ND Women’s Basketball 2021-2022

[notredomer23]

I’m not gonna pretend to really care that she went, I hadn’t watched more than a few minutes all year until the tournament. I just think it’s a wild move to leave your team the night before the biggest game of the year when you have an 11:30 AM tip.

 

[goldandblue]

Her job to be a mother is much more important than to win basketball games in my opinion.

 

[notredomer23]

Olivia Miles was clearly bothered by Niele leaving as well with how she’s playing (sarcasm).

Glad to see them play like that. Hopefully it’s replicated in the second half.

 

[laughingirish90]

Miles is amazing right now as the wolfpack have no answers for her. playing like they did in the second qtr without Dodson was huge. still a long ways to go but i feel pretty good about our irish pulling this off in the second half

 

[NDdomer2]

Brutal

 

[clashmore_mike]

Brutal way to lose. Miles did some really good things but got careless with the ball multiple times in the last couple minutes.

 

[arrowryan]

This team will be really good for the next 2-3 years.

No doubt that Dara is the lesser of the Mabrey sisters.

 

[laughingirish90]

the wolfpack just played better defense in the last few minutes of the game

 

[SouthSideChiDomer]

This was a microcosm of the year. This team has a ton of talent, but a lot of that talent is young and they make mistakes that young players make. Use this as a teaching moment and this team could come back next year and be a real championship threat.

 

[BabyIrish]

Didn’t get a chance to watch most of the game but it was great to see us give it all we got again. This team has the tools to be competitive in every game. One thing I’ll be interested to see is what Coach Ivey does over the off season defensively. The defense we played in the tournament is what I think best fits our personnel. Does she stick with that or go hard in mastering the 2-3?

In terms of individuals, should be an interesting off season. Does Dodson get the waiver to come back? If so, does Brunelle think about transferring as she lost a lot of minutes down the stretch. What about Peoples? She’s moved to the bench and will her minutes go down with the arrival of KK Bransford. Does she transfer? Do we go for a big or 2 in the portal?

Lots of question marks to be answered.

 

[stpeteirish]

Yeah the media spin is we are a young team and everyone will be back but I don’t think either of those things are true.
Plenty of experience on this team and some of them will move on

I’d like to see a transfer or two to fortify what is a non championship roster.

 

[IrishLax]

Very good battle. They’re making progress.

 

[clashmore_mike]

Brunelle and Peoples have both entered the portal

 

[stpeteirish]

Brunelle and Peoples have both entered the portal

Prohaska too. We have plenty of room for transfers in. Only one High School signee.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Not surprising to me. Peoples knows that she has more potential for involvement than she's getting here. She needs to be a near-constant physical presence who mops up O rebounds and loose balls and scores rough-house points. She won't be allowed that time and style by Ivey here. Brunelle is delusional. She reminds me (very much) of that player we had who transferred to Oregon, because she refused to get physical and engage with other bigs in the meathouse. That player was very good at standing around bombing shots and pretty useless elsewise. She became a useful scorer there but was only tolerable because the rest of Oregon was so on task.

The bad thing about this is, of course, that it threatens to shorten our bench so badly that even with newcomers, we might be playing with seven maximum or less (injuries happen.)

 

[arrowryan]

Not surprising to me. Peoples knows that she has more potential for involvement than she's getting here. She needs to be a near-constant physical presence who mops up O rebounds and loose balls and scores rough-house points. She won't be allowed that time and style by Ivey here. Brunelle is delusional. She reminds me (very much) of that player we had who transferred to Oregon, because she refused to get physical and engage with other bigs in the meathouse. That player was very good at standing around bombing shots and pretty useless elsewise. She became a useful scorer there but was only tolerable because the rest of Oregon was so on task.

The bad thing about this is, of course, that it threatens to shorten our bench so badly that even with newcomers, we might be playing with seven maximum or less (injuries happen.)

Erin Boley

 

[laughingirish90]

our irish just got a few transfers this week including Jenna Brown from Stanford. coach Ivey and staff were busy recently trying to build up the roster for next season

 

[ShroudedInMystery]

OMM (or anyone else), any thoughts on Ivey's recruiting so far? It looks to me like we're firmly behind other top programs in that department at the moment but I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[stpeteirish]

our irish just got a few transfers this week including Jenna Brown from Stanford. coach Ivey and staff were busy recently trying to build up the roster for next season

added three although Brown is the only one on UND.com. Other two are Lauren Ebo of Texas and Kylee Watson of Oregon. Both are 6-4 post players. Ebo started for the longhorns while Watson was a back up for the Ducks.

Really did need the help inside and there is room for more with only 9 on schloarship now.

Prohaska is transferring to San Diego St.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I haven't seen any of these people play, but their college basketball records so far are not inspiring.
I'm trying to resist saying that Ivey is not up for the job, but this roster could collapse if she doesn't start getting more and better players. Brown was highly rated in HS and almost came to ND. But she basically hasn't played for two years and has minimal stats to make one say: Wow, great pick-up. Maybe she will be, but she hasn't shown it and was a very slow healer. Ebo is big and started some for Texas, but her stats don't pop. She hasn't scored much yet, and seems a so-so rebounder. Hopefully she'll take a big step up and become a good center and not a place-holder. Watkins is also big on paper, and has shown even less. None of these three players seem ready to really boost scoring. KKBransford supposedly is good, but not with HS stats like Miles or Citron or the typical Connecticut recruit. AND SHE'S THE ONLY ADDITION. What the heck went on there? AND three players didn't want to play for Ivey and entered the portal. Ivey lost me with her assessment of Bransford when she said that she was like Jackie Young and Arike Ogumbawale. There couldn't be two different players. It was a bullsh!t comment.

I don't like the feel of any of that. Losing portal players and recruitment battles and then desperately trying to fill a serviceable roster with transfers doesn't sound at all like good planning and management. The only upside in the near future is that Miles and Citron will win a bunch of games almost on their own. This year if Maddy will rebound (Maybe with some help from Marshall and Ebo) and Dara can regularly bomb opponents eyes out, we could win a lot of them. Miles will become the best player in the country. If Ivey doesn't get better at this player management thing, she may be gone to the WNBA after this year. I'm no pessimist griper, but I'm WAY not comfortable with what I see just now. We'll be at least OK good this year --- with our remaining four how could we not be? I'm not sure what Gilbert's status is. She'd be a potentially big help.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Won the Most Improved Player award 3 weeks ago. Now she's a WNBA champ

 

[Old Man Mike]

Yay, Jackie. She ALWAYS gave up her own "glory" for whatever Muffet asked of her.
On our championship team, she just did everything defensively, which was vital since
the girls were continuously carrying a teammate who had no clue about defense.

I was stunned for a moment, but recovered quickly, when Bill Laimbeer picked her
with the number one choice in the draft. Then I thought: Bill honors defense, and
Jackie will fall on her sword for the team defensively. True BBall warrior.