2022-2023 Women's Basketball Season

[SmartyBarrett]

2. Conference record of the tied teams based on winning percentage versus the highest
common opponent and proceeding down to the lowest common opponent, if necessary, until
one team gains an advantage.

a. All ties are broken in descending order.
b. When arriving at another pair of tied teams, use each team’s record against the tied teams
as a group. When comparing records against a group of teams, the higher winning
percentage will prevail. In case of tied percentages vs. the team or group of 1.000 or
.000, the following shall apply: 2-0 is better than 1-0; 0-1 is better than 0-2.

3. Coin toss.

Assuming Fordham finishes third, a tiebreaker favors UMass as they're 2-0 against Fordham and the best URI can do is 1-0. Just win tomorrow and none of it matters.

[Jersey77]

Wow, didn't see this coming.
Never expected to lose by 21 pts at home in a game which we really were never in.
Also out rebounded 51-29, not good.
I figured this would be a tough game that would come down to the wire.

Anyway, we need to turn this around quickly because we have 2 tough road games coming up.

[ramster]

Friday Feb 17

UMASS improved 7 to 57
URI drops 7 to 69

Need to win the A10 Tournament.

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[ramster]

Remaining games

• 88-St Joseph's Away Feb 19 Sun 2pm

• 92-Fordham Away Feb 22 Wed 7pm

• 218-Dayton Home Feb 25 Sat 1pm

[ramster]

2,422 attendance was similar to last years game with Dayton of 2,417

[ramster]

Wow, didn't see this coming.
Never expected to lose by 21 pts at home in a game which we really were never in.
Also out rebounded 51-29, not good.
I figured this would be a tough game that would come down to the wire.

Anyway, we need to turn this around quickly because we have 2 tough road games coming up.

UMASS was strong rebounding and had excellent interior passing resulting in easy shots. Many high percentage shots throughout the game for UMASS but especially in the 1st quarter.

[RhowdyRam02]

Friday Feb 17

UMASS improved 7 to 57
URI drops 7 to 69

Need to win the A10 Tournament.

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I mean, an at large bid was always going to be tough with where we were, but that drop wasn't as bad as I thought it could be. I would have to think we're still in NIT range

[Jersey77]

Wow, didn't see this coming.
Never expected to lose by 21 pts at home in a game which we really were never in.
Also out rebounded 51-29, not good.
I figured this would be a tough game that would come down to the wire.

Anyway, we need to turn this around quickly because we have 2 tough road games coming up.

UMASS was strong rebounding and had excellent interior passing resulting in easy shots. Many high percentage shots throughout the game for UMASS but especially in the 1st quarter.

Losses like this can be a good learning tool and bring us back down to earth.
I expect Tammi to make the proper defensive adjustments going forward.

[ramster]

Wow, didn't see this coming.
Never expected to lose by 21 pts at home in a game which we really were never in.
Also out rebounded 51-29, not good.
I figured this would be a tough game that would come down to the wire.

Anyway, we need to turn this around quickly because we have 2 tough road games coming up.

UMASS was strong rebounding and had excellent interior passing resulting in easy shots. Many high percentage shots throughout the game for UMASS but especially in the 1st quarter.

Losses like this can be a good learning tool and bring us back down to earth.
I expect Tammi to make the proper defensive adjustments going forward.

Last season similar scenario. Big game at home with Dayton, lost by 10. Tammy said the team was devastated by the loss as their goal was to win the A10 Conference and the A10 Tournament. They went on to get upset by a freshmen laden St Joe team 1st game of A10 Tournament and then they got upset again at home to Quinnipiac in the Ryan Center in the NIT

This year Tammi said she wants the team to have fun. They put too much pressure on themselves last year.

Will be interesting to see how the remaining games play out.

[RhowdyRam02]

Last year we averaged 1120 at home, this year it's up to 1395 with one home game left. For comparison, UMass is averaging 1209 per game this season.

Even if they listed an attendance of 0 for the last home game, which isn't possible, we'd have an average attendance this year of 1295. Can't complain about at attendance boost of 15+%, hopefully it keeps up next year

[Jersey77]

Next game will be a tough road test tomorrow at St. Joe's.
They won their last 3 in a row since losing to us in 2OT 77-73 at the RC.
Hopefully we can regroup since our ugly to UMass.

I will be there to help root us on.

Again they are led by:
(F) Brugler- A10 ROY 2022, averaging 16.5 pts/ 5 rebs.
(G) Smith - All A10 Rookie Team 2022, averaging 14 pts/ 4 rebs.
(F) Ziegler - A freshman big averaging 11 pts/ almost 9 rebs.
(G) Mullins- Averaging 9 pts.

[ramster]

Next game will be a tough road test tomorrow at St. Joe's.
They won their last 3 in a row since losing to us in 2OT 77-73 at the RC.
Hopefully we can regroup since our ugly to UMass.

I will be there to help root us on.

Again they are led by:
(F) Brugler- A10 ROY 2022, averaging 16.5 pts/ 5 rebs.
(G) Smith - All A10 Rookie Team 2022, averaging 14 pts/ 4 rebs.
(F) Ziegler - A freshman big averaging 11 pts/ almost 9 rebs.
(G) Mullins- Averaging 9 pts.

Ziegler is 6'2", Freshman from Denmark. She has had some big scoring and rebounding games, continues to improve.

This will be a very tough game. I hate to say it, but even withstanding the UMASS loss I don't think we win this one. They are strong rebounding and a strong inside offensive game. Great that you can get to see this one live. Great game to attend.

[Jersey77]

Next game will be a tough road test tomorrow at St. Joe's.
They won their last 3 in a row since losing to us in 2OT 77-73 at the RC.
Hopefully we can regroup since our ugly to UMass.

I will be there to help root us on.

Again they are led by:
(F) Brugler- A10 ROY 2022, averaging 16.5 pts/ 5 rebs.
(G) Smith - All A10 Rookie Team 2022, averaging 14 pts/ 4 rebs.
(F) Ziegler - A freshman big averaging 11 pts/ almost 9 rebs.
(G) Mullins- Averaging 9 pts.

Ziegler is 6'2", Freshman from Denmark. She has had some big scoring and rebounding games, continues to improve.

This will be a very tough game. I hate to say it, but even withstanding the UMASS loss I don't think we win this one. They are strong rebounding and a strong inside offensive game. Great that you can get to see this one live. Great game to attend.

Yes Ramster, looking forward to making a day of it in Philly.
We were just down here watching the men's game, hoping for better results.
The Hagan arena is a nice little venue to see the game.

[Billyboy78]

Another bad start. Down 10 early.

[PeteRI]

Damn St. Joe's has 4 3s in first quarter and a 16-4 lead on a 13-0 spurt.

[PeteRI]

Brugler at 16.5 ppg and Smith at 13.9 ppg are sophomores and Ziegler at 11.4 ppg and 8.7 rebounds is a freshman. That's a helluva nucleus.

[PeteRI]

Our inside game has been invisible last 2 games. Can't win just on 3-pointers.

[PeteRI]

Toure 0 for 4. Not good.

[PeteRI]

Can't even hit our technical foul shot.

[PeteRI]

8 points in first quarter. Down 10 points. Yet another last possession play blows up. This is a disturbing pattern last few games. Need to get back to basics.

[Billyboy78]

Our inside game has been invisible last 2 games. Can't win just on 3-pointers.

Toure has really been off the last 2 games too. 0-5 in 1st quarter.

[PeteRI]

Come on Ladies, you're starting to look like our men and you're better than that!

[Billyboy78]

Dolly's heating up!

[PeteRI]

Ziegler already at 12 points and 7 rebounds.

[PeteRI]

Toure totally out of synch.

[PeteRI]

Ziegler with a block. She's a BEAST

[PeteRI]

Now an 11-point St Joe's lead on a 7-0 run.

[PeteRI]

Nice 9-0 run cuts lead to 2 as Dolly sinks 3 foul shots.

[PeteRI]

Tie ballgame on 11-0 run!

[PeteRI]

Tremendous defense as Rhody holds St. Joe's scoreless for last 6 minutes and scores 11 to end half tied at 25. Go Ladies!

[theblueram]

Gutsy comeback. Let's hope we can keep it up!!!

[jcru]

I feel like sometimes they just need to slow the game down. Instead of trying to force the other team to make mistakes, just hunker down on Defense, and let the other team make their own mistakes, that will inevitably come.

I feel like they could have done this against UMass as well, albeit, not as dramatically as they came back in this second quarter against St. Joes.

[PeteRI]

Dolly with 12 and Emmi with 6 lead the scorers. Need to get Maye and MHC going - they're a combined 0-8.

[jcru]

Another key to that second quarter is, Toure seems to be in a funk since UMass. She was going up way too strong with the ball, had something like 5-6 bricks from 2-3 feet out. They pulled her twice in the second quarter and she seems to have settled down a bit. They really need her inside scoring.

Sorry, meant Toure.

[PeteRI]

We're lucky it's tied. 7 turnovers for us vs. 2 for St. Joe's. Let's get a better start this half!

[PeteRI]

MHC finally scores. Now we need Toure to get going.

[PeteRI]

Magassa comes in again for Toure.

[PeteRI]

Brugler getting hot but Say hits longgg 3 to give us our largest lead of the game.

[PeteRI]

Sophie big 3 but Brugler with another quick bucket.

[PeteRI]

Rhody 36-33 at 4:29. Keep it going!

[PeteRI]

Toure misses 2 straight bunnies then gets a foul. She's just not on her game.

[jcru]

Toure's woes continue. Might be time to pull her again.

[PeteRI]

Toure and MHC 1-12.

[jcru]

Another foul, she just got the hook.

[PeteRI]

41-40 Rhody after 3.

[PeteRI]

Ziegler beast mode

[PeteRI]

Magassa with some nice offensive moves!

[PeteRI]

Great D by Dolly

[PeteRI]

Series of bad turnovers by Rhody leads to another 3 by Brugler to make it 50-47.

[PeteRI]

St. Joe's on an 8-0 run