2022-2023 ND Women's Basketball Thread

[arrowryan]

Who knows how far they’ll go in the ACC/NCAA tourneys. But this team should be absolutely rolling next year.

 

[Irish#1]

Any word on Miles?

 

[Irish#1]

Has anyone who hated on Ivey (despite her extensive assistant and NBA experience, and being asked to do a full rebuild...) mea culpa'd? I don't follow women's basketball closely enough to keep tabs on the vibes, but to lose Mabrey (and then Miles today) and still be a top 10 team // ACC champs says something.

TBH, I don't know if there were any haters. Might have been a couple, but you have to give the coach a couple of years to get the transition in place. Especially when you follow a legend. Looks to me like Ivey was the right choice.

 

[arrowryan]

I was never a hater of Ivey. I loved the hire and thought she was the correct choice. Although, she did give me some pause when she was a little slow out of the gate. Muffet didn’t exactly leave her a roster without talent. Apparently she just needed an adjustment period and she’s doing an awesome job now.

 

[domer13]

I was never a hater of Ivey. I loved the hire and thought she was the correct choice. Although, she did give me some pause when she was a little slow out of the gate. Muffet didn’t exactly leave her a roster without talent. Apparently she just needed an adjustment period and she’s doing an awesome job now.

There are probably (hopefully?) many similarities between Ivey and Freeman.

 

[brewdog_14527]

It isn't really a societal norm of punditry, sports or otherwise, to admit wrong in 2023. I highly doubt anyone that was hating on her before is going to walk it back now.

Is the norm these days to just double down on whatever opinion you held and yell until people just get tired of listening to you. Then you can maintain you were correct because no one is responding. If she wins a natty or 2, then in 10-15 years doesn't make it out of the sweet 16, they will come back out of the woodwork and proclaim that they were right.

 

[laughingirish90]

didn't see it but Mark Packer from what i've read made an ass out of himself this evening at the ACC awards show by going on a huge constant rant about irish coach Ivey winning COY as he thought the Duke coach should've won it. Miles and Citron were named 1st team while Maddy made 2nd team and KK made the all-freshman team

 

[bumpdaddy]

didn't see it but Mark Packer from what i've read made an ass out of himself this evening at the ACC awards show by going on a huge constant rant about irish coach Ivey winning COY as he thought the Duke coach should've won it. Miles and Citron were named 1st team while Maddy made 2nd team and KK made the all-freshman team

Horka called him out on Twitter and included the video. The guy was at peak douchiness - wasn't sure about her name, incredulous from start to finish that she won, wrongly said ND was favored to win the ACC from the beginning (they were 4th in preseason poll), and a whole lot of other nonsense.


Michaela Mabrey also chimed in and rightly called him classless, to which Packer douchily responded that he was just expressing his "opinion" - hey, asshole, this was the official ACC CoY announcement. Your opinion was not needed nor welcome. Also, your opinion included not knowing how the winner was selected and wrongly asserting ND WBB was favored to win the ACC from the beginning.



The guy is getting dragged but needs to be dragged much, much more.

 

[laughingirish90]

Horka called him out on Twitter and included the video. The guy was at peak douchiness - wasn't sure about her name, incredulous from start to finish that she won, wrongly said ND was favored to win the ACC from the beginning (they were 4th in preseason poll), and a whole lot of other nonsense.


Michaela Mabrey also chimed in and rightly called him classless, to which Packer douchily responded that he was just expressing his "opinion" - hey, asshole, this was the official ACC CoY announcement. Your opinion was not needed nor welcome. Also, your opinion included not knowing how the winner was selected and wrongly asserting ND WBB was favored to win the ACC from the beginning.



The guy is getting dragged but needs to be dragged much, much more.

thanks for posting as i haven't seen that video until now and yes he really was a classless jerk like i read elsewhere early last evening

 

[clashmore_mike]

 

[stpeteirish]

Bigger issue to me is the ACCN announcers all seem to treat ND like some king of outside force trying to take over their beloved conference. I've watched a number of women's games (can't bring myself to watch the men) and the broadcasters always seem to be overtly rooting for our opponent. Packer's just preaching to the choir.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

Bigger issue to me is the ACCN announcers all seem to treat ND like some king of outside force trying to take over their beloved conference. I've watched a number of women's games (can't bring myself to watch the men) and the broadcasters always seem to be overtly rooting for our opponent. Packer's just preaching to the choir.

We are the outsider. The ACC is in perilous waters and many believe ND could help rescue or turn the tide in the conference if they joined in full. The answer to that is a loud hell no, but it creates angst and anger.

 

[stpeteirish]

Reports from practice today are that Miles did not practice, in attendance and walking with a limp. No crutches.
If she has a torn ACL wouldn't she have had the surgery this week?

 

[arrowryan]

Reports from practice today are that Miles did not practice, in attendance and walking with a limp. No crutches.
If she has a torn ACL wouldn't she have had the surgery this week?

Depends on the swelling. Although, I think we would know by now if she tore her ACL. I'm not expecting her to play in the conference tournament.

 

[laughingirish90]

Reports from practice today are that Miles did not practice, in attendance and walking with a limp. No crutches.
If she has a torn ACL wouldn't she have had the surgery this week?

Sean who does the call for irish wbb on radio said yesterday while hosting the nightly IB podcast with Vince that he knows the situation about Miles but isn't allowed to say and then said that fans will find out come game time friday

 

[laughingirish90]

the wbb team defeats the wolfpack this afternoon and now it sets up what should be another great showdown with the cardinals again Saturday at 12 pm in the semifinals of the ACC tournament

 

[laughingirish90]

well the wbb look like they might be going down in the semifinals against the cardinals as they are down by 14 pts at the half. they are playing like sh%t on both ends as they are turning the ball over like crazy and getting beat badly for rebounds. not having Miles is also killing us as KK and others just aren't handling the ball well against a tough cardinal defense

 

[irishff1014]

Damn the woman’s team got straight waxed today.

 

[irishff1014]

 

[sfk324]

Miles is officially done for the year.

 

[laughingirish90]

probably the best for Miles so she can be 100% next season when they try to make a run for the national title with everybody playing now coming back but Ebo and two elite guards coming in next fall

 

[Irish#1]

Even if she came back, she probably wouldn't be 100%, so yeah best to give it time to heal properly.

 

[irishff1014]

Ladies are sloppy with their ball movement and causing turnovers. Just need to settle down a little.

Miss state is pressing a lot early.

 

[laughingirish90]

Ladies are sloppy with their ball movement and causing turnovers. Just need to settle down a little.

Miss state is pressing a lot early.

first team to 50 pts might win as the play is really sloppy like you said but sloppy with both teams right now

 

[Irish#1]

And out more focused to start the 3rd. Up by 11.

 

[irishff1014]

Ebo winning this game singe handily in the 4th.

 

[Irish#1]

Got sloppy to let MSU back in, but played nice D late to get the W.

 

[goldandblue]

18 rbs for Ebo and 2 blocked shots late in the game.

 

[irishff1014]

Hard fought win. Not pretty but they didn’t give up.

 

[irishrb]

Hard fought win. Not pretty but they didn’t give up.

That game was downright hard to watch. Bad officiating, horrible shooting, and just overall sloppy play. Lucky for them that MSU just couldn't hit the broad side of a barn today. No bench really hurt the Irish...They only played 6, and you could see them wearing down as MSU just harassed them all day. That's the worst game I've seen Citron play all year, but I just think she's mentally/physically exhausted from basically having to do it all since Miles went down. Ebo definitely won this game for the Irish, as they just couldn't match her physicality.