Xavier women's basketball 2024-25 thread

[X-band '01]

That's what's happened in a lot of games this year - great defense in the 1st quarter, hold on for the middle 20 minutes of the game and just run out of gas in the final 10 minutes. They didn't hit a single FG in the 4th quarter, but give the ladies credit for a very game effort tonight.

[Section 200]

I watched the game last night - this team has promise for next year! Still confused why we don't recruit US players, but glad to see some hope for the first time in too many years.

[GoMuskies]

Unrelated to Xavier...I see that the Ivy League received three bids to the women's tournament. Do you think that's just a reflection of different priorities for female high school athletes when they're looking at where to go for college? Makes a ton of sense to me with the generally meager dollars available in professional women's basketball for more middling prospects to pick Harvard or Princeton over Marquette or Kansas, for example.

[HomerCecil]

Unrelated to Xavier...I see that the Ivy League received three bids to the women's tournament. Do you think that's just a reflection of different priorities for female high school athletes when they're looking at where to go for college? Makes a ton of sense to me with the generally meager dollars available in professional women's basketball for more middling prospects to pick Harvard or Princeton over Marquette or Kansas, for example.

It could be, but the Ivy getting three teams in is unusual so it could just be a one-off. Two of the three teams that got in are in the First Four. Even on the men's side, the Ivy League has a history of winning first-round games. Yale did it last year.

[GoMuskies]

Well, we were in the same conference as the national champs. So we got that going for us.

[muskiefan82]

UConn women's team. Wow. Just wow. They are making SC look bad and that is a good team.

[GoMuskies]

UConn was this good, and they never really got Caroline Ducharme back from injury. She's basically a mop up player now and was on her way to being a star before getting hurt.

[paulxu]

That was an old fashion curb stomping. Yikes.

[drudy23]

Paige is a good story. Good for her. Strong-willed kid.