University Athletic Association

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Final:  Marietta 71, Carnegie Mellon 63

Stat line for Caitlyn Clendenin today:  11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and she turned the ball over 7 times.

Jim Meagle All-tournament team

Lindsey Garrison-- Bethany
MacKenzie Mason--Bethany
Harley Holloway-- Wooster
Anisha Chintala-- Carnegie Mellon
Caitlyn Clendenin-- Carnegie Mellon
Erin Hahn-- Marietta
MVP:  Olivia Gribble-- Marietta

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Only saw the 2nd half; Caitlyn missed a number of close-in shots; maybe they'll fall the next game; 7 TOs though is a problem.

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Only saw the 2nd half; Caitlyn missed a number of close-in shots; maybe they'll fall the next game; 7 TOs though is a problem.

Carnegie Mellon is not a deep team.  The Tartans will be really dependent on their starters to have big games every game in UAA play unless the bench can develop, and I don't mean to a point where either just 1 bench player has a 10+ points game or just 2 or 3 bench players combine for 10 or more points.  CMU, in a way, is very similar to the current NYU men's basketball team in that they will have a lot of players, and 3 starters, going through their first season of UAA competition. 

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Brandeis just announced a new spectator policy for their home games that in practice will prevent me from attending home basketball games in person this season. 

I talked about it on the men's UAA basketball forum already.

Source:  brandeisjudges.com/general/2021-22/releases/SpectatorPolicyJan2022

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Wash U women had a decent tuneup weekend for UAA play, getting 2 home victories over SLiAC opponents Westminster and Greenville behind closed doors at the Edwards Fahey Court in the Wash U Field House.

Wash U becomes the first of the UAA women's teams to successfully complete all 11 of their non-league games, finishing with a 6-5 mark in non-conference play.     I am wondering how many other UAA teams will be able to do that this season.   Wash U was able to play all 11 of their non-conference games without a cancellation or postponement.  In these times, that is a feat in itself.

Maya Arnott of Wash U did not play this weekend due to undisclosed reasons.  (Probably injury related is my guess.)

Big highlight of the win vs Westminster-- Strong 4th quarter for Wash U-- season high 22 assists.

Big highlight of the win vs Greenville--  Wash U sophomore bench player Jessica Brooks scores a career high 23 points and makes a career high 11 baskets in the game.

Wash U now faces their big road test of the season:  First 3 games are on the road at Chicago, Emory, and Rochester.  Last full season out, Bears went 1-2 on this stretch of games.  Wash U so far is 1-3 in true road games this season, but 2 of those 3 losses were by 1 possession.

Due to the NYU postponement of the contest vs Mt. St. Mary that was forced by the NYU Athletics suspension, there are no non-conference UAA women's games today.   Next games are scheduled to be on Monday.

Scheduled games for Monday, January 3, 2022--

1.)  CWRU at Hilbert
2.)  La Roche at Carnegie Mellon
3.)  Clark at Brandeis

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Remaining scheduled non-conference games for the week after January 3--

Tuesday, January 4--

Rochester at RIT

(Emory at Maryville (TN) has been cancelled due to COVID-19 protocols.)

Wednesday, January 5

Emory at Piedmont

UAA play scheduled to start on Saturday January 8.

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Brandeis Athletics sent out a tweet at 11:51 AM Eastern Monday, January 3-- while I was eating lunch--

Due to positive COVID-19 tests, tonight's scheduled women's basketball game between Brandeis and Clark has been postponed to a future date to be determined.

Brandeis is next scheduled to host NYU on Saturday to start UAA play, but NYU still has all athletic activity completely suspended, as well as a ban on athletic travel, so it is most likely that there will be no games on Saturday at the Auerbach Arena either.  Just in case, Brandeis sent out a reminder about their new spectator pollcy requiring that all outside spectators take a PCR test no more than 72 hours prior to the start of the event and present a negative result from that test at the door to attend all events at the Auerbach Arena.

The next most likely date that Brandeis could take the court would be at home vs Carnegie Mellon on Friday, January 14.

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Watching the live stream of CWRU at Hilbert women's game.

No live stats from Hilbert for this one-- just a Boxcast video.

No commentary from Hilbert for the women's game-- this will probably be the same for the men's game following.

CWRU has 2 changes to the starting lineup today--

Nyah Moore and Lucy Vanderbeck starting today, joining Kayla Characklis, Isabella Mills, and Abbey Lawrence.

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Technical foul was called on CWRU late in the first quarter--  Spartans were up by 9 at the time of the technical.

Score now CWRU 18, Hilbert 13 with 2:35 left in the quarter

1:24 PM Eastern update-- End of 1st quarter-- CWRU 26, Hilbert 17

1:38 PM Eastern-- Technical fouls 1 a piece on both sides so far.  CWRU 46, Hilbert 21  3:06 left before halftime.

1:45 PM Eastern-- CWRU 56, Hilbert 23-- Halftime.  I could turn this off to get some orange juice at the supermarket, but Brandeis is not playing today, so I have time to buy some OJ before Hoopsville tonight.  No live stats, so I will have to wait for Hilbert to post the box score later.

1:55 PM Eastern-- Hilbert women come into this contest 1-11, 0-4 in the AMCC.  Moreover, Hilbert already lost a conference game this season by 42 points already.  Only thing you can conclude from this one is that CWRU will be ready for Saturday.  Anything else seems like stat-padding on a very weak DIII women's basketball team.

2:16 PM Eastern-- CWRU 72, Hilbert 34  End of 3rd quarter.
 
2:36 PM Eastern-- CWRU 86, Hilbert 47  Final.  Carnegie Mellon and La Roche women warming up on live stream at Wiegand Gym in Pittsburgh, PA, while the CWRU men will take on Hilbert at the same time.

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Live video feed from Carnegie Mellon has gone off the air just 9 minutes into warmups.

Checking to see for further developments....

2:56 PM Eastern-- Carnegie Mellon feed back on.  Anthem has been played, starting lineups to be announced, and we have commentary for this one vs La Roche.

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Halftime:  Carnegie Mellon 27, La Roche 20

Caitlyn Clenendin leading the Tartans with 10 points and 7 rebounds in the first half.

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Carnegie Mellon leading over La Roche 40-31 with 4:18 left in the third quarter, and Caitlyn Clenendin already has a double double with 13 points and 10 rebounds so far.

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Carnegie Mellon leading over La Roche 47-41 after 3 quarters.  The Tartans are outrebounding La Roche 47-23, and 14-7 on the offensive glass.

Caitlyn Clendenin now with 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Tartans.

Danajah Sanders leading La Roche with 21 points.

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Women's non-conference action has concluded for the day with Carnegie Mellon defeating La Roche 68-55.

Final stat line for Caitlyn Clendenin:  16 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists

Catherine Or also had a double double for CMU with 13 points and 13 rebounds.

2 other players in double figures for the Tartans-- Anisha Chintala with 11 points and Leah Weslock with 10 points.

Carnegie Mellon outrebounded La Roche 58-27, 17-7 on the offensive glass.

CMU committed 24 turnovers which La Roche converted to 20 points while La Roche committed 13 turnovers which CMU converted to 7 points.

CMU shot 27 of 61 from the field, 3 of 13 from 3 pt range, and 11 of 17 from the FT line.

La Roche shot 19 of 66 from the field, 8 of 20 from 3 pt range, and 9 of 13 from the charity stripe.

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Box score has been posted for CWRU at Hilbert.

For CWRU, Abbey Lawrence led all scorers tonight with 27 points.  Kayla Characklis had a double double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, and Nyah Moore also had 10 points for the Spartans.

For Hilbert, Ashley Schroeder led with 16 points, while Macy Kisner scored 12 points for the Hawks.

CWRU shot 31 of 66 from the field, 10 of 28 from 3 pt land, and 14 of 15 from the charity stripe.

Hilbert shot 16 of 53 from the field, 2 of 9 from 3 pt land, and 13 of 24 from the charity stripe.

CWRU outrebounded Hilbert 47-31, 18-13 on the offensive glass.

Next scheduled game:  CWRU at Carnegie Mellon on Saturday, Jan. 8 to start UAA play.