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Post by kiyoat on Oct 20, 2020 15:26:45 GMT -6
Nice find! I think that podcast site needs its own thread. We should all try to support it with views/ comments. Looks like they have Midco's Greg Stemen as well! Here's their preseason "All Summit" WBB team: Guard: Keni Jo Lippe (5’9, Sr.), Oral Roberts
It was a career year for senior Keni Jo Lippe one year ago. The 5-foot-9 guard finished first in the league with 599 total points, first in free throws made (203), fourth in rebounds per game (8.0), ninth in assists (2.4), eighth in steals (52) and ninth in minutes per game (31.7). Lippe also finished with a Summit League record 46 points against North Dakota State in early February. The Adair, Okla., native is a scoring machine and needs seven points to become the 21st member of ORU’s 1,000-point club. What makes Lippe special is she takes pride in doing the little things on the court. Her ability to score and make her teammates better doesn’t hurt either. Guard: Chloe Lamb (5’10, Sr.), South Dakota
Chloe Lamb can flat out shoot. The Onida, S.D., native led the South Dakota is one of the best shooters in the country and made 57 made 3-pointers in 2019-20 while shooting a league-high 47.1 clip. In her junior season, Lamb averaged 11.2 points per game, 3.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.3 steals. She earned Summit League second-team honors and made the league’s all-tournament team. Lamb has started every game for the Coyotes in the last two seasons and with USD losing four seniors, she’ll be asked to do even more than she did a year ago. Forward: Paiton Burckhard (6’0, Jr.), South Dakota State
Paiton Burckhard was the most efficient player in the Summit League last season. The Aberdeen, S.D., native shot 53.4 percent from the floor and averaged 14.2 points per game along with 5.7 rebounds. Burckhard was also efficient at the free-throw line where she connected on 85 of 106 (80.2 percent) from the charity stripe. The junior forward logged seven 20-plus point games last season and made 10.7 field goals per game. Burckhard is the complete player but is an underrated passer at her position. Her freshman season she finished with 27 total assists in 35 games but improved that stat by 30 assists last season in three fewer games. Look for Burckhard to dish the basketball, even more, this season. Forward: Evan Zars (6’2, Jr.), Western Illinois
Evan Zars had a solid freshman season two seasons ago, however, she wasn’t in a Western Illinois uniform. After starting 19 games in 2018-19 for Saint Louis, Zars transferred to WIU. The Shawnee, Kan., native earned Summit League Newcomer of the Year last season and is an important piece to the Leathernecks success in 2020-21. In her first season with WIU, Zars started all 30 games and finished with a team-high eight double-doubles. Zars ranked third in the league in rebounds per game (9.2), fifth in blocked shots per game (1.5) and averaged just shy of a double-double (9.1 points and 9.2 rebounds per game) in her sophomore season. Zars is a problem for opposing players when they enter the lane with her shot-blocking ability and defensive rebounding skills. Center: Hannah Sjerven (6’3, Sr.), South Dakota
Hannah Sjerven finished Top 10 in the Summit League in points per game (12.2), rebounds per game (7.3), blocked shots per game (2.0) and steals per game (1.4). The South Dakota senior center racked up a handful of awards last season from Summit League Defensive Player of the Year to Summit League Tournament Most Valuable Player. Sjerven finished with five double-doubles and recorded a career-high 28 points against Creighton. The Rogers, Minn., native transferred to USD in 2018-19 after starting her college career at New Mexico. Sjerven is the full package with her offensive and defensive playmaking.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Oct 20, 2020 17:10:24 GMT -6
I assume they expect Selland to be injured again?
Anybody heard anything about how the freshmen are looking?
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Post by kiyoat on Oct 20, 2020 19:55:49 GMT -6
I assume they expect Selland to be injured again? Anybody heard anything about how the freshmen are looking? I thought about Selland for that list, and why she wasn’t on it. Could be the possibility of injury, but I think another reason is that a casual observer may have just overlooked her due to her abbreviated season last year. If you are looking at the all-conference players that are returning, or looking at stats, it would be easy to forget Selland. Another reason might be that she kinda plays a 3 or 4, so do you bump Burckhard, or Zars? AJ might be having the same dilemma in distributing minutes to a team full of forwards.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Oct 20, 2020 20:29:35 GMT -6
I mean, I bump anybody if she's healthy. If she's on the floor she's probably the best all-around player in the league.
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Post by kiyoat on Oct 20, 2020 20:40:47 GMT -6
Fair point. I really wish we hadn't lost her as a recruit in the coach transition when Amy moved south. Injuries aside, she seems to me like a prototype player for what Dawn wants to do (Like Ciara was). A matchup nightmare both high and low.
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Post by kiyoat on Oct 21, 2020 15:36:30 GMT -6
FWIW, I'd also like to know from anyone with access to the program how the newcomers have looked....
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Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 21, 2020 20:40:16 GMT -6
I think Sjerven should be the pre season POY in the Summit and maybe she will be. The things she does just can't be replicated by a replacement player. I have a hard time not seeing Monica Arens on that list. She is so good in so many areas and brings a toughness on both ends of the court.
Any pre season publication that doesn't have the Coyotes number 1 in the league is not looking at things objectively or are stuck in the past like 5 years or more ago. Any poll is a regular season only poll so the post season tourney has nothing to do with it. This team was head and shoulders above any other team in the Summit last year. Sure Duffy is a loss but what team doesn't lose good players every year. OK so she is great but so what. the Coyotes always come up with the goods on the court, not in the newspapers. Great teams reload, they don't rebuild. We are in reloading mode every year now.
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Post by easmus on Oct 21, 2020 21:04:20 GMT -6
I agree that I think USD will be preseason #1, but sdsu is 1B and has every chance to win the league. Discount them at your own peril. Especially with Selland returning. She was a matchup nightmare 2 years ago for us. Whether she is the same player post-Macy Miller will be learned this season. But Selland, Burkhard, Nelson, Irwin, Theuninck, and Stapleton all back, they will be good. We are replacing a ton of clutch contributions from Duffy, Mckeever, and Frederick. So there are some big shoes to fill. Peplowski will need to be able to contribute when Hannah goes to the bench, and Hannah’s sweet spot appears to be 22-28 minutes per game tops. Frederick was able to contribute by playing even minutes even though they are different players. Pep is going to need to be able to contribute 15 minutes per game, or else Mazurek will have to grow up fast. Is Kunzer PG? She needs to be more consistent if she is. The first half dozen games will be very interesting.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Oct 21, 2020 21:39:30 GMT -6
It's going to be one hell of a dogfight. That State team is experienced, talented, long, deep ... and probably just a little bit pissed off. Selland's health is going to be a major factor in the equation as will the U's ability to find the playmaker who can keep Sjerven and Lamb getting the ball where they want it. Lots of intrigue. Women's college hoops in South Dakota will once again, for my money, be the best show around.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Oct 21, 2020 22:09:24 GMT -6
And, as always, it's going to be interesting to see how the freshmen in both programs acquit themselves. I am always intrigued by 6-2 kids who played on the soccer pitch ... the Byom girl from Wisconsin could be a player for State.
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Post by hoopsmom on Oct 22, 2020 8:27:38 GMT -6
I take issue with them saying that Burkhard was the most efficient player in the season last year. Both Hannah (58.1) and Taylor (53.8) had higher field-goal percentages than Paiton.
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Post by GoYotes on Oct 22, 2020 8:35:25 GMT -6
I agree with hoops mom. I have never been overly impressed with Burkhard. She works hard, plays very physical (almost dirty) and gets a lot of garbage baskets but she is slow up and down the court and is a liability on the defensive end. If Selland is healthy, Burkhard will at best be the 3rd best player for SDSU.
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Post by kiyoat on Oct 22, 2020 9:24:46 GMT -6
Yeah, I'll agree with some of that, but I'd add that Burckhard plays pretty smart and aware, too. Players that "get away with" things can alternately be called dirty or smart. I'm sure there are plenty of our opponents that dislike the way our Monica draws charges. We love it, of course. And she's good at it. That said, I do remember a Sjerven-Burckhard ball tie-up that ended in a Rabbit flop in Brookings. It wasn't called as a foul IIRC, but I had to laugh because of all the Rabbit hate towards Hannah for flops.
Also, for someone who is supposedly slow getting down court, Burckhard sure got a lot of transition buckets. She was pretty good at getting under the basket unguarded and taking a pass for an easy bucket. Again, I'm not elevating her above our Hannah, but she was a starter as a freshman for a reason.
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Post by easmus on Oct 22, 2020 9:25:13 GMT -6
Think about it from State’s perspective. They figure they were missing their best player last season, and had a fair amount of injuries. They were leading the SLT title game at half and within a possession well into the 4th quarter against our best or second best team of all time at full strength. We are losing the mid major POY and 2 other extremely important seniors. (Think how many clutch shots McKeever scored last season. A couple huge 3’s in SLT title game. Huge 3’s in the comeback against Drake.). They are getting back Selland and are a year older.
Like I said, don’t underestimate them.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Oct 22, 2020 12:00:17 GMT -6
Easmus is on the money. You’re replacing almost 80 minutes a game at the U where State is replacing 60 ... while also bringing back their best player.
And I’ll let others decide how much more impactful Duffy, McKeever and Frederick’s 80 were to Larson, Bultsma and RCJ’s 60 and which side will be more able to reproduce/replace those minutes.
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