Monday Evening. A recreation 5-6th grade girls game at West Essex Middle School in Northern New Jersey.
Running clock excpet the fourth quarter. No full court pressing at any time. Lawrence Frank, who preaches the importance of learning half court as a young player, would be especially proud.
And now, in honor of the Big Game, C and R present the 158th annual Q & A with Nick from SB Nation's California Golden Blogs.
He asks the Q’s, C and R answer them. (Secretly, we think he just wants our Stanford blog to mention his Cal blog, hoping for bad karma or ju-ju or what have you, but I digress). Our questions to him are at the bottom, and we will publish tomorrow or whenever we get around to it.
One note, usually his questions are funny and silly, so that's how we wrote ours. Then he writes these scholarly and insightful questions, like he’s been studying basketball or something. Ours look stupid by comparison. Oh well, when have we ever let that stop us! Enjoy.
From Katuna Scores 13 Off The Bench As Dons Falter To Toreros (via USFDons.com).
Despite the lopsided 68-50 final score, the San Francisco Dons actually played relatively even with the University fo San Diego Toreros in the second half of last night's game at War Memorial Gym. But a persistent problem they've had this season is rebounding and that plagued them against a bigger and extremely disciplined squad from down south.
Anyone who have ever seen Curt Miller coach knows one thing, that he's very intense. But in Bowling Green's 70-54 victory over conference foe Eastern Michigan, Miller suffered a mild stroke.
It is not apparent when Miller will return to the bench for Bowling Green. In the meantime, Associate Head Coach Jennifer Roos will serve as acting head coach for the time being.
In November, 30 candidates for this season's Lowe's Senior CLASS Award were released. Now that list is down to 10 and voting began yesterday. Votes from the public count as 1/3 of the player's total score with the remaining 2/3 of the vote going to NCAA Division I coaches and media members. The voting results as they stand today are perhaps different than I would expect, with UC-Santa Barbara's Emilie Johnson scooping up nearly a quarter of all the votes cast to this point.
The Senior CLASS award, an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, will be handed out in Denver during the Final Four. Each student-athlete must be a senior and the voting criteria is based on four C's - community, classroom, character and competition. The award, which began in 2001-02 includes some star-studded past winners. Women who have been honored with this award include Maya Moore (Connecticut), Kelsey Griffin (Nebraska), Courtney Paris (Oklahoma), Candice Wiggins (Stanford), Allison Bales (Duke), Seimone Augustus (LSU), Kendra Wecker (Kansas State), Alana Beard (Duke), LaToya Thomas (Mississippi State) and Sue Bird (Connecticut).
Coach Gary Blair's final appearance at Gallagher-Iba Arena, a building Blair had lost in but once before, went down to the wire for the Texas A&M Aggies.
After digging themselves into a 10-point deficit early in the second half, the defending national champions crawled back into the game one shot, one steal, one turnover at a time. A&M tied it up at 36 all with 11:54 to play with a layup by Kelsey Assarian, Blair's "linebacker". From that point, the game was back and forth down to the final seconds. With 44 seconds to play and the Cowgirls up by two, Oklahoma State's own "linebacker", Lindsey Keller, had the inbounds play bounce off her chest and give OSU their 28th and final turnover of the night.
"When we ran the inbounds play on the press break and we threw it to Lindsey and it went off her chest and went out of bounds, I thought we were in trouble," OSU coach Jim Littell said. "But there's just no quit to them."
This game gradually slipped away bit by bit as it went on, but things got ugly in the 2nd half. Skylar Diggins made five threes tonight, and Devereaux Peters added 16 points and 16 boards. The Irish also win their 17th straight game this season.
As for the Lady Vols, they had their lowest scoring ever in the Pat Summitt era with this loss. It showed when Notre Dame made 50.8% of their shots while Tennessee only made 27.9% of theirs.
According to a statement released by UConn Monday evening, Caroline Doty underwent a MRI to determine the severity of a knee injury sustained Saturday evening at Depaul University. The MRI revealed that her ACL and meniscus are unchanged. According to Connecticut's spokesperson, the injury was apparently sustained during warm ups and is classified as a bone bruise.
She will be held out of Wednesday's Big East contest at Syracuse but is expected to be able to return for Saturday's contest against University of South Florida.
