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Another loss....... this time in OT. Outscored 15-4 in OT

Got absolutely DESTROYED on boards: one CMU player w/ 23 herself. We shot ball abit better, especially from 3 land. But bigs did nothing to help.

We are quite short on bigger players- on women's and men's teams. Here, we are short Glowniak who was just starting to get going. Her lower body injury is a month out from here. Jane Uecker works valiantly but is very inexperienced and needs strength which she will work at. Tunstall plays hard all the time as does Cole, but they are not tall- or long- players. You look at what Tunstall gives you and it is at the high end of her optimum quite regularly. And at the very top end on effort always. Cole likewise.

So you have truly one experienced post in Abby Siefker. Abby tends to run into foul trouble. Some is indeed Abby; some is what I will call a little "bad luck". Anticipated fouls nearly always go on her.

CMU ran three long tall bodies at us and often had all three on the court. One is a seasoned sr. The three longer players would beat us to spots, reach over us at others and jump over us on still more. Because they could.

They wanted the ball and got it. Not always because we didn't want it as well. Many times because those three were what might be called in a college football game a physical mismatch.

So we must- with our squad- do all the little rebounding things better against such a team. The box out. The anticipating caroms. The scrapping. We will not get any taller or any deeper this year. So we must dig down. Later with recruiting and weight room, we can get taller, stronger and longer.

Go Falcons!

They have to play like Deborah Hoekstra...one of Miller's last recruits IIRC...who led the team uin rebounding her sr year (as a guard) because she HAD to

CMU is the best team in the MAC, and we played very well against them yesterday. I'm encouraged by a lot of things I saw in that game.

threestooges wrote:CMU is the best team in the MAC, and we played very well against them yesterday. I'm encouraged by a lot of things I saw in that game.

Agree with this. CMU is a very good team (averaging 92.25 points/game in their previous 4 games and had just hung 101 on Ball State). We held them to 76 in OT. Hopefully our ladies can use this game to turn the corner and have a strong finish to the year like our volleyball team did. It starts tomorrow night against a strong Buffalo team.

The CMU game was the one game I observed this year that the ladies showed considerable fight against a good team. Heck in the past they showed a lot less against a bad Cleveland State team. However, this was a game in which we were hot from the 3 point line. Santoro and Lambert were on and Puk had some good shots as well. All that and we still had an L. Point is that while the game may be a confidence builder, shooting the lights out from that range is likely the only way we stay with the average MAC team let alone the leaders.

We've always been...and by always I mean Curt years forward...been a ball screening, jump shooting bunch. The three was a huge component of our offense. The difference between then and now is that in year's past we had ladies that could attack the basket to keep the defense from just crowding the perimeter and provide offense when the jump shots weren't falling. We really don't seem to have that player. Santoro could develop into that player though...Got to say I'm disappointed in the way Haley Puk turned out here. I thought she could be that player who provides that kind of varied offense. She has a nice range on her jumper when it's on...but the rest of her game hasn't moved much since her freshman year. Some of that may be mental...at times she makes decisions on the court that are head scratchers