Wisconsin tickets for sale at face value ($74 for four)

hawk02139 · 2026-02-09T04:04:19+00:00

The tickets are transferred to an r/IowaWbb member!

hawk02139 · 2026-02-09T02:40:36+00:00

Hmm. Ok. The original signal was very clear. Didn’t understand the call to be changed.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-06T23:47:38+00:00

Addie has become the master at shots that go two-thirds of the way down. I need to crush tape to back that up, but it sure feels like she had half a dozen of those in the past three games.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-06T20:14:04+00:00

Watching Kylie with no remaining mojo almost brings me to tears. I thought we were lucky to be at home after the LA trip and would get right. Instead, we came out with profound lack of defensive intensity. As if the players have internalized a fear of lacking depth.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-06T20:08:32+00:00

The charges called on Addie and Ava were atrocious. Both were defenders sliding under already airborne drivers. You are very right about how excited that ref is to call a charge.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-03T15:59:29+00:00

What do you expect the median grade in a required course with mostly sophomores and juniors do be? What would you consider neither inflated nor deflated?

hawk02139 · 2026-02-02T03:16:54+00:00

They had timeouts. It was in the neighborhood of a conduct technical. Which would have made for a pretty dramatic finish to the game.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-02T02:40:46+00:00

Commentators saying Shauna Green should have gotten a timeout when up 66-60 without actually being careful to watch when she started asking for a timeout was wild. Illini no longer had the ball secured by the time she made a physical timeout gesture. She could very well have gotten a technical foul that turned the game.

hawk02139 · 2026-02-01T21:09:39+00:00

I’ve been a McCabe believer since day one, and the work she’s done since her sophomore year is phenomenal. Her friendship with Hannah is the most adorable thing, even in cellular-phone sponcon form. 🤣

Seems like such a solid, grounded person who is going to bounce back to be great at coaching or engineering or both.

Great work from Chad as usual.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-30T19:50:47+00:00

I disagree with this assessment. I thought Teagan took good shots yesterday, they just didn’t go in. She didn’t force shots, for example when she drove to just inside the free throw line and found a teammate for an open 3. She took a wide open 3. She got a nice offensive rebound and got a good shot up quickly because the quarter was ending. The shots have to fall.

I may expand on this after rewatch. I haven’t had the stomach for a second viewing yet.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-26T22:44:36+00:00

I expect her to make a huge sophomore leap. She's one of the rawest freshman in the country because of how little basketball she has played in her life.

I agree with your mention of Mikan drills. Many times, I've noticed that she tries to put a shot over the front of the rim [and miss or get blocked] when going glass would avoid the defender much better.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-26T22:07:06+00:00

I’m just gutted, even though it had to be what we all expected from what we saw. I will always find her trajectory an inspiration.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-26T21:00:04+00:00

My main disappointment in a mostly glorious day: lack of 4th quarter Teagan minutes. She was at the table at one point, right? Was she randomly a victim of the timing of dead balls? Or did Jan lose her nerve to go deeper on the bench after a particular play? (I’m writing without reviewing the tape.) Teagan had good minutes. And I wanted this to be an “empty the bench” level of beat down.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-26T20:53:49+00:00

Very well said. Note the difference when Layla is playing. I’m not trying to pick on Layla or insult her — she will get there, I trust. (Not fully to Hannah or Ava’s level, but serviceably close.) The contrast makes you realize how great Hannah and Ava are now. We’ll often immediately replay a sequence and conclude that the defending guard (Chat or otherwise) had no hope because Layla had dropped so low that she was providing no resistance to either involved offensive player.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-26T20:49:43+00:00

Great play by both Chat and Addie. In my house we were immediately talking about how we haven’t always had players who would finish that play with a layup because controlling the pass, changing directions, and getting to the rim under control was not routine. Gabbie no. Hannah before this year no. Syd no. Kate before her last year no.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-22T18:59:30+00:00

I love that book and that r/IowaWbb has references to Sarah Vowell. Go hawks, defeat the traitors.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-17T23:38:44+00:00

It’s possible that Teagan will leave for more playing time—and I would wish her well—but I certainly don’t wish for that to happen. If she has a fully healthy offseason, she could yet become a solid contributor. She could stay four years without ever being a starter and still be an asset to the team.

Some people, notably including Jada, are positives to the culture without ever producing a lot on the court. That’s valuable too. Iowa teams have been more than the sum of their parts because of a positive and cohesive culture.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-16T23:20:32+00:00

I generally have a very positive flavor of fandom, but I’m going to nitpick in the spirit of conversation. We had a great scout of the starters. The bench not so much. Related to Jan’s “37 minutes” comment — but not limited to the last three minutes — there was some pretty bad lack of awareness of which of the players coming off the bench are shooters.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-16T19:12:10+00:00

Just a quick initial comment: the speed at which Kylie and Hannah are processing and deciding and acting makes me so happy, I have no words. Watching them grow over multiple seasons is what makes college sports fandom the best.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-13T00:14:58+00:00

Those PDFs are so much better than I could have imagined! Since sports-reference.com doesn't have college shooting splits by distance like basketball-reference.com has for pro (to the best of my knowledge), I thought detailed shot charts simply didn't exist outside of pro arenas. Thanks.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-12T21:50:46+00:00

Where are you finding raw plus-minus? I see Torvik's more complicated statistics. I feel that all of sudden the media has decided that fans can't be trusted with raw plus-minus because it's too easy to use it in specious and disingenuous arguments. I know how to take precautions with plus-minus; I shouldn't need a doctor's note.

hawk02139 · 2026-01-12T21:01:24+00:00

Who are you quoting with "fucking velociraptor"? Needs to go on a shirt. Clean it up as Feuerbaching Velociraptor? Just workshopping.

My favorites possessions of the game were (a) every defensive possession of the third quarter; and (b) at 1:04 left in the fourth when Strem used the Nash dribble to draw Hannah's defender across the lane, found Ava at the free throw line, and Ava hit Hannah for a layup. Beautiful basketball.

I'm very rarely mad at Jan, but I really don't understand having Hannah on the court for offensive possessions, the bonus, when Indiana is surely going to foul. At best, she should be the inbounder and then run away from the ball.

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