Wednesday, November 3rd is the first Pac 10 Women’s Basketball game. 8 of the 10 teams will open with an exhibition game or two before starting the official non conference games. Here are the starting dates by school:
Arizona: Nov 4 and 7 exhibition games, Nov 12 the first non conference game is at Wichita State.
ASU: Nov 7 exhibition then start Nov 12 against Northern Arizona
Cal: Nov 4 exhibition against Vanguard then Nov 12 against Rutgers
Oregon: Nov 3 and Nov 7 exhibition games, Nov 13, Western Oregon
Oregon State: No exhibition games, Nov 13 Long Beach State
UCLA: Nov 8 vs Vanguard then Nov 12 at San Diego State
USC: No exhibitions, they start with Gonzaga on Nov 12.
Washington: Nov 3 exhibition then start with Portland State on Nov 14
Washington State: Nov 7 Exhibition, then Nov 12 at St Mary’s
I mentioned Vanguard as we play them Nov 6th and the Vanguard Coach is the Samuelson’s Travel Coach and was Jeanette’s Travel Coach.
Strength of Schedule: I thought it would be interesting to see who is playing tough non conference games, then found that the rankings weren’t out as I wrote this. So I used Charlie Crème’s last April preview of this season where he listed his top 64 teams for 2010-2011. My ranking scale is as follows:
If a team is ranked in the Top 10, the Pac 10 team playing them gets 10 points then:
11-20 = 8 points
21-30 = 6 points
31-40 = 4 points
41-50 = 2 points
51-64 = 1 point
Probably I could be more finite, like more for a top 5 team than a team ranked 6-10, but here it is:
1. Stanford, 52
2. USC, 44
3. ASU, 33
4. UCLA, 20
5. Cal, 16
6. Washington State, 12
7. Arizona, 10
8. Washington, 6
9. Oregon State, 5
10. Oregon, 0
Three Point Shooting: What teams might be the best? Always a hard one before the first game but it could be Stanford. Here’s a run down of last year’s top 3 point shooting teams by 3 pointers made, with some comments on how that may or may not carry forward to this season.
1. Oregon: 284 at 35%. Top 2 with 171 graduated
2. Stanford: 237 at 34% 3-4 with 74 graduated
3. USC: 192 at 34% 2-3-4 with 85 graduated
4. WSU: 162 at 26%
5. Arizona: 152 at 31%
5. Cal: 151 at 27% Top shooter by far graduated
7. UCLA: 126 at 34% Top shooter graduated
8. Washington: 101 at 32% Top shooter graduated
9. Oregon State: 90 at 27% All gone
10. ASU: 88 at 29% Top shooter graduated
Stanford returns more who made 3’s than any team in the conference.
USC plays Biola University on Tuesday Nov 9th, at the Galen Center, in their only exhibition game.
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