponents and generally have more size and better athletes. By that theory, Stanford should prefer to face San Diego State in the second round, and by the seedings they should prefer the same.
NCAA First Round, Saturday March 21st at approximately 7:30 PM in San Diego
Opponent – #15 seeded UC Santa Barbara
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos are 22-9 overall and 15-1 in the Big West conference. They made the NCAA tournament by winning their conference tournament and earning the automatic bid. Former Cal assistant Lindsay Gottlieb was named Big West Coach of the Year in her first season as the head coach of the Gauchos.
UCSB has a Sagarin ranking of #102. They are 1-1 against Sagarin top 50 teams and have played no games against top 25 teams. The Gauchos are a very experienced team; they start 4 seniors. The Gauchos do not pack much offensive punch, however, and tend to play close games. They average 60.2 points and give up an average of 54.9. UCSB shoots 41.7% and allows opponents to shoot 34.4%. By contrast Stanford scores 76.0 points per game on 47.4% shooting and gives up 55.2 points per game on 34.8% shooting. The Gauchos out-rebound their opponents 38.2 to 33.4. They do not take particularly good care of the ball and have a negative assist to turnover ratio. The Gauchos are not very big, although they do have size and experience inside in 6’ 4” Sr C Jenna Green. Against Stanford, they will be at a serious size disadvantage at almost every position. This season UCSB played 3 Pac-10 teams and lost all three games: Arizona 54-47 in November, USC 62-53 in November, and Oregon State 70-51 in late February.
Best win: Gonzaga
Worst losses: Harvard, CSU Bakersfield, Pacific
Probably UCSB starters:
Sr G Lauren Pedersen (5’ 10”) – 13.0 ppg, 34.1% shooting, 32.1% three-point shooting, 5.1 rpg, 4.2 apg, 3.3 TOs
Sr C Jenna Green (6’ 4”) – 11.4 ppg, 54.0% shooting, 5.9 rpg, 1.9 blocks
Sr G Sha’Rae Gibbons (5’ 7”) – 8.1 ppg, 41.8%, 35.6% threes
So F Margaret Johnson (5’ 11”) – 3.6 ppg, 55.4%
Sr G-F Whitney Warren (5’ 8”) – 5.3 ppg, 46.8%
Reserves:
Jr G-F Jordan Franey (6’) – 6.4 ppg, 41.3%, 4.4 rpg
Fr G Emilie Johnson (5’ 6”) – 6.1 ppg, 34.5%, 39.2% threes
Sr F-C Kat Suderman (6’ 4”) – 3.9 ppg, 40%, 2.8 rpg
So G-F Christine Spencer (6’ 1”) – 2.9 ppg, 35.4%
NCAA second round, Monday March 23rd in San Diego
Possible Opponent – #7 seeded DePaul Blue Demons
The DePaul Blue Demons received an at-large bid after finishing 23-9 overall and 10-6 (tied with 2 others for 4th) in the tough Big East conference. Doug Bruno is the head coach. DePaul went 6-4 in their last 10 games. They bowed out of the Big East tournament in the quarterfinals to #16 (USA Today/ESPN poll) Pittsburgh.
The Blue Demons have a Sagarin ranking of #26 and went 2-6 against the Sagarin top 25 and 3-8 against the Sagarin top 50. They have a balanced attack featuring the inside play of 6’ 3” Sr F Natasha Williams (14.2 ppg) and the outside play of 5’ 10” Jr G Deirdre Naughton (15.5 ppg). DePaul scores an average of 71.3 points and gives up an average of 62.6. They shoot 42.6% to their opponents’ 38.6%. They are not a particularly good three-point shooting team (31.3%) or rebounding team (rebounding margin is only +2.4). Naughton and G Sam Quigley take around 5 three-pointers a game apiece but they do not hit that many (30.5% and 35.3% respectively). The Blue Demons do take good care of the ball (A/T ratio = 1.1 and 14.7 turnovers per game).
DePaul plays in the Big East so they are no strangers to top competition. In conference the Blue Demons lost to #1 Connecticut 77-62, #7 Louisville 78-60, #20 Notre Dame 86-62 and 62-59, unranked Villanova, and unranked South Florida. They did beat Rutgers 60-58 and #16 Pittsburgh 69-62. In non-conference games they lost to #23 Tennessee and unranked New Mexico. DePaul does not appear to be a very deep team but unlike the other two teams in Stanford’s bracket in San Diego, they have balance, size, and plenty of experience against top opponents.
Best wins: #16 Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida
Worst loss: Mew Mexico
Probable DePaul starters:
Jr G Deidre Naughton (5’ 10”) – 15.5 ppg, 37% shooting, 30.5% threes, 5.1 rpg, 4.5 apg, 2.8 TO
Sr F Natasha Williams (6’ 3”) – 14.2 ppg, 61.6%, 6.7 rpg, 1.3 blocks
Fr F Keisha Hampton (6’ 2”) – 10.5 ppg, 41.2%, 32.1% threes, 4.7 rpg
So G Sam Quigley (5’ 6”) – 10.2 ppg, 40.4%, 35.3% threes, 3.6 apg, 2.2 TOs
So F Felicia Chester (6’ 3”) – 7.2 ppg, 52%, 5.8 rpg, 1.2 blocks
Reserves:
Jr G China Threatt (5’ 9”) – 5.3 ppg, 34.1%, 30.5% threes
Sr F Erin Cattell (6’ 1) – 3.0 ppg
Possible Opponent – #10 seeded San Diego State Aztecs
The San Diego State Aztecs are a young team coached by former Stanford strength and conditioning coach (2004-05) Beth Burns. The Aztecs’ record is 23-7 overall and 13-3 in the Mountain West Conference. They came in second to Utah in the Mountain West tournament but claimed an NCAA bid as an at-large team.
The Aztecs have a Sagarin ranking of #53. They did not play a difficult schedule and out of 3 games against top 50 teams, they won only one, but it was a whooper – an upset of then #4 Texas by a score of 60-55 in San Diego in late December. Since then Texas has struggled to 11 losses, so the win is not quite what it was cracked up to be at the time, but Texas is still a top 25 team and that victory is by far the Aztecs’ best.
San Diego State scores 64.6 points per game on 42.6% shooting and allows 57.4 points per game on 38.3% shooting. They shoot 32.4% from three-point range but for a guard-oriented team (they start 3 guards), they do not shoot all that many threes. Stanford has made 201 threes while the Aztecs have made 143. The Aztecs have been out-rebounded by an average of 2.5 rebounds per game. They do have quick guards including Jene Morris, who played for Cal as a freshman and then transferred, and they get a lot of steals. They have only one player with size who sees much playing time, 6’ 4” C Paris Johnson, who goes for 14.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Only one other regular tops six feet.
It may seem daunting to play any opponent on their home court and San Diego State has been great at home this season and did beat a ranked team there, but the Aztecs are not a particularly good shooting team, have little size or depth to combat all the bigs Stanford can throw at them, and don’t rebound very well. If given the choice between playing the Aztecs on their home court or a more balanced DePaul team that has been through the wars in a major conference, I’d take the Aztecs and my chances on the home court edge. The Card have dealt with quick guards before. Just ask Camille LeNoir of USC.
Best wins: Texas, New Mexico, Utah, TCU, BYU
Worst loss: San Diego
Probable San Diego State starters:
Jr G Jene Morris (5’ 9”) – 15.5 ppg, 41.6%, 31.7% threes, 2.4 apg, 2.9 TOs, 3.2 steals
So C Paris Johnson (6’ 4”) – 14.0 ppg, 53.8%, 8.5 rpg, 3.1 blocks
Jr G Quenese Davis (5’ 9”) – 11.4 ppg, 37.8%, 34.5% threes, 4.1 rpg, 6.0 Apg, 4.1 TOs, 2.5 steals
Jr F Jennifer Layton-Bailes (6’ 1”) – 9.3 ppg, 48.8%, 32.6% threes, 5.1 rpg
So G Coco Davis (5’ 9”) – 4.2 ppg, 29.6%, 3.7 rpg, 3.1 apg, 2.6 TOs, 1.4 steals
Reserves:
Jr G Jerica Williams (5’ 8”) – 4.9 ppg, 37.2%, 38.9% threes
Sr G LaSandra Dixon (5’ 7”)
Conclusions: My theory is when in doubt feel better facing smaller conference teams than BCS types because the latter have had plenty of experience playing top-level opponents and generally have more size and better athletes. By that theory, Stanford should prefer to face San Diego State in the second round, and by the seedings they should prefer the same.
March 10, 2009
Nine in a Row
Well another fantastic season in the books and we begin Friday in our quest for the Pac 10 Tournament Title, then the Big Dance.
With Cal losing to ASU and Stanford beating ASU, Stanford’s margin is suddenly 2 games. With Cal and ASU tied for 2nd/3rd. The big surprise was Oregon State defeating both USC and UCLA to move into a tie for 4th/5th in the Conference.
Here is the Pac 10 Tournament Schedule.
Pac-10 Tournament
Thu. - Sun., Mar. 12-15, Galen Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Looks like only Saturday and Sunday are on TV.
Thu., Mar. 12
1 #7 Oregon vs. #10 Washington 6:00 PM PT
2 #8 Washington State vs. #9 Arizona 8:15 PM PT
Fri., Mar. 13
3 #3 Arizona State vs. #6 USC 11:00 AM PT
4 #2 California vs. Game 1 Winner 1:15 PM PT
5 #1 Stanford vs. Game 2 Winner 5:00 PM PT
6 #4 UCLA vs. #5 Oregon State 7:15 PM PT
Sat., Mar. 14
7 Semifinal #1 6:00 PM PT
8 Semifinal #2 8:30 PM PT
Sun., Mar. 15
9 Championship Game 6:00 PM PT
My AWARD TIME:
Bob’s Frosh of the Year: Jazmine Perkins, WSU.
Bob’s All Frosh Team:
Perkins,
Nneka Ogwumike, Stanford,
Briana Gilbreath, USC,
Atonye Nyingifa, UCLA
April Cook, WSU
Bob’s Coach of the Year: Tara, 17-1, # 2 in the country, ‘nuff said.
Bob’s Player of the Year: Jayne Appel, Stanford. Who scored 29 points in the biggest game of the Year? On the final Day? When her team needed her to play the game of her life? All while ASU ran four 6-3 or taller post players at her.
All Pac 10 Team:
Appel, Stanford
Ashley Walker, Cal
Ify Ibekwe, Arizona
Briann January, ASU
Camille LeNoir, USC
Kayla Pederson, Stanford
Doreena Campbell, UCLA
Alexis Gray-Lawson, Cal
Brittany Davis, Oregon State
Jeanette Pohlen, Stanford
Honorable Mention:
Dymond Simon, ASU
Jill “The Trill” Harmon, Stanford
Micaela Cocks, Oregon
Jazmine Perkins, WSU
Sami Whitcomb, Washington
Most Improved: Jeanette Pohlen Stanford. Switches to the Point and still makes 71 Three’s with a number of games to go. Jeanette is currently tied for 9th place for most Three’s in a single Stanford season.
On to LA.
With Cal losing to ASU and Stanford beating ASU, Stanford’s margin is suddenly 2 games. With Cal and ASU tied for 2nd/3rd. The big surprise was Oregon State defeating both USC and UCLA to move into a tie for 4th/5th in the Conference.
Here is the Pac 10 Tournament Schedule.
Pac-10 Tournament
Thu. - Sun., Mar. 12-15, Galen Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Looks like only Saturday and Sunday are on TV.
Thu., Mar. 12
1 #7 Oregon vs. #10 Washington 6:00 PM PT
2 #8 Washington State vs. #9 Arizona 8:15 PM PT
Fri., Mar. 13
3 #3 Arizona State vs. #6 USC 11:00 AM PT
4 #2 California vs. Game 1 Winner 1:15 PM PT
5 #1 Stanford vs. Game 2 Winner 5:00 PM PT
6 #4 UCLA vs. #5 Oregon State 7:15 PM PT
Sat., Mar. 14
7 Semifinal #1 6:00 PM PT
8 Semifinal #2 8:30 PM PT
Sun., Mar. 15
9 Championship Game 6:00 PM PT
My AWARD TIME:
Bob’s Frosh of the Year: Jazmine Perkins, WSU.
Bob’s All Frosh Team:
Perkins,
Nneka Ogwumike, Stanford,
Briana Gilbreath, USC,
Atonye Nyingifa, UCLA
April Cook, WSU
Bob’s Coach of the Year: Tara, 17-1, # 2 in the country, ‘nuff said.
Bob’s Player of the Year: Jayne Appel, Stanford. Who scored 29 points in the biggest game of the Year? On the final Day? When her team needed her to play the game of her life? All while ASU ran four 6-3 or taller post players at her.
All Pac 10 Team:
Appel, Stanford
Ashley Walker, Cal
Ify Ibekwe, Arizona
Briann January, ASU
Camille LeNoir, USC
Kayla Pederson, Stanford
Doreena Campbell, UCLA
Alexis Gray-Lawson, Cal
Brittany Davis, Oregon State
Jeanette Pohlen, Stanford
Honorable Mention:
Dymond Simon, ASU
Jill “The Trill” Harmon, Stanford
Micaela Cocks, Oregon
Jazmine Perkins, WSU
Sami Whitcomb, Washington
Most Improved: Jeanette Pohlen Stanford. Switches to the Point and still makes 71 Three’s with a number of games to go. Jeanette is currently tied for 9th place for most Three’s in a single Stanford season.
On to LA.
March 3, 2009
Stanford moves into First Place.
Stanford finds itself alone in first place, one game ahead of both Cal and ASU. Three teams now playing for both the Conference Championship and the # 1 seed in the Pac 10 Tournament.
A word about the Tournament, OK a couple of numbers and more words. 900 or so cared enough to attend each of the two games at USC’s Galen Center. What in the word was the Pac 10 thinking? Maybe that 4,000 in San Jose was too many fans? Now we can get it down to less than 2,000? Crazy.
1. Stanford 24-4, 15-1: Beat UCLA 69-58. Kayla Pederson with 20 points and 7 rebounds and 3 of 5 from three. Jeanette Pohlen was 4 of 5 from three and scored 19 points. Jayne Appel had 5 assists and with Kayla, 3 blocked shots.
Beat USC 85-74 with 65 points from our 4 post players. Pederson and Appel scored 20apiece, Nneka 17 and Boothe 8. Stanford out rebounded USC 41-26.
Next Games: March 5 Arizona, March 7 ASU, TV
2. Cal, 23-4, 14-2: Beat USC 66-64. Alexis Gray-Lawson was 4 for 6 from three and scored 22 points. Ashley Walker had 12 points on 1 for 10 shooting, 13 rebounds, but 8 turnovers.
Lost to UCLA 71-56. Gray-Lawson went down with a knee sprain in the first half and at half time the score was 30-27, UCLA. Ashley Walker had 17 points and 11 rebounds and went over 2,000 points for her career. Devanei Hampton scored 11 points and went over 1,500 points for her career. Cal was plagued again by turnovers with 22.
Next Games: March 5 ASU, March 7 Arizona
2. Arizona State, 22-6, 14-2: Beat Washington 55-32, holding the Huskies to 8 first half points. Danielle Orsillo had 10 points, Lauren Lacey 9 rebounds.
Beat Washington State 77-35, holding two Pac 10 teams in the 30’s for the weekend. Dymond Simon scored 17 points and Becca Tobin had 9 points and 9 rebounds.
Next Games: March 5 at Cal, March 7 at Stanford, TV
4. USC, 14-13, 8-8: Lost to Cal 66-64. USC had 26 turnovers and still that was one less than Cal. Nadia Parker had 13 points, Camille LeNoir had 12 points.
Lost to Stanford 85-74. LeNoir led the way with 17 points, 9 assists and 4 steals. Nadia Parker added 15 points.
Next Games: March 5 at Oregon State, March 7 at Oregon
4. UCLA, 17-10, 8-8: Lost to Stanford 69-58. Darxia Morris scored 18 points to led the Bruins. Moniquee Alexander was tough on defense inside and had 8 rebounds. Doreena Campbell was held to 4 points, but did have 5 assists.
Beat Cal 71-56. Erica Tukiainen scored a career high 25 points on 11 for 16 from the floor including 3 for 5 for three. Morris added 18 points. UCLA shot 49% and out rebounded Cal by 9. Monquiee Alexander and Tierra Henderson were suspended prior to the game. I believe Alexander will be back and Henderson not. Yes it was to be Sr Day for Henderson.
Next Games: March 5 at Oregon, March 7 at Oregon State
6. Oregon State, 17-10, 7-9: Beat Oregon 70-41. Brittany Davis scored 21 points and Talisa Rhea 18 to lead the Beavers. They had only 10 team turnovers and shot 51%for the game.
Next Games: March 5 USC, March 7 UCLA
7. Oregon, 9-18, 5-11: Lost to Oregon State 70-41. The Ducks shot 15% in the
2nd half, had 20 turnovers and were out rebounded by 11.
Next Games: March 5 UCLA, March 7 USC
8. Arizona, 11-16, 4-12: Lost to Washington State 63-56. Ify Ibewke missed the game with a knee injury. Beatrice Bofia scored 11 points and had 12 rebounds. Amina Njonkou scored 16 points. The Wildcats shot only 30%.
Beat Washington 72-62. Ibewke also missed this game, but three frosh came up big. Courtney Clements scored 22 points followed by fellow frosh Reiko Thomas and Malia Nahinu with 13 points. Nahinu added 6 rebounds in only 16 minutes.
Next Games: March 5 at Stanford, March 7 at Cal
9. Washington State, 11-17, 4-13: Beat Arizona 63-56. Danielle LeNoir scored 15 points. Jazmine Perkins and April Cook each scored 12 and Cook had 5 assists.
Lost to ASU 77-35. April Cook scored 13 points. The Cougars committed 28 turnovers.
Next Games: March 6 Washington, TV
10. Washington, 6-21, 2-15: Lost to ASU 55-32, scoring only 8 first half points. The Huskies did have 11 steals.
Lost to Arizona 72-62. Laura McLennan scored 16 points on 8 of 9 shooting. WSU had 14 steals. MacKenzie Argens had 12 points and 6 rebounds and fouled out in 17 minutes.
Next Games: March 6 at Washington State, TV
A word about the Tournament, OK a couple of numbers and more words. 900 or so cared enough to attend each of the two games at USC’s Galen Center. What in the word was the Pac 10 thinking? Maybe that 4,000 in San Jose was too many fans? Now we can get it down to less than 2,000? Crazy.
1. Stanford 24-4, 15-1: Beat UCLA 69-58. Kayla Pederson with 20 points and 7 rebounds and 3 of 5 from three. Jeanette Pohlen was 4 of 5 from three and scored 19 points. Jayne Appel had 5 assists and with Kayla, 3 blocked shots.
Beat USC 85-74 with 65 points from our 4 post players. Pederson and Appel scored 20apiece, Nneka 17 and Boothe 8. Stanford out rebounded USC 41-26.
Next Games: March 5 Arizona, March 7 ASU, TV
2. Cal, 23-4, 14-2: Beat USC 66-64. Alexis Gray-Lawson was 4 for 6 from three and scored 22 points. Ashley Walker had 12 points on 1 for 10 shooting, 13 rebounds, but 8 turnovers.
Lost to UCLA 71-56. Gray-Lawson went down with a knee sprain in the first half and at half time the score was 30-27, UCLA. Ashley Walker had 17 points and 11 rebounds and went over 2,000 points for her career. Devanei Hampton scored 11 points and went over 1,500 points for her career. Cal was plagued again by turnovers with 22.
Next Games: March 5 ASU, March 7 Arizona
2. Arizona State, 22-6, 14-2: Beat Washington 55-32, holding the Huskies to 8 first half points. Danielle Orsillo had 10 points, Lauren Lacey 9 rebounds.
Beat Washington State 77-35, holding two Pac 10 teams in the 30’s for the weekend. Dymond Simon scored 17 points and Becca Tobin had 9 points and 9 rebounds.
Next Games: March 5 at Cal, March 7 at Stanford, TV
4. USC, 14-13, 8-8: Lost to Cal 66-64. USC had 26 turnovers and still that was one less than Cal. Nadia Parker had 13 points, Camille LeNoir had 12 points.
Lost to Stanford 85-74. LeNoir led the way with 17 points, 9 assists and 4 steals. Nadia Parker added 15 points.
Next Games: March 5 at Oregon State, March 7 at Oregon
4. UCLA, 17-10, 8-8: Lost to Stanford 69-58. Darxia Morris scored 18 points to led the Bruins. Moniquee Alexander was tough on defense inside and had 8 rebounds. Doreena Campbell was held to 4 points, but did have 5 assists.
Beat Cal 71-56. Erica Tukiainen scored a career high 25 points on 11 for 16 from the floor including 3 for 5 for three. Morris added 18 points. UCLA shot 49% and out rebounded Cal by 9. Monquiee Alexander and Tierra Henderson were suspended prior to the game. I believe Alexander will be back and Henderson not. Yes it was to be Sr Day for Henderson.
Next Games: March 5 at Oregon, March 7 at Oregon State
6. Oregon State, 17-10, 7-9: Beat Oregon 70-41. Brittany Davis scored 21 points and Talisa Rhea 18 to lead the Beavers. They had only 10 team turnovers and shot 51%for the game.
Next Games: March 5 USC, March 7 UCLA
7. Oregon, 9-18, 5-11: Lost to Oregon State 70-41. The Ducks shot 15% in the
2nd half, had 20 turnovers and were out rebounded by 11.
Next Games: March 5 UCLA, March 7 USC
8. Arizona, 11-16, 4-12: Lost to Washington State 63-56. Ify Ibewke missed the game with a knee injury. Beatrice Bofia scored 11 points and had 12 rebounds. Amina Njonkou scored 16 points. The Wildcats shot only 30%.
Beat Washington 72-62. Ibewke also missed this game, but three frosh came up big. Courtney Clements scored 22 points followed by fellow frosh Reiko Thomas and Malia Nahinu with 13 points. Nahinu added 6 rebounds in only 16 minutes.
Next Games: March 5 at Stanford, March 7 at Cal
9. Washington State, 11-17, 4-13: Beat Arizona 63-56. Danielle LeNoir scored 15 points. Jazmine Perkins and April Cook each scored 12 and Cook had 5 assists.
Lost to ASU 77-35. April Cook scored 13 points. The Cougars committed 28 turnovers.
Next Games: March 6 Washington, TV
10. Washington, 6-21, 2-15: Lost to ASU 55-32, scoring only 8 first half points. The Huskies did have 11 steals.
Lost to Arizona 72-62. Laura McLennan scored 16 points on 8 of 9 shooting. WSU had 14 steals. MacKenzie Argens had 12 points and 6 rebounds and fouled out in 17 minutes.
Next Games: March 6 at Washington State, TV
February 22, 2009
Off to Lala Land
Stanford and Cal travel to LA to play USC and UCLA and they continue to be tied for the Pac 10 lead. Right behind the two leaders is Arizona State, hoping for a NorCal slip in Lala land.
1. Stanford 22-4, 13-1: Beat Oregon State 72-43. Jayne Appel and Nneka Ogwumike each with 15 points. Appel also had 4 of Stanford’s 8 blocked shots. Jeanette Pohlen with 8 assists.
Beat Oregon 68-49 with Nneka Ogwumike scoring 13 points and gathered in 6 rebounds. Sarah Booth added 11 and Lindy LaRocque added 9 points. The Stanford reserves scored 35 points. Jeanette Pohlen scored 11 points and added 7 assists.
Next Games: Feb 27 at UCLA, March 1 at USC.
1. Cal, 22-3, 13-1 Beat Oregon 84-42. Ashley Walker scored 24 and had 11 rebounds. Four other players scored 10 or 11 points including Shantrell Sneed who had 10. Cal out rebounded Oregon by 16 and had 9 less turnovers, while shooting 54%
Beat Oregon State 62-40 as the Bears and Stanford stayed tied for first place. Ashley Walker broke the Cal career rebounding record in this game, and ended up with 20 points and 9 rebounds. Lauren Greif had 6 assists and Cal shot 51%.
Next Games: Feb 27 at USC, March 1 at UCLA. TV
3. Arizona State, 20-6, 12-2: Beat Arizona 60-53, coming from 14 points down to defeat the improving Wildcats. Dymond Simon scored 18 points, Danielle Orsillo added 11 points, Briann January had 5 assists and Becca Tobin had 9 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26, Washington, Feb 28, Washington State
4. USC, 14-11, 8-6: Beat Washington State 68-57. Nadia Parker had a double, double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, although she was only 3 for 13 from the field. Camille LeNoir had 15 points, 6 assists but 5 turnovers. USC had 21 turnovers and shot only 40% in the win.
Beat Washington 77-53. Leading scorers were Brynn Cameron with 13, Parker with 12 and Brianna Gilbreath with 11 points. Kari LaPlante had 6 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. USC had a total of 7 blocked shots.
Next Games: Feb 27, Cal, March 1, Stanford
5. UCLA, 16-9, 7-7: Lost to Washington 59-49. Atonye Nyingifa had a double, double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Darxia Morris came off suspension to score 13 points. However no one else made more than 2 shots from the floor. The Bruins had 23 turnovers and shot 30%.
Beat Washington State 65-50 as Doreena Campbell returns with a passion and scored 24 points. No one else had more than 9 points and UCLA committed 25 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 27 Stanford, March 1, Cal, TV
6. Oregon State, 15-10, 6-9: lost to Stanford 72-43. Brittany Davis scored 12 points but Oregon State shot only 30% for the game.
Lost to Cal 62-40 while shooting only 32%. Brittany Davis scored 16 points but also had 6 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 28, Oregon
7. Oregon, 9-17, 5-10: Lost to Cal 84-42. Ellie Manou and Taylor Lilly both had 10 points, bet interestingly Manou, the Duck Center, had zero rebounds. The Ducks shot only 31%. Michaela Cocks, Oregon’s leading scored only had 3 points on 1 from 9 shooting.
Lost to Stanford 68-49. Manou had 9 points and 9 rebounds. Lilly scored 12 and Cocks 10. The Ducks shot 29% for the floor.
Next Games: Feb 28 at Oregon State
8. Arizona, 10-15, 3-11 Lost to ASU 60-53 at home before 4,100 fans. Arizona led by 14 at one point but couldn’t hold on. Ify Ibekwe led the Wildcats with 10 points and I believe a Pac 10 best for the season 20 rebounds. Both Ashley Frazier and Country Clements had 13 points, although Clements was 4 for 18.
Next Games: Feb 26, Washington State, Feb 28, Washington
9. Washington State, 10-16, 3-12: Lost to USC 68-57. The Cougars had 26 turnovers and shot only 35%. Jazmine Perkins scored 17 points, and had 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 turnovers, and 5 steals. April Cook scored 16 points. Elbonee Coates had 13 rebounds but 7 turnovers.
Lost to UCLA 65-50. While UCLA had 25 turnovers Washington outdid them with 28 of their own. Jazmine Perkins had 13 points and April Cook scored 12 points with 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26 at Arizona, Feb 28 at ASU
10. Washington, 6-19, 2-13: Beat UCLA 59-49 to break a school record 12 game losing streak. Laura McLennan came off the bench to lead all scorers with 16 points. The Huskies truly did it with mirrors as they had 22 turnovers and their two big scorers, Sami Whitcomb and Kristi Kingma were only 3 of 16 from the floor.
Lost to USC 77-53. Washington shot only 30% and had 8 players between 4 and the high of 8 points. Christina Rozier had 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26 at ASU, Feb 28 at Arizona
1. Stanford 22-4, 13-1: Beat Oregon State 72-43. Jayne Appel and Nneka Ogwumike each with 15 points. Appel also had 4 of Stanford’s 8 blocked shots. Jeanette Pohlen with 8 assists.
Beat Oregon 68-49 with Nneka Ogwumike scoring 13 points and gathered in 6 rebounds. Sarah Booth added 11 and Lindy LaRocque added 9 points. The Stanford reserves scored 35 points. Jeanette Pohlen scored 11 points and added 7 assists.
Next Games: Feb 27 at UCLA, March 1 at USC.
1. Cal, 22-3, 13-1 Beat Oregon 84-42. Ashley Walker scored 24 and had 11 rebounds. Four other players scored 10 or 11 points including Shantrell Sneed who had 10. Cal out rebounded Oregon by 16 and had 9 less turnovers, while shooting 54%
Beat Oregon State 62-40 as the Bears and Stanford stayed tied for first place. Ashley Walker broke the Cal career rebounding record in this game, and ended up with 20 points and 9 rebounds. Lauren Greif had 6 assists and Cal shot 51%.
Next Games: Feb 27 at USC, March 1 at UCLA. TV
3. Arizona State, 20-6, 12-2: Beat Arizona 60-53, coming from 14 points down to defeat the improving Wildcats. Dymond Simon scored 18 points, Danielle Orsillo added 11 points, Briann January had 5 assists and Becca Tobin had 9 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26, Washington, Feb 28, Washington State
4. USC, 14-11, 8-6: Beat Washington State 68-57. Nadia Parker had a double, double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, although she was only 3 for 13 from the field. Camille LeNoir had 15 points, 6 assists but 5 turnovers. USC had 21 turnovers and shot only 40% in the win.
Beat Washington 77-53. Leading scorers were Brynn Cameron with 13, Parker with 12 and Brianna Gilbreath with 11 points. Kari LaPlante had 6 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. USC had a total of 7 blocked shots.
Next Games: Feb 27, Cal, March 1, Stanford
5. UCLA, 16-9, 7-7: Lost to Washington 59-49. Atonye Nyingifa had a double, double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Darxia Morris came off suspension to score 13 points. However no one else made more than 2 shots from the floor. The Bruins had 23 turnovers and shot 30%.
Beat Washington State 65-50 as Doreena Campbell returns with a passion and scored 24 points. No one else had more than 9 points and UCLA committed 25 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 27 Stanford, March 1, Cal, TV
6. Oregon State, 15-10, 6-9: lost to Stanford 72-43. Brittany Davis scored 12 points but Oregon State shot only 30% for the game.
Lost to Cal 62-40 while shooting only 32%. Brittany Davis scored 16 points but also had 6 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 28, Oregon
7. Oregon, 9-17, 5-10: Lost to Cal 84-42. Ellie Manou and Taylor Lilly both had 10 points, bet interestingly Manou, the Duck Center, had zero rebounds. The Ducks shot only 31%. Michaela Cocks, Oregon’s leading scored only had 3 points on 1 from 9 shooting.
Lost to Stanford 68-49. Manou had 9 points and 9 rebounds. Lilly scored 12 and Cocks 10. The Ducks shot 29% for the floor.
Next Games: Feb 28 at Oregon State
8. Arizona, 10-15, 3-11 Lost to ASU 60-53 at home before 4,100 fans. Arizona led by 14 at one point but couldn’t hold on. Ify Ibekwe led the Wildcats with 10 points and I believe a Pac 10 best for the season 20 rebounds. Both Ashley Frazier and Country Clements had 13 points, although Clements was 4 for 18.
Next Games: Feb 26, Washington State, Feb 28, Washington
9. Washington State, 10-16, 3-12: Lost to USC 68-57. The Cougars had 26 turnovers and shot only 35%. Jazmine Perkins scored 17 points, and had 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 turnovers, and 5 steals. April Cook scored 16 points. Elbonee Coates had 13 rebounds but 7 turnovers.
Lost to UCLA 65-50. While UCLA had 25 turnovers Washington outdid them with 28 of their own. Jazmine Perkins had 13 points and April Cook scored 12 points with 8 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26 at Arizona, Feb 28 at ASU
10. Washington, 6-19, 2-13: Beat UCLA 59-49 to break a school record 12 game losing streak. Laura McLennan came off the bench to lead all scorers with 16 points. The Huskies truly did it with mirrors as they had 22 turnovers and their two big scorers, Sami Whitcomb and Kristi Kingma were only 3 of 16 from the floor.
Lost to USC 77-53. Washington shot only 30% and had 8 players between 4 and the high of 8 points. Christina Rozier had 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 26 at ASU, Feb 28 at Arizona
February 15, 2009
A Tie for First Place
1. Stanford 20-4, 10-1: Beat Cal 58-41 before a sellout crowd. Jayne Appel with 22 points and 14 rebounds and Jillian Harmon with 18 points. Great D by Ros and Lindy LaRocque and the Play of the Year by Lindy. Stanford outscored Cal 30-4 at one point. 8 straight 20 win seasons by Stanford.
Next Games: Feb 19, Oregon State, Feb 21 Oregon
1. Cal, 20-3, 11-1: Lost to Stanford 58-41 as Lexi Gray-Lawson was held to 4 points. Cal shot 31% for the game, 13% from three and had only 7 assists to 17 turnovers. Ashley Walker and Lauren Greif both scored 11 to lead the Bears.
Next Games: Feb 19, Oregon, Feb 21, Oregon State, TV
3. Arizona State, 19-6, 11-2: Beat USC 72-69 at USC. Dymond Simon scored 15 points and three players, Kayli Murphy, Briann January and Danielle Orsillo all scored 10 points. Becca Tobin scored 6 and had 13 rebounds. ASU shot 46% but had 22 turnovers, 7 by Simon.
Beat UCLA, winning their 2nd game in a row on the road by 3, 69-66. This was a school record 11th straight win for the Sun Devils. Briann January hit 4 three’s and had 21 points, Dymond Simon scored 19 points. January added 5 assists and was one of three ASU players with 3 steals. ASU had 15 steals for the game.
Next Games: Feb 21 at Arizona
4. USC, 12-11, 6-6: Lost to ASU 72-69 as Camille LeNoir’s last second three attempt bounced off the rim. Ashley Coral hit 3 three’s and ended with 19 points. LeNoir scored 15 points and Brianna Gilbreath scored 13 points. USC had 14 steals, 4 each by Gilbreath and Brynn Cameron. Those of you worried about getting tickets for the LA weekend or the Pac 10, the “crowd” was 862.
Lost at home to 2 win Arizona 74-61. USC was 9 for 37 from three and shot 29% for the game. Heather Oliver scored 15 and Brynn Cameron 13. USC took 39 more shots than Arizona and lost.
Next Games: Feb 20 at Washington State, Feb 22 at Washington
4. UCLA, 15-8, 6-6: Beat Arizona 58-39. The Bruin defense held Arizona to 22% from the floor. Erica Tukiainen scored 21 points to lead the Bruins. Doreena Campbell scored 12 points and had 9 rebounds. Atonye Nyingifa scored 9 points and had 10 rebounds. Before the game, not sure when, Darxia Morris was suspended. Candice Brown is now out for the season with an injury.
Lost to ASU 69-66. UCLA our rebounded the Sun Devils by 9, but committed 22 turnovers and lost despite shooting 50% from the floor. Tukiainen had 17 points, Campbell 15 and Nyingifa 13 for the Bruins. This really hurts the Bruins NCAA chances.
Next Games: Feb 20 at Washington, Feb 22 at Washington State
6. Oregon State, 15-8, 6-7: Beat Washington 77-63. The Beavers had three big scorers, Brittany Davis with 20, Alex Mitchell with 19 and Talisa Rhea with 18 points. Kristen Tilleman had 10 rebounds. Cedes Fox-Griffin had 11 points, 5 assists and only 1 turnover.
Beat Washington State 52-42. Tiffany Ducker had 12 points and maybe a Pac 10 high for the year 17 rebounds. Cedes Fox-Griffin 10 points and 7 steals.
Next Games: Feb 19 at Stanford, Feb 21 at Cal, TV
7. Oregon, 9-15, 5-8: Lost to Washington State 58-45. Amanda Johnson had her first double, double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Taylor Lilly missed the game with a concussion suffered last week. Oregon shot only 29% and had only 5 assists.
Beat Washington 77-69. Michaela Cocks was 4 of 5 from three and scored 19 points. Amanda Johnson had a career high 18 points. Ellie Manou scored 18 points and gathered in 9 rebounds. Taylor Lilley returned to action and had 6 assists although also 7 turnovers. The Ducks won despite 26 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 19 at cal, Feb 21 at Stanford
8. Washington State, 10-14, 3-10: Beat Oregon 58-45 in Eugene. The Ducks shot only 29% and had 5 assists for the game. Jazmine Perkins had 17 points 8 rebounds, 4 (of the team’s total 10) assists and 6 (half the team’s total) turnovers. April Cook added 17 points, including 3 three’s.
Lost to Oregon State 52-42 as they scored only 12 first half points while shooting 14%. Jazmine Perkins led the Cougars with 17 points and 7 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 20, USC, Feb 22, UCLA
8. Arizona, 10-14, 3-10: Lost to UCLA 58-39. 22% from the floor, only 4 assists and 19 turnovers resulted in only 38 points. Ify Ibekwe continues to lead with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 5 steals, however she was only 2 for 14 from the floor.
Beat USC in a shocker 74-61 at USC. Arizona shot 60% from the field. Despite 28 turnovers and losing the rebound battle by 10 the Wildcats won. Ibekwe scored 27 points and had 8 rebounds to lead the Wildcats.
Next Games: Feb 21, ASU
10. Washington, 5-18, 1-12: Lost to Oregon State 77-63. Sami Whitcomb had a game high 23 points making 5 of 9 three’s. Technicals on Christina Rozier and Liz Lay didn’t help.
Lost to Oregon 77-69. Sami Whitcomb had 26 points and 5 steals, but 6 turnovers. Kristi Kingma added 14 points. Laura McLennan had 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 20 UCLA, Feb 22, USC
Next Games: Feb 19, Oregon State, Feb 21 Oregon
1. Cal, 20-3, 11-1: Lost to Stanford 58-41 as Lexi Gray-Lawson was held to 4 points. Cal shot 31% for the game, 13% from three and had only 7 assists to 17 turnovers. Ashley Walker and Lauren Greif both scored 11 to lead the Bears.
Next Games: Feb 19, Oregon, Feb 21, Oregon State, TV
3. Arizona State, 19-6, 11-2: Beat USC 72-69 at USC. Dymond Simon scored 15 points and three players, Kayli Murphy, Briann January and Danielle Orsillo all scored 10 points. Becca Tobin scored 6 and had 13 rebounds. ASU shot 46% but had 22 turnovers, 7 by Simon.
Beat UCLA, winning their 2nd game in a row on the road by 3, 69-66. This was a school record 11th straight win for the Sun Devils. Briann January hit 4 three’s and had 21 points, Dymond Simon scored 19 points. January added 5 assists and was one of three ASU players with 3 steals. ASU had 15 steals for the game.
Next Games: Feb 21 at Arizona
4. USC, 12-11, 6-6: Lost to ASU 72-69 as Camille LeNoir’s last second three attempt bounced off the rim. Ashley Coral hit 3 three’s and ended with 19 points. LeNoir scored 15 points and Brianna Gilbreath scored 13 points. USC had 14 steals, 4 each by Gilbreath and Brynn Cameron. Those of you worried about getting tickets for the LA weekend or the Pac 10, the “crowd” was 862.
Lost at home to 2 win Arizona 74-61. USC was 9 for 37 from three and shot 29% for the game. Heather Oliver scored 15 and Brynn Cameron 13. USC took 39 more shots than Arizona and lost.
Next Games: Feb 20 at Washington State, Feb 22 at Washington
4. UCLA, 15-8, 6-6: Beat Arizona 58-39. The Bruin defense held Arizona to 22% from the floor. Erica Tukiainen scored 21 points to lead the Bruins. Doreena Campbell scored 12 points and had 9 rebounds. Atonye Nyingifa scored 9 points and had 10 rebounds. Before the game, not sure when, Darxia Morris was suspended. Candice Brown is now out for the season with an injury.
Lost to ASU 69-66. UCLA our rebounded the Sun Devils by 9, but committed 22 turnovers and lost despite shooting 50% from the floor. Tukiainen had 17 points, Campbell 15 and Nyingifa 13 for the Bruins. This really hurts the Bruins NCAA chances.
Next Games: Feb 20 at Washington, Feb 22 at Washington State
6. Oregon State, 15-8, 6-7: Beat Washington 77-63. The Beavers had three big scorers, Brittany Davis with 20, Alex Mitchell with 19 and Talisa Rhea with 18 points. Kristen Tilleman had 10 rebounds. Cedes Fox-Griffin had 11 points, 5 assists and only 1 turnover.
Beat Washington State 52-42. Tiffany Ducker had 12 points and maybe a Pac 10 high for the year 17 rebounds. Cedes Fox-Griffin 10 points and 7 steals.
Next Games: Feb 19 at Stanford, Feb 21 at Cal, TV
7. Oregon, 9-15, 5-8: Lost to Washington State 58-45. Amanda Johnson had her first double, double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Taylor Lilly missed the game with a concussion suffered last week. Oregon shot only 29% and had only 5 assists.
Beat Washington 77-69. Michaela Cocks was 4 of 5 from three and scored 19 points. Amanda Johnson had a career high 18 points. Ellie Manou scored 18 points and gathered in 9 rebounds. Taylor Lilley returned to action and had 6 assists although also 7 turnovers. The Ducks won despite 26 turnovers.
Next Games: Feb 19 at cal, Feb 21 at Stanford
8. Washington State, 10-14, 3-10: Beat Oregon 58-45 in Eugene. The Ducks shot only 29% and had 5 assists for the game. Jazmine Perkins had 17 points 8 rebounds, 4 (of the team’s total 10) assists and 6 (half the team’s total) turnovers. April Cook added 17 points, including 3 three’s.
Lost to Oregon State 52-42 as they scored only 12 first half points while shooting 14%. Jazmine Perkins led the Cougars with 17 points and 7 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 20, USC, Feb 22, UCLA
8. Arizona, 10-14, 3-10: Lost to UCLA 58-39. 22% from the floor, only 4 assists and 19 turnovers resulted in only 38 points. Ify Ibekwe continues to lead with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 5 steals, however she was only 2 for 14 from the floor.
Beat USC in a shocker 74-61 at USC. Arizona shot 60% from the field. Despite 28 turnovers and losing the rebound battle by 10 the Wildcats won. Ibekwe scored 27 points and had 8 rebounds to lead the Wildcats.
Next Games: Feb 21, ASU
10. Washington, 5-18, 1-12: Lost to Oregon State 77-63. Sami Whitcomb had a game high 23 points making 5 of 9 three’s. Technicals on Christina Rozier and Liz Lay didn’t help.
Lost to Oregon 77-69. Sami Whitcomb had 26 points and 5 steals, but 6 turnovers. Kristi Kingma added 14 points. Laura McLennan had 10 rebounds.
Next Games: Feb 20 UCLA, Feb 22, USC
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