I sent a similar message to the Iron Duke office. Do they really think that moving the band improved anyone’s in game experience?
2024-25 DWBB Season
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Stats v. Dayton
Here are the numbers from this week's game against the University of Dayton Flyers at Cameron:
OFFENSE
Possessions: 73.4 (still on the faster side)
oRtg: 1.144 (excellent; 1.119 adj., 4th per Torvik)
eFG%: 55.1% (very good)
3pt%: 36.8% (solid to very good)
2pt%: 55.1% (very good)
%three: 27.9% (a hair low, but fine)
FT rate: 27.9% (not so great - our lowest to date)
OR%: 48.7% (fantastic, our best to date)
TO%: 21.8% (a little high)
a/to: 1.063 (decent)
%assisted: 50.0% (good)
fast break pts: 13 (15.5%) (good)
DEFENSE
dRtg: 0.667 (excellent; 0.669 adj., 1st per Torvik)
deFG%: 38.4% (excellent)
3pt%: 33.3% (not great)
2pt%: 31.4% (excellent)
%threes: 37.5% (pretty high, especially if they're making a third of them)
FT rate: 14.3% (excellent)
DR%: 74.4% (solid, but against a shorter team)
TO%: 32.7% (excellent)
a/to: 0.417 (excellent)
%assisted: 55.6% (high)
stl%: 21.8% (very good)
blk%: 8.6% (not great, especially against a team this size)
fast break pts: 12 (24.5%) (not good)
I'm posting stats today, but it may not continue, depending on how Duke responds to my e-mail, if at all. I'm not sure I'm willing to continue to invest in the women's team, unless they show they are willing to invest in me.
Here are the numbers from this week's game against the University of Dayton Flyers at Cameron:
OFFENSE
Possessions: 73.4 (still on the faster side)
oRtg: 1.144 (excellent; 1.119 adj., 4th per Torvik)
eFG%: 55.1% (very good)
3pt%: 36.8% (solid to very good)
2pt%: 55.1% (very good)
%three: 27.9% (a hair low, but fine)
FT rate: 27.9% (not so great - our lowest to date)
OR%: 48.7% (fantastic, our best to date)
TO%: 21.8% (a little high)
a/to: 1.063 (decent)
%assisted: 50.0% (good)
fast break pts: 13 (15.5%) (good)
DEFENSE
dRtg: 0.667 (excellent; 0.669 adj., 1st per Torvik)
deFG%: 38.4% (excellent)
3pt%: 33.3% (not great)
2pt%: 31.4% (excellent)
%threes: 37.5% (pretty high, especially if they're making a third of them)
FT rate: 14.3% (excellent)
DR%: 74.4% (solid, but against a shorter team)
TO%: 32.7% (excellent)
a/to: 0.417 (excellent)
%assisted: 55.6% (high)
stl%: 21.8% (very good)
blk%: 8.6% (not great, especially against a team this size)
fast break pts: 12 (24.5%) (not good)
I'm posting stats today, but it may not continue, depending on how Duke responds to my e-mail, if at all. I'm not sure I'm willing to continue to invest in the women's team, unless they show they are willing to invest in me.
I support you 100%,Phredd.
Loyalty should be rewarded not sand bagged.. The pep band is a minor support element for WBB
Most of the time they stare at their phones.
An end zone or bleacher corner was a good fit
It’s early but this team is not pleasant to watch.
Not much fun viewing for a fan —can’t remember cringing so many times—missed FT’s
Loyalty should be rewarded not sand bagged.. The pep band is a minor support element for WBB
Most of the time they stare at their phones.
An end zone or bleacher corner was a good fit
It’s early but this team is not pleasant to watch.
Not much fun viewing for a fan —can’t remember cringing so many times—missed FT’s
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Duke WBB plays at South Dakota State on Sunday 11/17 at 3:30pm ET on CBSSN (channel info, listen, live stats)
Like rock stars gone acoustic, Kara Lawson and the 16th-ranked Blue Devils resume their road tour of intimate venues when they play a Sunday afternoon game against the should-be-ranked Jackrabbits in the newly remodeled First Bank & Trust Arena in Brookings, South Dakota. (SDSU is indeed ranked in the Coaches Poll at #25, but are the 9th team also receiving votes -- essentially #34 -- in the AP Poll.) The arena, which just reopened in October, holds 5,000 fans for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling, and it looks like this:
Still got that new arena smell. After a 65-63 road win over Rice (recap, box score, highlights), the Jacks celebrated their official home debut by knocking off then #21 Creighton 76-71 (recap, box score, highlights), and followed that up with a second home win against Wisconsin 79-57 (recap, box score, highlights).
Their loaded non-conference schedule continues after the Duke game: they'll play Georgia Tech and AP #25 Oregon in Hawaii next week, and visit #4 Texas just before Christmas. Not bad for the pride of either the 39th or 40th state admitted into the Union:
Aaron Johnston has been the head coach of South Dakota State women's basketball for the entirety of its Division I existence, joining in 2004 as an independent and moving to the Summit League in 2007. Now in his 25th year on the job, he's never had a losing season; in fact, he's only had two seasons where his team won fewer than two-thirds of their games. He's made 12 NCAA Tournaments (getting a single-digit seed 5 times), and has advanced past the first round in 4 of them, reaching the Sweet 16 in 2019. If there were a Mount Rushmore of sports coaches in the state of South Dakota, I'm pretty sure he would be on it.
Coach Johnston took part in the Summit League's Media Day to preview this year's team. Here's the video.
"This year, because of all of our adversity [4 players had season-ending injuries last season], we actually return eight starters. We've had eight people that have had significant starting time, which is incredibly rare, but that speaks to the adversity. I just think that, over the years, we've always been able to overcome some of those bumps in the road -- like you said, one injury is an opportunity, and our players have taken it in stride and come out on the right side."
"Our scheduling coach, Megan Lueck, just became the head coach at [Division III] St. Olaf College of Minnesota. I think she did that on her way out as a parting gift... We love all those opportunities, they're so fun. Duke at our place, but we'll go back to Duke, playing Cameron Indoor... Texas is so good, so talented, go to their place and they'll come back to ours... Those are just opportunities you can't say no to, and they help us measure where we're at. Our goal is to not only play in the NCAA tournament, but to advance, and you're going to run into teams like that. You have to figure out what it's going to take to beat them in those moments, and you have to do that by playing them."
SDSU is seemingly portal-resistant, with no incoming transfers; every player on this roster arrived on campus as a freshman. The Jackrabbits have dominated their conference, with 40 straight wins and counting. Put it this way: there are juniors on this team who have never lost to a Summit League opponent. Not surprisingly, they were picked to finish 1st in the league's preseason poll. Their rotation looks like this:
PROBABLE STARTERS
6-2 junior forward Brooklyn Meyer (15.7 pts, 6.3 reb. 2.3 ast, 1.3 stl, 1.3 blk)
5-11 redshirt junior guard Haleigh Timmer (13.7 pts, 2.3 reb, 1.3 ast)
5-6 senior guard Paige Meyer (11.0 pts, 4.7 reb, 5.0 ast, 1.0 stl)
5-10 junior guard Madison Mathiowetz (6.7 pts, 3.3 reb, 0.7 ast)
6-1 redshirt senior forward Kallie Theisen (5.3 pts, 4.7 reb, 1.0 ast)
TOP RESERVES
6-2 senior forward Mesa Byom (9.0 pts, 7.0 reb, 0.3 ast)
6-2 freshman guard Katie Vasecka (7.7 pts, 2.7 reb, 0.7 ast, 1.0 stl, 1.3 blk)
5-8 freshman guard Emilee Fox (3.7 pts, 1.0 reb, 2.0 ast)
5-10 junior guard Ellie Colbeck (0.7 pts, 1.0 reb, 2.0 ast)
BENCH PLAYERS
5-11 sophomore guard Jenna Hopp (0.0 pts, 0.5 reb, 0.0 ast)
5-7 freshman guard Mahli Abdouch
6-0 redshirt freshman wing Hilary Behrens
6-1 freshman forward Jaidyn Dunn
6-1 freshman wing Clair Sheppard
6-1 senior forward Madysen Vlastuin
The law firm of Meyer, Meyer, and Mathiowetz were returning starters and the leading three scorers from last season. The other two starters, Timmer and Theisen, aren't new; they both missed the 2023-2024 season with injuries.
Brooklyn Meyer is the reigning Summit League Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. She's a career 56 percent shooter from the field, but she does not take threes. She and Paige Meyer were named to the All-Conference first team, while Haleigh Timmer made the second team.
Basketball Reference shows a pair of SDSU's team stats that are quite similar to those of Duke's last opponent, Dayton. The Jacks average 30.3 defensive rebounds (47th nationally) and hold their opponents to just 6.3 offensive rebounds (6th best). Again, that should mean trouble for Duke getting second chances on the offensive end, but it didn't seem to phase them on Thursday.
Dayton (pregame stats): has 32.5 defensive rebounds (31st), holds opponents to 6.0 offensive rebounds (8th)
Thursday's box score: Dayton has 20 defensive rebounds, while Duke has 19 offensive rebounds and 20 second chance points.
Bart Torvik ranked South Dakota State 58th in the preseason -- they're #55 now -- and he predicts a 70-63 Duke win.
Like rock stars gone acoustic, Kara Lawson and the 16th-ranked Blue Devils resume their road tour of intimate venues when they play a Sunday afternoon game against the should-be-ranked Jackrabbits in the newly remodeled First Bank & Trust Arena in Brookings, South Dakota. (SDSU is indeed ranked in the Coaches Poll at #25, but are the 9th team also receiving votes -- essentially #34 -- in the AP Poll.) The arena, which just reopened in October, holds 5,000 fans for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling, and it looks like this:
Still got that new arena smell. After a 65-63 road win over Rice (recap, box score, highlights), the Jacks celebrated their official home debut by knocking off then #21 Creighton 76-71 (recap, box score, highlights), and followed that up with a second home win against Wisconsin 79-57 (recap, box score, highlights).
Their loaded non-conference schedule continues after the Duke game: they'll play Georgia Tech and AP #25 Oregon in Hawaii next week, and visit #4 Texas just before Christmas. Not bad for the pride of either the 39th or 40th state admitted into the Union:
Aaron Johnston has been the head coach of South Dakota State women's basketball for the entirety of its Division I existence, joining in 2004 as an independent and moving to the Summit League in 2007. Now in his 25th year on the job, he's never had a losing season; in fact, he's only had two seasons where his team won fewer than two-thirds of their games. He's made 12 NCAA Tournaments (getting a single-digit seed 5 times), and has advanced past the first round in 4 of them, reaching the Sweet 16 in 2019. If there were a Mount Rushmore of sports coaches in the state of South Dakota, I'm pretty sure he would be on it.
Coach Johnston took part in the Summit League's Media Day to preview this year's team. Here's the video.
"This year, because of all of our adversity [4 players had season-ending injuries last season], we actually return eight starters. We've had eight people that have had significant starting time, which is incredibly rare, but that speaks to the adversity. I just think that, over the years, we've always been able to overcome some of those bumps in the road -- like you said, one injury is an opportunity, and our players have taken it in stride and come out on the right side."
"Our scheduling coach, Megan Lueck, just became the head coach at [Division III] St. Olaf College of Minnesota. I think she did that on her way out as a parting gift... We love all those opportunities, they're so fun. Duke at our place, but we'll go back to Duke, playing Cameron Indoor... Texas is so good, so talented, go to their place and they'll come back to ours... Those are just opportunities you can't say no to, and they help us measure where we're at. Our goal is to not only play in the NCAA tournament, but to advance, and you're going to run into teams like that. You have to figure out what it's going to take to beat them in those moments, and you have to do that by playing them."
SDSU is seemingly portal-resistant, with no incoming transfers; every player on this roster arrived on campus as a freshman. The Jackrabbits have dominated their conference, with 40 straight wins and counting. Put it this way: there are juniors on this team who have never lost to a Summit League opponent. Not surprisingly, they were picked to finish 1st in the league's preseason poll. Their rotation looks like this:
PROBABLE STARTERS
6-2 junior forward Brooklyn Meyer (15.7 pts, 6.3 reb. 2.3 ast, 1.3 stl, 1.3 blk)
5-11 redshirt junior guard Haleigh Timmer (13.7 pts, 2.3 reb, 1.3 ast)
5-6 senior guard Paige Meyer (11.0 pts, 4.7 reb, 5.0 ast, 1.0 stl)
5-10 junior guard Madison Mathiowetz (6.7 pts, 3.3 reb, 0.7 ast)
6-1 redshirt senior forward Kallie Theisen (5.3 pts, 4.7 reb, 1.0 ast)
TOP RESERVES
6-2 senior forward Mesa Byom (9.0 pts, 7.0 reb, 0.3 ast)
6-2 freshman guard Katie Vasecka (7.7 pts, 2.7 reb, 0.7 ast, 1.0 stl, 1.3 blk)
5-8 freshman guard Emilee Fox (3.7 pts, 1.0 reb, 2.0 ast)
5-10 junior guard Ellie Colbeck (0.7 pts, 1.0 reb, 2.0 ast)
BENCH PLAYERS
5-11 sophomore guard Jenna Hopp (0.0 pts, 0.5 reb, 0.0 ast)
5-7 freshman guard Mahli Abdouch
6-0 redshirt freshman wing Hilary Behrens
6-1 freshman forward Jaidyn Dunn
6-1 freshman wing Clair Sheppard
6-1 senior forward Madysen Vlastuin
The law firm of Meyer, Meyer, and Mathiowetz were returning starters and the leading three scorers from last season. The other two starters, Timmer and Theisen, aren't new; they both missed the 2023-2024 season with injuries.
Brooklyn Meyer is the reigning Summit League Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. She's a career 56 percent shooter from the field, but she does not take threes. She and Paige Meyer were named to the All-Conference first team, while Haleigh Timmer made the second team.
Basketball Reference shows a pair of SDSU's team stats that are quite similar to those of Duke's last opponent, Dayton. The Jacks average 30.3 defensive rebounds (47th nationally) and hold their opponents to just 6.3 offensive rebounds (6th best). Again, that should mean trouble for Duke getting second chances on the offensive end, but it didn't seem to phase them on Thursday.
Dayton (pregame stats): has 32.5 defensive rebounds (31st), holds opponents to 6.0 offensive rebounds (8th)
Thursday's box score: Dayton has 20 defensive rebounds, while Duke has 19 offensive rebounds and 20 second chance points.
Bart Torvik ranked South Dakota State 58th in the preseason -- they're #55 now -- and he predicts a 70-63 Duke win.
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I just posted about Somfai-to-Stanford a few days ago, but here is an update about Agot Makeer.
Dushawn London reports that she will not make her decision during the Early Signing Period:
Recruiting news: Agot Makeer, the No. 4 prospect in the class of 2025 will not sign in the early signing period.
Makeer is planning to commit in the next month or so sources confirm to @247Sports
Finalists: UConn, Duke, Kentucky, South Carolina, UNC, and Michigan State.
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Thanks for that, some places have been reporting (including espn) that Duke was no longer in contention. I didn't believe it because I had seen nothing directly from her.
I"m pretty confident that Duke is no longer in the running for Agot.
Why?
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Game day. A reminder that this game starts at 3:30pm ET, but 2:30pm locally, as South Dakota is on Central time.
Here are Duke's preview and PDF game notes, and South Dakota State's preview and PDF game notes. Alex Heinert, Missy Heidrick, and Ana Bellinghausen will announce the game on TV.
(source)
The CBS Sports Network (CBSSN) is different from regular CBS. It's a somewhat obscure cable channel that may or may not be part of your TV provider's sports package. Click the channel info link and enter your zip code to find the channel locally. Here's a partial list of providers.
Astound Broadband: channel 124 or 380 or 508
AT&T U-Verse: channel 643/1643
Cox Communications: channel 315 or 321 or 333
DirecTV: channel 221
DISH Network: channel 158
FiOS TV from Frontier: channel 94
Spectrum: channel 303 or 315 or 411
Verizon FiOS: channel 94
Xfinity/Comcast: channel 106 or 109 or 412 or 418 or 732
I don't know if this game will stream for you -- it does not for me -- but for some TV providers (including Hulu TV and YouTube TV), the CBSSN site shows a play arrow icon that offers an opportunity to watch live on your device. Good luck with that.
If you can't watch, the radio broadcast from the Blue Devil Sports Network (online or on the Varsity app) can also be heard on Sirius XM channels 132 or 194, if you subscribe.
The Jackrabbits Sports Network is an alternative listening option. (I imagine it will be heavily biased toward the home team, which could make you angry, but in the 1990s, that was often the point of the alternative genre.) Their audio feed will also stream from the team website.
Whether you watch or listen (or neither), you can follow the live stats of the game.
Finally, today is being promoted as the White Out game. I don't know how they'll find and distribute 5,000 bottles of Liquid Paper correction fluid to every fan in attendance. Maybe Office Peeps, their local supply store, sells them in bulk?
For the record, their promotion says: "Fans wear white. Free white rally towels, while supplies last."
Stray Gator
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FYI, for viewers who subscribe to Spectrum cable TV in Orlando, the CBSSN is on Channel 106.
Sources say so.
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Unlinkable sources? Acceptable answers:
1. I heard it reported on the radio, so I can't provide a link.
2. I saw it reported on TV, so I can't provide a link.
3. I have inside information given to me in confidence, and I've already said too much.
Which is it?
CameronBornAndBred
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The Boise State Hippies are taking their time dispatching Clemson.
CameronBornAndBred
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Strange game. We can finally score beneath the basket, but we can't defend. What a flip.
Duke leads 23-18 after one.
Duke leads 23-18 after one.
