JerryYeagley23

Don’t know exactly why, but Brenda Freese is right up there with the Mulkey lady from LSU as my least favorite women’s basketball coaches. The way she stalks the sideline. Something about her just rubs me the wrong way.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Syd rests up and gets healthy with a target of returning for the Iowa game. Think CTM feels reasonably confident they can make it there with only blemish being at OSU which was always gonna be a tough road game. Getting to Iowa with only two losses would be just fine having the opportunity to tie for first in conference by beating the Hawkeyes at home.

Personal feelings on X as a person aside, and I’m not medical by profession or Holiday Inn Express, but I’m told a dislocation, hyperextension, etc. without a break can feel and sound like something snapping. My opinion is that what you saw and heard was fear and years of frustration from knowing the difficulty of rehab for his past injuries. X certainly plays a style of ball that looks to accentuate contact and draw fouls, but anyone who knows him will tell you he’s probably the toughest guy on the team and would have loved to have hopped up off the floor after hitting the deck and walked to the free throw line with a “can’t phase me” scowl on his face. Just my two cents. But it wasn’t a Hollywood worthy moment.

I’ve been lurking. Letting the fanbase hypothesize about Woody’s future without fanning the flames with what you probably know about the situation as well. I’ll try to be a more regular contributor. But you can always find me on the women’s game threads. I’m all-in on the Lady Hoosiers (I know some people dispute that title, but I like the sound of it and think it’s a perfectly respectful tag for the team)

Bozich confirmed this morning both injuries are considered minor and won’t cause an extended absence for either guy. One of my sources said MR probably could have come back in the game but didn’t want to further the injury so sat out for precaution. Little bit of a sigh of relief.

Good road win against a rival playing their Super Bowl. Will say, if CTM doesn’t strike more gold in the portal, this series could reverse fortunes very quickly and soon. Their freshman contributions were in stark contrast to those we get from our underclassman. A concern for sure. If we want to keep the momentum of being a consistently threatening program, we need to capitalize on our success and land some recruits.

20 turnovers is an issue. We get beat by 15+ in Iowa if we give up the ball and don’t shoot the three.

Love her game, but 15 shots is a few more than I’d like to see CMM putting up. Rather those be from Syd or Sara.

This team won’t shoot 28% from 3 and turn the ball over 14 times again this season. Finish this one up, and get ready for the Iowa Caitlins.

Classic trap game ahead of the weekend showdown.

Pete Carroll. Makes too much sense.

I know he will. But hope Cig integrates these guys into the locker room smoothly. Wouldn’t want a “Mitch Mustain” situation to seep into the locker room with “his guys.” (If you know you know)

I thought Charlotte was the Queen City?

I know some on here played at some level as well… but speaking from a former player’s perspective, that sounds great for fans but at that level of play after 120 minutes, your legs are toast. It’s gotta end somehow because people will start getting hurt or cramping up and struggling. PK’s are what they are. You love winning that way, but it kills losing that way.

Tough way to lose. Sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn’t. Good run. Good season.

LFG boys!!

Great win on the road against a good Wake team. On to the next boys!

I’ll tell you who REALLY doesn’t like IU’s seed… Wake. Imagine being a top ten team and you get a first game against 8-time national champs winners of 9 of their last 10. Not how you draw it up.

I personally feel the same way, but respectfully have to disagree. Duke, UK, Kansas have 5 * guys on their bench because you only get five starting spots and they’ve got 7-8 five star guys on the squad every year. And winning does matter - to the fan bases. To these 16-18 year old top 10-20 recruits, if you want the truth, it isn’t in the top five of their priorities. NIL, exposure/system to get drafted, relationship with the coaching staff and players so they’re treated well and are comfortable, facilities… I could go on. Yes, they’re likely competitive to have gotten this good at their craft. But winning isn’t what you point to these days to recruit. It’s a nice to have. I don’t like it, you don’t like it, but it’s how the world works these days. You have to play the game. And that game requires starting a Mackenzie Mbagko if you get him.

Don’t disagree with most of this, definitely frustrated through two games like most. Two quick-hitters though: - Woody has proven through three seasons to have a steadfast commitment to his beginning of season starters. (Parker Stewart and Miller Kopp anyone?) - As long as you’re going to continue to recruit five stars, you just cannot bench a kid who decommitted from Duke and chose your program over Kansas. Slow start, you betcha, but MM has to be in the squad if for nothing else for esthetics. I personally think he finds his role and voice on the team by the turn of the year and shows out as our best scoring option by big ten play.

Proud of the guys. Doing more with less this year. Our “rebuilding” years don’t feel much like it. Go get #9.

Obviously not playing well. But needs to be recognized this is a bad matchup for us. We don’t play two bigs. Most women’s programs don’t, especially that are athletic with the size. Tough early season road game. We’ve only played a couple exhibition games. Good early teaching moment to get punched in the mouth. We still have great 1-5 talent. We’ll rebound after some tough film sessions and practices. We won’t miss this many threes again this season.

Starting off the third set with more ghost reverse calls. No possible view they had to show a net touch there. Should have been 1-1 and totally different start.

Those two challenge overturns lost us that set. It should have to be clear and obvious to overturn, otherwise call on the court stands.

We should hit a few more guys with pitches. Seems like a solid strategy so far.