WBB Scores Around the Valley

[1972Shocker]

Saturday, November 29th:
Wichita State 63 - Clemson 48 (Virgin Islands)
@Loyola 63 - Eastern Illinois 52
@UT-Martin 84 - Evansville 74
TCU 82 - Missouri State 68 (Boulder, CO) - Still without Tyonna Snow
Buffalo 68 - Illinois State 60 (Coral Gables, FL)
Tulane 71 - Northern Iowa 48 (Hofstra Thanksgiving Tournament)

Valley Non-Con Record: 17-35

[1972Shocker]

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Indiana State 65 - @Indiana 61 in OT (Very nice win for the Sycamores)
@Souhtern Illinois 67 - Mercer 52
Drake 62 - Fordham 56 in San Antonio
SE Missouri State 70 - Bradley 65


Finally a winning day for the Valley women. Need a bunch more of those. Valley at 20-36 now in the non-con.

[1972Shocker]

Wednesday - December 3, 2014

Evansville 89 - @Murray State 83 in OT. Nice road win for the Aces who got a combined 71 points, 22 rebounds and 14 assists from Sophs Sara Dickey (37-4-3) and Sasha Robinson (17-11-3) and Senior Mallory Ladd (17-7-8) including a combined 10-10 from the line. Kind of sloppy game though. Evansville with 20 turnovers but Murray State trumped that with 27 turnovers.

Loyola 45 - @Missouri 56
Colorado State 69 - @Drake 56

Valley Women: 21-38 In scanning the remaining non-con schedule I would guess the Valley will just tread water through the rest of the non-con and finish the non-con well below 0.500

The Valley women have been impacted by injuries this season. Preseason All-Conference pick and reigning Vallley POY Kyndall Clark injured her knee after only 1 game and is out for he season. Tyonna Snow, one of MSU's top 2 players has a foot injury and has not played this year but is expected to return in time from Valley play. Illinois State also is dealing with a few injuries and aren't a very deep team. Northern Iowa is also down a couple of good players in Hannah Schonhardt and Brittni Donaldson.

[1972Shocker]

Thursday - December 4, 2014

UNI falls at South Dakota 77-85

Indiana State nips IUPUI on the road 61-60

Valley Women: 22-39

[1972Shocker]

Friday - Saturday - Sunday -- December 5 -7:

@ Wichita State 55 - Arkansas-Pine Bluff 26
@ Bradley 76 - Missouri 64 (Bradley picks up its 1st win)
@ Missouri State 75 - SIU-Edwardsville 69 (Missouri State picks up its 1st win)
@ Evansville 51 - Miami (OH) 41
Drake 80 - @ Idaho State 66
Illinois 86 - @ Southern Illinois 42
@ Indiana State 62 - Indianapolis 43
UT Martin 79 - @ Illinois State 46
@ Northwestern 70 - Loyola 33

Some progress on the winning % front with the Valley going 6-3 this weekend but the 3 losses were absolute blowouts.

Valley Non-Con Record: 28-42

[1972Shocker]

Monday - December 8:

Creighton 58 - @ Norhern Iowa 56

Valley Non-Con Record: 28-43

Tuesday - December 9:

@ Evansville 81 - Oakland City (D-II) 40

Westhern Illinois 75 @ Bradley 63

Valley Non-Con Record: 29-43 Conference RPI: 19th out of 32

Wednesday - December 10:

Arkansas 59 - @ Missouri State 50

Valley Non-Con Record: 27-45 Excluding Non-D-1 games. Like the Valley men the there is a clear demarcation between the Top 5 Valley women's teams and the bottom 5. The Top 5 are a combined 22-13 which is okay. The Bottom 5 are a combined 5-32 which is decidedly not okay.

Thursday - December 11:

@ Northern Iowa 56 - North Dakota State 41

Valley D-1 Non-con Record: 28-45

Friday & Saturday - December 12 & 13:

@ Wichita State 51 - Kansas State 48
Southern Illinois 75 - @ Austin Peay 65
@ Norhtern Iowa 62 - Dartmouth 46

Valley D-1 Non-Con Record: 31-45 Conference RPI still 19th out of 32 but the Valley could easily move up several notches with a strong close to the Non-Conference schedule.

[Shocker-maniac]

Are they still expecting 5000 KState fans at the game Fri night?

[1972Shocker]

Week of December 14th:

Sunday (2-2) - YTD NonCon 33-47:
Indiana State 68 - @ St. Louis 58
@Missouri State 68 - IUPUI 58
#19 Michigan State 90 - @ Loyola 38
@Creighton 93 - Drake 71

Tuesday (1-2) - YTD NonCon 34-49:
@ #11 Tennessee 54 - Wichita State 51
@ Southern Illinois 78 Murray State 63
Arizona State 89 - Illinois State 44

Wednesday (0-1) - YTD NonCon 34-50:
#25 DePaul 109 - Loyola 84

Thursday (1-1) - YTD NonCon 35-51:
Chicago State 62 - @ Bradley 59 (Chicago State was #312 in the RPI, Bradley #310. A really bad home loss)
@ Evansville 94 - Troy 82
@ Drake 102 - Northwestern College (IA) 58 (Not counted in Record - NAIA opponent)

Friday (1-3) - YTD NonCon 36-54:
@ Wichita State 57 - Louisiana-Monroe 42
Bowling Green 58 - @ Illinois State 54
Arkansas State 78 - @ Missouri State 62
@ #16 Oregon State 71 - Southern Illinois 55

Saturday (2 -2) - YTD NonCon 38-56:
@ Wichita State 66 - Winthrop 20
Indiana State 64 - SMU 55 in Queens NY
@Toledo 64 - Southern Illinois 48
@Dartmouth 70 - Loyola 58 in OT

The Valley is 16th among 32 conferences in RPI and 22nd in the Nolan Power Index. At this point the Valley has only teams in the Top 100 of the RPI. WSU is 47 and INS is at 60.

[isu87]

Indiana State took down #25 St Johns in NY today 73-67 in double OT, looking forward to the MVC opener there on January 2nd, on ESPN3.

[WuDrWu]

Indiana State took down #25 St Johns in NY today 73-67 in double OT, looking forward to the MVC opener there on January 2nd, on ESPN3.

Pretty obvious Coach Moren knew a little about the game, both in the direction and progress of your program and in her decision to hire Coach Wells.

Interesting that in her new gig at Indiana, she played ISU (was that already set up?) in Bloomington and that's IU's only loss this year. While the Trees have only lost to a more than decent Stetson team so far.

I think it's pretty clear the ISU is the favorite to win the league at this point. We're just not deep enough or consistent enough, imho, to get there.

[isu87]

Pretty obvious Coach Moren knew a little about the game, both in the direction and progress of your program and in her decision to hire Coach Wells.

Interesting that in her new gig at Indiana, she played ISU (was that already set up?) in Bloomington and that's IU's only loss this year. While the Trees have only lost to a more than decent Stetson team so far.

I think it's pretty clear the ISU is the favorite to win the league at this point. We're just not deep enough or consistent enough, imho, to get there.

The game at IU was already set, Moren left ISU in the middle of the summer and Wells was promoted almost immediately. The girls all wanted him promoted to head coach. It has worked out well.

IU will probably never schedule ISU again though, LOL

ISU is deep, our bench outscored the St John's bench today 54-0

[1972Shocker]

Week of December 21st:

Sunday (2-3) - YTD NonCon 40-59:
Indiana State 73 - @ St. Johns 67 2OT
@ Northern Iowa 51 - Northern Illinois 42
#23 Iowa 100 - @ Drake 98 (Drake Soph Lizzy Wendell with 43 points)
Bowling Green 61 - @ Bradley 47
@ IUPUI 62 - Evansville 50

Monday (0 -1) - YTD NonCon 40-60:
Butler 72 - @ Illinois State 60

That's all for the Valley until next Sunday. Illinois State looks like they will go 0-11 in the NonCon.

[1972Shocker]

I think it's pretty clear the ISU is the favorite to win the league at this point. We're just not deep enough or consistent enough, imho, to get there.

We won't have to wait long at all to found out how INS and WSU stackup as the Sycamores open Valley play in Koch Arena on January 2nd.

I share your concerns about the Lady Shocks' consistency and depth.

[1972Shocker]

FWIW. #21 West Virginia lost at Ohio State today by 42 (96-54). The Shocks beat Ohio State in the Virgin Islands by 15.

[isu87]

Sycamores show up in the AP poll this week.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/rankings/_/week/7/seasontype/2

WSU and ISU's RPI are at 40 & 31, respectively.

Glad our game is on ESPN3 on the 2nd.