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PostPosted: 10/20/21 1:02 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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If UT and OU were in the SEC now, where do you think they would fall in this preseason poll?


Texas - probably around the 4-6 area, Oklahoma - around the 7-10 area....


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RHSibley wrote:
If UT and OU were in the SEC now, where do you think they would fall in this preseason poll?


Texas - probably around the 4-6 area, Oklahoma - around the 7-10 area....


Thanks! That sounds very likely.
I know this is a South Carolina thread, so I apologize for the interruption, but just curious about Oklahoma's new coach and how she will do. OU plays Oregon and Mississippi State this year, and so that and the Big XII schedule should give us an idea.


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Conway Gamecock wrote:
RHSibley wrote:
If UT and OU were in the SEC now, where do you think they would fall in this preseason poll?


Texas - probably around the 4-6 area, Oklahoma - around the 7-10 area....


Thanks! That sounds very likely.
I know this is a South Carolina thread, so I apologize for the interruption, but just curious about Oklahoma's new coach and how she will do. OU plays Oregon and Mississippi State this year, and so that and the Big XII schedule should give us an idea.
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Oklahoma’s first (non-exhibition) game will be in Vermillion against our South Dakota Coyotes. The game will be streamed on goyotes.com. Then, 3 days later, the Yotes take on South Carolina in Sioux Falls!


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Thanks, Hoopsmom! Can't wait!


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The Gamecocks get their first commit of the 2022 cycle: 5-star and overall #18 ESPN Hoopgurlz PG prospect Talaysia Cooper, who announced today....


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PostPosted: 10/31/21 11:34 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

South Carolina starts it's pre-season prep Monday Nov. 1st with an exhibition against Benedict College, a Division II program out of Columbia. Saturday however, they wrapped up their pre-season prep prep with a live scrimmage against the North Carolina Tarheels, in the old Carolina Coliseum that now serves as the practice courts for the MBB and WBB programs.

private scrimmages against separate teams are typically - or they may be by NCAA rule, I dunno - played with little to no announcements, no public spectators, no media, no boxscore stats, and no official wins or losses. They are just scrimmages, like recreation park pick-up games. Except in this case, it was between two P5 programs.

But some highlights of the scrimmage were put out on twitter:

https://twitter.com/GamecockWBB/status/1454954237486637060


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PostPosted: 11/01/21 11:22 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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South Carolina starts it's pre-season prep Monday Nov. 1st with an exhibition against Benedict College, a Division II program out of Columbia. Saturday however, they wrapped up their pre-season prep prep with a live scrimmage against the North Carolina Tarheels, in the old Carolina Coliseum that now serves as the practice courts for the MBB and WBB programs.

private scrimmages against separate teams are typically - or they may be by NCAA rule, I dunno - played with little to no announcements, no public spectators, no media, no boxscore stats, and no official wins or losses. They are just scrimmages, like recreation park pick-up games. Except in this case, it was between two P5 programs.

But some highlights of the scrimmage were put out on twitter:

https://twitter.com/GamecockWBB/status/1454954237486637060




South Carolina beat D-II Benedict 98-41. Starting guard Zia Cooke had apparently sprained her ankle during practice prior to the game or perhaps during the scrimmage with UNC, and did not play. She was listed as "day-to-day", but folks who were able to attend the game stated she was there with no brace or boot and walked around fine, so hopefully she will be ready to go on the 9th next Tuesday. They didn't need her though.

The Gamecocks started out really slow. They were not hitting shots well initially, while Benedict was flinging in 3-ptrs and perimeter jumpers early on. The Gamecocks only led 20-17 through the 1st period, and only led 24-22 at the 8:20 mark of the 2nd period.

They then turned up the volume, and out-scored Benedict 24-3 to close out the 1st half, and 50-16 for the 2nd half.

Transfer Kamilla Cardoso led the Gamecocks with 18 pts in 22 minutes on 8-9 shooting. She added 13 rebounds and 3 blocks. Aliyah Boston had a quiet 12 pts, 7 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals in 18 minutes. Laeticia Amihere also added 12 pts in 16 minutes, with 5 boards and 4 assists. Freshman Saniya Rivers chipped in 11 pts.

Brea Beal, Eniya Russell (who subbed in with the starting unit for Cooke), and freshman Raven Johnson each added 8 pts apiece. Johnson also tied Destanni Henderson for the team lead with 7 assists. Beal also had 9 rebounds to go with her points....


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PostPosted: 11/01/21 11:24 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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Transfer Kamilla Cardoso led the Gamecocks with 18 pts in 22 minutes on 8-9 shooting. She added 13 rebounds and 3 blocks. Aliyah Boston had a quiet 12 pts, 7 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals in 18 minutes.


I wonder if Cardoso and Boston are gonna steal votes from each other when it comes to postseason awards. To be clear, that's a good problem to have.



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PostPosted: 11/10/21 4:34 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

South Carolina escapes Raleigh with the win 66-57. The opening test is passed - a very tough, physical game again, for the 2nd game in a row.

These games with North Carolina State are nothing for the Gamecocks. The Wolfpack has dominated the overall series: the Gamecocks' program rose initially to powerhouse status in the early 1980s, but quickly fell back down to Earth from the Pam Parsons years of unpleasantness, while the Wolfpack program was a more stable and consistent mainstay in the top of WCBB over the decades under the leadership of Kay Yow.

The Gamecocks and Wolfpack first played each other during the 1977-78 season - the Pack held a 20-11 lead in the series: the Gamecocks were 3-2 versus NC State under Staley, winning the first 3 under her leadership but losing the last two games. Now with this season's win, the games with NC State in the Dawn Staley era are as follows:

Jan. 4th, 2009: 56-55 South Carolina (Raleigh)
Dec. 13th, 2009: 74-71 South Carolina (Columbia)
Dec. 12th, 2010: 77-63 South Carolina (Columbia)
Dec. 4th, 2011: 55-53 N.C. State (Raleigh)
Dec. 3rd, 2020: 54-46 N.C. State (Columbia)
Nov. 9th, 2021: 66-57 South Carolina (Raleigh)

An average MOV of 6.2 pts, even with the one 14-pt. final score. Hopefully we continue to schedule home and home match-ups against them, and also get some games scheduled with UNC now that Sylvia Hatchell is no longer there: Hatchell came from Francis-Marion College out of Florence, S.C., just a stones throw from Conway S.C. where I live, and had a powerhouse AIAW Small-College and then a powerhouse NAIA WBB program there before being hired at UNC.

She worked very hard to dominate recruiting in S.C. for prep prospects in our state, as the UNC MBB program had for generations, and did not want to schedule in-season games with USC unless they were on her terms, like at the "Carolinas Challenge" invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. for many years (by "Carolinas" it was NOT SOUTH Carolina). But that ended in 2018 along with Hatchell's coaching career, so perhaps there'll be some home and home games scheduled in the future....


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PostPosted: 11/17/21 1:36 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Ashlyn Watkins commits and signs with the Gamecocks - joins signee Talaysia Cooper for the 2022 cycle. This concludes the scheduled portion of the 2022 recruiting cycle, for your Gamecocks......


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PostPosted: 11/21/21 7:03 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

South Carolina improves to 5-0 on the season with a 80-63 win against Oregon, who is missing some key players to injury. It was 78-49 around the final 5 minutes of the game - then Dawn Staley emptied her bench and they were out-scored 14-2 the rest of the way. So there's some things for the coaches to work on.

This sets up a big showdown game with #2 ranked Connecticut tomorrow for the Battle 4 Atlantis championship. Between the bigs, The Huskies have some questions: Nelson-Ododa, Edwards, and Transfer Jukasz are averaging a combined 16.0 ppg on 21-38 (.553) shooting, 13.3 rpg, 1.7 blocks, and 1.7 steals. That's compared to the Gamecocks' Boston, Amihere, and Cardoso combining for 29.2 ppg on 56-104 (.539) shooting, and 16.6 rpg, 4.8 blocks, and 2.6 steals.

This is a decisive advantage towards the Gamecocks. The Huskie bigs are still not stepping up in bigger games - in their semifinal game against South Florida - a tightly-contested 60-53 win - their "Big Three" combined for 7 points on 3-7 shooting, and 14 rebounds. They were out-rebounded as a team by USF 34-29 and out-scored in the paint 20-16.

But then we look at the guard play for CT. Clearly, the guards are the leaders offensively for Connecticut. But South Carolina is shooting as many threes as CT and doing it slightly better (31-78 for 39.7% for 5 gms vs 24-65 for 36.9%). Also, the Gamecocks are defending against the 3 much better, holding opponents to shooting 18-71 (25.4%) from the three, compared to CT holding their opponents to shooting 23-66 (34.8%).

Overall, the Gamecocks have been the more balanced offensive team, seeing scoring from BOTH the perimeter and the paint, while CT have mostly been more one-dimensional, needing the lion's share of offense from Beuckers, Williams, and Fudd. This could be a problem for them tomorrow.

We shall see....


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PostPosted: 11/22/21 3:18 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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South Carolina improves to 5-0 on the season with a 80-63 win against Oregon, who is missing some key players to injury. It was 78-49 around the final 5 minutes of the game - then Dawn Staley emptied her bench and they were out-scored 14-2 the rest of the way. So there's some things for the coaches to work on.

This sets up a big showdown game with #2 ranked Connecticut tomorrow for the Battle 4 Atlantis championship. Between the bigs, The Huskies have some questions: Nelson-Ododa, Edwards, and Transfer Jukasz are averaging a combined 16.0 ppg on 21-38 (.553) shooting, 13.3 rpg, 1.7 blocks, and 1.7 steals. That's compared to the Gamecocks' Boston, Amihere, and Cardoso combining for 29.2 ppg on 56-104 (.539) shooting, and 16.6 rpg, 4.8 blocks, and 2.6 steals.

This is a decisive advantage towards the Gamecocks. The Huskie bigs are still not stepping up in bigger games - in their semifinal game against South Florida - a tightly-contested 60-53 win - their "Big Three" combined for 7 points on 3-7 shooting, and 14 rebounds. They were out-rebounded as a team by USF 34-29 and out-scored in the paint 20-16.

But then we look at the guard play for CT. Clearly, the guards are the leaders offensively for Connecticut. But South Carolina is shooting as many threes as CT and doing it slightly better (31-78 for 39.7% for 5 gms vs 24-65 for 36.9%). Also, the Gamecocks are defending against the 3 much better, holding opponents to shooting 18-71 (25.4%) from the three, compared to CT holding their opponents to shooting 23-66 (34.8%).

Overall, the Gamecocks have been the more balanced offensive team, seeing scoring from BOTH the perimeter and the paint, while CT have mostly been more one-dimensional, needing the lion's share of offense from Beuckers, Williams, and Fudd. This could be a problem for them tomorrow.

We shall see....



South Carolina vs Connecticut Round 1: South Carolina 73-57.


It went about as I predicted *pats self on back* - The CT bigs were NOT a match against the Gamecock bigs: Nelson-Ododa was CT's best "big", with 6 pts on 3-4 shooting in 34 minutes, with 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 blocks and 2 steals. She played solid defense, but was not more of an offensive factor despite converting on 75% of her shot attempts, for reasons unknown. She has a career-long tendency as a Huskie to disappear or be a non-factor in the bigger games, only to sprout up in strong fashion against opponents who are not CT's equal in size and height in the paint.

Juhasz and Edwards combined for 8 pts on 4-10 shooting. Edwards had 6 on 3-6 of those: as with ONO, seems she could have been more of an offensive factor seeing as how she shot reasonably well in 22 minutes of play, but she wasn't. Juhasz played 19 minutes with 3 fouls and 5 turnovers to go with her 1-4 shooting. She did NOT stand up to the high expectations Huskie Nation laid out for her in the pre-season. Both Edwards and Juhasz pulled down 3 rebounds each.

So ONO, Edwards, and Juhasz combined for 14 pts on 7-14 shooting, with 11 rebounds, 6 blocks, 5 assists, 3 steals, 8 fouls, and 9 turnovers.

The post group of Gamecocks "bigs" of Boston, Cardoso, Amihere, and Saxton combined for 29 pts on 13-25 shooting, with 26 rebounds, 2 blocks, 4 assists, 2 steals, 7 fouls, 6 turnovers.

CT won the defensive post presence battle in terms of shot blocks, but the Gamecocks had fewer turnovers and fouls with 1 extra player, and had easily the most points and rebounds. The vast majority of this came from Boston alone, while Cardoso produced a good number of rebounds. Amihere and Saxton were mostly unproductive.

The guard play match-up was not the total slam-dunk as many expected, either. In last season's game, Bueckers rose above the fray and was the only Huskie to score in double-digits. She scored 30+ pts with the help of an overtime period. Today, combined with Westbrook's 14 pts and Williams' 10 pts, the trio scored the majority of the CT points, going for 43 pts on 15-35 shooting, and 3-7 from the 3-pt. line. No other guard for CT scored.


The duo of Henderson and Cooke held up their side, combining for 32 pts on 13-32 shooting, and 2-9 from the three. Littleton provided some scoring help with 2-4 shooting from the 3-pt. line, and 6 pts, while Beal also added 6 pts on 3-6 shooting.

So that's 44 pts combined on 18-42 shooting for USC. 1 more point than Bueckers/Williams/Westbrook scored. Add to that the dominant performance of the Gamecocks posts compared to CT's, and South Carolina DID present the more balanced, all-around offensive effort than what Connecticut could muster. Production from BOTH the front AND back courts.

For this game alone, at least, I nailed it...... Smile


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The #1 South Carolina Gamecocks (9-0, 0-0 SEC) host the #8 Maryland Terrapins (9-2, 1-0 Big 10) Sunday Dec. 12th 3 p.m. for the Jimmy V Classic.

Maryland, who has dealt with some injury attrition for recent games, still has a question if their junior starting guard Diamond Miller (knee) will be ready to play. There is no question however as to South Carolina's starting senior PG Destanni Henderson (thigh): she will NOT be available for the game.


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With how good South Carolina plays defense and rebounds, how poorly will they have to shoot the ball to actually lose a game? Put another way, what is the lowest FG% they could shoot and still win? Their offense has not been good but it just doesn't matter! Curious to hear thoughts on this.



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PostPosted: 12/19/21 8:09 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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With how good South Carolina plays defense and rebounds, how poorly will they have to shoot the ball to actually lose a game? Put another way, what is the lowest FG% they could shoot and still win? Their offense has not been good but it just doesn't matter! Curious to hear thoughts on this.


We have been slumping a bit in shooting. Not sure if this has something to do with Henderson being out of the lineup these past games.

The team actually wasn't doing too badly to start the season up until the past 3-4 games: we had improved over last season in all three categories of total FG %, 3-pt. FG % and FT %. The team is still ranked in the top 30 in WCBB in total FG % at 46.1%, and were in the top 50 in 3-pt. FG% but now slid to 83rd at 33.9%.

Unfortunately, a large source for this slippage has been our SG Zia Cooke. Cooke is one of our top 3 scorers along with Boston and Henderson. With Henderson being out with her injury, this has been even more compounded, and it's a reason why the team has only been averaging in the low 70s in PPG instead of being in the low 80s.

Over the past 4 games, Cooke has shot 11-50 (22.0%) from the field, and only 4-26 (15.4%) from the 3-pt. line. Minus her struggles, the team would still be shooting 289-601 (48.1%), which would be tied with NC State for 4th in the nation, and 56-151 (37.1%) from the three, which would be around top 20 in the nation for 3-pt. FG %.

As to free-throw %, the entire team overall is the culprit for this. In the past 3 games (Kansas St., Maryland, and Duke), the team has shot 36-71 (50.7%) from the charity stripe. Until the Kansas St. game, the team had shot 103-144 (71.5%) from the line, which is not outstanding but pretty decent.

Since no one plays defense against the free throw, this is just a case of lost focus and discipline at the line, and can be fixed as long as the players wish for it to be. I hope they do, because SEC play is typically a more physical style of play that involves lots of fouls and lots of opportunities at the FT line, and we must take advantage of those to our best abilities. But I should also point out that Henderson is the team's best FT shooter, and she has been removed from the equation lately.

So overall, I don't know that I would agree with the Gamecocks offense not being good: now lately we're without one of the top 3 scorers, while another of the top 3 is struggling, averaging 10.3 ppg over those last 4 games (this includes a 20-pt. effort vs Maryland, where Zia was 8-10 at the FT line).

Folks have been focused on the injury impact on Connecticut in recent games, but we've had our own share of it too. We've just been better able to utilize our depth than they have, and we had the deeper depth to begin with, despite what Huskie Nation wanted to believe.....


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PostPosted: 12/19/21 8:23 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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With how good South Carolina plays defense and rebounds, how poorly will they have to shoot the ball to actually lose a game? Put another way, what is the lowest FG% they could shoot and still win? Their offense has not been good but it just doesn't matter! Curious to hear thoughts on this.


To more directly answer your question, though - South Carolina's most recent game on the road against Duke, was their worst-shooting game thus far this season. They shot 20-57 (35.1%) from the field, including 7-22 (31.8%) from the arc.

The 55 pts they scored are easily the lowest offensive output thus far: to be true, they've scored 65, 66, and 55 pts against Kansas St., Maryland, and Duke, which rank as being tied for 9th, 10th, and 11th worst outputs out of 11 games played. The 66 vs MD ties the season-opening output vs NC State.

USC is ranked 7th in the nation in FG % Defense, allowing just 32.1% through 11 games. They are 12th in Scoring Defense, allowing 50.2 ppg. I guess as long as we average above those, we'll do OK.

Clearly, the offensive production has dropped with Henderson out of the lineup: we're poor in true PG presence right now, utilizing 6-4 F Amihere as our Point, but of course the ball distribution and getting the ball into the best hands in the best position to score efficiently has taken a huge hit due to all this.

Coach Staley is always close to vest in two specific things: letting recruiting information leak out to local news sources, and in injury status. Henderson has never been anything but "day-to-day". We'll have 6 days since the Duke game when we take on Stanford - Henderson has not appeared in a game since the North Carolina A&T one on November 29th. That will be a full three weeks away from game action. I'm hoping that Destanni will be ready to go for the Trees this Tuesday.....


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South Carolina enters Conference play 12-0 and universally ranked #1. They are scheduled to play at 11-2 Missouri in Columbia, MO tonight at 7:00 pm, and everything looks to be full go for that game.

The Omicron variant of Covid however, is already making its mark on the Gamecock's schedule: the Sunday game versus Ole Miss has been postponed at this time, as the Rebels experienced some positives on their team.

USC Head Coach Dawn Staley stated that they are looking to find a replacement game for Sunday, so stay tuned....


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After losing it's SEC season opener at Missouri, some good news: South Carolina has found a replacement for the Ole Miss game which was postponed for this Sunday, and will face Mississippi STate instead. The Rebels had already had their conference opener with Florida Thursday postponed - they will now play USC Sunday, then travel to Kentucky Monday in a back-to-back schedule.

Both South Carolina and Mississippi State were scheduled to play Ole Miss twice this season, but each other only once. Not sure how all this will unfold....


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After losing it's SEC season opener at Missouri, some good news: South Carolina has found a replacement for the Ole Miss game which was postponed for this Sunday, and will face Mississippi State instead. The Rebels had already had their conference opener with Florida Thursday postponed - they will now play USC Sunday, then travel to Kentucky Monday in a back-to-back schedule.

Both South Carolina and Mississippi State were scheduled to play Ole Miss twice this season, but each other only once. Not sure how all this will unfold....


OK, just found out Miss State's game Monday with UK has been postponed, so that explains a lot. They didn't want to open the SEC season with two back-to-back postponements....


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Congratulations to South Carolina's Aliyah Boston who today was named the Naismith Trophy Player of the year as well as the Defensive Player of the Year. Head Coach Dawn Staley also won the Coach of the Year honors for the 2nd time in the last 3 years.

The Naismith Trophy awards were expanded to these 3 awards for the first time in 2018, and this season was the first time they were swept by the same program. Staley also was awarded the Coach of the Year honors from the United States Basketball Writers Association today as well.

Boston (16.8 ppg, 12.2 rpg, 2.5 bpg) was also named one of five finalists for the Wooden Award, joining Iowa's Caitlin Clark, Michigan's Naz Hillmon, Kentucky's Rhyne Howard, and Baylor's NaLyssa Smith.....


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PostPosted: 03/31/22 10:12 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I think POY was decided back in October. And the voters were a bit lazy in the defensive POY award. She's good, but there are others who could be honored as well. It seems like overkill to give everything to one player.


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Not sure it's overkill, as more of a "she deserved it" thing. She was consistent all season in every phase of the game.


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Not sure it's overkill, as more of a "she deserved it" thing. She was consistent all season in every phase of the game.


As were others. I think it could easily have gone to someone like Veronica Burton, who has been stellar defensively her entire career. And it would mean something special to her. I just like to spread the wealth...and awards.


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I think POY was decided back in October. And the voters were a bit lazy in the defensive POY award. She's good, but there are others who could be honored as well. It seems like overkill to give everything to one player.


To say that others were as deserving as Boston, is to say that Boston was as deserving as the others. So to say that a player who is as deserving of the awards as anyone else, shouldn't be awarded just the same, seems unnecessarily punitive against Boston, and for little to no reason. Your opinion in this thread is worthless. Keep that trash out of the thread, please.....


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myrtle wrote:
Gamecock1 wrote:
Not sure it's overkill, as more of a "she deserved it" thing. She was consistent all season in every phase of the game.


As were others. I think it could easily have gone to someone like Veronica Burton, who has been stellar defensively her entire career. And it would mean something special to her. I just like to spread the wealth...and awards.


Veronica Burton is a great WBB player, but she led her team to a 8-8 conference record, and didn't even lead the team in rebounds. How much of an offensive impact do you think she had on her team, compared to Boston's impact on her team?

And if you mean defensively, Northwestern was out-shot, out-scored, out-rebounded, and out-played by their conference opponents this season. Overall, it's almost the same thing - they barely out-scored their opposition by 3 ppg or so. Would be setting a precedent to award the national DPOY award to a player on a poor defensive team. Boston has been the defensive anchor for her team, which was a nationally elite defensive team.

Like I said, take that trash out of this thread.....


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