Summit League Preseason Poll

[el_presidente]

They have released the poll here:
http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewA...LID=204818011#

SDSU received 25 of 27 first place votes and was ranked number one in the conference.

2009-10 PRESEASON POLL VOTING

Rank
School (First-Place Votes)
Points

1.South Dakota State (25) 419
2. Oakland (1) 365
3. North Dakota State 318
4. Oral Roberts (1) 289
5. IPFW 214
6. IUPUI 212
7. UMKC 196
8. Western Illinois 160
9. Southern Utah 119
10. Centenary 48

PRESEASON ALL-LEAGUE

Player of the Year
Chazny Morris, UMKC

First Team
Inger Hodgson, G, North Dakota State
Chelsey Jackson, G, IPFW
Melissa Jeltema, G, Oakland
Chazny Morris, G, UMKC
Janae Voelker, G/F, Oral Roberts
Julia Whitted, C, IUPUI

Second Team
Maria Boever, F, South Dakota State
Ketty Cornemann, F, South Dakota State
Georgia Jones, G, Oral Roberts
Kristin Rotert, G/F, South Dakota State
Jill Young, G, South Dakota State

[NorCalJack]

Re: Summit League Preseason Poll

I'm a little suprised that none of the SDSU women made first team. That should be a little incentive for them to prove that they have at least one first team player on the team.

[22jack]

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That is surprising, but yet the second team is all SDSU except one. Hmmm.

I guess the second team all summit is the best team in the summit since we were votd number 1.

[zooropa]

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ORU had the #8 seed in the tournament last year!!! Why did they get a first place vote?

Does the ORU beat reporter just vote the ORU ticket all across the board?

[JACKGUYII]

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Another year of Julia Witthead! She is a big woman. Don't know if I have ever seen any team have 4 on a pre-season team.

[22jack]

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Ok, after seeing this a second time I think it is a total crock. Julia Whitted is on the first team? I would take any of our players over her any day. She is really slow. It is like watching a video in slow motion watching her play.

[zooropa]

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Another year of Julia Witthead! She is a big woman. Don't know if I have ever seen any team have 4 on a pre-season team.

Tell you what. She didn't look like a first teamer when they played the Jacks, but she hit 1,000 points as a junior, so it's not just what you do at Frost that counts, I guess.

She made Jenn W. look like a kindergartner playing against a JV team though.

[rabidrabbit]

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I'm a little suprised that none of the SDSU women made first team. That should be a little incentive for them to prove that they have at least one first team player on the team.

This matchs in with AJ philosophy of TEAM players. Basically, the other teams ARE that one player and limited supporting staff. When other teams SHUT DOWN that ONE player, the team gets the L. With SDSU, there is no ONE player that you focus on, they WILL ALL nail you.

The Jacks this year will more closely model after the 2007-2008 team than either last year's team, or the Megan led team of 2006-2007. Personally, that could be a really good thing, as have the stealth team. Will Ketty/Maria step to the forefront as leaders, or Kristen or Jill? Somebody different than those four?

The OOC schedule for the women IS a top 25 caliber schedule, and will have the Jacks ready to run the Summit Gauntlet. Nice that snuck OOC game vs USD into Feb. I hope the Yotes are doing to the Great West what Jacks did the preceeding years so that playing a top 100 RPI team in Feb. Oakland, maybe NDSU are only two that MAY possibly be better than 100 coming into Jan conference play.

[JimmyJack]

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There's a sense out there that we don't have great players, we have a great coach and a great system.

It's a crock, of course.

Let them have their first-teamers. I'll take conference titles, conference tourney championships, and NCAA trips. Maybe a few years from now, four or five NCAA trips down the road, the Summit media and SIDs will figure it out.

[Rabbit74]

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In part the absence of any first team selections relates to the votes being split among four SDSU players with no obvious top 1 or 2 SDSU players. In any case it is the end of the season selections that really mean the most.

[JamesJacks]

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Let them have their first-teamers. I'll take conference titles, conference tourney championships, and NCAA trips. Maybe a few years from now, four or five NCAA trips down the road, the Summit media and SIDs will figure it out.

Well said JimmyJack

[76Rabbit]

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Rather have the year end awards than the preseason

[bigticket1]

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Ok, after seeing this a second time I think it is a total crock. Julia Whitted is on the first team? I would take any of our players over her any day. She is really slow. It is like watching a video in slow motion watching her play.

Certainly do not want to get into name-calling with Ms. Whitted (we all remember what happened when someone did that last season ! ),but she is slow. In the tournament game she often didn't get down the floor before the action was coming back the other way.

[filbert]

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My take on Whitted is that I can see how she would be very hard for many teams in the Summit League to handle. As long as the Jaguars can force you into their kind of game, and force one-on-one matchups on offense and defense with Whitted against smaller opponents in the post, her size can make things tough on many of the Summit League teams.

But, I think that her problem when playing the Jacks is that SDSU doesn't have to play the game the way Whitted and IUPUI wants to play it. Most league teams have not had the ability to consistently go over and around Whitted the way SDSU has been able to do, so perhaps our perception of her effectiveness against the rest of the league is a bit skewed.

[zooropa]

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My take on Whitted is that I can see how she would be very hard for many teams in the Summit League to handle. As long as the Jaguars can force you into their kind of game, and force one-on-one matchups on offense and defense with Whitted against smaller opponents in the post, her size can make things tough on many of the Summit League teams.

But, I think that her problem when playing the Jacks is that SDSU doesn't have to play the game the way Whitted and IUPUI wants to play it. Most league teams have not had the ability to consistently go over and around Whitted the way SDSU has been able to do, so perhaps our perception of her effectiveness against the rest of the league is a bit skewed.

Was going to say much the same thing....

Except, I don't think it's just that IUPUI can force other teams to play their style of ball, rather, I think the typical style of ball for the typical Summit League team plays right to IUPUI's strengths.

The Summit doesn't seem to be a conference of up-tempo baskets-in-transition teams, and any team that depends on scoring from a half-court set is going to be hard put to it by Whitted.