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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 1, 2017 15:42:50 GMT -6
soundcloud.com/argus-sportsremember this episode of "#100 Eyes on Sports" with Matt Zimmer? Start listening around 3:20 I'll be interested to hear Zimmer's excuses why the indomitable Lady Jacks lost with an 11-point lead at the half. I'm sure he'll mention Ober being out, and conveniently forget to mention our injured seniors... You can't tell me that losing two seniors to injury for the season, resulting in us returning a total of 19.8 MPG at the guard position, is worth noting. It's barely a footnote. /sarcasm Our depth may well come back to bite us. Our starting 5 is very good and McKeever has been fantastic off the bench, but we don't have anyone averaging more than 10 MPG outside of those six. Any more injuries and we are in trouble. Very little experience waiting on the bench but that is what happens when you graduate 5 seniors and have 2 seniors out for the year. No question depth is a bit of an issue. One thing that makes me a little more optimistic is what happened down in Kansas City. The Coyotes had one of their toughest physical games to get through against N Illinois and had to come back the next day and on an early turnaround from an early night game to an early afternoon game and still played well against S. Illinois. I believe the Coyotes will be able to get through this during the conference regular season as often times the games are a Wednesday or Thursday game followed by a Saturday game and only 2 games a week, sometimes only 1. Where it might really catch up to them is at the Summit League Tourney if they should make the Championship game. Assuming the Coyotes and Jacks would be on opposite sides of the bracket that third game in four days could be tough. I think it could also be tough on the Jacks with their lack of depth. Frederick has made some appearances more often. I think it's also important to keep Bonar and Severyn in the rotation a little more often. When push comes to shove though the roation will be limited to the starters and McKeever and Liveringhouse. I have always wondered why Kate has never been able to log big minutes. Maybe her gas tank only allows her to play limited minutes but who knows. She seems like a solid over all player.
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Post by oldhare on Jan 2, 2017 10:51:08 GMT -6
soundcloud.com/argus-sportsremember this episode of "#100 Eyes on Sports" with Matt Zimmer? Start listening around 3:20 I'll be interested to hear Zimmer's excuses why the indomitable Lady Jacks lost with an 11-point lead at the half. I'm sure he'll mention Ober being out, and conveniently forget to mention our injured seniors... You can't tell me that losing two seniors to injury for the season, resulting in us returning a total of 19.8 MPG at the guard position, is worth noting. It's barely a footnote. /sarcasm Our depth may well come back to bite us. Our starting 5 is very good and McKeever has been fantastic off the bench, but we don't have anyone averaging more than 10 MPG outside of those six. Any more injuries and we are in trouble. Very little experience waiting on the bench but that is what happens when you graduate 5 seniors and have 2 seniors out for the year. www.keloland.com/news/article/sports/new-look-coyoteZimmer is the beat writer for the Jackrabbits. I would hope occasionally he would have some positive items. I had not seen this KELO spot referred anywhere here. It is one of quite a few shorts on the WBB this year.
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 2, 2017 13:01:33 GMT -6
linkThanks for the link, Oldhare! This is actually some good coverage from Keloland. Usually KDLT is a little more balanced between the two programs, with KELO leaning towards Bunny coverage (like the Argus, they tend to focus on teams that generate the most interest locally, it is what it is.) In the future, try not to post factual information that disproves the groupthink agenda around here, or we will be forced to do the same with the Bunny Board. /insert sarcasm here/
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Post by yote14 on Jan 2, 2017 13:11:16 GMT -6
I'm sure in the bunnies eyes they are still the favorite in the conference.
Lot of season left but its nice to have the upper hand and be in the drivers seat for a 3rd straight conference title when no one was giving these girls a chance.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 2, 2017 15:08:02 GMT -6
I'm sure in the bunnies eyes they are still the favorite in the conference. Lot of season left but its nice to have the upper hand and be in the drivers seat for a 3rd straight conference title when no one was giving these girls a chance. I really like the Women's basketball team but I am not so sure we are in the drivers seat just yet but that also doesn't mean the team may not soon get into that position. We need a nice road win or two first. We basically held serve on the home court so far. The Coyotes haven't played their best basketball in conference as of yet. Denver the team that the Coyotes struggled with also lost to NDSU at home and SDSU won at NDSU already although not very impressively. The Jacks have the benefit of the home court rematch with the Coyotes so the Yotes will have to go 2 games up on the Jacks before they truly have an edge on them. The NDSU women aren't the best but they tend to give their best effort when playing the Coyotes or Jacks on their home court. Winning up in Fargo will not be easy and if the Coyotes win period it will be a nice win. If they win by double digits that would really be a nice win. The road this season will not be easy because it looks like ORU, IUPUI, Western Illinois and Omaha will really present challenges especially in their arenas. There are more tough games to get through this year than last. On Saturday a very good IUPUI team will be coming into Vermillion. It would be nice to have the best crowd of the year with the double header and on a Saturday afternoon. The weather should not be an issue either.
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Post by 91jack on Jan 3, 2017 10:28:54 GMT -6
I'm sure in the bunnies eyes they are still the favorite in the conference. Lot of season left but its nice to have the upper hand and be in the drivers seat for a 3rd straight conference title when no one was giving these girls a chance. I really don't know who the favorite in the conference is. If SDSU was healthy, I would give it too them. You have the preseason conference player of the year in Miller along with four other first or second team all conference players. SDSU only played seven players last season and two graduated. That means this years team had 5 all-conference players and Lexi (who played some last season) but after that they don't have much. You take out Miller and Ober (who was the conference defensive player of the year last year) and you have three good players, Lexi and whoever they can find. USD is missing 2 seniors that would be major contributors to their team. They are deeper than SDSU is so they can make up for them missing but it still hurts their team. If USD was healthy and SDSU wasn't I think USD might be the team to beat. With both SDSU and USD missing two possible starters, it opens the door for the other teams. I don't know if IUPUI, ORU or Western Illinois can win the conference but it sure makes the race more exciting this season. If Ober or USD's injured players come back, it will change the race again.
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 3, 2017 14:47:48 GMT -6
I'm sure in the bunnies eyes they are still the favorite in the conference. Lot of season left but its nice to have the upper hand and be in the drivers seat for a 3rd straight conference title when no one was giving these girls a chance. I really don't know who the favorite in the conference is. If SDSU was healthy, I would give it too them. You have the preseason conference player of the year in Miller along with four other first or second team all conference players. SDSU only played seven players last season and two graduated. That means this years team had 5 all-conference players and Lexi (who played some last season) but after that they don't have much. You take out Miller and Ober (who was the conference defensive player of the year last year) and you have three good players, Lexi and whoever they can find. USD is missing 2 seniors that would be major contributors to their team. They are deeper than SDSU is so they can make up for them missing but it still hurts their team. If USD was healthy and SDSU wasn't I think USD might be the team to beat. With both SDSU and USD missing two possible starters, it opens the door for the other teams. I don't know if IUPUI, ORU or Western Illinois can win the conference but it sure makes the race more exciting this season. If Ober or USD's injured players come back, it will change the race again. Well said. This race will be interesting this year, and I think that it is generally good for the sport to have competitiveness. I think that many of the women's teams in this conference have improved their profile (and RPI) in non-conference play. That will propel whoever comes out on top into a higher RPI rating, thus increasing the chance of an at-large bid. Selfishly, I hope the Coyotes will be the beneficiary of that rating.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 3, 2017 19:16:35 GMT -6
The Coyotes winning the WNIT probably helps the conference even moreso than the Jacks getting a win here and there in the tourney. Now if they would have made the sweet 16 it would have made a very nice impression.
I agree with the above mentioned notion that other teams outside of South Dakota could make their mark this year in seriously challenging for the regular season title.
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Post by yotebewithyou on Jan 3, 2017 20:19:44 GMT -6
Wasn't sure where to post this so I guess I'll just throw it in here... I was looking through the other conferences and our 13 wins puts us in a tie for the 2nd most wins in the country, behind Mississippi State's 15 wins (15-0). I know we've played a couple of gimme games but still, that's pretty impressive. This team is 2 or 3 possessions away from being 15-0. Just incredible.
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 4, 2017 9:14:36 GMT -6
How did we do against State (statistics)
Blocks per game: SDSU 5 (averages 3.6) USD 5 (averages 1.5)
Field Goal Percentage SDSU 40.0 (ave 42.3) (USD allowing 41.2) USD 43.5 (ave 46.9) (SDSU allowing 39.5)
Free Throw Percentage SDSU 85.7 (ave 70.6) USD 77.8 (ave 80.7)
Personal Fouls/game SDSU 24 (ave 14.9) USD 15 (ave 17.8)
Rebound margin +3 for USD SDSU (ave +3.1) USD (ave +8.3)
Scoring SDSU 62 (ave 67.4) (USD allowing 65.5) USD 65 (ave 75.7) (SDSU allowing 60.5)
Steals SDSU 0 (ave 6.5) USD 3 (ave 6.6)
3-point shooting SDSU 36.4% (ave 32.5) (usd allowing 37.5) USD 26.7% (ave 37.2) (SDSU allowing 27.6)
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Post by kiyoat on Jan 4, 2017 9:19:07 GMT -6
^^^^ I think that the story the stats tell is that we got drawn into the type of low-scoring game SDSU likes, but we also played better defense than we normally do. SDSU committing 24 fouls was pretty significant as well. Blocks and steals played a significant role.
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