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Post by leatherneckcountry on Mar 22, 2019 11:48:07 GMT -6
I hadn't realized the Pioneers had made the WNIT. I had assumed with an RPI in the 160's they were a long shot. I guess they knocked off their first opponent. Nice! (New Mexico RPI #55 24-6) And as a side note, "The Pit" can be a difficult venue for visitors. Denver beat them in front of 2875 fans, which is excellent for a first round WNIT game. They shot 11-of-33 from the arc. Nelson with 27 points, 12 rebounds Loven was 5-18 from the arc for 21 points Romanowski with 13 points/ 9 assists @ Idaho (RPI #84, 20-11) up next on Sunday... they were the highest team in the conference that didn’t make the NCAA tournament so they were guaranteed a NIT bid.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Mar 18, 2019 1:50:41 GMT -6
Really shocked the Mavs and Dons aren’t playing in a tournament
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Mar 11, 2019 6:28:37 GMT -6
Well that was a total colonoscopy. Can't for sure say if we played that poorly, they played that well or, most likely a combination of both. I don't know even if we would have played well we would have won. They were just crazy hot. Of course when they did go cold for a short time and missed six threes in a row, hard to believe I know, we managed to miss three layups and only make up two points. If we were ever to make a move when they were stuck on 24 would have been the time. I guess what I feared the most, The Jon Konshar show, happened in a big way. Triple double, nine assists in the first half alone, even when he wasn't scoring he was picking us apart. Somebody try to convince me he isn't the best player in the league. I sincerely hope TBM is OK. He gave us his all and it's sad to see him end his career having to be helped off the court. I couldn't agree more with everything you said elcoyote. Even if we had played our "best game", it would have required a less than "best game" from IPFW for us to win this. Konchar is a special talent and for those who think he takes a back seat to Daum in that department in this league clearly don't recognize how talented this guy really is. We played poorly on all levels of the game tonight, but that said, I do believe that our future with this current group of guys, including both players and coaches is going in the right direction. The only reason he takes a back seat is because he doesn’t play for a certain school.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Mar 9, 2019 20:22:44 GMT -6
Finally we’ve had these guys beat in the tournament so many times in the past and blew it.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Jan 20, 2019 12:13:13 GMT -6
WIU just dominated IPFW the life of being a WIU fan. So, it looks like PFW might win the Jeckyll and Hyde contest this season, although Western shooting 15-24 from 3 point range is tough to beat. WIU set the tone in the 1st 5 minutes and never let go. They threw the ball inside on three of the 1st four possessions and got two dunks and a layup. That made everything else easier as guys where moving the ball until they were wide open instead of jacking up shots with people all over them.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Jan 19, 2019 21:01:35 GMT -6
Standings: PFW 4-1(12-8) wins tie SDSU 4-1(14-6) UNO 3-1(9-8) ORU 3-2(7-13) NDSU 2-2(8-10) wins tie USD 2-2(8-9)UND 2-3(8-10) WIU 1-4(6-12) Den 0-5(5-14) Both in rankings and standings, Denver and WIU need to get out of last place. The rest is hardly decided, but I do like the fact that both front-runners have losses. I'm hoping to see the Magnificent 7 limp their way up the standings to get a favorable seed in the tournament. We will have a distinct disadvantage in the 2nd and third rounds of the SLT because of depth, so I'd much prefer to play a bottom-3 team in the first round. WIU just dominated IPFW the life of being a WIU fan.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Jan 5, 2019 11:33:20 GMT -6
#1 All he states is that he doesn’t feel you’re as good as past SDSU teams. That’s all he said. Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t. His opinion is you aren’t. #2 Good job on Baylor and truthfully I mean it. I don’t know if Baylor came to play, or you gave a scare to the nations #4 team. Either way...nice job #3 You lost at home to Oregon by 8. I’ve always been told no one wins in Frost ( except us of course ). We beat Oregon at home by 34 a couple years ago #4 You very well could beat us Sunday. I don’t know. We did lose to Denver who outplayed us and shot 63% from the field. Crap happens What you and some of your fellow Jack friends need to realize is you aren’t the lord almighty on women’s basketball. You’re very very good. USD is very very good. WIU has had some very very good teams in the past. You haven’t won a regular season crown in 4-5 years. You’ve won tournaments and are to be congratulated for that, but what truly defines the best team is not a 3 day tournament but rather a full head to head schedule played in each other’s venues. If you win the Summit this year in that manner than you’re back on top. But what I’m saying is it’s been a long time since you’ve been on top. I stand by Leatherneckcontry’s post for now. It may prove out to be incorrect, but for now, I agree. And that was my point. He had an opinion and I stated mine. Sort of the point of a message board. Then elTroll decided to pipe in with something completely unrelated to anything that was being talked about. But me having an opinion on something that was said doesn’t equate me saying we are the lord almighty if basketball. Please reference where I said that. That sentiment has far more to do with your own fan bases sense of insecurities than anything I’ve said. In fact, my point was that we haven’t in fact had teams outside of maybe one that were far more talented than this team. Seems like that in fact is actually me being somewhat negative about our program, isn’t it? And your points are valid except #3 is pretty rediculous. Oregon is not the same team now as they were a couple of years ago. Adding the NCAA women’s player of the year and another player who was awarded as the top power forward in the country. Neither of them were on the team when you beat them, so what happened a couple of years ago is pretty irrelevant. Anyway, I expect your girls to come out fired up on Sunday. Should be an entertaining couple of games. Its not like I said the Jacks are terrible I just said I'm not sure there as good as some teams in the past. Last year the Jacks beat WIU by 36,28 and 29 and WIU made it to the WNIT and much of that roster was the same as the team that won the league the year before. This year we return one senior and one other player with a decent amount of experience and we lost to a UTEP team that has 3 wins on the season. Personally I think that next year we might be one of the favorites to win the league but as far as this year goes yeah I expect we will be down some. Honestly as far as womens basketball goes I think the gap between the top tier teams in the country and everyone else is getting smaller which is great for the sport.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Jan 4, 2019 16:47:48 GMT -6
I can't comment on USD cause I haven't seen them play but SDSU just didn't pass the eye test as an at large bid in my opinion I've seen much better Jacks teams. Much better? Uh, no you haven’t... They easily could have lost to a WIU who got creamed by a bad UTEP team. SDSU beat a better WIU team last year by almost 30 every game. They have Miller and Guebert and that's it. This team isn't nearly as good as the 15-16 team.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Jan 4, 2019 12:28:46 GMT -6
I can't comment on USD cause I haven't seen them play but SDSU just didn't pass the eye test as an at large bid in my opinion I've seen much better Jacks teams.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Dec 31, 2018 13:13:38 GMT -6
Scores from the first weekend of Summit Women's BB: Denver over Omaha 95-68 NDSU over PFW -----70-54 SDSU over WIU -----93-84 USD over NDSU -----67-41 UND over PFW ------79-60 ORU over Omaha ---71-56 WIU over Denver ---87-78The only surprising outcome was WIU over Denver! WIU also had an impressive offensive showing in the loss to the Jacks, scoring 84. Have they been slow-playing us all in the non-conference? Maybe things have just taken time to gel with new players. Should be interesting... The biggest difference was that WIU hit shots this weekend there have been several games this year that I thought we played really solid but just didn't hit shots. We have so many options on offense maybe more than we have ever had its just there young so inconsistency has been a problem. Even this weekend our freshman PG who is going to be really good had 28 against the Jacks and then only had 2 against DU. On Defense we give a lot of different looks which really gives teams fits. Personally I'm not sure there is a coach in the league who gets more out of his players than JD.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Dec 31, 2018 12:54:48 GMT -6
Scores from the first weekend of Summit MBB conference play: SDSU beats WIU -100-58 Omaha beats Den -91-84 PFW beats UND ---84-73 NDSU beats USD --71-65 WIU beats Denver 78-60 ORU beats Omaha -87-84 PFW beats NDSU --90-87 I guess the thing that stands out to me is all the 80's and 90's scores. We might still have the best defense in the league, but at some point we will need to put the ball in the basket to keep up with these offenses. The struggles of being a WIU fan get absolutely destroyed by SDSU in the 1st game of a Double header then go out and look like a whole different team against Denver not that Denver is very good.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Dec 25, 2018 8:09:49 GMT -6
More NDSU assistants leaving and headed to Kansas St. Kansas State: The following coaches have joined Chris Klieman’s staff from North Dakota State (FCS); Courtney Messingham (OC / TEs), Conor Riley (OL), Joe Klandnerman (safeties), and Jason Ray (WRs). It will be interesting to see how big of an impact the combination of the coaches changes and graduation of a highly successful and large in numbers senior class, has on the program. Certainly they have a lot of talent there, but the impact of coaching cannot be overlooked. Should they lose 3 or 4 games next year how will their fan base react? I personally think the loss of the OL coach is a bigger loss than there ever going to admit.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Nov 8, 2018 13:31:03 GMT -6
We need this game to keep the playoff hopes alive more than to just run it Bob face. we've still only had two complete games UNI and MSU. The last several years the game has been close and I don't see any reason it will be different this year I'm going 27-21 Wiu.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Nov 7, 2018 13:41:18 GMT -6
Wiu is in the summit league to just saying. Yeah, I was getting my scores from the Summit website, and the WIU score didn't appear, presumably because it was a later game, and they don't update the site very well. Sorry about that! I'll look it up and add it. I was just giving you a hard time I'm use to people forgetting about WIU.
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Post by leatherneckcountry on Nov 7, 2018 11:30:46 GMT -6
Yesterday was the opening for Men's Basketball non-conference games. Here are the results: SDSU beats GCU at home 79-74 PFW loses @ #21 UCLA 71-96 Omaha loses @ Minnesota 76-104 NDSU loses @ NMSU 73-56 ORU loses @ Missouri State 50-84 Denver beats Maine at home 62-50 UND beats Northland(NAIA) at home 104-48 SDSU and PFW stand out to me as a quality win and quality loss. The Lopes game was no guarantee win, and the UCLA final score could have been worse. Wiu is in the summit league to just saying.
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