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I went back only 3 games, hoping to capture that “better lately” effect, but unfortunately those 3 included both an off night for Powell and one of Diva’s two-game mini-slump games. Powell’s 7-game .333 shooting is more typical as of late (thanks for that stat @whalenfan). Not a Scalia or a...

The lineup @Shades mentions is the most likely lineup at this point against Michigan. If Brunson and Scalia are marginal, no sense risking making their injuries worse (and perhaps risking the rest of their seasons) by playing them prematurely. Assuming Scalia and Brunson don’t start, then if...

Youngblood makes some interesting comments in his Sunday piece. His update on health of Brunson and Scalia doesn’t sound all that promising, at least for Monday anyway. He points out that we’re not out of the hunt for an NCAAs invite just yet (and notes that our better SoS thanks to stronger...

1st Half: REB Minn 28 Wisc 17 A Minn 6 Wisc 2 TO Minn 2 Wisc 8 PF Minn 6 Wisc 8 Points Minn 43 Wisc 19 2nd Half: REB Minn 15 Wisc 16 A Minn 2 Wisc 8 TO Minn 15 Wisc 4 PF Minn 14 Wisc 10 Points Minn 30 Wisc 45 Basketball fundamentals win halves!

Somewhat similar to the Rutgers game, Wisconsin beat us in most of the statistics. They won the statistics battle for assists, field-goal percentage, turnovers, steals, blocks and personal fouls. How then did we manage to beat the Badgers? Mainly (and similar to Rutgers) by winning the rebound...

Finally a great inbounds play. Masha runs from left wing to right corner, attracting attention. Diva with a great screen on Kehinde’s defender so she can head straight to the hoop. Masha’s defender too far out to help. Watch the video version in the highlights - it’s pretty. Great observation...

As of 2/7/2020, with 6 games left in our regular Big-Ten season, all we did recently was squeak by Wisconsin in Madison (afflicted with a facsimile of our typical 4th quarter woes), yet there's movement (based on other teams' results) in the Big-Ten rankings. Here’s the Big-Ten Conference...

One could bill this game as a showdown between the current (approximately) 2nd and 3rd place front-runners for the Katrina McClain Award for the best Power Forward. There's lots of ways one could rank power forwards, but since I just did it (based largely on double-doubles and offensive...

Problem is, Kylie Miller (for instance) in Volleyball was day to day for over a month. Was the shot to the chin the one from the intentional elbow? Or from the floor hitting the chin on the (maybe intentional) trip?

I’m not suggesting she’s going to win the award, nor should she under the circumstances. I wrote this from two perspectives. One to say, oh look, Destiny *was* on a trajectory toward possibly (or maybe the correct word is probably) being among the 5 finalists for this award (before everything...

Minutes between fouls: Hubbard: infinity Powell: 40 Scalia: 32 Adashchyk: 8.3 Sconiers: 7 Kehinde Bello: 5.6 Taiye Bello: 3.8 Tomancova: 2.3 Minutes between turnovers: Tomancova: infinity Kehinde Bello: infinity Attributed to Team: 40 Adashchyk 25 Hubbard: 17.5 Scalia: 16 Sconiers: 14 Powell...

What a night for Powell. And for Adaschyk and Scalia too. Couldn’t have done it without both Bellos. And two fouled out Bellos is a scary thought.

As you know, Taiye Bello is on the 20-person Watch List for the 2020 Katrina McClain Power Forward Award. For more on that award, see http://www.hoophallawards.com/mcclain.php . Last year, the winner was Napheesa Collier (UConn), who was drafted by the Lynx and went on to become the WNBA Rookie...

As you know, Destiny Pitts is on the 20-person Watch List for the 2020 Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard Award. For more on that award, see http://www.hoophallawards.com/drysdale.php (last year's winner was Asia Durr of Louisville). I was planning to put in a last-minute vote for Destiny, but...

GREAT!! But for a different reason. I’m glad the U didn’t unpay her Winter term that her scholarship probably already paid for. She’s gonna have to sit idle for 3 major semesters of basketball, so it would add insult to injury to cause her to sit idle academically for a semester too. > If she...

That’s so hilarious. But I do believe you’re reporting what you saw, not just making it up.

I did a little googling, and near as I can tell, there’s no clear path foul rule in NCAA, only in NBA and WNBA. Seems dangerous not to have that rule. Also, if you trip a fast breaker one millisecond before they shoot, in my opinion that should be called a shooting foul. It’s obvious that...

If I remember that play, Brunson got tripped from what looked like behind, on a fast break that she otherwise would have made, and they called a foul, but we just got the ball out of bounds (if I remember correctly) as they didn’t call it a shooting foul. She got tripped up so fast/hard that she...

Iggy's last post is the correct RPI/SoS as of 2-2-2020 (with now-corrected date). I think it's useful to sort in order of Current RPI (referenced post) as well as in order of estimated End of Season RPI - which I'll update in this post as of 2-3-2020 (with Current stats having only minor...

Thanks! So, Taiye's tie (at 15) for second most Free Throw Makes (spoken about in the Recap) is actually a tie with Rachel Banham. Right behind them (at 14 FT Makes) is an 8-way tie - and among that tie are Kenisha Bell, Rachel Banham again (twice), and (how cool!) Lindsay Whalen. To beat out...