[2006alum]

The 1st part of the game seems to be a similar start to last time.  Williams looking awesome.  18-9 after first quarter.

Shows how closely I follow women's hoops. When did they make the change to quarters?

Maybe look it up? There's a whole wide world of the web at your fingertips...

Gee thanks for the tip. FWIW, I did, and the best I could find in my 30 seconds of looking was "a few years ago".

Funny, I typed in this: "women's college basketball went from halves to quarters"

And here's what Google autogenerated in response:

In 2015-2016 the NCAA changed the rules to 10 minute quarters from 20 minute halves.

Highest governing body: International Basketb...

Venue: Basketball court

Team members: Five on-court players per team

Type: Team sport, ball sport

[/url]Women's basketball - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Women's_basketball
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_basketball]

I agree that it's a brobdingnagian plus. Watching MCBB play halves now feels tedious after being used to NBA, WNBA, and WCBB games. And fouls resetting every quarter keeps everyone, players and refs, accountable.

[2006alum]

The 1st part of the game seems to be a similar start to last time.  Williams looking awesome.  18-9 after first quarter.

Shows how closely I follow women's hoops. When did they make the change to quarters?

Maybe look it up? There's a whole wide world of the web at your fingertips...

Gee thanks for the tip. FWIW, I did, and the best I could find in my 30 seconds of looking was "a few years ago".

Funny, I typed in this: "women's college basketball went from halves to quarters"

And here's what Google autogenerated in response:

In 2015-2016 the NCAA changed the rules to 10 minute quarters from 20 minute halves.

Highest governing body: International Basketb...

Venue: Basketball court

Team members: Five on-court players per team

Type: Team sport, ball sport

[/url]Women's basketball - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Women's_basketball
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_basketball]

I agree that it's a brobdingnagian plus. Watching MCBB play halves now feels tedious after being used to NBA, WNBA, and WCBB games. And fouls resetting every quarter keeps everyone, players and refs, accountable.

[BobK]

11 turnovers and done just awful. I thought Jones why? Then she hits that great three. That a way Haley :)

Now play D and we will be fine

[BobK]

11 turnovers and done just awful. I thought Jones why? Then she hits that great three. That a way Haley :)

Now play D and we will be fine

[Baez87]

Whatever a team does in one game, the next one starts the same as the first, 0-0. 
Sitting at 36-29 at the end of the first half, we will have to focus and play hard against an inspired team and this large boisterous crowd!
Go Team!

[Baez87]

Whatever a team does in one game, the next one starts the same as the first, 0-0. 
Sitting at 36-29 at the end of the first half, we will have to focus and play hard against an inspired team and this large boisterous crowd!
Go Team!

[81alum]

Prechtel with 3 treys and a put back in  the  3rd quarter so far.  Wow.

[81alum]

Prechtel with 3 treys and a put back in  the  3rd quarter so far.  Wow.

[BobK]

Wow is right. Wow

[BobK]

Wow is right. Wow

[JJJ]

Prechtel, Williams, Jones, double-Hulls!!! My oh my this is fun!

[JJJ]

Prechtel, Williams, Jones, double-Hulls!!! My oh my this is fun!

[crackpot]

Prechtel, Williams, Jones, double-Hulls!!! My oh my this is fun!

And frosh and sophs. Lovely.

[crackpot]

Prechtel, Williams, Jones, double-Hulls!!! My oh my this is fun!

And frosh and sophs. Lovely.

[martyup]

Stanford basketball is now 29-3.  Awesome.

[martyup]

Stanford basketball is now 29-3.  Awesome.

[81alum]

I added my write-up of today's game at the top of the post.  One stop shopping for descriptions of the two wins over Cal.

I haven't the faintest idea how we will do next weekend.  One way or the other, we will learn a lot about our team.

[81alum]

I added my write-up of today's game at the top of the post.  One stop shopping for descriptions of the two wins over Cal.

I haven't the faintest idea how we will do next weekend.  One way or the other, we will learn a lot about our team.

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

[BosCard]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

[BosCard]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

[cardcrimson]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

and I thought you above that kind of comment. . . .

[cardcrimson]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

and I thought you above that kind of comment. . . .

[81alum]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

Yes, absolutely.  If she plays like this every game then the sky is the limit.  A frightening thing to contemplate is how well we would have done today if Williams had still been in the slump she recently went through.

[81alum]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

Yes, absolutely.  If she plays like this every game then the sky is the limit.  A frightening thing to contemplate is how well we would have done today if Williams had still been in the slump she recently went through.

[CornFed]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

I mean, you and 2006.  What's the big deal?  But, BC, I love that move with the demo.  That was slick!

[CornFed]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

I mean, you and 2006.  What's the big deal?  But, BC, I love that move with the demo.  That was slick!

[TheFarm07]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

Yes, absolutely.  If she plays like this every game then the sky is the limit.  A frightening thing to contemplate is how well we would have done today if Williams had still been in the slump she recently went through.

We really need DiJonai back sooner than later. In critical situations, I trust the ball in Kiana's hands the most right now, she can drive, she can shoot and she can pass. More importantly, she knows when to do what. Having Carrington back will give us another option to handle the ball with the shot clock waning and in a situation where we cannot give the ball up. Haley has the same assorted set of possibilities, but she is more prone to turnovers at the moment. If she can learn to cut down on that (keep a more secure handle of the ball while dribbling and not force the ball into traffic), then that would be another option. Lexie can shoot the ball but I don't think she is too much of a threat driving to the basket with the ball using sheer force/agility.

[TheFarm07]

Kiana Williams' drives were a thing of beauty.  Yes Cal has some bigger/slower posts in West and Yue but we have played teams with such posts before and I don't remember Williams drives/finishes being so surgical.  It seemed like she was probing, probing, crossing, hesitating and then Bam swooping in for a layup.  If she can play like that consistently, then I think we have a good shot at a Final Four.

Yes, absolutely.  If she plays like this every game then the sky is the limit.  A frightening thing to contemplate is how well we would have done today if Williams had still been in the slump she recently went through.

We really need DiJonai back sooner than later. In critical situations, I trust the ball in Kiana's hands the most right now, she can drive, she can shoot and she can pass. More importantly, she knows when to do what. Having Carrington back will give us another option to handle the ball with the shot clock waning and in a situation where we cannot give the ball up. Haley has the same assorted set of possibilities, but she is more prone to turnovers at the moment. If she can learn to cut down on that (keep a more secure handle of the ball while dribbling and not force the ball into traffic), then that would be another option. Lexie can shoot the ball but I don't think she is too much of a threat driving to the basket with the ball using sheer force/agility.

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

I mean, you and 2006.  What's the big deal?  But, BC, I love that move with the demo.  That was slick!

That site has been around a while for precisely this sort of reason.

BC

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

I mean, you and 2006.  What's the big deal?  But, BC, I love that move with the demo.  That was slick!

That site has been around a while for precisely this sort of reason.

BC

[qwerty49]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.

Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

[qwerty49]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.

Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

[81alum]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.

Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

My interpretation is that we tried to play much the same style of defense as we did on Friday, but the refs on Friday called it loosely and the refs today called it tight.  Playing an aggressive, handsy, close defense shut down the Cal offense last time, but today it generated a boatload of fouls.  Not only did the points from the free throws keep Cal in the game, the style of officiating made us change the style of defense, and Cal was able to get into more of a rhythm scoring.  As to why Tara heaped all the minutes on five players--she must have felt that Williams, Lexie, Lacie, Fingall and Jones were doing the best defensively.  When you look at the +/- scores, the five with the most minutes were also the +/- leaders by a large margin.  Prechtel--despite her fabulous 9 minutes, was well behind the other five in +/-, and no one else was close.

[81alum]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.

Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

My interpretation is that we tried to play much the same style of defense as we did on Friday, but the refs on Friday called it loosely and the refs today called it tight.  Playing an aggressive, handsy, close defense shut down the Cal offense last time, but today it generated a boatload of fouls.  Not only did the points from the free throws keep Cal in the game, the style of officiating made us change the style of defense, and Cal was able to get into more of a rhythm scoring.  As to why Tara heaped all the minutes on five players--she must have felt that Williams, Lexie, Lacie, Fingall and Jones were doing the best defensively.  When you look at the +/- scores, the five with the most minutes were also the +/- leaders by a large margin.  Prechtel--despite her fabulous 9 minutes, was well behind the other five in +/-, and no one else was close.

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

and I thought you above that kind of comment. . . .

You caught me at a weak moment, and I’m sorry.  Generally, though, people asking about facts that are easily searchable is a bit of a pet peeve.  I had let the first comment go, because I figured it was more an expression of surprise than a real question, but I was surprised when your search came up with nonspecific results.  Instead of saying “try googling ‘when did women’s college basketball games change to quarters’”, I pulled the smart ass answer.

BC

[BostonCard]

Here let me google that for you.

BC

and I thought you above that kind of comment. . . .

You caught me at a weak moment, and I’m sorry.  Generally, though, people asking about facts that are easily searchable is a bit of a pet peeve.  I had let the first comment go, because I figured it was more an expression of surprise than a real question, but I was surprised when your search came up with nonspecific results.  Instead of saying “try googling ‘when did women’s college basketball games change to quarters’”, I pulled the smart ass answer.

BC

[M T]

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

The Play by Play indicates (missed) layups, jumpers, 3 pointers.
Kiana missed 1 layup in Q1, 3 in Q2, 1 in Q3, 0 in Q4 (total of 5), 1 jumper, 2 3-ptrs.
She hit 1 layup, 8 jumpers (all in the paint), 2 3-ptrs.
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EDIT: So much for the quality of the Play-by-Play. I'm now watching the recorded game and I see her first two makes were layups, which the PxP had as jumpers. Sigh..

[M T]

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

The Play by Play indicates (missed) layups, jumpers, 3 pointers.
Kiana missed 1 layup in Q1, 3 in Q2, 1 in Q3, 0 in Q4 (total of 5), 1 jumper, 2 3-ptrs.
She hit 1 layup, 8 jumpers (all in the paint), 2 3-ptrs.
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EDIT: So much for the quality of the Play-by-Play. I'm now watching the recorded game and I see her first two makes were layups, which the PxP had as jumpers. Sigh..