IUWBB - News and Notes

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23 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Talia Goodman -

Moren says that everyone is healthy right now heading into Wednesday’s exhibition. “Knock on wood for that.”

I can agree with that for time being.  However, it is really hard during season to know too much about IU Ladies health. T. M. has her own in house secretive definitions.

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5 minutes ago, TTT said:

I can agree with that for time being.  However, it is really hard during season to know too much about IU Ladies health. T. M. has her own in house secretive definitions.

Yeah called HIPAA

What are you agreeing with? Lol 

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REMINDER

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Tweet from Indiana Women's Basketball indicating this parking map was new to IUWBB this season.  So for those who are able to attend their games here you go.

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lol, another 15 times freshmen have to retrieve their cars without getting ticketed

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Inside IU Ladies Basketball with T. Moren and Austin 

This Evening Monday, November 6…6:30 @ 96.7 

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Watching Notre Dame (#10) v South Carolina (#6)- SC up by 22. Looking pretty tough

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1 hour ago, mamasa said:

Watching Notre Dame (#10) v South Carolina (#6)- SC up by 22. Looking pretty tough

SC is back…that didn’t take long.

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4 minutes ago, TTT said:

SC is back…that didn’t take long.

They were the best team in the country last year. 

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In the last 7 games including end of season last year IU Ladies are 3 wins and 4 losses trending in wrong direction and the losses were all bad in a variety of ways.  Not a good sign.

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Honors for Sara

Senior guard Sara Scalia has earned Big Ten Player of the Week honors, announced on Monday by the league.

A Stillwater, Minn. native, Scalia averaged 23.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists sand held a +8.0 assist-to-turnover ratio in IU's wins over Murray State and Lipscomb. She shot a collective 50 percent from the floor and 53.8 percent from long range while going a perfect 11-for-11 at the free throw line. This is the second Big Ten Player of the Week honor for Scalia, who earned the award in 2021-22 while at Minnesota.

In action against Murray State, she paced the Hoosiers with 22 points to go along with four rebounds, three assists and a steal. At the line in the win over the Racers, she went 8-for-8 and hit a pair of triples and committing no turnovers. On Sunday versus Lipscomb, Scalia tied an IU career-high 24 points on 5-for-7 shooting from beyond the arc and 57.1 percent overall from the floor. Stuffing the stat sheet, she added six rebounds, five assists and a steal.

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I also posted this in the men's general thread.

 

Courtesy of the Big Ten, you have to have a Peacock subscription to watch 12 of men's and women's games.  Currently there is a Black Friday special for those interested.

From now through Monday, November 27, the Peacock Premium subscription is discounted. The monthly Premium subscription is $1.99 plus tax (normally $5.99 plus tax) and the annual Premium subscription is $19.99 plus tax (normally $59.99 plus tax).

Full story at:  https://www.insidethehall.com/2023/11/22/sign-up-for-peacocks-black-friday-deal-to-save-on-watching-12-iu-basketball-games-this-season/?fbclid=IwAR3fmnwSWSP7LOAoO-NUZS_kor8-at3WaTN0PJJJaGi570TXoR2Laf8Rues

 

Here’s a listing of the IU men’s and women’s basketball games on Peacock this season:

Men’s 

Date Time (ET) Matchup
Tues., Dec. 5, 9 p.m. – Indiana vs. Michigan
Tues., Jan. 9, 7 p.m. – Indiana vs. Rutgers
Tues., Jan. 16, 7 p.m. – Purdue vs. Indiana
Tues., Feb. 6, 7 p.m. – Indiana vs. Ohio State
Tues., Feb. 27, 7 p.m. – Wisconsin vs. Indiana

Women’s 

Date Time (ET) Matchup
Wed., Jan. 17, 7 p.m. – Minnesota at Indiana
Sun., Jan. 21, 2 p.m. – Indiana at Purdue
Wed., Jan. 31, 7 p.m. – Indiana at Maryland
Thurs., Feb. 8, 7 p.m. – Michigan State at Indiana
Wed., Feb. 14, 8 p.m. – Indiana at Wisconsin
Thurs., Feb. 22, 8 p.m. – Iowa at Indiana
Sun., Mar. 3, 4 p.m. – Maryland at Indiana

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UConn women’s basketball junior guard Azzi Fudd will miss the remaining 2023-24 season after suffering a medial meniscal tear and an anterior cruciate ligament tear in her right knee, per the school.

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2 weeks in a row.  Not bad.  Not bad at all.

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Inside Indiana Women Basketball Show 6::30 on Monday/T. Moren….. Rhet Weirzba and McKenzie Holmes filled in for T.Moren and both, were Great informative interviews.

Rhet:  Talks about the improvement of Sara Scalia defense.  He also thought IU Ladies on Princeton press…didn’t attack enough but handled it letting Princeton close the scoring gap….He talked about team was tough and improved on defense vs both, Tennessee and Princeton.

McKenzie:  Was ask by Austin Render if she could remember her first two points scored.  Holmes said how nervous she was in her first exhibition game.  She credited her teammates including the guards for giving her the ball to score.  Holmes credited Rhet and the coaching staff for her development as a player.  Holmes talked about her dad at almost all games and his pacing.  She looks for him at games. In one of the games at Fort Myers she was looking for him but couldn’t see him but could hear him talking….And she is really looking forward to going to play in Maine and how many people know about and follow IU Ladies basketball.

IU Ladies vs Tennessee on Thanksgiving evening most watched game ever on Fox per IU Ladies basketball!

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Charlie Creme has IU all the way up to a 2 seed in his latest bracketology. Iowa a 1, OSU a 3. Everyone else in conference approaching bubble. 

Also has Tennessee and Princeton as 6 seeds  and Stanford a 1. 

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/30423107/ncaa-women-bracketology-2024-women-college-basketball-projections

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Not a bad little read on Scalia. I skipped right over it at first, because it's sort of branded as a Princeton game story. 

But it takes a little deeper dive into Sara's work ethic and personality. 

https://www.insidethehall.com/2023/11/25/scalias-sharpshooting-seals-indianas-72-63-win-over-princeton-2-0-sweep-in-florida/

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Fort Myers Tip-Off announces the Indiana-Tennessee game on FOX drew 1,118,000 viewers -- the most ever for a women's basketball game on the network.

 

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Seems like an epidemic of season ending injuries in women's basketball.

LSU WBB sophomore forward Sa'Myah Smith is out for the season with a knee injury; she was averaging 11.7 PPG and 7.6 RPG this season

And also this re:  LSU program --  LSU WBB guard Kateri Poole (transfer from Ohio State before 2022-23 season) is "not with the ... team"; "Mulkey declined [to] say if, or when, Poole will return to the team"

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3 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Seems like an epidemic of season ending injuries in women's basketball.

LSU WBB sophomore forward Sa'Myah Smith is out for the season with a knee injury; she was averaging 11.7 PPG and 7.6 RPG this season

And also this re:  LSU program --  LSU WBB guard Kateri Poole (transfer from Ohio State before 2022-23 season) is "not with the ... team"; "Mulkey declined [to] say if, or when, Poole will return to the team"

LSU wbb is a mess