University Athletic Association

[cmubobcat]

Listen up! UAA basketball airs on WRCT this weekend.

Friday: WashU @ Carnegie Mellon (88.3 FM Pittsburgh or online at www.wrct.org)
6:00 Women
8:00 Men

Sunday: Chicago @ Carnegie Mellon (online only: www.wrct.org)
1:00 Men
3:00 Women

(WRCT is the only place on the 'net broadcasting the games)

[sandman]

Case's two games this weekend will be held at Adelbert Gym for Throwback Weekend (an idea that I wish they had done while I was at school there).  The Lady Spartans will wear gold jerseys displaying "Mather College", the name of the women's college that became part of Western Reserve University (and later CWRU).  If I recall correctly, these games will be the first women's intercollegiate basketball games played in that venue.

Game times are at 6PM tonight vs. NYU and 2PM on Sunday vs. Brandeis.  You can listen to them live at http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/broadcast/ on WHK 1420 AM.

[howardjp]

from the Brandeis web site

Women's basketball to be featured on CN-8
Released: 02/02/2006

For those who have Comcast Cable in the New England area, the Brandeis women's basketball team will be featured on the CN-8 program SportsPulse on Friday evening at 10:00 p.m. The piece, which was filmed at practice and during last week's Emory contest, will air about midway through the show. If you can't catch it live, the show will be available on demand. Viewers can navigate to On Demand - Get Local - CN8 - Sports Pulse, where the shows are listed by date, so 2-3-06 will have the package.

[deiscanton]

I am following the UAA action on the Internet this weekend.

I am currently listening to the NYU v. Case game on the Net, and I will call Bob DeMartino at halftime to get an update on the Brandeis/Emory game.  If the score is close enough at halftime for me to pay $40 to go on Teamline, I will do so.  If Brandeis has a comfortable enough lead at halftime, I will continue listening to the NYU/Case game.

Knowing Emory, I may have to go on Teamline for the second half, but who knows?

Janice Quinn is really yelling loud at her players to play at the moment....

Adelbert Gym's "Hoosier-like" atmosphere is really showing on the Internet broadcast-- it sounds like a huge crowd has gathered for the start of Case's Throwback weekend....

[deiscanton]

From Adelbert Gymnasium in Cleveland

Case Throwback Weekend

NYU 32, Case (Mather) 31   Halftime

Katie Higier is back in the lineup for NYU after missing the previous weekend with an injury.

Case (Mather)'s Dana Dempsey picked up 3 fouls in the first 8 minutes of play.

[deiscanton]

Halftime from Atlanta--

Brandeis 31, Emory 26

According to the update from Bob DeMartino, Brandeis did not take its first lead until about 6 min left in the first half.

I'm undecided about logging on to Teamline-- this looks like a close enough score, but Bob is optimistic that Brandeis will build on the lead in the second half.

[sandman]

Case leads NYU 46-45 with about 14:00 to go.  Can the Lady Spartans pull this one out?

Katie Higier is back in the lineup for NYU.

I've been having trouble with the signal, so I won't be able to listen to the rest of the game.  I'll give an analysis later tonight when I get back.

[jagluski]

Wash U defeats CMU 83-58 to move to 17-2(7-1).  Danielle Beehler had 19/12 for the Bears.  The Bears will play at Rochester Sunday.


EDIT: Rebecca Parker returned for the Bears tonight after, I believe, a 2 game absence.  She started and had 5 points and 3 rebounds in 17 minutes.

[deiscanton]

I was asked in a private message if Caitlin Malcolm had reached the 1,000 pt. milestone mark this evening.

As I could not listen to the Brandeis v. Emory game, I will have to wait for the play by play sheet from Emory, which should be available in about a half hour, to find out more.

Unfortunately, I do not have good news to report on the 'Deis side.  According to Bob DeMartino, Emory had a big second half to defeat Brandeis by 10 pts.

I will know more when the Emory site gets updated with the score and play by play.

NYU did defeat Case tonight, 74-63.  Case had a tight lead for most of the second half, and the game was tied at 57 all with 7 min. to play, but Case ran out of gas in the last 5 minutes and NYU built a 13 pt. lead with less than a minute to go before settling for the final score.

[deiscanton]

Emory confirmed the line score result on its webpage.

Emory defeated Brandeis tonight by a score of 62-52.  Emory outscored Brandeis, 36-21, in the second half to pull out the win.

It is the first time this season that Brandeis has lost to a team not ranked in the top 25, and unfortunately, the advice given last season for the Judges not to lose to Emory this year could not be met.  The Emory Wheel student newspaper today seemed to be spot on in its analysis of the matchup, although I will know more once Emory submits the final box score later this evening.  I guess that Emory is waiting for the doubleheader to conclude.

On the other hand, Caitlin Malcolm of Brandeis did score her 1,000th career point today to join the Brandeis women's basketball 1,000th point club.  The milestone happened with 13:58 to go in regulation, so congrats to Caitlin, although I did wish that it would take place under better circumstances.

In other scores, Rochester swept the season series against Chicago today.  Rochester defeated the Maroons by a final score of 68 to 59.

[deiscanton]

Here is how Caitlin Malcolm was able to get to 1,000 career points tonight.

Malcolm scored her first 2 pts. on a layup 2 min. and 15 sec. into the game.  At about 5 min into the game, Malcolm makes her 2nd layup.  At 6:57 into the game, Malcolm makes 1 of 2 at the FT line.  At 10:10 into the game, Malcolm makes 2 of 2 at the line.  Malcolm hits a layup with 4:34 left in the first half, and a jumper with 2:32 left in the first half.  Malcolm makes 1 of 2 at the line with 1:32 left in the half.

All in all in the first half, Malcolm scored 12 pts.

A correction to make-- Malcolm got her 1,000th point with 13:56 to go in the game on a free throw.  Malcolm hit 2 of 2 at the line at that point, I believe.


Reading the play-by-play, the game played out very much like a typical Brandeis at Rochester game in that the way that Emory played tonight was very similar to how one would expect Rochester to play against Brandeis at the Palestra in Rochester, NY.  Emory's defense limited Brandeis to 5 of 27 shooting in the second half-- that is very similar to last year at Rochester when Brandeis only made 1 field goal in the second half.  Like last year's game at Rochester, Brandeis could not make a big run to build a comfortable lead in the first half-- forcing the Judges to try to counter runs by the other team in the second half.  Tonight, Brandeis could get no closer than 2 pts with 5 min to go after losing their 5 pt halftime lead 3 min. into the second half.

Once again, today's Emory Wheel hit this game spot on in its pre-game analysis.

[deiscanton]

I just saw the CN-8 piece on the Brandeis Judges that the Brandeis website mentioned was going to air tonight.  For those of you in New England with Comcast who missed this piece, you can get the show "Sports Pulse" for Feb. 3 on the video on demand section starting tomorrow.  The piece airs at the 43 minute mark into the show.

I loved the feature piece tonight, and I enjoyed the comments from Amanda DeMartino, Christine Clancy, Caitlin Malcolm, and coach Carol Simon.  The feature took a look at the Judges in practice and included footage from last Friday's Brandeis v. Case game.

Hopefully, Brandeis will adjust to the tougher, adjusted defenses that UAA teams will show against Brandeis in the remaining 6 games of the regular season.  It will be interesting to see how Brandeis responds on Sunday against Case, and especially how Brandeis will play next Friday at Rochester.  Case comes first on Sunday, however.

[sandman]

Well, there was a trend in the two Case/NYU matchups-- in both games, Case held a lead in the second half, but NYU made a big run to pull away (although tonight, they didn't totally dominate the half).  Simply put, you can't allow your opponent to shoot over 50% in either half of a game-- but that's happened in quite a few of Case's losses in the UAA.

The main highlight for Case was that Amber Hammell tied her career high with 26 points-- although no one else on the team scored in double figures in either NYU game.

The Lady Spartans now stand in 7th place at 2-6, and they must win 4 of their last 6 games to finish with a winning record overall.  Next up on the schedule is Brandeis, also in Adelbert Gym.

[emory_eagle]

Emory probably could get a Pool C bid if they weren't in the UAA.  There's just too many strong teams (the whole top half of the league).  I will just root for them to continue to pull off some upsets because with 6 regional losses, they've got to be near perfect to get a sniff of a Pool C bid.

I've got them at 10.267 QoWI right now with a 9-6 record.  Who knows?  What the rest of the league like with QoWI?

[Pat Coleman]

All I have is 9.857 before the game.