WBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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Superior women beat St Scholastica who, according to statistics, beat River Falls on 4 January. Superior gave up eight point leads a couple of times before completely losing their grasp and getting tied up in regulation time. They come back in overtime and win by seven. One starter, Jenny Carlson, is out with a stress fracture. Carissa Nord has seven threes and ends the night with a gazillion points. Moench is uncharacteristically quiet.

[UWPSUPERFAN77]

Been too busy to blog and I just caught up with my reading.UWP vs Platteville, I saw the game. i was impressed with the UWS coach. he made good substitutions and was on his team and the officials. he got a technical foul, but he had a beef on a timeout in which the player slid and may not have had possession when the TO was called. Katie Moench is a very good player. considering her talent she was too team like, meaning she needs to shoot more. She was defensed well. Breeana Herzog played the game of her life, but fouled out early in the 2nd half. I thought Amanda Rounsville is pretty solid at Center, only tall player on team, As to my pioneers we need to be more physical. We are young but have a lot of Talent. We shot well from the 3 zone, but our post players had a poor game offensively.LisaWubben is back in form. For a review of the Mens game, see the West BB site. thank you and God Bless!

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i was impressed with the UWS coach

I like the UWS coach, but he's had a few technicals. Maybe he needs to learn when to lay off, unless he thinks that will motivate the team. I tend to think most technicals just put the team farther behind. I know sometimes it's good to have the coach go to the mat for you (as a player), and it can give the player a sense of support. I do think Mulhern subs well; unfortunately, his bench is pretty light.

The big problem I have with Moench--from a spectator's POV--is that she doesn't always seem to know when to be selfless vs when to be selfish. I've seen her pass off when, clearly, she should have taken the shot; and then she can drive and shoot when there's no way in the world she can make it. I tend to believe driving into a crowd is generally foolhardy, and if there are four defenders clustered under the basket, there are likely three teammates wide open somewhere. When she's hot, though, she can chew up a basket. That was Nord last night. I like Nord.

Rounsville is tall and solid; I keep forgetting that she's only a sophomore and she's a transfer. I expect more from her, because I watched her play strong basketball from a freshman in high school, and then she only got stronger. College ball is different; she's on a new team; new coach. The next two years will be good for her.

I completely missed the weekend game. Had to go watch hawckey.

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I was just on the WIAC page looking at tomorrow's broadcasted games and noticed that some games will be videocast by I-FAN.  From looking at the I-FAN schedule, it looks like this company will be broadcasting high school and college sports in Northwest Wisconsin. 

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I-Fan has been broadcasting high school and college games up here (Superior area) for a couple of years. Last year, it was offering view for a subscription; this year, I see it has sponsors, so games are free. I have been able to watch hockey and basketball. The great thing is that although the Superior community/college doesn't seem to want to support women's hockey enough to do even radio broadcasts, I can watch games on the computer. Picture is small, but that may have more to do with my settings. If you have a DSL link, it's like watching TV (a small one). If you have dial up, it's more like watching hiccups. AND, if you miss the game, it archives broadcasts, so you can watch them later.

Sunday, I watched Badger-Gopher women's basketball on TV and Superior-Concordia women's hockey on I-Fan. Last night, it was UWS-vs St Scholastica on I-Fan. It's a great service, and I would be willing to pay a reasonable subscription to support it.

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I couldn't bring this site up last night at home. Was it unavailable or was it a problem with my computer? I'm in the midst of a war of words with my internet provider, so they may have blocked some of my special interest sites. Buzzards.

[badgerwarhawk]

I didn't have any problems bringing the site up last night.

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UW-Sup women choke on a ten point lead in mid second half and end up losing by12, or something, to Finlandia. Two key players start out in street clothes on the bench; Nord gets hurt in first half and is un-uniformed for the second half. Soupers pretty flagged ten minutes into second half. Katie Moench has 25 or so points; maybe 22, it's all  lost in a cloud of disappointment.

[Just Bill]

Pointers lead Eau Claire 32-20 at the half. Lechault busting out with 10 points (on 5-5 shooting) and 6 boards. Archie leads EC with 7 points.

UPDATE:  Live stats crashed midway through the second half, but Point wins 64-44.  Van Gomple leads Point with 13 on 3-3 3-point shooting.  Lechault adds 12 on 6-6 shooting. Pointers shoot 50% for the game.  Arciszewski scores 13 and Burns 12 (plus 10 boards) for the Blugolds.  EC shoots just 27.6% for the game.

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The Blugolds crashed, too, although that's not really too accurate, since they only had a 6-5 lead at one point, if I recall correctly, never to lead again. More like stalled out... Listened on the Net feed, which was pretty cool.

Not sure why or how to solve it, but the road woes continue for the Lady Blugolds. How can a coach address this? Maybe the U should pay for six buses to ship half of those who are attending the games in EC to the road games. That way there'd be a good Blugold crowd, to make them feel at home! 

They're back in Zorn in a few days, though, where they are undefeated this year, and will will play three key games, starting with Platteville on Saturday, then Superior and La Crosse.

[Just Bill]

Back in the day, the high school team I followed was having the opposite problem.  They would win on the road, but struggled mightily at home.

Finally, the coach had enough.  He booked a bus, loaded the team up and drove to their opponents high school (about 20 minutes away).  He let them get out, stretch their legs and then loaded them back up.  They arrived at their home gym, wore dark jerseys, sat on the opposite bench and won the game going away.

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RF blows a 10pt lead with less than 5min left and loses by 1 at Stout.

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Went to the UWW vs my beloved Pioneers tonight. it is always a great night to be a Pioneer, whether we win or lose. Game was 26-24 at Half. It was very ugly, as UWP had 20 turnovers in first half. in the 2nd we went stone cold, while the hawks heated up. UWW has a lot of depth and lplayedvery well.Only 211 in attendence, only about 6 or 7 from Whitewater. The UWW full court press dominated us just like the recent UWRF vs UWW game. Lisa Grantman played point guard, i feel she is a much better forward. She stuggled with 12 turnovers, this affected her offense with only 2 points. She is a good player, but not tonight. Game will be on tv later on fox Sports net. God Bless!

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Tough loss for RF. They have a better team than their record. However, they should keep their heads high giving the lady bluedevils a scare. God Bless!

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The top 4 possible reasons BDB was MIA at Johnson Fieldhouse last night...

  1.  Offer of free post-game beer from the Mayor was impossible to pass up.
  2.  GM duties called at the Dunn County ice arena.
  3.  Bank error...  had to work into the wee hours of the morning to correct.
or
  4.  Had to play host to the choir from St. Joes...

Anyway, in my opinion he missed some strange player line-ups and a nail-biter at the end.