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What is McKeown’s contract situation? Did he get an extension after the fantastic 2019-20 season? It’s been a steady decline since then capped by consecutive 9-21 records the past two seasons. After two games this year, it looks like we won’t get close to 9 this season.
I haven’t seen 1 second of this years team, but hearing of disorganization and terrible defense is disheartening to say the least. Last years team lacked everything and had problems where they looked lost on the court. Surprised Joe survived that. Hate to say it, Joe seems like a good man, but it’s time for a change.
Is Walsh injured? Not having the leading scorer and rebounder from last year on the floor has to be a major factor
Glad to see them win - Daley led the way, though she seemed to foul on a 3-pointer to let Utah tie it up late. And Walsh changed her pivot foot on the winning layup. A travel that is no longer called in basketball.
Yes, good win! Glad they had this one on BTN. Hopefully the crowd size will pick up. Looked pretty empty there
Lucky to escape after going up by 6 with less than a minute. Ball was like a hot potato in our hands that last minute. The team showed a lot of fight in this one and it’s nice that they got rewarded.
Something I noticed last year that seems to be continuing this year is we're getting crushed by three pointers. In both 2021 and 2022 we attempted about the same number of 3s as our opponents. Our shooting percentage on 3s was several points lower so making them was a problem. Then last season we attempted nearly 200 fewer 3s than our opponents for the season (works out to 6-7 per game). We actually closed the gap in shooting percentage on 3s to about one point worse, but that still works out to 2.5 more made 3s for our opponents per game. So far this season our opponents have attempted more than twice as many 3s as us while shooting more than ten points better (the Lehigh game was an outlier so that kind of disparity won't continue). Now just attempting them is a problem. Based on last year's stats for returning players or my impressions so far of the new players we do have a number of players who shoot 3s well enough that they should have the green light. Is this a coaching decision? It's going to be tough to win like this, but it was nice to see them pull one out last night.
So Torvik this year has included women's basketball on his site, and he has NU currently last in the conference ranked #145, with losses to #138 Illinois St and #166 Lehigh, but the win last night over #31 Utah. 🤷♂️ Offensive performance was about the same in all 3 games, the difference last night was Utah's terrible shooting. Utah made only 13 of 29 layups, shot 27% from 3, and 61% at the FT line.
He has us going 7-21, (2-16) for the year...next few games are home against #88 Harvard, @ #169 Loyola Chi, home against #206 Cornell and # 118 DePaul.
He also has history going back to the 2020-21 season, and we are...not on the best trend. Overall rankings have gone 20, 58, 121, 169, 145, and defensive rankings have gone 7, 41, 76, 289, 219. Our defense under Coach Joe has always been reliant on forcing turnovers, so it's not surprising that the turnover rankings have gone 8, 42, 177, 349, 285. I bet you can't tell after which year Veronica Burton graduated.
Two seasons ago, we were bad because we were a horrible shooting team and turned the ball over a ton, last year we were bad because we couldn't stop anyone on defense.
He has us going 7-21, (2-16) for the year...next few games are home against #88 Harvard, @ #169 Loyola Chi, home against #206 Cornell and # 118 DePaul.
He also has history going back to the 2020-21 season, and we are...not on the best trend. Overall rankings have gone 20, 58, 121, 169, 145, and defensive rankings have gone 7, 41, 76, 289, 219. Our defense under Coach Joe has always been reliant on forcing turnovers, so it's not surprising that the turnover rankings have gone 8, 42, 177, 349, 285. I bet you can't tell after which year Veronica Burton graduated.
Two seasons ago, we were bad because we were a horrible shooting team and turned the ball over a ton, last year we were bad because we couldn't stop anyone on defense.
Again, I have only seen 1 game this season, but the issue is it is so easy to get good look 3s against us. That out of bounds play when Utah trailed by 3 with about 15 seconds left was a prime example. The shot was basically a practice shot as our defenders picked right out of the play and was nowhere near the shooter when she put it up. She missed the 3 but we were weak on the rebound and get tied up. The next 3 point shot, with less than 10 seconds we commit the cardinal sin of fouling on a bomb of a 3. We didn’t defend them well last year and it still seems we don’t,
Yeah, last year was real bad when it comes to defending the 3-pointer. Rankings are out of 360 teams in D1.
| Year | Defensive 3-point rate | Defensive 3-point % |
| 2021 | 32.4 (166) | 31.3% (164) |
| 2022 | 33.7 (225) | 34.5% (326) |
| 2023 | 32.4 (183) | 30.9% (156) |
| 2024 | 34.9 (256) | 35.8% (348) |
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