Cal Women's Basketball vs. Dartmouth: Preview and Open Thread
by norcalnick on Dec 20, 2011 6:00 PM PST
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For reasons unknown, we'll be enjoying this game via dulcet tones of Dave Lewis. If there's one game to miss, this one might be it because there shouldn't be any drama. The Big Green enter tonight's contest with a record of 2-7, with those two wins over Colgate and Vermont. Only once this season has Dartmouth exceeded 56 points of offense, but it's not because they slow the ball down - it's because they just have trouble scoring. In a season opening loss to Kansas St. they only managed 20 points!
Dartmouth is led by Faziah Steen, who averages 14.8 points and after that . . . there are six players averaging between 6.7 and 3.2 points/game. Only one player has more assists than turnovers. The Big Green are a low level Ivy League team, so there's just not much to say other than they are likely to be a bit undermanned against the Bears.
Stat chart and game thread after the jump. Go Bears!
Chart concept borrowed from MGoBlog, all stats courtesy of wbbstate.com and are accurate as of 12/14. Stat glossary found here. One letter indicates 10 place advantage in national rankings, two letters indicate 100 place advantage, three indicates 200 place advantage, etc.
| Category | Cal Ranking | Dart. Ranking | Advantage |
| Cal eFG% v. Dart Def eFG% | 70 | 85 | C |
| Cal Def eFG% v. Dart eFG% | 122 | 328 | CCC |
| Cal TO% v. Dart Def TO% | 204 | 241 | C |
| Cal Def TO% v. Dart TO% | 273 | 309 | C |
| Cal Reb% v. Dart Reb% | 4 | 278 | CCC |
| Cal FTR v. Dart Opp FTR | 106 | 257 | CC |
| Cal Opp FTR v. Dart FTR | 90 | 204 | CC |
| Cal O-PPP v. Dart D-PPP | 42 | 180 | CC |
| Cal D-PPP v. Dart O-PPP | 89 | 333 | CCC |
Cal leads in every category. I can't recall seeing that in any game I've gone a stat chart for, men's or women's. Granted, I've only been doing stat charts for about one year . . . but still! Dartmouth's only above-average skill is preventing opponents from shooting well, so we'll see how well the Bears shoot today.
Other than that, what should we look for? Well, let's try to hold Dartmouth below 50 points, and maybe make some free throws?
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Women’s games tonight:
UCLA fell to Temple, 59-53
Colorado defeated Texas Pan-Am, 67-49
ASU is comfortably ahead of Army, 42-21 at the half
Later tonight Washington hosts Southern and Stanford hosts Tennessee, which will air on CSNBA at 7:00.
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Men's games tonight:
Arizona is up 64-48 on a dangerous Oakland team with 12 minutes left
Oregon hosts North Carolina Central and UCLA hosts UC Irvine later tonight. /yawn
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No video stream? It seems like it would cost next to nothing to have the video, so why not have it? I’ll never understand Cal’s reasoning for these things.
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I dunno if this is official, but it's what google image gives me
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What’s important about Keggy is not so much that he’s a giant beer or that he filled the void of a humanoid mascot at football games, it’s that he represented a giant “$%#! you!” to the Dartmouth administration. Kegs are banned at Dartmouth unless you register them way in advance. The administration that took our kegs and tried to cut the entire swim team over Thanksgiving break tried to throw us a bone by letting us choose the next mascot, and Keggy turned the whole shabang into a giant shitburger. Keggy kicks ass, even if he comes off a little dorky as an official Ivy League mascot.
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3/8 of the ivy league are colors
Harvard Crimson, Dartmouth Big Green, Cornell Big Red
then you have the lions (Columbia), tigers (Princeton), and bears (Brown) oh my
followed by the Penn Quakers and the Yale Bulldogs (boola boola)
by LEastCoastBears on Dec 20, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
Like Stanford
Dartmouth used be the Indians (it was, after all, founded as a school for native Americans). At any rate, around the same time Stanford became The Cardinal I believe Dartmouth became the Big Green (in the late 60s or early 70s). Harvard has always been The Crimson, though not sure about Cornell.
5-0 Bears
Boyd with 4 already, Cal struggling to hit FTs already!
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14-2 Bears, press bothering Dartmouth
It should probably be a bigger lead than that, but the defense has been so good that it doesn’t really matter.
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So far, at least . ..
Eliza’s practice is paying off – she’s shooting above 40% from the field and, shockingly, has the highest FT% on the team amongst players that have attempted more than 4 shots.
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Wow, 11-3 turnover advantage for the Bears! That never happens!
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We’re shooting horribly. Good thing it’s coming against Dartmouth. If we played like this against Ohio St. we would’ve lost by 30.
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Yup. You may recall that Harvard is the only team ever to win a game as a 16 seed in the NCAA tournament. Can’t recall who they beat, though . . .
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Ivys DON"T ALLOW SCHOLARSHIPS
so although they are Division I, they are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to sports like basketball (though I think the Harvard men are currently ranked). At any rate, the Ivys do better in sports like crew, lacrosse, ice hockey, squash, etc. It’s really Apples and Oranges….though I was at the game Stanford lost to Harvard and it was a very wonderful moment indeed.
So the Cheers theme comes on super loud while Dave Lewis is trying to give the half time stats. What the hell is wrong with the people who put these streams together?!?
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39-13 Bears at the half
Good things:
Turnovers: Cal 5, Dartmouth 15
Free throws attempted: Cal 19, Dartmouth 2
Bad things:
Eh. Shooting percentages from the field and the line could be higher. That’d be nitpicking, I guess.
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furd up 7 on Tennessee at halftime, and Ogwumike (the elder) already has 19 points and 9 boards.
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This Cal game is such a blowout that I’m tempted to watch this one to scout Stanford.
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It's a bit counter-intuitive considering how Stanford recruits, but
Nneka Ogwumike might be the single most important player to any one team in the conference, if not the nation.
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Last year some people were saying that her sister was even better. Is that not the case?
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Maybe someday
But right now? Nobody in the country is a better player than Nneka.
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56-25, 12:30 left
May as well play Erika Johnson and Avigiel Cohen the rest of the way.
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Wow, Dartmouth has tripled their point total from halftime! I guess that’s not hard when you only scored 13.
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80-39 Bears with a minute left
And the sound of the audio stream goes out. Sigh.
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Mary Murphy
was singing Cal’s praises during the halftime of the Stanford Tennessee game and there was also a nice mention of Cal, Gen Brandon, etc. during a commercial break. Murphy was at the Ohio State game and said tonight Cal should be ranked. She called them a top 15 team…..
She used to sit near my folks at mens games
during Haas’ early years. Remember her referring to UCLA as the ucluks. Glad we’re still in her mind.
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