Soares out

[BoxsterCy]

Now, the loss of Jordao is even more significant. So much for this being the year that we could match up with frontcourts of other top teams. Fortunately, we have tons of offensive firepower, grit, and team-orientation. It can still be a great year, just more similar to recent years than we had expected.

I am still thinking Sweet Sixteen and a share of the Big 12 as success points for measuring the season. We'll need to play smarter and with more discipline and throw in a bit more defense (if we can). We didn't get outed last year by a team with a better front court or a team with greater talent. This current roster, minus Jordao, finished ranked as #10. Same roster again but plus Fritz and minus Jordao.

We have been a bit lucky over the years with not seeing many ACL injuries. Maybe the only one of similar impact was Nicky Wieben. Everybody was thinking that was a death knell for the team but the team rallied, especially Jocelyn Anderson.

 

[barometriclow]

Anderson really bloomed

 

[mred]

As @acoustimac suggested earlier in the thread:



When the appeal (if applied for) is inevitably denied, please don't accuse the NCAA of screwing us over. The NCAA has been wishy-washy on things like immediate eligibility vs sitting out a year, penalties for breaking rules, issues regarding foreign players, etc. But for clear-cut matters of what counts as a season vs not when the player has attended college solely in the US (not the Nezerwa case, which was somewhat complicated), I believe they have been extremely consistent. And in this case, Soares is out of eligibility after this season.

 

[Cyfan1965]

It looked pretty inocuuous. It looked like she turned her torso, but her lower body didn't flex and it twisted her knee. She went down right away.

That is when you know it is a bad one. I knew from the second I saw it she was done for the year so this is not shock at all. SUCKS! big time but not a surprise-

 

[ISUCubswin]

As @acoustimac suggested earlier in the thread:



When the appeal (if applied for) is inevitably denied, please don't accuse the NCAA of screwing us over. The NCAA has been wishy-washy on things like immediate eligibility vs sitting out a year, penalties for breaking rules, issues regarding foreign players, etc. But for clear-cut matters of what counts as a season vs not when the player has attended college solely in the US (not the Nezerwa case, which was somewhat complicated), I believe they have been extremely consistent. And in this case, Soares is out of eligibility after this season.

Agreed, but still blows my mind how punk ass ******* like Jordan Bohannon and Cordell Pemsl can pick and choose which games they’re going to play in to make sure they can get that medical redshirt and Soares, who had an immediate injury benching her for the year, will likely be denied.

 

[CY9008]

Completely different circumstances, but Inès Nezerwa got her waiver approved for an extra year. Hopefully some good ISU women’s basketball juju.

 

[mred]

Completely different circumstances, but Inès Nezerwa got her waiver approved for an extra year. Hopefully some good ISU women’s basketball juju.

For anyone interested, I spelled out Ines' playing career and what appeared to be the waiver reasoning in a post here: https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...rney-to-iowa-state.271378/page-2#post-8308339

 

[theshadow]

10 games is the limit for basketball. The NCAA standardized hardship calculation rules this year to use the maximum number of allowed dates as the denominator instead of the actual number of games scheduled.

For basketball, with an MTE on the schedule, the official denominator is 32.

30% of 32 is 9.6, which rounds up to 10.

So you can play in up to 10 games (out of the first 16) and still be in line to receive a medical hardship. Anything beyond that is a no-go.

 

[CY9008]

Off topic here, but Nezerwa turns 30 this year.

 

[mred]

The NCAA standardized hardship calculation rules this year to use the maximum number of allowed dates as the denominator instead of the actual number of games scheduled.

That's good to know, and the rule change makes sense with the semi-frequent postponements and cancellations. It would be horrible for a cancelled game to be the difference between qualification and not qualifying for medical hardship.

 

[qwerty]

According to this article, ISU will appeal for another year for Soares, but she doesn't know if she would take it, even if granted.

Iowa State women's basketball's Stephanie Soares getting strong support during time of uncertainty

Iowa State star Stephanie Soares will undergo ACL surgery Thursday. The Register's Tommy Birch spoke with Soares about her future.

www.desmoinesregister.com