University Athletic Association

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Starting into today--

(1)  Thanks, D3Hoops.com, for giving me a chuckle today with the mix-up on the women's schedule!  I wish my Judges were ranked No. 5 going into today's UAA play!      Although NYU would probably be even more fired up to get a win if that happened.    Brandeis and NYU don't need rankings to be fired up facing each other in league play.  ( i wonder, though, if you deliberately made that mistake to boost my morale... I can always use a morale boost-- especially when Brandeis is playing at the Coles Center!   I'm listening to the game on-line for the second year in a row, BTW, I don't have the money to make the trip to New York.-- sorry, NYU, I know that you will miss my presence on the side-lines....)

PS-- Thanks, NYU, for bringing the game to me by videocast!     Have some video of the NYU pep band playing during timeouts today if you can.   Why listen to WNYU on their audio feed exclusively when I can watch video of the game at the same time.  It will be even sweeter if Brandeis can pull it off today.  I think my call in December to Chris Bledsoe's office at NYU athletics stating to him that I couldn't personally make the trip today paid off.  

Update-- For details on the videocast, see http://www.gonyuathletics.com    NYU plans to video stream all of their home UAA games this season-- with WNYU providing the audio feed for the videocast.

Update-- WBRS has also made the trip down to New York as well and will be audiocasting on the Brandeis end of things.  Links to both the WBRS and WNYU audio feeds are already listed on the D3hoops.com front page.

Now, if Brandeis can get on the ball and videocast their UAA home basketball games-- we will be set.  Maybe the UAA conference office can provide some financial and/or technical assistance on the matter....

No. 5 Bowdoin Polar Bears hosts No. 23 Emmanuel Saints today at Morrell Gym in Brunswick Maine in New England non-conference action, after Emmanuel lost to St. Joe's (Maine) on Thursday, BTW.  Emmanuel defeated Brandeis earlier this season at the Jean Yawkey Center in Boston, MA.

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Brandeis has just gotten their 2nd victory ever at the Coles Sports Center, and this is the first time ever that a Boston area DIII women's basketball team has won at NYU without having the game go into overtime!

Final score-- in regulation-- in New York

Brandeis 73, NYU 68

NYU was a little late in getting the video stream up and running, but I listened to the game on WBRS audio webcast until the video feed got up and running late in the 2nd half.  I got to see the final 10 minutes unfold on video.

NYU had 2 chances in the final minute to tie the game and send it to overtime, but they could not cash in.

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I stand corrected on my concern that the Bears had not faced a good team in recent weeks.  Washington University destroyed the No. 21 University of Chicago 63-34 in a game that was never really close.

[Wydown Blvd.]

Not too much to say about the WashU v Chicago matchup yesterday. Chicago looked sloppy offensively, but I still think may be the only other contender for the UAA title (with WashU and Brandeis). Two big stats from the night:

Wustl defense: Chicago scores 13pts in the first half
Rebounding margin: WashU outrebounds the Maroons 54 to 32 (23 of those were offensive rebounds, and 17 o-boards in the first half)

Its early in the UAA, but next weeks matchup of Brandeis and WashU is the battle of 1 and 2 in conference. The conference isn't deep this year like it has been in years past.

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Rebounding margin: WashU outrebounds the Maroons 54 to 32.

This is probably the most intriguing statistic considering that the Maroons have been out rebounding everybody lately including Illinois Weslyan, Hope, and Carthage.

One other interesting statistic: the Bears handed Chicago their 23rd consecutive loss at the Field House.  It makes you wonder if anyone on the 2009-2010 roster was even alive the last time Chicago won in St. Louis.

[Wydown Blvd.]

I have thought this before conference started and now it is upon us. I think that overall, the UAA is significantly down this year, and I think there is a lot of parity in the league this year. It showed as everyone has beat up on everyone else in the heart of the UAA pack. Heading into next weekend, every team has one loss with the exception of Brandeis and WashU. For the first time in what seems like a long time (I didn't have time to look it up), one team (Brandeis or WashU) will take a lead in the race after the first game of the second weekend.

UAA Standings
Wash    1-0       11-1
Brandeis    1-0       8-3
Rochester    2-1       9-2
Case       1-1       10-3
Carnegie    1-1       8-5
Emory    1-2       6-6
Chicago    0-1       8-4
NYU       0-1       7-4


Thoughts or predictions about the games this weekend? Any word on CMU's Cortese?

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I lwatched some of the videocast of Carnegie Mellon at Rochester on Sunday, and according to JC DeLass of WYSL, it looks like CMU's Jacki Cortese is done for the year with a knee injury that she sustained in non-conference play.  I start to think of Brandeis's Lauren "Rash" Rashford when I hear this, as she suffered a devastating knee injury last season, and ever since she returned from the injury, she has not had a big game-- maybe her basketball form isn't what it used to be before the injury, but I know that Lauren Rashford is working very hard to get back to where she once was.    For now, "Rash" is playing off the bench for Brandeis.

As for Chicago, Chicago has never won at the Wash U Field House since the UAA was founded.

Only a few UAA teams have ever defeated Wash U at the Field House--

Carnegie Mellon did it once, in the early 1990s.

Brandeis did it a few years ago-- on a Sunday in a low scoring contest.  (This was when the NCAA had a 50 team field-- with only 7 Pool C at-large bids, and if Brandeis had been able to win at Rochester the following Sunday, Brandeis could have won the UAA by virtue of the conference tiebreaker that year.  However, it eventually turned out that Brandeis had to win at NYU on NYU's Senior Day to win the league-- NYU prevailed in that contest; Wash U won the UAA and became the only UAA team to go to the NCAAs that season-- Brandeis had to settle for an ECAC bid.)

NYU is the only team to have multiple victories over Wash U at the Field House-- under Coach Janice Quinn.

Last year, Wash U won their UAA home games by an average of 17 pts a game-- a team that plays that strong at home in UAA play is always going to be the favorite to win the UAA every single time.

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For detail, Wash U has only lost 3 home UAA games at the Wash U Field House since January 1, 2000

Here are the dates in which they occurred:

Feb. 20, 2004-- NYU won, 100-89  (Janice Quinn, head coach of NYU)

Feb. 6, 2005-- Brandeis won, 55-52  (Wash U had won the game in Waltham, MA that season by a score of 70 to 40.)

Jan. 20, 2006-- NYU won, 63-61  (Janice Quinn, head coach of NYU).

In addition, Carnegie Mellon won once at the Wash U Field House in the early 1990's.

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For detail, Wash U has only lost 3 home UAA games at the Wash U Field House since January 1, 2000

Here are the dates in which they occurred:

Jan. 20, 2006-- NYU won, 63-61  (Janice Quinn, head coach of NYU).

I was at that game on 1/20/06. NYU played a box and one defense to try to stop Kelly Manning. It actually worked quite well, especially given that the player chasing Manning around was about 5' 2" to Manning's 5' 11".

Very entertaining game.

[Wydown Blvd.]

I was at that game on 1/20/06. NYU played a box and one defense to try to stop Kelly Manning. It actually worked quite well, especially given that the player chasing Manning around was about 5' 2" to Manning's 5' 11".

Very entertaining game.

I believe WashU had the ball with a chance to take the lead or tie in that game and they threw it away. Good crowd for that game.

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For detail, Wash U has only lost 3 home UAA games at the Wash U Field House since January 1, 2000

Here are the dates in which they occurred:

Jan. 20, 2006-- NYU won, 63-61  (Janice Quinn, head coach of NYU).

I was at that game on 1/20/06. NYU played a box and one defense to try to stop Kelly Manning. It actually worked quite well, especially given that the player chasing Manning around was about 5' 2" to Manning's 5' 11".

Very entertaining game.

That player chasing Manning around was Adrienne Rochetti, right?  I remember seeing her doing a Tyus Edney type play to beat Brandeis in the final seconds on one of Brandeis's visits down at NYU.  Rochetti had a lot of quickness to make up for her lack of height at the point guard position.

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Very surprised that Wash U only won by 10 over Brandeis.  Sure it was a good game

[Wydown Blvd.]

Checked the boxscore. WashU was up big (17) and controlled most of the game. Brandeis hit some 3's. Chapin only had 2 pts. I would post more but Im bitter about the mens game...

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Checked the boxscore. WashU was up big (17) and controlled most of the game. Brandeis hit some 3's. Chapin only had 2 pts. I would post more but Im bitter about the mens game...

I am glad I am not the only one that gets that way.  I do love the double-headers because the win in the first game makes the loss in the second game a little easier to handle.  Fans of the other UAA teams should not take this comment as a slight to the other teams, but our Women rule!

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Wash U--

I'll give credit to your defense for shutting down Jessica Chapin last night.  Last year, she led Brandeis scorers in both matchups with the Wash U Bears-- scoring 18 pts a game in those two matchups.

I am thankful that Lauren Rashford finally seems to be playing better.   Brandeis needed her scoring last night to make the final score as close as it was--  I am very grateful that the final score was as it was indicated, as I was afraid that Wash U could have beaten Brandeis by 20 or more. 

(I consider Friday night a success for Brandeis-- just a 10 pt loss for the women with an outright victory for the Brandeis men at the Wash U Field House!!!)

Go Judges!!!