+ACY-nbsp+ADs-Washington coach Mike Neighbors led the Huskies to a third consecutive 20-win season and postseason berth, playing at UTEP on Monday in the WNIT quarterfinals. Neighbors led UW to upsets against No. 6 Stanford and No. 24 California in his first season of continuing the overhaul to return … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
Stanford’s defense held Penn State’s Maggie Lucas to a career-low in Sweet 16 win #ncaaw
C+ACY-amp+ADs-R+ADs-summarized Stanford's 82-57 win over Penn State in the Sweet 16 in a fanpost, writing that +ACI-Stanford played their best ball in a long, long time.+ACI A large part of that was their ability to contain PSU's Maggie Lucas defensively, holding her to a career-low six points. Stanford+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s Lili … [Read more...]
Using Feedback As Motivation via @coachdawnwrites
source In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don+ACY-rsquo+ADs-t care about them or don+ACY-rsquo+ADs-t like them.+ACY-mdash+ADs-Pat Summitt Try this experiment with your team.+ACY-nbsp+ADs As players migrate in at the beginning of practice, just quietly walk around the … [Read more...]
Spring into Health
Now that spring is in the air it+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s time to turn over a new leaf and shake off those winter blues+ACEAJg-nbsp+ADs-Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with CNN+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s Karin Caifa to share my ideas on how+ACY-nbsp+ADs-to make some healthier switches as spring approaches +ACY-ndash+ADs switches that won+ACY-rsquo+ADs-t … [Read more...]
Stanford in the Elite Eight
By now, everyone has heard the story of the Penn state coaches hanging out with Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer in the offseason to pick her brain on the triangle offense. Guess Tara forgot to show them the back door option.Stanford played their best ball in a long, long time. Perhaps the long … [Read more...]
Sweeps Characterize Big 12 Opening Weekend
I don't know how many fans took brooms out to Big 12 softball fields today, but it would have been appropriate, as all three of the conference's opening-weekend+ACo series ended in three-game sweeps:Kansas over Oklahoma State (link)+ADs-Oklahoma over Iowa State (all three wins via run-rule+ADs link)+ADs- … [Read more...]
Sweeps Characterize Big 12 Opening Weekend #ncaasoftball
I don't know how many fans took brooms out to Big 12 softball fields today, but it would have been appropriate, as all three of the conference's opening-weekend+ACo series ended in three-game sweeps: Kansas over Oklahoma State (link)+ADs Oklahoma over Iowa State (all three wins via run-rule+ADs link)+ADs- … [Read more...]
Texas A&M has one of their ‘best overall offensive performances’ in Sweet 16
Jim Hu of SB Nation's Good Bull Hunting summarized the key points from Texas A+ACY-amp+ADs-M+ADs's rout of DePaul in the Sweet 16, including three very simple words of wisdom from the always-entertaining Gary Blair. This was pretty clearly one of the teams' best overall offensive performances. The Ags 60+ACU- … [Read more...]
Tennessee falls to Maryland in fitting fashion #ncaaw
David Hooper of Rocky Top Talk wrote a somber summary of Tennessee's 73-62 loss to Maryland today, but he really summed up the game best with a comment in our open thread: So for anybody who watched Tennessee-Maryland but hasn't seen much Tennessee this year, you just saw every bad habit of … [Read more...]
Are home court NCAA tournament games a good approach to help women’s basketball grow?
Over the past two days, we've been having NCAA women's basketball bloggers from around the SB Nation network discuss topics related to the 2014 NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. In our final installment today, we gather opinions on whether having tournament games on teams' home courts is a good approach … [Read more...]