Passion, Photos, Rookie Rankings

#3 posting 7.15.2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

MORE TOURNEY RESULTS
Here is the story in the Omaha World Herald about the championship game in the Miss Basketball Showcase between the Missouri Valley Eclipse and the Nebraska Twisters. The Eclipse won 56-48 thanks in part to a 21-0 run during a 16 minute drought.

PLAYING WITH PASSION
The opening paragraph of the story on Alonzo Mourning in the Miami Herald talks about passion. For some reason joy doesn't get the same love as anger.
Speaking of which I am looking for players that have that joie de vivre. I don't see it that much. What I see is the trudging off to work a la Metropolis in many games.

ROOKIE RANKINGS
Rethinking Basketball ranks the current crop of WNBA rookies. Lynxster Candice Wiggins comes off well.

WHO TO CHEER FOR?
Two former Gophers match up tonight at 6 pm on ESPN2--Lindsay Whalen of Connecticut vs Janel McCarville of New York.

18U NATIONAL TEAM
Marquette coach Terri Mitchell posts her second blog on her experience with the 18u National team.

SUMMER VACATION
Iowa Hawkeye Lindsey Nyenhuis is interning in Hollywood.

COACHING NEWS
Buena Vista has added Julie Hergenroder as an assistant women's basketball coach. Hergenroder is from Alden, NY.

MORE ACADEMICS
North Dakota was #14 in D2 Academics according to the WBCA.

North Dakota State was #18 in D1 Academics.

New Mexico was #22 in D1 Academics.

OLD PHOTOS
Here is a photo of a girls basketball team circa 1906 or 08 from Dundee, Minnesota (From Nobles County for those unfamiliar with Dundee's location).

SCHEDULE
The College of St. Scholastica has released their 2008-09 schedule.

Next up: later today with a summer league Out & About