JerryYeagley23

Still very proud of these ladies. It was always a tough draw right when we saw it on selection Sunday. You had the UCONN era. Now you have the SC era. Not much you can do. It’s a big discrepancy in talent in the women’s game between the good and the elite.

I don’t know how to say this without getting canceled, but to try and be PC, our lack of diversity is obvious when we play really athletic teams. We struggle in these games.

Need to start going over on the screens. Going under is giving them too much space to shoot 3s.

For as poor as we’re shooting, positive to only be down one. Gotta start hitting from distance.

I don’t know, but I would definitely take Johnell Davis if he was willing to listen to IU. Originally from Gary, IN.

The NCAA would lose half of its viewership if the fighting Caitlin’s got bounced before the sweet sixteen, so…

The foul discrepancy for Iowa is borderline laughable. I get that CC has done good for the women’s game but they get the benefit of some generous calls.

Man, the Big XII must have been a bruiser of a conference this year. I thought that was as physical of a game as we’ve played all year. And now WV is bodying Iowa all over the court and held them to 6 pts in the second qtr.

This is the same IU team that beat Iowa by 17. Just got to get hot from deep.

I can still remember Bruce pearl painting his chest and sitting in the student section for a TN women’s game. So yeah, it’a definitely good PR. But also just a general courtesy between basketball program leadership.

Vegas swearing this last possession. Miss, remind foul to cover.

Yep. Woody, not so much.

Let’s gooooo!!!!

These flagrant 1 looks are getting ridiculous. Contact with the head happens. Get over it. You’re gonna tell me she intentionally elbowed her nose WHILE concentrating on making the layup?? Come on man.

Yarden and Scalia a combined 1-11 from the field. We can’t win if we don’t hit perimeter shots.

This is a 4/5 game, this is what should be expected. Tough game. If Sara and Yarden get a couple threes to go down it should open up the paint.

Let’s goooo ladies!!

Ohio St about to go down.

Teri is pretty singularly focused right now as you’d expect, but the staff is definitely monitoring the portal. I think they have a plan for the type of player that fits their system and is of need and they’ll keep a list of good fits and let them know we’re interested in talking after we finish our business on the court.

Sheesh. Talk about a propaganda piece. Do we give NIL to journalists for positive press pieces now?

Touché. Fun to think about, although we’re probably in the wrong thread and I don’t want to derail. I guess it all comes back to roster construction and what your basic offensive and defensive philosophies are that you institute. Maybe that’s the unfortunate part in questioning whether we would have been better or worse with different guys/skill sets, because I don’t really know what philosophies we’re committed to or run for the most part.

Agree it’s a guards game. And to that extent a 3-pt shot game in the modern era. But if we were outplayed in a majority of our games this year, what does that look like with MR and Sparks as our only bigs?? MR gets two early fouls and we play Sparks for 12 minutes in the first half? Wares rim protection alone being 7-ft was the only thing that kept teams from penetrating for layups with ease. Because our perimeter D was brutal at keeping guys in front of them. Again, all hypothetical, but without Ware, I think we win 15 games even upgrading guards. Which really makes the point that Woody needs to find another top-5 big in the portal (ala Ware) AND get two guards like Domask and Williams. Cause we lost Sparks and MR isn’t going to suddenly get quicker feet and stop fouling. Big challenge for Woody this portal.

I’m with you on this. I think Mack will be good to go and only rest for the sake of rest, not the injury. Gotta think, this is her last collegiate games. She is going to want to play and give us everything she’s got. The injury isn’t a pain tolerance thing, she feels great. It’s always been a risk of the knee cap going out again thing. And we limited her and protected against that because we had more season left and would rather not risk missing her for the end. But now we don’t need to save her for anything. Obviously she’s got pro aspirations and nobody wants her to get injured. But if it goes out again, she’s got plenty of time to rehab it. Gotta take that chance now and leave it all out there.

Just for the banter because it’s all hypothetical, respectfully I think we might have actually been worse in that scenario. Even with better guards, if we had to rely on MR to be our only big and rim protector with the way he fouls… we were a below average rebounding team WITH Ware. Reneau and Sparks as our front court would have been multiple additional losses even if Domask and Williams took Cupps/Leal’s minutes. I think Ware actually might somehow have been under appreciated because of our season and to some extent splitting post touches with MR. He single-handedly won us a few games IMO. Wish him well in the league and hope he continues to develop.

I live in SEC country. The money is unbelievably different. But don’t sleep on the Bloomington women. They would hold their own on any campus down here.