Women's Basketball 2022-23

Well - ESPN has screwed the pooch. They had the game listed as being live then I selected the game and it said "Your event has ended" and now...no game. Bastards. 

After 1

SIU 16

ISU-BLUE 13

Even audio streaming is F'ed up. Going old school huddling around the Philco. Lol!

Halftime

SIU 27

TREES 30

Missing FT's 8-16. Only shooting 33%. Williams leading the way with 7. 24 called fouls in the first half, 14 on ISU.

After 3

SIU 41

Sycamores 52

Don't get this team sometime. With the scorers that we have we go through some serious shooting droughts. Jones only has two. 

Nice comeback win for the Salukis

Final

SIU 60

Indiana State 58

WOW! Southern comes back from 16 down to win!! Randle with a block at the buzzer to preserve the comeback!!!

We miss 4 free throws in the last 30 seconds only 17-33 from the line. Williams with 18. Jones comes back and finishes with 10. Mason with a couple of big steals late. Only 11 turnovers. 

SIU 5-6 (2-0) vs Bradley 3-10 (0-2)

Thursday Jan 5^th 6pm @ Banterra Center

Coverage ESPN+/Saluki Sports Network Magic 95.1

WarrenNolan.com Prediction SIU -24

**Prior to the game SIU will honor last year’s MVC Championship and WNIT appearance team with a banner hanging ceremony. **

Series History and Bradley Head Coach

The series with the Braves goes back to 1983 and we have a 54-29 series advantage. We won the first 27 games in the series. We handled the Braves pretty easily last year sweeping the season series for the first time since 2018.

The Braves are coached by Kate Popovec-Goss who is in her first season after the "retirement" of Andrea Gorski. Popovec-Goss comes to Bradley after being Associate Head Coach at Northwestern from 2018 to this past spring. Bradley has struggled mightily the last two seasons. They had twenty-win seasons in 2018-2019 and the shortened 2019-2020 COVID year, then had an MVC Tournament title win and NCAA tournament appearance in 2020-21. Since then they are a combined 7-24 (1-19).

Tale Of The Tape:

                             Bradley     SIU

PPG                      58.5       75.2      

Pts Allowed         72.6       76.5

FG%                      .381       .416

FG% OPP             .451       .430

3pt%                     .321       .355

3pt % OPP           .374       .389

FT%                       .719       .683

Rebounds            33.8       38

Assists                  13           15.9

Turnovers           16.2       16.8      

T/O Forced          13.5       19.7

Steals                   7.4         10.7

Blocks                  1.7         4.1

Offensive Rtg     225th     122nd

                              83.6       94.5

Defensive Rtg    350th     264th

                              107.5     96.3

Pace of Play        287th     6th

                              68.5       79.6

The Braves currently sit at 333^rd in the NET with a 326 RPI and 249 SOS. Bradley looks kinda toothless only averaging 58.5 ppg and a -14 ppg margin. They are last in points per game, 9^th in points allowed 10^th in FG%, 11^th in FG % allowed and 11^th in three-point percentage allowed

The Braves Dramatis Personae –

The Bravoyles are led in scoring by 5-4 Sophomore Guard Caroline Waite. She averages 12.8 points per game which is good for 13^th in The Valley. She shoots at a .367/.351/.920 (FG/3FG/FT) clip. Her 92% FT shooting would be good for 15^th nationally, but I don’t think she’s shot enough to qualify.

Next in scoring is 5-8 Sophomore guard Alex Rouse. She averages 12.2 PPG and 4 rebounds per game.

Isis Fitch, a 6-0 Junior forward is their leading rebounder at 6.9 RPG which ranks 10^th in The Valley and averages 8.9 PPG.

Ruba Abo-Hashesh – 5-6 Junior guard -  is their assist leader with 48 assists on the season, but she has 61 turnovers.

Four of the five starters average over 31 minutes a game and no one outside of the starting five (for which they have used the same starting five all thirteen games) averages over 2.5 points per game.

How ‘Bout Us?

After being down 16 with about 12 minutes left and 11 down to start the 4th quarter at ISU-Blue, we staged an awesome character-showing comeback on a poor shooting night. We held the Trees to only SIX fourth quarter points and 1-11 shooting. Laniah Randle had HUGE block on the final possession of the game. That win could be the catalyst to bring this team fully together.

On paper, this game with the Braves should be a blowout possibly getting us back to .500. We have the size, speed and scoring advantage. We have three averaging in double figures and three more within a point and a half of double figures. We have the top ball distributer in the league – Q. Love. Two of the top five pick-pocketers – Jaidynn Mason (3^rd) and Love (5^th). With Shemera Williams now eligible and having scored 30 points in her first two games, we have even more firepower. I see her and Ashley Jones playing really well off of each other.

GO DAWGS!!!

https://twitter.com/SIU_WBasketball/status/1609367539133341696?s=20&t=zEBEV1wMpFf4q6YLRfyM5Q

It would be nice if someone could come and fix the video board. 

Posted by: @rabidsaluki

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It would be nice if someone could come and fix the video board. 

I think it's funny we still have our old sock puppet logo on the bottom, someone mentioned this yesterday

As expected...

After 1

SIU 20

BRADLEY 8

Posted by: @salukiworld

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Posted by: @rabidsaluki

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It would be nice if someone could come and fix the video board. 

I think it's funny we still have our old sock puppet logo on the bottom, someone mentioned this yesterday

 

Ahh the poor old sock puppet logo. I miss the 70's & 80's vicious dog logo!

Haltime 

SIU 43

Bradley 25

Randle with 14 at the break. 

Should have dropped 50-55 on these guys in the first half.   

After 3...

SALUKIS 69

BRAVOYLES 42

Jones with 20. Randle with 19.