[81alum]

I will repeat my observations about DiJonai which I shared earlier on this thread. I watched the game in person today in Victoria.
DiJonai was not dressed for the game and was wearing sweats, so my best guess is that she might be having trouble healing her knee from surgery this past summer.
However, she was actively participating in warmups tonight, distributing the ball to her teammates and seemed in good spirits. She was not immobilized and moved about the floor with ease. In fact, she was our best cheerleader tonight, giving high fives to teammates while moving fluidly in front of the bench. IMHO she is having to go easy on her knee and probably was bummed about it. She took a hard charge in the opening minutes of the game the other night; it was called a blocking foul, and she was removed from the game. That may have been the moment she reinjured her knee. Still, from watching her interact with her teammates tonight, I wouldn’t be too concerned about her recovery or her spirits.

Well, that sounds like it is not a discipline issue then, nor a terribly serious injury.  Your educated guess is probably right. 

What was your impression from the stands of why we could not defend the three?

Meanwhile, Syracuse had 4 players make treys yesterday, Englster was 3/5 and Cooper was 4/9.  Unlike CBU, Syracuse did a lot more than make threes.  They shot 52% and outrebounded Houston 45 to 30.  They are a very balanced team with 4 (almost 5) players in double digits.  This is exactly the kind of team that Tara's scouting report defense has trouble with since we can't focus on anyone in particular--that may have been part of the problem with CBU yesterday:  CBU played 8 players and ALL EIGHT made treys.  Their worst shooter was Taylor Wu who had just made 10 in a previous game--maybe we focused on her but it hardly matters when every other player can also shoot the three.

I am pretty worried about tonight.

The best I can hope for is that we worked in practice on Syracuse and maybe Mississippi State a whole lot more than we worked on Cal Baptist, and we will be a lot better prepared tonight.

[81alum]

I will repeat my observations about DiJonai which I shared earlier on this thread. I watched the game in person today in Victoria.
DiJonai was not dressed for the game and was wearing sweats, so my best guess is that she might be having trouble healing her knee from surgery this past summer.
However, she was actively participating in warmups tonight, distributing the ball to her teammates and seemed in good spirits. She was not immobilized and moved about the floor with ease. In fact, she was our best cheerleader tonight, giving high fives to teammates while moving fluidly in front of the bench. IMHO she is having to go easy on her knee and probably was bummed about it. She took a hard charge in the opening minutes of the game the other night; it was called a blocking foul, and she was removed from the game. That may have been the moment she reinjured her knee. Still, from watching her interact with her teammates tonight, I wouldn’t be too concerned about her recovery or her spirits.

Well, that sounds like it is not a discipline issue then, nor a terribly serious injury.  Your educated guess is probably right. 

What was your impression from the stands of why we could not defend the three?

Meanwhile, Syracuse had 4 players make treys yesterday, Englster was 3/5 and Cooper was 4/9.  Unlike CBU, Syracuse did a lot more than make threes.  They shot 52% and outrebounded Houston 45 to 30.  They are a very balanced team with 4 (almost 5) players in double digits.  This is exactly the kind of team that Tara's scouting report defense has trouble with since we can't focus on anyone in particular--that may have been part of the problem with CBU yesterday:  CBU played 8 players and ALL EIGHT made treys.  Their worst shooter was Taylor Wu who had just made 10 in a previous game--maybe we focused on her but it hardly matters when every other player can also shoot the three.

I am pretty worried about tonight.

The best I can hope for is that we worked in practice on Syracuse and maybe Mississippi State a whole lot more than we worked on Cal Baptist, and we will be a lot better prepared tonight.