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Post by beavershoopsfan on Dec 5, 2017 11:10:03 GMT -8
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Post by 411500 on Dec 5, 2017 12:18:03 GMT -8
Interestingly, the Beavs are situated 1 notch above UCLA who sits at 16....
Totally unrelated, but perhaps of interest to those who follow WBB nationally. Notre Dame lost their star guard for the season with torn ACL (Vaughn, the one who played so well against the Beavs in Corvallis).
This is the 3rd or 4th MAJOR injury they have suffered this year and yet they remain one of the top teams in the country. Pretty remarkable depth. Totally remarkable depth.
It is akin to the Beavs losing Gulich, Pivec and Tudor for the season and still being ranked in the Top 5.
Over and out......
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Post by beavershoopsfan on Dec 5, 2017 14:00:22 GMT -8
Interestingly, the Beavs are situated 1 notch above UCLA who sits at 16.... Totally unrelated, but perhaps of interest to those who follow WBB nationally. Notre Dame lost their star guard for the season with torn ACL (Vaughn, the one who played so well against the Beavs in Corvallis). This is the 3rd or 4th MAJOR injury they have suffered this year and yet they remain one of the top teams in the country. Pretty remarkable depth. Totally remarkable depth. It is akin to the Beavs losing Gulich, Pivec and Tudor for the season and still being ranked in the Top 5. Over and out...... I think that Mikayla Vaughan is a 6'3" post who played well against the Beavs on November 19 in Gill. However, I believe that the star guards for Notre Dame are Arika Ogunbowale and Jackie Young. Both of those players plus former starting point guard Lili Thompson played for Notre Dame against #1-ranked Connecticut this past Sunday. Thompson came off the bench for ND in that game. Notre Dame led by 11 points in the fourth quarter of that game before Connecticut rallied to pull out a home win. Young is a rising star as a sophomore and played very well (scored a game-high 21 points) against the Beavs on November 19. Agunbowale is a WBNA-level talent, member of the USA U-23 national team, and ND's leading scorer with over 20 points per game. Agunbowale didn't shoot well (5/18) against the Beavs, but played solid down the stretch as the Fighting Irish overcame a three-point fourth quarter deficit in the game at Gill Coliseum last month. Muffet McGraw can coach. And recruit. She will find a way to keep her team in close games with whomever ND is able to put on the court. |
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Post by 411500 on Dec 5, 2017 16:45:27 GMT -8
bhf - - once again a good compilation of relevant info. Appreciate it....
I should have done more disciplined research before posting about Notre Dame - -I trusted my memory too much on this one...
I'm pretty sure, however, that one of the star players for ND tore her ACL in practice recently and is out for the year...
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Post by 411500 on Dec 5, 2017 17:14:14 GMT -8
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Dec 5, 2017 20:17:29 GMT -8
Karma's a bitch. Shepard should never have gotten a waiver.
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Dec 5, 2017 22:27:36 GMT -8
Karma's a bitch. Shepard should never have gotten a waiver. Has any rationale for said waiver provided to Shepard ever been provided? It seems a bit odd, to say the least, since (from the outside) most of the extenuating circumstance clauses would not be met. Also intriguing is how such a petition was "fast tracked" - since it takes the whole season for OSU to get simple eligibility questions answered by the NCAA. I guess the Golden Domers invoked the Golden Rule (they who have the gold make the rules). Go Beavers! |
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Dec 6, 2017 0:13:17 GMT -8
I heard it was divine intervention.
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Post by newduke2 on Dec 6, 2017 4:29:45 GMT -8
NCAA cites privacy rules for not giving details. Pretty much a hush hush story. www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2017-11-15/womens-basketball-notre-dame-thrilled-have-newcomer-shepard"Shepard said at the training camp she was prepared to sit out the season per NCAA transfer rules, making her eligibility come as a bit of a surprise. The NCAA doesn't share what specific information is in waivers, stating privacy laws. The junior forward didn't go into specifics of what her waiver said except to say that "it was an accumulation of personal reasons and different things like that." Notre Dame senior associate athletics director Jill Bodensteiner was involved with the petition. "I talked to Jess and got a sense of things," she said. "Generally these (waivers) are difficult to obtain. They went away from personal hardship, family illness. There's no magic in pulling it off. We submitted the relevant information and had documentation which helps." |
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