Cal Women's Basketball Open Thread vs Vanguard
by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 5:30 PM PST
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Another season of amazing squatting for Joanne Boyle begins. How does she do it?
This is a preseason game against Vanguard, and can be seen on CalBears.com. Click here for the stream link, it should go live around 6 PM PST. You can also follow it on Gametracker. For those who want to catch up on this team, check out this season preview of Cal women's hoops by norcalnick!
After the jump, a little bit of info on Vanguard.
The Vanguard Lions, the 2007-08 NAIA Champions, are ranked No. 2 in the 2009-10 preseason NAIA poll. Vanguard will be playing an extremely challenging exhibiton scheulde. It kicks off at Stanford on November 1, the first of three consecutive playing days. VU continues the sweep through the Bay area at University of San Francisco the next day and finish with the exhibition on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at Cal. The Lions leave the Bay area to head directly to Arizona for a date with Pac-10 third place team Arizona State University on November 5. Returning home briefly after the Arizona match up, the Lions then fly to Connecticut to face the National Champion Huskies.
In their exhibition against Stanford, the Cardinal posted a dominating 107-49 win over the Lions, although neither the results nor the statistics count for either team's regular season records. The Lions had three players in double figure scoring, led by 2009 All-GSAC and NAIA All-America Honorable Mention guard Bridgette Reyes with 14 points and four assists. Senior Rachel Copeland and junior Sarah Boyd added 11 and 10 points, respectively. Trailing 49-27 at the half, things got worse after intermission as the Cardinal made 11-of-18 three-pointers to add a 58-22 advantage to the second-half scoreboard. The Lions were out-rebounded 55-33 and shot only 29% from the field and 24 percent from the three-point line with 16 turnovers in the game.
Last season against Vanguard, Cal earned an 87-37 victory in its final exhibition game of the year. Vanguard began the game strong, going up by two points, 8-6, in the first four minutes of the game. The Bears erased the deficit, scoring eight straight points and mounting a 26-2 run over the next eight minutes to get the game well in their control, shooting 58.1 percent in the first half. The Bears defense also looked solid in the tune-up. The Cal defenders did not allow a single three-point basket, with the Lions shooting 0-18 from long range. Overall, the Bears' defense allowed the Lions just 13 makes on 54 field goal attempts for a 24.1 percent shooting efficiency from the field. Alexis Gray-Lawson led the Bears with 21 points, which included hitting seven freethrows. Ashley Walker scored 20.
Where is Vanguard? Why it's located in the OC!
Vanguard University of Southern California is located in Costa Mesa, California, USA on 55 Fair Drive, across the street from the OC Fair & Event Center. Founded in 1920 as the Southern California Bible School, the undergraduate school became accredited in 1964, the graduate school in 1983. It was known as Southern California College until 1999 when it applied for, and was granted, university status, at which time it adopted its current name to avoid confusion with the University of Southern California[1]. Vanguard is a Christian Comprehensive University of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and is owned by the Southern California District of the Assemblies of God.
Yeah, so you can consider it USC v2.0! Or something. Whatever. Get this season started Lady Bears!
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Mmmmmm ... Coach Boyle Squatting
There is not a single thing wrong at all with that.
On ATQ I'm known as JSoCal Oski
It's spelled J-etc
+1
The sexiest coach on college basketball…
by BlackandOldGold on Nov 3, 2009 5:55 PM PST up reply actions
Wasn’t T-bred digging the UCLA coach last year? Nikki Caldwell?
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Aw, she’s so tiny! When you see her, you think you can put her in your pocket.
by Yes We Cannon on Nov 3, 2009 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
Charli Turner Thorne whined up a storm after Cal beat ASU in Tempe last year on a last second shot by the greatest player in Cal women’s basketball history Ashley Walker. Didn’t like it. Made me root against ASU the rest of the season. It pissed me off greatly when we lost to them at Haas late in the regular season.
Praise be to Tedford!
Vanguard
I’ve never heard of it.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Nov 3, 2009 5:41 PM PST reply actions
I hope Cal keeps making baskets so the announcers identify the players. It’s really hard to see who everybody is on the grainy screen.
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Vital’s wearing a headband, and I recognize Lexi just from familiarity. After that it’s pretty hard. Grief is the short white girl and Heater is the tall one.
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If Cal was shooting the ball remotely well this game would not be close. The freshmen are showing good things but also making freshmen plays.
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It looks like we haven’t played a basketball game in 7 or 8 months! Lexi misses a fast break layup, then a wide open 3. Meanwhile, Vanguard is 5-6 from 3.
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Stallworth has 10 points and I wish Coach would keep her on the floor. She’s been our best post so far by far.
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46-42 Cal at half. The optimist in me says that if Vanguard were shooting a normal percentage from 3 the game would already be a blowout. The pessimist in me says that this shouldn’t be close regardless. Luckily Cal has lots of crummy teams in the non-conference to work out the kinks on.
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Now you know how I feel when I watch Volleyball. Coach Boyle was able to bring in the #2 (or even #1) recruiting class in the country. HOwever, it’s gotta hurt her a bit when the fans don’t do their part.
I really hope a good crowd shows up for the Baylor game, but I’m not optimistic
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I’m never gonna be a big woman’s hoops fan generally, but I am starting to become a Cal woman’s hoops fan. The game against Rutgers last season was the most fun I had at a cal sporting event in the 2008-2009 Cal athletics season.
I really hope this is just because of the opponent.
It'll be just you, me, and Peter Nincompoop.
I never paid attention to women’s basketball at all until the last couple of years, because we were never very good. But last year’s Stanfurd game was one of the most exciting sporting events I’ve ever been to.
Looking at the statistics, you would think we would be losing right now. If our perimeter defense sucks this bad during conf play, we’re going to get smoked.
I’m hoping a lot of the problems are freshman issues, especially the bad turnovers, that will get ironed out in the pre-season.
Was there a media poll? Where’d we get picked to finish? Anyone know our pre-season ranking? ASU? UCLA? Furd?
Cal is shooting better, Vanguard is shooting worse and the game is finally starting to look like it was supposed to the whole time.
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Whoa what the hell? How’d we let Vanguard put up 50 in under 30 minutes?
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Cal is destroying Vanguard on the boards. We just got 4 straight offensive rebounds.
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I’m not sure, but do they play with the rims at NCAA men’s height?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, they do. Otherwise you wouldn’t hear about it when a women’s player dunks.
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Man I wish they played with lower rims. You’d see so many alley oop attempts (not sure how successful they’d be, but you’d see plenty of attempts).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
So many triples.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
22 turnovers, 19 assists. Yikes. At least we’ve pulled down 54 boards.
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Are they going to show more games like this? Last year I listened to a lot of the games streaming on KALX, but those announcers were pretty bad.
I believe Idaho State on 11/15 and St. Mary’s on 11/17 will both be streamed online, as will Colorado State on 12/5. The Baylor game will be on TV.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, and San Jose State on 12/9.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 3, 2009 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
Last year I listened to a lot of the games streaming on KALX, but those announcers were pretty bad.
I’d like to think it all went downhill after I graduated and retired as the voice of Cal women’s basketball at KALX.
I have no expectation of that being true. I’d just like to think that.
Praise be to Tedford!
You were really the voice of Cal women’s basketball? Cool!
I think part of the problem last year was that there didn’t seem to be “a voice,” but instead a group of rotating voices, so no one got really comfortable. The guy that drove me the craziest would say: “Walker passes the ball to Hampton. Now Hampton has the ball. Now Hampton passes the ball to Walker. Now Walker has the ball,” etc. The first time I heard him I thought: okay, he’s just nervous. Someone will tell him about this habit, and he won’t do it next time. Next time I heard him, he did the same thing.
We’re talking early 1990s, the days of Trisha Stafford, Milica Vukadinovic, Keisha Martin, Jennifer Self, Monica Wiley, and Kim Robinson. And Ingrid Dixson, too. Gooch Foster was the coach.
Actually, you pinpoint what was generally the rule during my time there: many different people did the games. We sort of doled them out among ourselves, based on seniority, availability, etc. But during my senior year, I ended being the “de facto” voice of women’s hoops. For whatever reason, I did most of the games. It was a lot of fun. Got to travel with the team, too.
For some of the less experienced student announcers, basketball was tough. What you describe hearing was typical. Frankly, I thought basketball was the easiest sport to call (compared with baseball and football).
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Really? I would have thought baseball would be easier. Is it tough to fill in all the dead time?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Baseball is the hardest
I thought I was pretty good with the mechanics of the play by play. But filling the time between pitches is an art form. Looking back on it, I was too concerned with filling that time with stuff related to the game I was calling. Big mistake. The really good ones have a way of conversing on air, with the game just being part of it.
Praise be to Tedford!
One Lon Simmons on air moment to share, just because I thought it was so funny at the time. Don’t remember who the batter was, but one of the A’s hit a deep drive. Simmons thought the ball went over the fence, hit something, and came back. So he uttered his signature, “Tell It Goodbye!” He then realizes that the ball only went off the top of the fence and is in play. After describing that, he noted, “…so tell it hello.”
Praise be to Tedford!
I think one of the reasons baseball fans are so much more interested in the history of the game than fans of other sports is that there is so much time on the broadcasts to tell stories about the game. Just by listening to a good radio, or even TV, announcer you can learn a massive amount about baseball history. Of course, the broadcaster has to actually know those stories before he can tell them.
Stallworth 9-13, 21pts, 4 def boards, 5 OFFENSIVE boards, 2 blocked shots
Hm. Not too bad for a freshman.
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