2024-2025 Notre Dame Women's Basketball

[UPMich_NDfan]

Honestly after watching live tonight we didn’t stand a chance with what we had…to really complete for a championship. Yes we beat UConn but they’ve obviously taken it to another level with a healthy Fudd and Strong developing. Texas getting run out of building as well. Are we really winning with Koval and Watson and Risch?
That being said Ivey hadn’t done herself any favors by only bringing in 2 players the last 2 years.But, and it’s a big but….there is a script to save face in the portal. Look at what TCU did.
Obviously ND is different but they’ve got no other choices now then to open this thing up. Let’s see who wants to come play with Hannah.

 

[irishandy]

On paper ND this year was a Final 4 team, maybe after the season Ivey did what Shrewberry did if you're in you're in and if not get out.

Koval is a loss, she played like a freshman, but I think she was going to get better.

If Ivey can get portal additions like she got out of Liatau King it's a win, but with ND's brand & history of the program she needs to get some high school recruits.

I wonder what Muffet thinks of all of this??

 

[Irish#1]

Muffet probably isn’t happy, but I have to believe she’s kept quiet unless Ivey has reached out to her. If she hasn’t, she’d be wise to.

 

[UPMich_NDfan]

Crazy we beat that UConn team. Although, that wasn’t same team. Another masterpiece by Geno.

 

[Irishdawg]

UConn’s big 3 of Bueckers, Fudd and Strong played great!! 65 points of the 82 and 26 boards!! As a current Minnesotan happy Paige won one!!

 

[Old Man Mike]

Reading trickle of stuff coming from Hannah --- gives you strong feeling that she and Miles did not get along, and the gay vs anti-gay thing was a big deal. Hopefully that hasn't played with any other of the transfers, nor any possible transfers in. Miles has tweet comments clearly singling out Hannah (without absolutely naming her) for dislike over these sexual views. Hannah says that the tone of her earlier remark which blew sky-high was poorly constructed and that she isn't homophobic. ... but still VERY strongly based in her religious views.

This is "awkward" to say the least, and so "personal" outside of basketball that we'll probably never get any clarity.

I worry a bit as to what on-court effect this could have had.

Before completely disagreeing with this, let me say that I have some relevant observation about such things from within my own family. One of my brothers was a multi-year, multi-winner, award-winning girls high school basketball coach in the OHIO River area south of Wheeling WV. In one of our many conversations about coaching basketball (he had coached boys teams too) he told me that he had noticed an odd difference between them. He said that if he had two guys who really didn't like each other, still, during the game, they would pass the ball to one another if that was the correct play. But if he had two girls who didn't like one another, they tended to hesitate and often didn't pass it at all.

Hopefully a college coach would see that quickly and put a stop to it, but .... did she notice? and did she stop it?

 

[BabyIrish]

Created a Monster | By Hannah Hidalgo

Basically, if it’s wearing blue and gold, it’s going to be a problem.

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[arrowryan]

UCONN’s freshman big had like 24 and 15 in the championship. Our freshman big, Koval, walked around with two left feet and couldn’t hit a layup.

What a difference.

 

[Te'o4Heisman]

UCONN’s freshman big had like 24 and 15 in the championship. Our freshman big, Koval, walked around with two left feet and couldn’t hit a layup.

What a difference.

Sarah Strong was the number 1 high school recruit in the country. She is potentially a bigger/strong version of Maya Moore and just put up historical freshman numbers. She became 1 of 1 in Uconn history for any player in blocks/steals in a season, not just a freshman, at the undisputed best program in women’s college basketball. She and Fudd make them the early odds on favorite to repeat next year. Its unfair and there is really no point in trying to compare any players season in the context of what Sarah Strong did this year.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Sarah Strong is SCARY good.
The next Taurasi//Stewart//Moore//Bueckers "can't beat me" monster that he gets "regularly" and we never can.

 

[DomeFieldAdvantage]

Sarah Strong is SCARY good.
The next Taurasi//Stewart//Moore//Bueckers "can't beat me" monster that he gets "regularly" and we never can.

The good news is that he's 71, so he probably won't be coaching for too much longer.

The bad news is that in the new rev share era, UConn is probably set up to be even more dominant.

I'll try to find it, but I read an article about how power conference basketball teams are kind of realizing they might be at a disadvantage with the House settlement because every school that opts in will have the full ~$20m rev share pool cap, power conference schools are going to spend that vast majority of it on football while mid majors could theoretically spend the entire amount on basketball.

While it is true in basketball, there are at least still several basketball focused schools that could keep things competitive. But in the women's game, its basically just UConn. And with how much they actually make from women's basketball, directly and indirectly, and with the NCAA now paying out tournament shares for women's basketball, I don't see how UConn doesn't absolutely lap everyone else in rev share and NIL payments for women's basketball.

And, unfortunately for us, that's probably true if Geno is there or not.

 

[Huntr]

Geno had a hilarious quote in a The Athletic article today about NIL in NCAAWB potentially "destroying parity."

Dude just won #12, the tourney is a joke until the Elite 8, and he's crying about parity.

Gtfo.

 

[MacIrish75]

Reading trickle of stuff coming from Hannah --- gives you strong feeling that she and Miles did not get along, and the gay vs anti-gay thing was a big deal. Hopefully that hasn't played with any other of the transfers, nor any possible transfers in. Miles has tweet comments clearly singling out Hannah (without absolutely naming her) for dislike over these sexual views. Hannah says that the tone of her earlier remark which blew sky-high was poorly constructed and that she isn't homophobic. ... but still VERY strongly based in her religious views.

This is "awkward" to say the least, and so "personal" outside of basketball that we'll probably never get any clarity.

I worry a bit as to what on-court effect this could have had.

Before completely disagreeing with this, let me say that I have some relevant observation about such things from within my own family. One of my brothers was a multi-year, multi-winner, award-winning girls high school basketball coach in the OHIO River area south of Wheeling WV. In one of our many conversations about coaching basketball (he had coached boys teams too) he told me that he had noticed an odd difference between them. He said that if he had two guys who really didn't like each other, still, during the game, they would pass the ball to one another if that was the correct play. But if he had two girls who didn't like one another, they tended to hesitate and often didn't pass it at all.

Hopefully a college coach would see that quickly and put a stop to it, but .... did she notice? and did she stop it?

I’ve coached both HS boys’ and girls’ basketball. When I switched from the boys’ game to the girls’ game I was absolutely shocked at their inability to leave personal shit at the door and compartmentalize sports vs life. With girls’ it’s all interrelated. Boys (having been one for 37.5 years) have a much more innate ability to set aside personal quarrels if it helps them win. Definitely took some getting used to.

 

[Irishdawg]

I’ve coached both HS boys’ and girls’ basketball. When I switched from the boys’ game to the girls’ game I was absolutely shocked at their inability to leave personal shit at the door and compartmentalize sports vs life. With girls’ it’s all interrelated. Boys (having been one for 37.5 years) have a much more innate ability to set aside personal quarrels if it helps them win. Definitely took some getting used to.

-With 5 daughters that all played sports I can empathize 😉.

 

[Redbar]

Reading trickle of stuff coming from Hannah --- gives you strong feeling that she and Miles did not get along, and the gay vs anti-gay thing was a big deal. Hopefully that hasn't played with any other of the transfers, nor any possible transfers in. Miles has tweet comments clearly singling out Hannah (without absolutely naming her) for dislike over these sexual views. Hannah says that the tone of her earlier remark which blew sky-high was poorly constructed and that she isn't homophobic. ... but still VERY strongly based in her religious views.

This is "awkward" to say the least, and so "personal" outside of basketball that we'll probably never get any clarity.

I worry a bit as to what on-court effect this could have had.

Before completely disagreeing with this, let me say that I have some relevant observation about such things from within my own family. One of my brothers was a multi-year, multi-winner, award-winning girls high school basketball coach in the OHIO River area south of Wheeling WV. In one of our many conversations about coaching basketball (he had coached boys teams too) he told me that he had noticed an odd difference between them. He said that if he had two guys who really didn't like each other, still, during the game, they would pass the ball to one another if that was the correct play. But if he had two girls who didn't like one another, they tended to hesitate and often didn't pass it at all.

Hopefully a college coach would see that quickly and put a stop to it, but .... did she notice? and did she stop it?

I thought our long lost resident insider completely shut the door on this, saying our team is one of the closest in all of sports, we are idiots, and there is nothing at all going on other than we lost a game and a small team construction issue which the University is aware of.

 

[Old Man Mike]

What I really didn't like about those assertions was the tone of them as if all the rest of us were beneath dignity that we even had opinions on any of this. Our little NDWBB group here is almost always characterized by a few fellows who talk with one another as if we are friends caring about a team that matters to us, and who don't immediately come stomping down on one another. Our usual tone with one another is pretty friendly and why I like conversing in this thread with you guys. (I'm willing, and expecting, to be wrong here and there, but it's nice to have a friend correct me with a smile and some humanity. Bless the rest of you for that, even if we can't re-create this most other places on IE.)

 

[BuaConstrictor]

as if all the rest of us were beneath dignity

You are.

 

[Irish du Nord]

You are.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

I thought our long lost

Still here.

saying our team is one of the closest in all of sports

Never said this. Also, fwiw you blamed Miles posting on Twitter about how to wear her hair as a defining "distraction" of this team....then got upset when you made a typo and ejected from the conversation.

Now apparently the distraction wasn't her hair choices but some kind of major team rift that miraculously didn't keep this team from winning 19 games in a row (including a win over the eventual national champions) and getting to the #1 rank in the nation.

Ivey is somehow a coach that DIDN'T manage this locker room yet this team still achieved all that. The schizophrenia of this place is really something.

we are idiots,

You are.

a small team construction issue

I never called it small.

 

[Old Man Mike]

More unnecessary anti-social remarks. This must be a tactic for (somewhat sociopathic) "fun."

I'll take it that way and let it go from now on with the ignore option.

The team and the games are the reason for me being here, not the sociopathy, so I lose nothing by "ignore."

See the rest of you guys as we go forward.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

More unnecessary anti-social remarks

I could say the same thing about your post from yesterday evening.

The team and the games are the reason for me being here

The team and the games would be better off without you as a fan. Full stop.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

 

[stpeteirish]

Koval to LSU

Really surprising. If she didn't like hard coaching at ND just wait.

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

OH Boy

 

[Irish du Nord]

I could say the same thing about your post from yesterday evening.


The team and the games would be better off without you as a fan. Full stop.

I really don't think it's that deep.

 

[fightingirish26]

This guy STINKS

 

[BuaConstrictor]

I really don't think it's that deep.

It is.

 

[Tejas]

Does this guy know how to party or what?

 

[BabyIrish]

To start, I was pretty on board with defending Ivey at the end of the season. I do think there were emotional overreactions.

However as Mike said, anytime we had a slight disagreement during the year, we were cordial to one another. It’s all fun. It’s not blood sweat and tears.

Bua, please go away if you can’t keep it that way. Your comments to Mike are very unnecessary. And there is nothing wrong with his fandom as an NDWBB supporter.

 

[IrishBryan77]

To start, I was pretty on board with defending Ivey at the end of the season. I do think there were emotional overreactions.

However as Mike said, anytime we had a slight disagreement during the year, we were cordial to one another. It’s all fun. It’s not blood sweat and tears.

Bua, please go away if you can’t keep it that way. Your comments to Mike are very unnecessary. And there is nothing wrong with his fandom as an NDWBB supporter.

Just ignore him. He's a pest and menace. He's only here to be a troll. *You will thank me later. 🤣