FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
- Only four teams with winning in-conference records
With most of the teams in The American being five games into the conference schedule...only Louisville, UConn, Rutgers and USF are over .500 in league opponent play.
The Cards, Huskies and Scarlet Knights have yet to lose. The Bulls are 3-2. In the cellar is Houston at 0-5. In overall play, all 10 teams are .500 or better except the Coogs...who are 4-12.
Player of the Week last week was UConn's Breanna Stewart. She banged in 24 against Houston and 12 against the Owls last week. Tyler Scaife took Freshman of the Week...she tossed in 18 for Rutgers against Cincy and 16 against SMU. On the honor roll? Alisha Jenkins (USF), Ariel Hearn (Memphis), Jeanise Randolph (Cincy), SHONI SCHIMMEL ( Louisville ) and Akil Simpson (SMU).
Three AAC teams are in the AP Top 25....any guesses who they might be? (Hint: Dogs, Birds and Julie Hermann's new gig.)
Shoni's 16.9 PPG is fifth best in the AAC. Her .857 from the free throw line is tops in the league and Asia Taylor (.769) is eighth.
In attendance figures for home games...UConn leads the league with an average of 8080 in 10 games. Louisville is second with 7894 in 11 games. After that, it drops significantly. USF brings in slightly more than Rutgers, Memphis or SMU but they haven't reached the 2,000 figure yet.
So, a All-American (conference) team so far? I'll toss out five names and feel free to debate them in the comments or by e-mail.
Shoni Schimmel Louisville Did you really think I'd leave her off the list?
Breanna Stewart UConn She just might be best in all of College WBB
Ariel Hearn Memphis Second in scoring in the AAC. Works for me.
Keena Mays SMU UofL shut her down but she can score, baby
Alisia Jenkins USF Gotta have a rebounder on here. She does.
paulie
I think that Sara Djassi at UCF should be on that AllAmerican team. Who she replaces is tough to say but she is a very good player
ReplyDeletethe real Joe Hill
Rutgers lost at Memphis on January 14th.
ReplyDeleteThat is right. I was working off a 1/14/14 release. Surprising loss? Maybe, but it was a road loss and it doesn't get any easier for C.Viv. They host UConn Sunday
DeletePaulie
Also worth noting, in 5 conference games Shoni is averaging 21.2ppg, which leads the conference in that category.
ReplyDeleteOff Topic but I found season NCAA published attendance information through January 9
ReplyDeletehttp://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WBBattend1.html
Sandy W.
Tennessee 11,390. Iowa St. 9,970. Louisville 9,358
I don't know what is happening at Iwa State but these are the published facts.
I turned out to be way, way off topic since those are last years figures. I have not found up to date figures for this year. Anyone know what Louisville average is for this year to date. I believe we will be down as we have not had any major contests or exceptionally promoted games yet this year.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that TN. Attendance is also down. Unaware what the good folks in Iowa are doing except to say that as far back as the 1970's the girl's high school games attendance regularly outdrew the boys games.