USD Women v. Washburn

[JackJD]

At Kearney, NE, DII Elite 8: USD Women playing Washburn U of Topeka, KS even up with 13:44 to go, 42-42.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

Coyotes holding a slim lead with something less than a minute to go...I think it's a four point lead.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

Some turnover problems for both teams.

61-57 Coyotes with about 49 seconds to go.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

I confess I can't get excited listening to the game but I do hope the Coyotes continue to win.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

Overtime.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

The first overtime score was 67-67.

First overtime ends 73-73....so, double overtime.

Fans in the stands are getting their money's worth.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

50 seconds to go: USD 79, Washburn 75
A little confusing: the announcer keeps saying Coyotes by 2, 79-75 (needs a calculator?).

Washburn shooting free throws. Made the first one and the second
79-77

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

14 seconds to go
USD 79, Washburn 77.

Loose ball, scramble for it, USD's Daly gets the ball and gets hammered. She's going to the line.

I think the 'Yotes will advance to the final four.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

Daly makes both.

So, Coyotes up by four.

Washburn has the ball and offensive foul is called. Gina Hoffman to the line for two free throws...makes one...makes two.

USD 83, Washburn 77

With 5 seconds to go, big three for Washburn.

USD 83-80.

[JackJD]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

USD wins in double overtime, 85-80.

[DakotaKid]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

USD wins in double overtime, 85-80.

Congrads Lady Yotes, looks like some good games in the Tourny. First game went to OT also

[jacks1]

Re: USD Women v. Washburn

I confess I can't get excited listening to the game but I do hope the Coyotes continue to win.

Nope...not me...can't bring myself to cheer for them. Call me stupid, but I don't see how USD winning the whole thing would benefit SDSU. Not only would the USD WBB team be in the SD media spotlight for a year (puke), it would be a nice little recruiting plug for their program also. Won't we be battling against them for some of the same recruits in the not too distant future. Now that I'm done with my USD rant, I need somebody smarter than me to explain how USD winning the DII national title would be a good thing.

[rabidrabbit]

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Nope...not me...can't bring myself to cheer for them. Call me stupid, but I don't see how USD winning the whole thing would benefit SDSU. Not only would the USD WBB team be in the SD media spotlight for a year (puke), it would be a nice little recruiting plug for their program also. Won't we be battling against them for some of the same recruits in the not too distant future. Now that I'm done with my USD rant, I need somebody smarter than me to explain how USD winning the DII national title would be a good thing.

It would be a good thing for USD to win the D-II title for our home of 80+ years sake, the NCC. It would be nice for a senior dominated team to get that last hurrah. Lavin can go out a winner. But this is the end for this quality of USD team. Essentially all new starters, a new coach, and USD is about to enter purgatory, and the only thing that they'll be able to point to is a D-II title in their last year there. They will need every bragging opportunity they can get.

We will be competing with the Yotes for recruits. We already compete with Bison, Sioux, Bluejays, Bulldogs, Panthers, Gophers, Salukis, Redbirds, and Leathernecks, and many others. So what? A USD win, combined with SDSU success will have HS girls throughout the upper midwest looking at SD schools for opportunities. We have had success in obtaining games with low rpi teams. All 4 of the Dakota schools were very good in D-II. I would expect that to eventually to occur again in D-I. If so, it is good to have "local" schools with low RPI for games. Helps everybody. Look at how well the Big-12 did this year.

[ringthebells]

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Nope...not me...can't bring myself to cheer for them. Call me stupid, but I don't see how USD winning the whole thing would benefit SDSU. Not only would the USD WBB team be in the SD media spotlight for a year (puke), it would be a nice little recruiting plug for their program also. Won't we be battling against them for some of the same recruits in the not too distant future. Now that I'm done with my USD rant, I need somebody smarter than me to explain how USD winning the DII national title would be a good thing.

I have to agree with you here. Any success USD has will make SDSU's job a little bit tougher. Some of the stuff I have been reading about why they are going to struggle could be the very selling points a new coach could use to help recruit. For example:
1) A National Championship..that's a no-brainer. Suddenly the school oozes success (or so the new coach will tell the recruits) and who wouldn't want to be a part of that success?
2) Lots of seniors graduating = lots of playing time for underclassmen
3) A new coach, lots of energy, charisma, able to sell young, impressionable kids on their program
4) Lastly, entering purgatory. All a coach would have to do is point the athlete in the direction of Brookings and say look how they came out. We will do the same thing and start with a NC and you could be playing right away for a berth in an NCAA D-1 post-season tourney.

I don't wish any harm to the USD teams, but I definitely will not be cheering for them.