But it's a bummer when some of your players are better paid than you are.
WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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Oh, good grief. What's the point of this? Nobody cares about the WNIT, nobody is going to care of the NCAA's WNIT. It's like football bowl games, lets have 40 of them! I guess the real point is to kill the WNIT, there really isn't room for both.
"Women's basketball is at an all-time high with records being set for national championship and Final Four viewership, and the tournament was the most viewed since 2009," said Jamie Boggs, chair of the Division I Women's Basketball Oversight Committee. - ESPN
Thing is there is interest and demand for good hoops. There isn't interest and demand for second tier play except for the school playing. I'm a pretty big WBB fan but I didn't watch a minute of the WNIT this year. I'd watch if Cyclones or Gophers were in it, but that's it.
The reason is EQUALITY - the NCAA conducts this tournament for the men so they felt they had to do it fo the women.
What would be interesting is if first-round losers in the NCAA get an automatic bid to the WNIT. So it would kinda be a post-post season tourney (to avoid sheer mediocrity).
In theory, it sounds interesting. In practice, I bet most first-round losers would decline.What would be interesting is if first-round losers in the NCAA get an automatic bid to the WNIT. So it would kinda be a post-post season tourney (to avoid sheer mediocrity).
ISU had big interest when men and women were in the NIT a few years back with both games at Hilton the same day. March 17, 2004. Women played Idaho State (72-59) and the men played Georgia (82-74). They followed it up with two more games on March 25 against St Joesephs and Marquette…both wins. They set the attendance record for women’s basketball with a sold out crowd of 14,092.
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Former Cincinnati WBB player Florence Sifa passed away unexpectedly on Monday.
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https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/florence-sifa-obituary?id=52499359
There's a strong ISU connection here -- when Ines Nezerwa came to the US, she was following in the footsteps of Sifa, her best friend in Burundi. Sifa played two years at Jacksonville CC, and Nezerwa joined her for the second year. They wanted to play Div I together, but NCAA eligibility issues made it impossible to find a school that would take a chance on both.
Cincinnati Athletics Mourns the Loss of Florence Sifa
The University of Cincinnati athletics department mourns the loss of Florence Sifa, a former women's basketball student-athlete, who passed unexpectedly on Monday.
There's a strong ISU connection here -- when Ines Nezerwa came to the US, she was following in the footsteps of Sifa, her best friend in Burundi. Sifa played two years at Jacksonville CC, and Nezerwa joined her for the second year. They wanted to play Div I together, but NCAA eligibility issues made it impossible to find a school that would take a chance on both.
Women's Basketball: Ines Nezerwa's journey from Burundi to Iowa State
In May, Ines Nezerwa sat in her aunt's apartment in New York City, unsure of where to turn. She'd come so close. The most recent addition to the Iowa State women's basketball roster lived throu…
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Well the Hawkeye hype yrain continues to gather speed. Iowa season tkts sold out.
Yeah, rivalry aside, quite the accomplishment. They are not planning on any single game ticket sales (per DSM register IIRC). Might mess up my return to William's to watch young Gopher's and new coach if this spills over to close by roadies. Between COVID and Gophs not being any good I haven't been in a few years.
I could, jokingly, ask if they use the same "sold out" techniques they do for football?
When we played in the Insight Bowl in 2000, Tennessee WBB was in town, same hotel, to play outdoors versus Arizona State.
At least the exhibition in Iowa is just that, exhibition, and not a real game outside in December! I remember over inflating the ball so it would bounce better in the cold after shoveling snow off my own home "court" 50 years ago
They are charging $10 or $20 if you want the Carver option in case of bad weather.
JP needs to take the Dec meeting in Hilton to a minimum of $25/tkt on all single game tickets for that game. No kid prices at all. Make some money of the Hawkeye Hype train.
USA U21 won the 3-on-3 FIBA for the first time. The USA U21 even beat the USA U23 on their way to winning it. I noticed because my local Gophers were represented by sophomore Mara Braun, Minnesota gal we also recruited for the class of 2022.
www.startribune.com
Gophers sophomore Mara Braun helps lead Team USA to 3x3 gold medal
Gophers basketball standout Mara Braun was one of Team USA's leading scorers, as the squad won the FIBA 3x3 Nations League tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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Killing time before a nice long fall bike ride and been surfin' some WBB stuff and ran across a mail bag from The Athletic that list top five non-conference matchup to watch. Two Midwest games made the list including rival Iowa vs. conference foe KSU.
theathletic.com
3. Iowa vs. Kansas State, Nov. 16.
The Hawkeyes also have that Virginia Tech matchup, which will be a good one, but I’m excited for this one to see how Iowa coach Lisa Bluder schemes against Ayoka Lee. The 6-6 post missed last season after undergoing knee surgery, but this game has a chance to be a real matchup of fireworks: Clark from the outside and Lee on the inside.
4. UConn at Minnesota, Nov. 19.
Don’t get me wrong, the UConn-UCLA and UConn-UNC games will tell us a lot more about the Huskies. But we love sports for the storylines that exist off the court, too. And this game is the ultimate “What Could’ve Been” for Gopher fans. As Bueckers returns home, Minnesota fans will get a glimpse of their homegrown player at The Barn.
Can Caitlin Clark take Iowa on another tourney run? Women’s college basketball mailbag
LSU, South Carolina and ...? Which other teams are championship contenders? Chantel Jennings answers your mailbag questions.
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