WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[2RMCFans]

^ we were just saying that very thing in the Brock Center fitness room this morning.

The Jackets enter the Top 25 at #24.  Congrats to these women who are working so hard to succeed.

GO JACKETS!!! 

[y_jack_lok]

#19 in the D3hoops.com poll.

[2RMCFans]

The Jackets got a solid road win last night at Bridgewater 99-81. 

WAY TO GO, JACKETS!!! 

[y_jack_lok]

The Jackets got a solid road win last night at Bridgewater 99-81. 

WAY TO GO, JACKETS!!!

I was able to watch most of the game online. Great video feed and very good announcers. Hard to get a good feel for a game watching online. Just not the same as being in the gym. Game play seems faster when you are there. Katie Anderson is a rebounding machine. I thought both teams looked good, but the Jackets put together three or four scoring spurts that Bridgewater couldn't match. The Eagles kept chipping away when they got behind by a bunch, then the Jackets would get another run going.

I heard the interview with the Bridgewater coach after the game. She made some observations about  couple of Jacket players that Coach LaHaye might find interesting.

[wmjofva]

A team leading late in a game often slows the play down to limit the number of remaining possessions. The fewer the possessions, the fewer opportunities your opponent has to catch up. All else being equal, it's harder to come back from a 10-point deficit in five possessions than it is in 10, for example. Additionally, the trailing team is often forced to commit fouls to prevent its opponent from draining too much time off the clock. Therefore, a strong foul-shooting team may use the slow-down tactic a bit sooner than a team that shoots free throws poorly.

This can also be done at end of first half or the beginning of the 2nd half.  Coach Willi had done everything she could to slow down the offense of RM with four timeouts in the first half.  With RM leading 39-26 (13 pt lead) with 3:24 she called the 4th time out.  If RM players learn how to control tempo, they could work the clock and make the teams spend a lot of energy on defense, increase or maintain the 13 pt lead till half time.  They however keep firing away from long range and at 2:07 Bridgewater had cut the lead to 7 pts.

It's going to be hard for teams to 'out shoot' this team and if the enforcement of rules regarding physical play continue it will only help this team.  This Bridgewater game was 'normal' but I understand the first couple of games at Ashland there were a lot of fouls called. 

[hasanova]

Guilford moves to 7-1 with a come-from-behind 77-70 OT win this afternoon at Greensboro College.  It's always a good day on West Friendly Avenue when any Quaker team tops the Pride!

[y_jack_lok]

Any info on the status of R-MC junior transfer Taylor Huber? She only played about 20 minute of the game against Virginia Union and has not played in the 2 games since. Doesn't seem to have bothered the Jackets much in the two games she missed, but perhaps the competition wasn't that stiff.

[hoopstermom]

At the Hollins game played at R-MC on December 7th, Taylor was wearing a cast on one foot (can't remember which one). I asked around and was told she would be sitting out resting that foot until after Christmas.  Further, that it was not a break or ankle sprain but the cast was more for precautionary measures to keep her off her foot.

[y_jack_lok]

Thanks for the report. Good to know it isn't serious.

[2RMCFans]

The Jackets went 1-1 in FL this week.  Congrats to Sarah Parsons on surpassing 1000! 

We're really looking forward to January.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

GO JACKETS!!! 

[wmjofva]

Randolph Macon basketball floor is legal, but it's in the top part of being very hard.  This has always been an issue for the women who play on that floor.  I understand the men love it, but it's hard on the feet, legs, ect of women it appears.   I think that floor has caused more losses in the past 10 years than any ODAC foe.

Knee issues, stress fractures, ect are very common for the women.  I think another player on this team hasn't played this year due to stress fracture and may face surgery to correct the issue. 

[y_jack_lok]

Randolph Macon basketball floor is legal, but it's in the top part of being very hard.  This has always been an issue for the women who play on that floor.  I understand the men love it, but it's hard on the feet, legs, ect of women it appears.   I think that floor has caused more losses in the past 10 years than any ODAC foe.

Knee issues, stress fractures, ect are very common for the women.  I think another player on this team hasn't played this year due to stress fracture and may face surgery to correct the issue.

Interesting information. Thanks.

[2RMCFans]

Happy New Year to all the ODAC!

Don't know a thing about the Crenshaw Gym floor, but we are very excited about the next home game for our women v. Gallaudet on 1/9/14.

GO JACKETS!! 

[y_jack_lok]

Some info on flooring of basketball courts: http://ezinearticles.com/?Basketball-Court-Flooring-Facts&id=8137748

[hoopstermom]

Randolph Macon basketball floor is legal, but it's in the top part of being very hard.  This has always been an issue for the women who play on that floor.  I understand the men love it, but it's hard on the feet, legs, ect of women it appears.   I think that floor has caused more losses in the past 10 years than any ODAC foe.

Knee issues, stress fractures, ect are very common for the women.  I think another player on this team hasn't played this year due to stress fracture and may face surgery to correct the issue.

I played on the floor at Crenshaw in the late 70's and early 80's, and the teams I was on had their fair share of ankle and knee injuries.  Of note; however, is that the entire gym was renovated, including a new floor installed following the end of the basketball season in 2005. The last official game to be played on the old floor was R-MC women against George Fox that propelled them into the final four of the championship that year.  I've played some alumni games on that new floor, but to be honest, really couldn't tell if it is 'softer or harder' than before. 

That said, since the current floor is only 8 years old it may not be fair to compare games played on the floor since 2006 to those prior.