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Colorado Women's Basketball RPI Watch
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MarkW
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I'm not sure this was the Buffs best game of the year, but it was probably hard to get motivated for given the circumstances. Buffs still without Sborov, A-Wil & Huggins.
Stats and highlights: http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3909&SPID=258&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=205848965
Up next Saturday is New Mexico at home in the second game of a double header with the men's team. UNM is 8-4 this season, but 1-2 on the road.
Stats and highlights: http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3909&SPID=258&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=205848965
Up next Saturday is New Mexico at home in the second game of a double header with the men's team. UNM is 8-4 this season, but 1-2 on the road.
Chucky is very focused at the moment. She is playing like the Pac-12 POTY. She is excited to graduate. I'm guessing Coach got her attention with whatever the early season suspension was about.
CVilleBuff
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Utah Valley has 33,395 students and is the largest public university in Utah. Weird.
10-0. Let's take care of business against New Mexico. At 8-4, they're not a great team by any means, but one that you can't be caught sleeping against.
10-0. Let's take care of business against New Mexico. At 8-4, they're not a great team by any means, but one that you can't be caught sleeping against.
New Mexico isn't very good, but the MWC is horrible this year. With wins against them plus the ones we've booked against SDSU & Wyoming, the odds are great that we will have beaten the MWC champ if we get this one.
MarkW
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Don't forget CSU
Buffs are now at something like 21 consecutive regular season non-conference wins.
I had never heard of Utah Valley before. I had no idea it's the largest public university in Utah.
When the players return after Christmas, I'm sure Coach Lappe will keep them focused on basketball during the rest of the break. They need to focus if they have a chance of knocking off either Stanford or Cal.
MarkW
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IMHO the first four games of the conference schedule is make or break for a top four finish. In order they have Stanford, Cal, Utah (@ home) followed by Utah on the road. All of this teams look like they'll finish in the top half of the standings. I feel like a 3-1 start is possible, but will be challenging.
The middle of the conference schedule features four straight road games at the Cal schools.
MarkW
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Prior to the game I figured CU would win this game by around 20 points or so given UNM's previous results, but wow the Buffs just pasted the Lobos in the second half. CU was up by 18 at the half and then preceded to go on something like a 25-5 run. And it really was a team effort on both ends of the court. UNM until late in the game worked hard on defense, but couldn't slow the Buffs down.
Early in the game Lexi Kresl really helped by getting going from beyond the three point line. She ended up 5-5! But she also got to the basket as well.
Brittany looked like she incurred a concussion when she took a hard hit running into a screen. She only played 10 minutes in the game.
Jasmine Sborov and Ashley Wilson saw action for the first time in a while.
The last three or four games have reminded me of a lot what Ceal's teams in the 90's looked like. Solid defense and rebounding, opportunistic on offense and playing 40 minutes with intensity.
CU is clearly better than they were at this time last season and ahead of where I expected them to be at this time. Lappe is doing a tremendous job and the team is working hard and and executing. There is no doubt that they are playing like an NCAA tourney caliber team.
Early in the game Lexi Kresl really helped by getting going from beyond the three point line. She ended up 5-5! But she also got to the basket as well.
Brittany looked like she incurred a concussion when she took a hard hit running into a screen. She only played 10 minutes in the game.
Jasmine Sborov and Ashley Wilson saw action for the first time in a while.
The last three or four games have reminded me of a lot what Ceal's teams in the 90's looked like. Solid defense and rebounding, opportunistic on offense and playing 40 minutes with intensity.
CU is clearly better than they were at this time last season and ahead of where I expected them to be at this time. Lappe is doing a tremendous job and the team is working hard and and executing. There is no doubt that they are playing like an NCAA tourney caliber team.
CVilleBuff
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On to Pac-12 play! It's a challenging start, but I like getting some of the biggest road tests out of the way early. Time to prove that we're the real deal and won't fade in conference play. I know this team is ready to do that.
Composure, something that CU has not been able to play with much in the BIG games the last 6 or so seasons. They definitely have the intensity you need but composure comes with experience and confidence. CU showed that they may have this crucial component to a Championship caliber team against Louisville but the next 4 games will tell us a lot more.
I sure like the looks of this team and they seem to be getting better everyday!
Does anyone know when Huggins might be back. She could be big off the bench in conference play.
So how does Stanford react to getting blasted. Do they come out angry wanting to prove that it was just an off night or do they take a step back and now that an undefeated season and the #1 ranking are off the table do they come out less than full speed and we catch them down.
I wouldn't expect anything less from a well coached team. CU will need to be at the top of their game.
Yup. I hope for the second but expect the first. That's how you get that good and stay there.
We are now one of four unbeaten teams in the women's game. Two ranked teams above us got beat today--#20 Texas (2nd loss in two games at a tournament) and #15 Dayton. We will be moving on up.
Lappe is an intense coach and expects her players to be just as intense. They have finally figured that out this season and have totally bought in to her system and style of play and coaching.
I think we can get one of the games this weekend. Utah got beat by North Dakota State yesterday at home. They can be beaten.
This team definitely wants a ticket to the dance. They don't want to be watching in Boulder from the sidelines.
I do hope B Wil is okay and will be ready to play.
As for Lauren Huggins, stress fractures are strange things. If I am not mistaken, she has multiple stress fractures. We have to concentrate on keeping all the other players healthy as she might not be playing this season.
Lappe is an intense coach and expects her players to be just as intense. They have finally figured that out this season and have totally bought in to her system and style of play and coaching.
I think we can get one of the games this weekend. Utah got beat by North Dakota State yesterday at home. They can be beaten.
This team definitely wants a ticket to the dance. They don't want to be watching in Boulder from the sidelines.
I do hope B Wil is okay and will be ready to play.
As for Lauren Huggins, stress fractures are strange things. If I am not mistaken, she has multiple stress fractures. We have to concentrate on keeping all the other players healthy as she might not be playing this season.
College Sports Madness updated bracketologoy (dated 12/31 but posted on 12/30) has 4 PAC-12 teams in with CU as #5 seed. The #4 seed they have in the bracket with the Buffs is Okie State. That would be interesting if it happened since it would be a rematch, in Boulder, of the WNIT quarterfinal from last season where the Buffs were beaten by the Cowgirls in Stillwater.
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/womens-basketball/bracketology
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/womens-basketball/bracketology
Updated bracketology out today on ESPN. They have the Buffs up to #7, with Penn State the #2 seed sent to Boulder.In the 12/10 version, they had CU as one of the last 4 in; now it looks as tho they are solidly in as long as they perform up to expectations.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/bracketology
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/bracketology
I've said that before!
I've been checking regularly on WarrenNolan. At least according to his RPI rankings what appears to have happened is that CU fell from 30 after winning at Utah to 33 prior to the ASU game yesterday due to results of schools CU beat in the non-conference part of the schedule. Then after beating ASU last night, we moved back up 1 to 32.