Best game the ladies have played all season. Played toe-to-toe with now 9-2 Butler (who has already beaten national power Indiana) for all but the last couple of minutes.
As pointless as those games like Ohio Christian seem to be, it was a moment to see someone unheralded break out, and that was freshman Gigi Bower, who translated her more than 20 points in that game to providing a couple of important sparks today.
Aliah McWhorter returned from injury today...and got hurt again. Coach Boldon used a seven-player rotation today for the entire game and is now down a player from that.
Monica Williams suffered a bad injury against Ohio Christian and is done for the season.
If it's not the injuries killing this team, it's the passing and the lack of rebounding. But the best game of the season so far, in spite of all of that. They were locked in defensively. Just too many second, third, fourth, and fifth chances today. The second half especially, the ladies had Butler unable to do much of anything offensively. And it just didn't matter. They would throw up bad shot after bad shot, brick after brick, and keep getting the rebound until they scored. It was hard to watch.
No games in the Convo until New Year's. At St. Louis, UIC, and Georgia in the mean time.
Last Edited: 12/8/2024 10:44:48 PM by WxM