University Athletic Association

deiscanton · February 20, 2011, 04:20:26 PM

Game resets-- Midway through second half in Midwest action

Chicago 63, NYU 30 9:43 left in regulation

Wash U 67, Brandeis 33 9:58 left in regulation

Update-- Chicago 69, NYU 37 4:53 left in regulation

Update-- Wash U 72, Brandeis 40 4:55 left in regulation

deiscanton · February 20, 2011, 04:35:49 PM

Finals from the UAA Midwest games

Chicago 77, NYU 49

Chicago is the UAA Women's Basketball Champion-- Maroons have clinched the automatic bid to the NCAAs.

Wash U 79, Brandeis 47

deiscanton · February 20, 2011, 05:33:52 PM

Congratulations to the Chicago Maroons on their clinching of the UAA Women's Basketball title and the automatic bid to the NCAAs.

Regardless of what happens next weekend, I hope that Chicago will make a deep run in the NCAA tournament.

I will also wish the same of any other UAA women's basketball team that makes it in via Pool C.

deiscanton · February 21, 2011, 09:20:18 AM

The Wash U Student Life student newspaper came out with their Feb. 21, 2011 edition.

The article on the Wash U women's basketball team today has comments from Wash U senior captain Alex Hoover and Wash U coach Nancy Fahey on the weekend that just concluded and on their upcoming match with Chicago.

The article was written by Wash U Student Life executive editor Josh Coleman.

About the intentional foul call in the second half on Brandeis's Samantha Anderson-- when doing the PBP on the game, jaybird44 thought that the referee did not get the call right. Regardless, the intentional foul call did not affect the outcome of the game, but it does serve to me as an indicator that a visiting team in the UAA should not expect to get a break from the referees. I thought of that call as throwing "salt on a wound"-- symbolic of a down year for my team. With that said, I'm moving on-- Brandeis's season will end Saturday at NYU.

WUPHF · February 21, 2011, 10:25:29 AM

I have never had a problem critiquing the officials. I know not everyone agrees, but the officials get paid (and get paid relatively well) so they should be open to criticism.

Having said that, I will say that quality of the officiating has been quite strong in the UAA this season. At least in the games that I have seen. This comment is not in regards to the Brandeis intentional foul though. Unfortunately, I did not get to stay for that game.

Wydown Blvd. · February 21, 2011, 11:52:25 AM

Congrats to Chicago as well!

Crossing my fingers that three UAA teams will get into the tourney!

jaybird44 · February 21, 2011, 01:05:47 PM

I truly did not believe that was an intentional foul by Samantha Anderson. She was trying to gather a rebound and didn't have an additional intent to clear out space with her elbows at the expense of anyone else who happens to be in the way.

It's a tough call to make...officials have to determine what contact comes from the natural flow of the game, vs. the contact that comes from a player intending to put an extra "effort" into a play or situation to gain an unfair advantage. I don't think Anderson put in that extra effort or intent.

bearsfan · February 21, 2011, 01:46:52 PM

Quote from: jaybird44 on February 21, 2011, 01:05:47 PM
I truly did not believe that was an intentional foul by Samantha Anderson. She was trying to gather a rebound and didn't have an additional intent to clear out space with her elbows at the expense of anyone else who happens to be in the way.

It's a tough call to make...officials have to determine what contact comes from the natural flow of the game, vs. the contact that comes from a player intending to put an extra "effort" into a play or situation to gain an unfair advantage. I don't think Anderson put in that extra effort or intent.

Does anyone know the official rule on the elbow? I have heard that the intentional foul was part of a change in the rules this year that have said that all elbow thrown fouls are intentional regardless of intent and whether contact is made and that is why the officials made the call after conferring. I do not know the official rule in the book and am guessing someone who posts here probably will. That being said, if that is the rule then the officiating crew should likely have called the same think on Wash U a couple plays later when Coach Simon was saying that the Wash U player did the same action. Both players had their elbows up at head level and rotated around to clear space.

WUPHF · February 21, 2011, 02:32:12 PM

Quote from: bearsfan on February 21, 2011, 01:46:52 PM
Does anyone know the official rule on the elbow? I have heard that the intentional foul was part of a change in the rules this year that have said that all elbow thrown fouls are intentional regardless of intent and whether contact is made and that is why the officials made the call after conferring. I do not know the official rule in the book and am guessing someone who posts here probably will. That being said, if that is the rule then the officiating crew should likely have called the same think on Wash U a couple plays later when Coach Simon was saying that the Wash U player did the same action. Both players had their elbows up at head level and rotated around to clear space.

Yeah, that is true: http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/ncaahome?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/ncaa/NCAA/NCAA+News/NCAA+News+Online/2010/Association-wide/Basketball+rules+committees+recommend+stricter+elbow+contact+penalties_05_05_10_ncaanews

I had forgotten all about this rule change.

deiscanton · February 22, 2011, 06:14:41 AM

The Chicago Maroon is out with their Tuesday, Februray 22, 2011 edition.

First up is this article written by Charles Fang covering Chicago's clinching of the UAA title over the weekend.

The article contains a picture of Chicago player Morgan Herrick driving by Brandeis defender Samantha Anderson from Sunday's game at the Ratner Center.

Comments from several Chicago players and Chicago coach Aaron Roussell are included:

http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2011/02/21/uchampions

The same edition also contains an article by Mahmoud Bahrani covering the keys to a deep run in the NCAA tournament for the Maroons:

http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2011/02/21/looking-ahead-keys-to-success-in-the-ncaa-tournament

Wydown Blvd. · February 22, 2011, 02:26:02 PM

WashU's Kathryn Berger with another AOW accolade. Definitely UAA MVP in my book. It has been a while since one of the top teams in the UAA had a player of the year come from their squad (McEntee, Chapin, etc). Still looking forward to Saturday although I expect WashU to win as they need the victory to clinch a NCAA spot IMHO amongst other reasons.

deiscanton · February 22, 2011, 03:06:14 PM

Well, Kathryn Berger of Wash U and Taylor Simpson of Chicago would certainly be the top two vote getters for UAA Player of the Year.

A Wash U victory over Chicago on Saturday would certainly seal the deal for Berger to be UAA Player of the Year, in my opinion. Your mileage may vary, however-- I would not be surprised if Taylor Simpson won it.

Who gets UAA Rookie of the Year? Initially, Laney Ming of Rochester was the early favorite, but she has missed too many UAA games due to injury to win it.

Carnegie Mellon got the last two UAA Rookie of the Year awards (Jacki Cortese and Brit Phillips, respectively), but I don't think that CMU's Jacquie Shaw will make it 3 in a row. (Could be wrong, though, maybe the UAA coaches want to give CMU some awards for their UAA participation....)

I know that Jordan Rettig of Wash U had good non-conference numbers, but I don't believe that her UAA stats in league play make her the favorite for Rookie of the Year honors.

Kelly Loughney of NYU probably is the top rebounder among the rookie class in the UAA, but her scoring figures aren't tops in the UAA, although she has gotten some double-doubles late.

My personal vote would go to Hannah Lilly of Emory, with Savannah Morgan of Emory a close second. I credit these two freshmen for taking the Eagles above a predicted last place finish in UAA play this season.

For Coaching Staff of the Year, I will give it to Chicago for now, although the Wash U coaching staff could get a share of the honors with a victory on Saturday.

I'll be interested in seeing who the UAA coaches pick for those honors after UAA play ends on Saturday...

Wydown Blvd. · February 22, 2011, 04:23:59 PM

Quote from: deiscanton on February 22, 2011, 03:06:14 PM
Well, Kathryn Berger of Wash U and Taylor Simpson of Chicago would certainly be the top two vote getters for UAA Player of the Year.

A Wash U victory over Chicago on Saturday would certainly seal the deal for Berger to be UAA Player of the Year, in my opinion. Your mileage may vary, however-- I would not be surprised if Taylor Simpson won it.

Who gets UAA Rookie of the Year? Initially, Laney Ming of Rochester was the early favorite, but she has missed too many UAA games due to injury to win it.

Carnegie Mellon got the last two UAA Rookie of the Year awards (Jacki Cortese and Brit Phillips, respectively), but I don't think that CMU's Jacquie Shaw will make it 3 in a row. (Could be wrong, though, maybe the UAA coaches want to give CMU some awards for their UAA participation....)

I know that Jordan Rettig of Wash U had good non-conference numbers, but I don't believe that her UAA stats in league play make her the favorite for Rookie of the Year honors.

Kelly Loughney of NYU probably is the top rebounder among the rookie class in the UAA, but her scoring figures aren't tops in the UAA, although she has gotten some double-doubles late.

My personal vote would go to Hannah Lilly of Emory, with Savannah Morgan of Emory a close second. I credit these two freshmen for taking the Eagles above a predicted last place finish in UAA play this season.

For Coaching Staff of the Year, I will give it to Chicago for now, although the Wash U coaching staff could get a share of the honors with a victory on Saturday.

I'll be interested in seeing who the UAA coaches pick for those honors after UAA play ends on Saturday...

Yeah, Simpson definitely is in the hunt with a big weight on the last UAA matchup coming up. Her 15/10 production is pretty fantastic. Over the past few years we had seen WashU really spread out the scoring and this year has strayed from that with Berger's offensive output. I think her points average is an interesting mix of amazing scoring games mixed with many WashU victories in their typical "everyone scores" mentality.

We have seen Co-MVP/POY before... I could see it happening again this year even if WashU wins the final matchup on Saturday.

COY - Chicago due to the UAA Champ/COY tradition
ROY - Lilly

deiscanton · February 22, 2011, 04:50:02 PM

Quote from: Wydown Blvd. on February 22, 2011, 04:23:59 PM
Quote from: deiscanton on February 22, 2011, 03:06:14 PM
Well, Kathryn Berger of Wash U and Taylor Simpson of Chicago would certainly be the top two vote getters for UAA Player of the Year.

A Wash U victory over Chicago on Saturday would certainly seal the deal for Berger to be UAA Player of the Year, in my opinion. Your mileage may vary, however-- I would not be surprised if Taylor Simpson won it.

Who gets UAA Rookie of the Year? Initially, Laney Ming of Rochester was the early favorite, but she has missed too many UAA games due to injury to win it.

Carnegie Mellon got the last two UAA Rookie of the Year awards (Jacki Cortese and Brit Phillips, respectively), but I don't think that CMU's Jacquie Shaw will make it 3 in a row. (Could be wrong, though, maybe the UAA coaches want to give CMU some awards for their UAA participation....)

I know that Jordan Rettig of Wash U had good non-conference numbers, but I don't believe that her UAA stats in league play make her the favorite for Rookie of the Year honors.

Kelly Loughney of NYU probably is the top rebounder among the rookie class in the UAA, but her scoring figures aren't tops in the UAA, although she has gotten some double-doubles late.

My personal vote would go to Hannah Lilly of Emory, with Savannah Morgan of Emory a close second. I credit these two freshmen for taking the Eagles above a predicted last place finish in UAA play this season.

For Coaching Staff of the Year, I will give it to Chicago for now, although the Wash U coaching staff could get a share of the honors with a victory on Saturday.

I'll be interested in seeing who the UAA coaches pick for those honors after UAA play ends on Saturday...

Yeah, Simpson definitely is in the hunt with a big weight on the last UAA matchup coming up. Her 15/10 production is pretty fantastic. Over the past few years we had seen WashU really spread out the scoring and this year has strayed from that with Berger's offensive output. I think her points average is an interesting mix of amazing scoring games mixed with many WashU victories in their typical "everyone scores" mentality.

We have seen Co-MVP/POY before... I could see it happening again this year even if WashU wins the final matchup on Saturday.

COY - Chicago due to the UAA Champ/COY tradition
ROY - Lilly

There has only been 1 time in the history of UAA Women's Basketball that we had Co-MVP/POY honors. It happened in the 2007-2008 season when Jaime Capra of Brandeis and Jessica McEntee of NYU shared the honors.

deiscanton · February 23, 2011, 05:34:04 AM

The "Eagle Watch" on the Emory women's basketball page has just posted some newly recorded video comments from Emory women's basketball coach Christy Thomaskutty.

In these comments, Coach Thomaskutty talks about Emory's wins over the weekend at Case and Carnegie Mellon, previews Saturday's contest vs Rochester, and talks about Emory senior Courtney von Stein's contributions to the Eagles program.

The video is about 2 min long, and can be found at:

http://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/wbkb/index