Dakota Showcase, Hancock, and Lynx

#1 posting 6.29.2006
Your Daily Dose of Girls Basketball News & Information

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
St. Mary's CA is on a nationwide search for it's new coach. They are looking for someone to replace Michelle Jacoby who was let go. The article is from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Greg Ulland has been named an assistant at North Dakota. He was an assistant at Mayville State last year. Here is the UND press release.

COACHING OPENINGS

TOURNAMENTS
DAKOTA SHOWCASE
The Dakota Showcase opens today and continues through Saturday with the finals scheduled at 6:20 at Augustana College in Sioux Falls. I plan on covering the later games Friday and the Saturday winners bracket. You will be able to find out what is happening by going to the website.
LONDON OPEN
UW Platteville has a couple of players representing the US in this tournament, and they have opened with a 3-0 record. Other UW system players are participating and the squad is coached by UW LaCrosse's Lois Hereen. Here is more from the UW Platteville press release.
12u Nationals
The AAU 12u nationals will kick off this weekend down in Kingston, TN. Erica Haugen's Suns will be headed down to the tournament. I have worked with the team for a couple of practices. Good luck to coach Haugen, as she returns to the Nationals as a coach this time, and the squad. Here is more on the 12u tournament from Kingsport Times-News.
Indigenous Games
Ruth Buffalo, coach at United Tribes CC will be wearing many hats at the Indigenous games in Colorado: player in the adult women's division and coach at the 13/14 division. Here is her story from the Bismarck Tribune.
PACESETTER
MORRIS
Hancock won the June 24 tournament with a 53-49 win over West Central
Here is the bracket scores
Quarterfinals
Staples-Motley 36, Hancock JV 19
Montevideo 40, Foley 28
Semifinals
West Central 39, Staples-Motley 28
Hancock 50, Montevideo 30 (Tara Thielke led Hancock with 18, and Bree Holleman added 12)
Consolation
Foley 31, Hancock JV 22
3rd place
Montevideo 32, Staples-Motley 28
Championship
Hancock 53, West Central 49 (Holleman 19, Thielke 16)

AAU ROSTERS

CALENDAR

SIGNINGS/VERBALS
Coach Gary Rufsvold of St. Catherine's has added 15 new players to its roster for next year. The list and their future are discussed in the St. Kate's press release.

VERBALS

ALL STAR CAMPS
MN
Here camp information for the MN Elite camp held July 25-28 at Concordia St. Paul

ALL STAR GAMES
MI
In the Blue Water Area All Star game the East topped the West 71-62. This article is from the New Baltimore paper the Voice.

SUMMER LEAGUES
MI
Here is what is happening in the St. Clair County CC Summer League. The Port Huron Times-Herald is your information source.
MN
Deer River SL: Bigfork had to cancel their match up with Grand Rapids due to player shortage.

A LOOK AT THE LYNX
vs Phoenix 6/28/2006

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %

MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Amber Jacobs 6, 10, 60.0, .300
Seimone Augustus 24, 20, 120.0, .600
Svetlana Abrosimova 7, 8, 87.5, .375
Timika Williams 8, 7, 114.3, .571
Nicole Ohlde 8, 7, 114.3, .571
BENCH
Vanessa Hayden 18, 17, 105.9, .588
Tynesha Lewis 4, 5, 80.0, .400
Megan Duffy 2, 1, 200.0, 1.000
Adrian Williams 1, 1, 100.0, 1.000
Team 0, 1, 0.0, .000 (24 second violation)

PHOENIX
STARTERS
Kelly Miller 17, 14, 121.4, .500
Cappie Pondexter 19, 16, 118.8, .438
Diana Taurasi 13, 14, 92.9, .500
Kirsten Rasmussen 2, 5, 40.0, .200
Kamila Vodichkova 14, 15, 93.3, .533
BENCH
Jennifer Lacy 4, 6, 66.7, .500
Belinda Snell 4, 3, 133.3, .667
Crystal Smith 8, 6, 133.3, .500

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 78, 78, 100.0, .513
Phoenix 81, 79, 102.5, .468

If you take a look at the floor % numbers you notice MN had a better ratio than Phoenix, yet Phoenix walked off the floor the winner. That is because they had 10 3 point plays--8 behind the arc, 1 free throw sequence of three, and one regular old fashioned three point play. MN managed to get two. Phoenix made 15 free throws on the day, 13 in the 4th quarter. MN made 12, 6 in the fourth quarter.
In every quarter Phoenix finished off the scoring. Taurasi scored on a rebound basket in the first quarter; Snell had a driving lay up to finish the second; Taurasi scored on a second shot in the third, and Pondexter stuck a dagger in the Lynx hearts with her 3 to break the tie. The Lynx had the lead when Phoenix nailed their shots at the end of the 2nd, and 3rd quarters.
Another sore spot was the second chance points. It was fairly close, but Phoenix had 15 to MNs 11 points. Phoenix had four chances to score on their first possession in the fourth quarter.

Thanks for all the help from the readers in getting me stories.

Next up: tomorrow morning with the general news of the day