I don’t know what clicked exactly, but this team is playing the best basketball this program has ever seen. Everything looks flawless, even when Weiss is not having her best night. The upgrade Rafiu has had these past months has been insane.
If we are able to not let Turner stay hot all game, I don’t see a way Harvard can cause us a lot of trouble on sunday, honestly. But it will be a great test considering that (if we get in) the first or second game of the NCAA is likely to be against a team with one of these unstoppable hoopers
Stunning win for sure. Coach Griffith is a great basketball coach. Her coaching grade across the board is straight A+. She is an amazing teacher who is obviously held in awe by her student/players.
Winning by those margins gives you a lot of confidence and more reason to the committee for an at-large bid. We also did that with a 10 player rotation, no one played more than 25 min. So it’s not like this was treated like the most important game of the season and we still won by +52. A lot of good minutes for Simmons and Tor, who might become really important off the bench tomorrow if any of the starters picks up a couple of fouls quickly
Completely agree. School has creatively increased her pay to compete with the programs that have reached out to her recently. Eventually she will get a payday that we won’t match. That said, Coach Cordell has been with her every step of the way and will be well-suited to replace her.
I very much hope you’re correct and that the best case scenario you envision is so realized. But if ever there was a game wherein THIRTEEN players could see some real minutes on their home court - and wherein a rightful emphasis on class and sportsmanship could be placed on full display and at little or no expense - LAST NIGHT was it.
L O L. I don’t really understand what you have against this team, but I encourage you to think again about what you are saying. I can’t believe you are really suggesting that Columbia should play soft and with their worst players just because Darmouth is not able to play up to the standard that Columbia is trying to set for their game-play. And even though, you are factually wrong because our team has only 12 players, and one of them has a long term injury, so we only had 11 available players, and all of them played a considerable amount of minutes, with 10/11 players over 14 minutes.
Also, I do thing that there is nothing more respectful towards Darmouth than playing up to the same standard you would play against any team. What I would actually find disrespectful is to start playing silly basketball when you know the game is won, acknowledging that your rival is not up to your level
I’ll defer to you on player availability; but even going by your count, one young lady never saw the court last night. I don’t want "silly ball’; I simply want each kid to experience playing the game.
There are 13 individuals listed on the roster. Eleven, as you stated, played last night. You also wrote of an injured player and I imagine that would be the younger Henderson; which leaves Avlijes, a young lady from Europe.
You are talking when you clearly have no idea. The roster has 12 players (please check the team’s website 2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster - Columbia University Athletics). The young Henderson is no longer part of the team as she quit (and moreover hasn’t been in the bench for several months). The injured player is the Freshman center Jaama, who tore an acl on the first game of the season and had to go through surgery. This leaves us with ELEVEN AVAILABLE PLAYERS, who all played significant minutes yesterday, including your mentioned player Avlijas, who is in fact A STARTER for this team. Which means you clearly didn’t see the game or paid no attention at all to our players, so you clearly have no idea of our players, their minutes or rotations.
Yes. I put out a couple of wrong names; though ESPN lists a 13 player roster. In any case, thanks for the clarifications and hope you enjoy tomorrow’s game.
Kreeker, you are a better fact checker than anyone on the news outlets. The bottom line is that Coach Megan Griffith is a winner and many anti-sports types in the Ivy League and elsewhere simply don’t like her because they are losers.
The NET ranking is based on efficiency. They moved up 2 critical NET spots by virtue of that win. Conversely, Princeton beats Brown by 12 points and dropped 8 massive spots. When Columbia WBB missed the tourney two years ago, it was because of an OT win against a bad Cornell team the last week of the season. Margins are massive for NET ranking.
You make an irrefutable point as to the significance of NET. For me, however, it’s nothing personal against the coach, her team or the toy department of life called sports. But this, in fact, is amateur sport and I believe one has to recognize when the competitive portion of an amateur sports event has come to an end. The score of the third period of Friday night’s game was 24-1 and the competitive portion of the event had clearly passed; no justification for maintaining full court defensive pressure during the final period; perhaps a good opportunity to work on a delay offense. Staying with the press demonstrated poor sportsmanship and allows bad karma to walk in and perhaps make it’s presence felt at the very next opportunity - I’d love to be proven wrong by what happens next!
Well, Harmoni Turner made only five of fourteen shots and I suppose you’d say they ended up giving YOU more than a little bit of trouble. But I refuse to blame you for not having any idea that could / would happen since you pointed me in the direction of the box score - what a revelation!