'15 NCAA WBB Tournament ND #1 Seed
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Final ND 79 DePaul 67
Final ND 79 DePaul 67
ND
STAT TOTAL
Points 79
Field Goals 29-64, 45.3%
Free Throws 14-18, 77.8%
3-Pointers 7-15, 46.7%
Off. Rebounds 15
Def. Rebounds 36
Total Rebounds 51
Assists 19
Steals 8
Blocks 6
P. Fouls 10
T. Fouls 0
Turnovers 18
DePaul
STAT TOTAL
Points 65
Field Goals 24-69, 34.8%
Free Throws 7-9, 77.8%
3-Pointers 10-34, 29.4%
Off. Rebounds 10
Def. Rebounds 22
Total Rebounds 32
Assists 15
Blocks 2
Steals 6
P. Fouls 17
T. Fouls 0
Turnovers 12
Final ND 79 DePaul 67
ND
STAT TOTAL
Points 79
Field Goals 29-64, 45.3%
Free Throws 14-18, 77.8%
3-Pointers 7-15, 46.7%
Off. Rebounds 15
Def. Rebounds 36
Total Rebounds 51
Assists 19
Steals 8
Blocks 6
P. Fouls 10
T. Fouls 0
Turnovers 18
DePaul
STAT TOTAL
Points 65
Field Goals 24-69, 34.8%
Free Throws 7-9, 77.8%
3-Pointers 10-34, 29.4%
Off. Rebounds 10
Def. Rebounds 22
Total Rebounds 32
Assists 15
Blocks 2
Steals 6
P. Fouls 17
T. Fouls 0
Turnovers 12
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ON COURT PTS REB AST PF
MABREY 19 3 1 1
REIMER 14 10 1 1
HOLLOWAY 0 0 0 0
HUFFMAN 0 1 1 0
WRIGHT 0 0 0 1
BENCH PTS REB AST PF
TURNER 14 11 2 2
ALLEN 11 5 7 3
LOYD 10 5 3 0
WESTBELD 8 7 2 2
CABLE 3 4 2 0
JOHNSON 0 0 0 0
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Rather good that Michaela picked this game to explode as we really tried to stink the place up generally. The modern world tries to ruin perfectly good English language words and has done so with the word "hysterical". I would like to use it in its real sense of a rattled nervousness bordering on panic. DePaul tries to speed you up and apply stress so that you become somewhat hysterical with the ball. In the first half, we were "happy" to comply. REALLY BAD COMPOSURE. Muffet saw this of course and even benched Loyd [who played a horrible offensive game] to try to right the ship.
ND has been spoiled by other teams who have let us walk or run the ball into the offensive end with almost no opposing force --- I think that most teams are afraid of our offense, but this lack of facing high octane pressure made us mentally soft. To begin with even Lindsay wasn't cutting hard to get the inbounds pass, though thank the Lord she toughened up. The bigs were on cruise control in the midst of a hurricane. Muffet kept trying new combinations until finally Reimer and Westbeld got the message to present BIG as the second pass receiver and turn and make way upcourt or pass once things cleared. That's when we inexorably pulled away.
Taya has to be one of the poorest highpost passing centers in the tournament --- REALLY uninstinctive. Turner isn't really any better, though both are good-to-great receivers of passes --- Reimer weirdly still doesn't hold position strongly to ensure good passing lanes to her, though. Westbeld has passing touch at least and may figure it all out before the starters. Thankfully they all rebounded DePaul's eyes out.
Other than Michaela's shooting [her floor game was generally good too], I'd give the gameball to Allen. She was the first to begin to get us right vs their press and settle the hysterics down on offense. So... two gameballs [plus Muffet's usual one]. As an aside, we finally found something that Madison is bad at. We can't have her way down court against a jump press. She allows herself to get double-teamed on the sidelines and doesn't have a plan on how to get out of that --- this was especially true vs DePaul as our other girls didn't violently sprint towards teammates needing help but only halfassed their way in the vicinity [if I was on Muffet's staff there'd be lots of fullcourt press in practice and laps whenever someone did not sprint to the damsel-in-distress.]
But we figured it out, listened to Muffet, and [with I think some gassing out by DePaul] pulled away for a harder-than-it-looked score. ... and with Jewell laying an egg [except on defense]. Going forward, if I'm an opposing coach, I'm pressing us as much as I can. The press doesn't have to initially steal the ball. More times it just gets the ball in the wrong person's hands, and everyone speed-up past their optimal playing mindset, and the team throws it away later in the play. I loved teaching the jump zone press [oldtimers called it the Diamond-and-one], as the players loved the aggressive freedom, and the opponents hated not getting any mental peace time. Doesn't work in bigtime men's game --- pointguards are too strong and slick, and the help-out bigs too strong and long --- but in the women's game, things are ripe.
ND has been spoiled by other teams who have let us walk or run the ball into the offensive end with almost no opposing force --- I think that most teams are afraid of our offense, but this lack of facing high octane pressure made us mentally soft. To begin with even Lindsay wasn't cutting hard to get the inbounds pass, though thank the Lord she toughened up. The bigs were on cruise control in the midst of a hurricane. Muffet kept trying new combinations until finally Reimer and Westbeld got the message to present BIG as the second pass receiver and turn and make way upcourt or pass once things cleared. That's when we inexorably pulled away.
Taya has to be one of the poorest highpost passing centers in the tournament --- REALLY uninstinctive. Turner isn't really any better, though both are good-to-great receivers of passes --- Reimer weirdly still doesn't hold position strongly to ensure good passing lanes to her, though. Westbeld has passing touch at least and may figure it all out before the starters. Thankfully they all rebounded DePaul's eyes out.
Other than Michaela's shooting [her floor game was generally good too], I'd give the gameball to Allen. She was the first to begin to get us right vs their press and settle the hysterics down on offense. So... two gameballs [plus Muffet's usual one]. As an aside, we finally found something that Madison is bad at. We can't have her way down court against a jump press. She allows herself to get double-teamed on the sidelines and doesn't have a plan on how to get out of that --- this was especially true vs DePaul as our other girls didn't violently sprint towards teammates needing help but only halfassed their way in the vicinity [if I was on Muffet's staff there'd be lots of fullcourt press in practice and laps whenever someone did not sprint to the damsel-in-distress.]
But we figured it out, listened to Muffet, and [with I think some gassing out by DePaul] pulled away for a harder-than-it-looked score. ... and with Jewell laying an egg [except on defense]. Going forward, if I'm an opposing coach, I'm pressing us as much as I can. The press doesn't have to initially steal the ball. More times it just gets the ball in the wrong person's hands, and everyone speed-up past their optimal playing mindset, and the team throws it away later in the play. I loved teaching the jump zone press [oldtimers called it the Diamond-and-one], as the players loved the aggressive freedom, and the opponents hated not getting any mental peace time. Doesn't work in bigtime men's game --- pointguards are too strong and slick, and the help-out bigs too strong and long --- but in the women's game, things are ripe.
2014-15 ND Women's Basketball: Game 36
NCAA Championship -- Oklahoma City Regional Semifinal
#2/2 [#1 seed] Notre Dame Fighting Irish (33-2 / 15-1 ACC) vs. #14/17 [#4 seed] Stanford Cardinal (26-9 / 13-5 Pac-12)
DATE: March 27, 2015
TIME: 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT
AT: Oklahoma City, Okla. - Chesapeake Energy Arena (18,203)
SERIES: SU leads 2-0
1ST MTG: SU 97-67 (12/2/90)
LAST MTG: SU 88-76 (11/24/91)
TV: ESPN/WatchESPN (live) (Beth Mowins, p-b-p / Stephanie White, color / LaChina Robinson, sideline)
RADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1)/WatchND (live) (Bob Nagle, p-b-p)
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NCAA Championship -- Oklahoma City Regional Semifinal
#2/2 [#1 seed] Notre Dame Fighting Irish (33-2 / 15-1 ACC) vs. #14/17 [#4 seed] Stanford Cardinal (26-9 / 13-5 Pac-12)
DATE: March 27, 2015
TIME: 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT
AT: Oklahoma City, Okla. - Chesapeake Energy Arena (18,203)
SERIES: SU leads 2-0
1ST MTG: SU 97-67 (12/2/90)
LAST MTG: SU 88-76 (11/24/91)
TV: ESPN/WatchESPN (live) (Beth Mowins, p-b-p / Stephanie White, color / LaChina Robinson, sideline)
RADIO: Pulse FM (96.9/92.1)/WatchND (live) (Bob Nagle, p-b-p)
LIVE STATS UND.com
UNC tied with #1 S.Car @ 63 with 59 seconds to play.
SCAR tied the game on a trey that took a couple bounces on the rim before going through.
UNC's Mavunga has 4 fouls.
SCAR's A'ja Wilson has been a non-factor.
BU handling IA, up 14 with 2:30 to play.
SCAR tied the game on a trey that took a couple bounces on the rim before going through.
UNC's Mavunga has 4 fouls.
SCAR's A'ja Wilson has been a non-factor.
BU handling IA, up 14 with 2:30 to play.
The Fighting Irish have held 14 of their last 15 opponents to 63 points or fewer, including 10 to fewer than 60 points. The lone exception was Sunday's 79-67 home win over DePaul in the second round of the NCAA Championship, and even in that game, Notre Dame held the Blue Demons nearly 20 points below their season average (86.6 ppg.) which was second in the nation.
In this 15-game span (which began Jan. 24 at Clemson), the Fighting Irish have held their opponents to 54.6 points per game (resulting in a +20.0 ppg. scoring margin) while forcing 16.1 turnovers per game and owning a +9.8 rebounding margin.
Notre Dame has been particularly stingy at the three-point line, holding opponents to a .236 three-point percentage (54 of 229) in the past 15 games, a stretch that includes three matchups with nationally-ranked opponents (two with Duke, one with Louisville), as well as the ACC's top three-point shooting team in conference play, Virginia.
Collectively in those four games, those three teams (Duke, Louisville, Virginia) posted a .186 three-point percentage (eight of 43) against Notre Dame, including a zero for 12 whitewash of No. 10/11 Duke on Feb. 16 at Purcell Pavilion.
In this 15-game span (which began Jan. 24 at Clemson), the Fighting Irish have held their opponents to 54.6 points per game (resulting in a +20.0 ppg. scoring margin) while forcing 16.1 turnovers per game and owning a +9.8 rebounding margin.
Notre Dame has been particularly stingy at the three-point line, holding opponents to a .236 three-point percentage (54 of 229) in the past 15 games, a stretch that includes three matchups with nationally-ranked opponents (two with Duke, one with Louisville), as well as the ACC's top three-point shooting team in conference play, Virginia.
Collectively in those four games, those three teams (Duke, Louisville, Virginia) posted a .186 three-point percentage (eight of 43) against Notre Dame, including a zero for 12 whitewash of No. 10/11 Duke on Feb. 16 at Purcell Pavilion.
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Good stuff...thanks BGIF!
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Jewell Loyd - Front-runner for national player of the year because of overall value, including 20.1 points per game, 5.3 rebounds and 109 assists.
Lindsay Allen - Leads in assists (184) and shoots .538 from the field.
Michaela Mabrey - Propelled Irish against DePaul with 19 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range.
Brianna Turner - Leads nation in field-goal percentage (.665) while averaging 13.8 points per game, and paces the Irish in rebounds (7.8 per game) and blocked shots (81).
Taya Reimer - Has come into her own the past two months on both ends of floor while producing 10.2 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.
The sixth and seventh "starters" are senior Madison Cable and freshman Westbeld. The freshman Westbeld has scored 16 points (on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor) and grabbed a team high 17 rebounds in her first two NCAA Tournament games.
Jewell Loyd - Front-runner for national player of the year because of overall value, including 20.1 points per game, 5.3 rebounds and 109 assists.
Lindsay Allen - Leads in assists (184) and shoots .538 from the field.
Michaela Mabrey - Propelled Irish against DePaul with 19 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range.
Brianna Turner - Leads nation in field-goal percentage (.665) while averaging 13.8 points per game, and paces the Irish in rebounds (7.8 per game) and blocked shots (81).
Taya Reimer - Has come into her own the past two months on both ends of floor while producing 10.2 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.
The sixth and seventh "starters" are senior Madison Cable and freshman Westbeld. The freshman Westbeld has scored 16 points (on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor) and grabbed a team high 17 rebounds in her first two NCAA Tournament games.
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Stanford Cardinal Overview
This is all that needs to be known about the Cardinal: It handed No. 1 UConn its lone defeat (88-86 in overtime). Granted, it came way back on Nov. 17, but any victory against that dynasty is epic. A win over the Huskies at any time provides a confidence factor that anyone else can be beat.
The Cardinal in the past was known for strong post play, but this year it plays much more of a perimeter game, generally with four out and one in, while Notre Dame has a steady diet of two bigs in the lineup.
"Tara is a really, really outstanding coach and she is someone that is always wanting to learn and do things differently," McGraw said. "She spent a lot of time [last] summer talking to different coaches in the NBA, and the college game, and came up with a new style. They had run the triangle for years and decided it was time to run a drive and kick. A little more penetration with the guards because they have great guard play. Their team has adjusted to it really well and at this point of the season they're very comfortable in it."
Pacing the attack are a pair of 5-7 guards, sophomore Lili Thompson and senior Amber Orrange (a former high school teammate of Turner), who average 13.6 and 13.3 points per game, respectively. Senior Bonnie Samuelson is third in scoring with a 9.4 average and one of the top three three-point shooters in school history with 76 this year at a .429 clip. She also provides length along the perimeter with her 6-3 frame.
Stanford ranks eighth nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.380) and nearly 30 percent of its points have come from beyond the arc, its highest ratio since 2003-04.
The leader on the backboards is 6-3 freshman Kaylee Johnson, who averages 9.8 rebounds per game.
Outlook
Stanford does not possess the firepower on offense with its 69.5 scoring average that Notre Dame does (81.1), so it will likely want to slow the tempo against an Irish defense that has been overshadowed. If Stanford is effective from three-point range, an upset will be in the making. Any team that can vanquish UConn has to be respected to the utmost.
After an off game against DePaul, look for Loyd to shine without having to force the issue too much because of improved teamwork and unselfish play. Both the Irish men's and women's team right now have a special mojo going.
Prediction: Notre Dame 75, Stanford 66
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Stanford Cardinal Overview
This is all that needs to be known about the Cardinal: It handed No. 1 UConn its lone defeat (88-86 in overtime). Granted, it came way back on Nov. 17, but any victory against that dynasty is epic. A win over the Huskies at any time provides a confidence factor that anyone else can be beat.
The Cardinal in the past was known for strong post play, but this year it plays much more of a perimeter game, generally with four out and one in, while Notre Dame has a steady diet of two bigs in the lineup.
"Tara is a really, really outstanding coach and she is someone that is always wanting to learn and do things differently," McGraw said. "She spent a lot of time [last] summer talking to different coaches in the NBA, and the college game, and came up with a new style. They had run the triangle for years and decided it was time to run a drive and kick. A little more penetration with the guards because they have great guard play. Their team has adjusted to it really well and at this point of the season they're very comfortable in it."
Pacing the attack are a pair of 5-7 guards, sophomore Lili Thompson and senior Amber Orrange (a former high school teammate of Turner), who average 13.6 and 13.3 points per game, respectively. Senior Bonnie Samuelson is third in scoring with a 9.4 average and one of the top three three-point shooters in school history with 76 this year at a .429 clip. She also provides length along the perimeter with her 6-3 frame.
Stanford ranks eighth nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.380) and nearly 30 percent of its points have come from beyond the arc, its highest ratio since 2003-04.
The leader on the backboards is 6-3 freshman Kaylee Johnson, who averages 9.8 rebounds per game.
Outlook
Stanford does not possess the firepower on offense with its 69.5 scoring average that Notre Dame does (81.1), so it will likely want to slow the tempo against an Irish defense that has been overshadowed. If Stanford is effective from three-point range, an upset will be in the making. Any team that can vanquish UConn has to be respected to the utmost.
After an off game against DePaul, look for Loyd to shine without having to force the issue too much because of improved teamwork and unselfish play. Both the Irish men's and women's team right now have a special mojo going.
Prediction: Notre Dame 75, Stanford 66