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(By the way, for numbering purposes, this is my rant #1 in the "Destiny Pitts Suspended & Taiye and Kehinde Bello Do Not Travel with Team to Illinois" thread .) Until Destiny Pitts posted her intention to transfer, I refrained from posting on this thread. Partially since the facts were sketchy...

It would have been nice to have been able to afford running a triangle-and-double-Bellos (front and back) on Czinano, but then Kathleen Doyle and friends probably would have just beaten our triangle. What was working well for a while was sprinting a guard onto the back side of her for a tie-up...

Double posts later with Taiye in second half tho. Not sure why it wasn’t Kehinde tho. Maybe Kehinde was ill? Or maybe she was punished more?

Why did she not clank it off the rim on Taiye’s side of the lane for the potential tip in?

And the Gophers lose by one Pitts.

@adamj95, how dare you say something like that! You have just lost any respect that you ever might have had on this message board.

> Personally, I support Coach Whalen and the team and have been there through thick and thin for 17 years. Thanks! I, and other fans, and I'm sure Lindsay, and Destiny, and Taiye, and Kehinde, and all the rest of the team appreciate your support. Hopefully, compared to the thick and thin of...

At this seemingly crucial juncture of the Big-Ten season, this augments Iggy's post of NCAA RPI and Strength of Schedule through games of 1-12-20 with Warren Nolan's projected End-of-Season RPI, End-of-Season SoS and End-of-Season Conf W-L EoS RPI EoS SoS EoS Conf Team Cur RPI Cur SoS Cur...

I don't know if Sara got any other scholarship offers, although I suspect she did. But I also suspect that her heart was always in favor of playing for Minnesota, assuming they offered her, somewhat like Rachel Banham and Carlie Wagner. Watching her playing in the MN State Tournament her senior...

> They won on the back of the Gopher’s difficult situation, and the remaining players played hard. Both true points. After suffering through the Illinois video, and then re-watching our own highlight reel, I realized a few things, including how much Illinois leveraged our misfortune to their...

Ironic that the loss comes on a combination of (a) inability to get the ball inbounds, plus (b) hitting only 9 of 18 free throws by the best free-throw shooting team in the Big Ten. (To clarify a bit, before this game we were shooting free throws at a .768 clip as a team, including .748 for the...

I think it’s fair to say that there’s a high probability that this game is a donation to the Illini charity fund. 14 points in the paint for Illinois in the first quarter.

Well, I guess we’ll see which of the bench players are ready to contribute. And rely on Scalia and Diva for threes. Re the latter ... The game notes for this Illinois game point out that in Big-Ten play (only) Sara Scalia leads the B1G with a .500 three-point shooting percentage. And Pitts is...

The only silver linings are that Diva was able to regain her confidence and put the team on her back (although in the end, her back wasn’t big enough to support the foibles of the rest of the team plus the coaching staff). Plus, Kehinde held her own and played physical ball against NW (she got...

Through the first 14 games of the season (and 282 minutes of playing time) Jasmine Powell earned a 44th place 2.14 assist-to-turnover ratio via 45 assists and 21 turnovers. In 11 minutes of playing time during the 15th game, she logged 1 assist and 6 turnovers, pushing her down to a 46/27 = 1.7...

Not sure I agree with that degree of punishment. If one were to bench every player who made a really silly (and unprovoked) turnover in this game, then we probably don’t have five healthy/eligible/un-benched players left to finish out the game.

I kinda liked the side-by-side statistics, so I thought I’d do it again. Here's the season-to-date statistics for selected primary players from Northwestern and Minnesota. (The phrase “equivalent to” means the player has insufficient data to qualify for that spot on the NCAA rankings, but that...

Not sure, but I suspect that the @bball_craz_26 phrase “will be available” is referring to 2020-21 season. Unless there is such a thing as transferring in Spring term and then becoming available in January between Fall term and Spring term mid-season. I dunno. Also, there is Cumming who we...

Some notes on offense, defense, turnover margin, rebounds, and small ball versus double posts ... Clearly, there were several aspects to the Gophers coming up short in Nebraska (and similarly versus Ohio State). At Nebraska, generating offense was a real problem. > Really poor shooting ...

The fact that her +/- is low merely reflects the fact that Taiye is not playing (since up til now they’ve played mostly one at a time). When Sconiers subs for Taiye, it’s probably approximately equally low. +/- is a nearly useless statistic. If either Klarke or Kehinde have a low +/- then that...