WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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Crazy that top 15 features only 4 from the top 4 teams in the league.
I think that means those teams have balance.
Right now I think the odd person out is going to be Brown. Her performances over the last half dozen games Have dropped off on the offensive side. That is what tends to show up for coaches voting.
Brown has dropped to #15 in scoring but is still #4 in rebounds and #3 in assists so still has an overall great stat line except for #2 in TO's. Heck, in most years that would be good enough for Freshman of the Year.
Crooks and Booker will be unanimous and Booker will be Freshman of the Year.
Coaches need to collude so there's a tie somewhere and all six great freshman make the freshman team.
Oklahoma wins at Cincinnati, 95-87.
Sooners are the first to clinch a top-4 spot and earn the double bye.
Sooners are the first to clinch a top-4 spot and earn the double bye.
| F 21 | F 24-25 | F 27-28 | M 2-3 | |
| OKL (13-2)* | vs OSU | vs TEX | vs KAN | |
| TEX (11-3) | vs TTU | at UCF | at OKL | vs BYU |
| KSU (11-3) | vs WVU | at KAN | vs ISU | at TTU |
| WVU (11-3) | at KSU | vs BAY | at OSU | vs TCU |
| ISU (8-6) | at HOU | vs BYU | at KSU | vs CIN |
| KAN (8-6) | at BAY | vs KSU | at UCF | vs OKL |
| BAY (8-6) | vs KAN | at WVU | at CIN | vs OSU |
| OSU (5-9) | vs UCF | at OKL | vs WVU | at BAY |
| BYU (5-9) | vs TCU | at ISU | vs HOU | at TEX |
| TTU (5-9) | at TEX | vs CIN | at TCU | vs KSU |
| HOU (4-10) | vs ISU | at TCU | at BYU | vs UCF |
| CIN (4-11) | at TTU | vs BAY | at ISU | |
| TCU (3-11) | at BYU | vs HOU | vs TTU | at WVU |
| UCF (3-11) | at OSU | vs TEX | vs KAN | at HOU |
Hadn't thought much about Big 12 player of the year until I ran across this article. They have Madison Booker. With pre-season pick Harmon out with ACL the POY doesn't seem obvious. Ayoka Lee has missed a bunch of games or otherwise it might have been her as the net choice. Guess if Texas manages to get a piece of the title it could very well be Booker.
Who do you peeps think is POY? Booker? JJ Quinerly? Skylar Vann?
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How about we give Booker POY and than give Crooks FOY?
Who do you peeps think is POY? Booker? JJ Quinerly? Skylar Vann?
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How about we give Booker POY and than give Crooks FOY?
So much fun watching Indiana beat the hoks by 17 in Bloomington in front of 17,000+. They held CC to 24 points on 8-26 shooting, 3-16 from deep. Iowa shot 18% from beyond the arc as a team. The LOSS knocks them to third place in the Big 10.
Place looked PACKED. What cool a moment for them.So much fun watching Indiana beat the hoks by 17 in Bloomington in front of 17,000+. They held CC to 24 points on 8-26 shooting, 3-16 from deep. Iowa shot 18% from beyond the arc as a team. The LOSS knocks them to third place in the Big 10.
On the day declared “CC day” by the state, too.So much fun watching Indiana beat the hoks by 17 in Bloomington in front of 17,000+. They held CC to 24 points on 8-26 shooting, 3-16 from deep. Iowa shot 18% from beyond the arc as a team. The LOSS knocks them to third place in the Big 10.
What a great environment for a game.
I think the crazy thing about Clark's 24 points is that she had 20 in the first half and only 4 in the second.So much fun watching Indiana beat the hoks by 17 in Bloomington in front of 17,000+. They held CC to 24 points on 8-26 shooting, 3-16 from deep. Iowa shot 18% from beyond the arc as a team. The LOSS knocks them to third place in the Big 10.
Indiana really put the clamps on her in the 2nd half, did a really good job defensively, she was struggling to get clean looks. Hoosiers are a good team.
Again…I’ve alluded to how you beat Iowa. First thing is limiting everyone but Clark and Iowa only had one scorer outside of her. Indiana then hit the trifecta by shutting Clark down. I felt so bad.
as for freshman of the year. While Booker has some nice stats and plays the flashy position, I look at Crooks in the meat grinder position. To me that is what really separates her from Booker. The top stat that folks look at is scoring and Crooks leads that category without the benefit of the three pointer.
Counterpoint: Texas is the #5 team in the country.
I'm not saying who should win it. I'm saying who will win it. There's a reason Booker was one of only three freshmen in the country (and the only one in the Big 12) to be named to the Naismith mid-season list.
Sometimes you don't "lose" an award, you just get "beat" for it. Like in MLB with Ohtani being MVP one year and Judge the next. I am a Judge fan but Ohtani also had an MVP year in 2022 the year Judge won. Crooks and Booker have both been great in league play but Booker playing PG as a forward as an emergency sub and keeping them Top 10 is the tie breaker. Unless they figure a way to have Booker as POY and Crooks as FOY.
Booker has stepped into the shoes of the consensus pre-season pick for POY (Harmon) and played like she's the POY. Doesn't fit our typical fan scenario that ISU, our players and Bill aways somehow get screwed by some sort of coaches bias against ISU and other silly nonsense.
It all comes down to voting. Bill can't vote for Audi, and Vic can't vote for Booker. It comes down to the other 12 coaches in the league.