Home Basketball Oregon State @ Arizona State (Women’s Basketball)

Oregon State @ Arizona State (Women’s Basketball)

112

#9 lady beavs (17-1, 7-0 Pac-12) vs #13 ASU (18-1, 7-0 Pac-12)

1pm on Pac-12

Should be a great game. Lady Beavs have some serious skills and look, at worst, like a final four team to me. ASU is known for playing great D, so this should be an interesting game.

112 COMMENTS

  1. I like the way Ruth Hamblin plays around the hoop. Anyone got an angle on the career record for blocked shots and where she stands so far related to that? Her many blocks usually stay in bounds too, which is a skill within a skill. I haven’t seen so many blocks like that, stylistically, since the days of Wilt and Russ.

    • I heard she and 3 others are mechanical engineering majors, too. They play smart with great spacing, so maybe it’s that spacial awareness translating. There are some good lady beav interviews on youtube if you want insight into the team.

  2. Here’s where the scheduling of UNC and Tennessee in the preseason can potentially pay off. They’ve played in this environment before and had some success in big games on the road. This will be a tough game, and I think it could go either way. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them split with ASU home & home. That said, Go Beavs!

  3. If the ladies play the way they have the past 3 games, they likely lose this game. Taking a half off won’t cut it against this ASU team.

    • I agree.

      They usually shoot ~48% from 3. You have to figure that drops to 30-35% this game. Which means Hamblin becomes very important. I expect ASU to drive and try to foul her out. If Hamblin scores 20 and they shoot ~35% from 3 they’ll win. Based on my limited knowledge of women’s hoops (I’ve never even watched ASU, so I’m going on the narrative that they play good D). We all know narratives can be wrong…

        • 35% 3 point performance, but only 12 pts from Hamblin. No one could have predicted the 12 pts from Gabriella Hanson; she keeps looking better and better.
          When team members talk about unselfishness and the belief that when one is down another will pick up the slack they aren’t just spouting coach talk!

  4. Lady Beavs is acceptable. I don’t use it a lot but that’s just my preference, it doesn’t sound that great. Lady Bears (Baylor) and Lady Vols (Tennessee) is still used widely.

    Right now, they got a bit of nerves this game. Obviously they are high in talent and coaching so they won’t be out of any game they play. Just hope they can settle down and run their sets, but ASU is swarming right now.

  5. Im with Angry, anyone who has a problem with Lady Beavs can F off. Try that crap in so many of the other great languages of the world, wherein gender descriptors are infused in every word. Go worry about something relevant to society. Go Lady Beavs!

    • No, there was no problem actually. I was just wondering why the women need a prefix before Beavs but the men don’t.

      There was much more vitriol in the response, actually.

      Calm discussion isn’t allowed in America. Everything is a battle between one’s own side and the people that are destroying America (PC Nazis LOL!).

      • I think it’s a mix of tradition and also differentiation. There are two basketball teams, so with men’s sports being more popular by far, they are the default. If we’re talking gymnastics, for instance, it’s just the beaver gymnastics team usually (do we even have a male team?)

  6. Oregon State has fielded men’s fb and bb for decades. Women’s teams have history but not as long. It is not realistic to use the exact same name to describe two slightly different teams. In the past there were jv and frosh teams. I guess we had to do away with them because they were politically incorrect and abusive. By the way, do you prefer a nurse or a male nurse?

  7. ASU’s coach looks like a crazy lady. She decided to talk mess and now look at the five point lead that ballooned into an 18 point lead. She’s looking real silly right about now…cuz we’re up right now…and they suck right now.

  8. Finally. Man what a great performance by our women in that game. They can obviously still play better, but with that energy and composure this can be a Final Four team. Cut down the TO’s and I don’t see why they can’t achieve a lot. The player development, the defense, the offensive sets, all of it outstanding and elite level. And it was done in Corvallis.

    But we take it one game at a time. 18-1, 8-0 in the Pac with wins over USC and ASU on the road, two blowouts of the Ducks, and now the LA schools at home this week. Let’s handle them and get this thing rolling!

  9. Weise needs to hit the floor and spend some time doing catch-and-shoots and get herself out of her shooting slump. Testament to the Beavers depth to have her struggling on the floor (1-8 on 3 pointers, and 7 TO’s) still come in and take this game from ASU.

  10. Back to men’s hoops, whoever scheduled that 10am/1pm Quinnipiac game should be fired. What a bad loss. Playing a 10am at that school made no sense.

    Does anyone know how the hoops team prepares, travel wise, for ASU and AZ on the 28th and 30th? i.e. which day they fly in, where they stay, etc? Do they bus from ASU to AZ?

  11. anyone notice the “new narrative” about OSU/Corvallis from the Pac 12 announcers near the end of the game: both hoops teams playing well, RECRUITING well, new football coach bringing excitement to campus? I’m of mind to believe that not only was Riley holding back the football program but his crummy outlook was putting “a cap” on all the sports (except baseball, of course: Pat reigns supreme!)

    • He was clearly holding back donations. They came flooding in for Andersen. He was putting a cap on other programs’ $ resources since football is the main driver. Overall, I think your theory is interesting but a stretch and not really proven out if you look at Rueck and Casey’s records (plus some other programs had success, like gymnastics, wrestling, etc). Football does set the tone. Donors set the tone, too. There was a [negative] link that broke once Riley left, and it’s allowed for excitement.

      • Partially the Kickstarter effect. People will throw money at hype and unproven results. Why? For the hope and potential, and to feel part of building something.

        We all knew Biley’s results.

  12. Horrible thought, I know, but I can’t help but think Beaver mediocrity might be directly proportional to Biley’s proximity to Corvallis

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here