Can we replace Montana State with Portland State? PLEASE?!?
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
Sac State upsets EWU in the first QF game, getting their first-ever Big Sky Tournament win in the process. The Eagles really fell apart down the stretch this season after a strong start.
Jamie Craighead should get a lot of credit this season. Her Hornets could have totally thrown in the towel 4 weeks ago when they were 3-9 and 3 games out of 6th. after getting drilled in Missoula. They haven't lost since.
Montana State beats Montana by 9 in the other game, thus ending what was probably the most disappointing season in Lady Griz history. The only positive for Montana is that they don't lose any key players in the offseason.
MSU almost blew a 14-point lead in the final 3 minutes. UM scored 10 in a row quickly & forced a turnover with about a minute left, but couldn't convert when given a chance to cut it to one possession.
"What I'm saying is: You might have taken care of your wolf problem, but everyone around town is going to think of you as the crazy son of a bitch who bought land mines to get rid of wolves."
NoCo beats the Bobcats in an offensively-challenged first semifinal game. That brings an end to the 2011-12 saga of inconsistency & disappointment surrounding DI women's basketball in the state of Montana (though MSU may be good enough for a WBI bid).
That was also UNC's first-ever Big Sky Tournament win.
#1 Cal Poly went down in the Big West girls tournament today. Why not #1 in the Sky?
Hornets just GOTTA continue the resurgence.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
The Hornets fall apart offensively in the second half & lose by 13. The top 2 seeds will square off in the title game for the first time in 3 years & for just the second time in the last 7 years.
MSU 43-51 UNC; The Bears hold MSU to a season low in points & 27% shooting
Katie Bussey scores 14 points, but goes 1/7 from the arc in her final [conference] game The Bears win the foul battle by 9 and get 22 of their 51 points from the line Bear PG D'Shara Strange puts up another double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds
SAC 57-70 ISU; After Alle Moreno hit a trey to cut the deficit to 46-44, ISU went on an 18-2 run to seize the game
The Bengals play like the UM men, getting all 5 starters in double figures but only 2 bench points Emily Christensen led Sac State with 12 points in her final game Idaho State won the boards by 12 after they were even at halftime
If this were football, this would be the worst matchup imaginable. But in the rare air of girls hoops, this will probably be a very good game.
(IF the zebras don't get too involved, that is.)
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
UNC 46-49 ISU; The Bengals shot 41% and made 14 free throws, but 22 turnovers gave them few shot attempts
Defensive POY D'Shara Strange provided no offense, going 2/15 from the field and 2/5 on FTs This game only had 12 combined assists NoCo's Victoria Timm led all scorers with 18, but was the only Bear in double figures ISU won despite only scoring 1 point over a 9-minute stretch spanning halftime In the battle of the two best rebounding teams in the Big Sky, the Bengals won the boards by 9
Next year's women's Big Sky should be even more of a dogfight than this year's was. The only teams to lose multiple significant players are EWU & winless Weber…
Idaho St. - Only loss is Pickering Northern Colorado - Only notable loss is Kaisha Brown EWU - Loses Cooper & Ryan Montana St. - Only loss is Bussey Montana - No notable losses Sac State - Only loss is Christensen Portland St. - Only notable loss is Jones NAU - No real notable losses; only lose Pratt & Huntington Weber - Loses Woodfield & Mohre
As for the incoming teams…
North Dakota (defending GWC Champs) - No real notable losses; only lose the Mothershed twins (they lose their longtime coach, however) Southern Utah (defending Summit basement) - No losses at all
Preliminary '12-'13 predictions:
1. Montana
2. Idaho St.
3. Northern Colorado
4. Montana St.
5. Sac State
6. Portland St.
7. NAU
8. North Dakota
9. EWU
10. Southern Utah
11. Weber
1. Portland State
2. ISU
3. Montana
4. UNC
5. Sac
6. Montana State
7. North Dakota
8. EWU
9. NAU
10. Weber
11. SUU
No, I have nothing to base this on but the results of this year's tournament, a gut feeling, and trust in The Goddess. Feel free to smack it all you want. You will anyway.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
