Women's basketball under Adia Barnes

prh · Post by **prh** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:27 pm

Figured they deserve a new thread. Stumbled upon this, sounds like they're making progress in turning things around.

http://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcat ... a0bac.html" target="_blank

(P.S. if anyone has a clever thread title, please share!)

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 8:23 am

Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 5:10 pm

Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.

I don't know how Butts lasted more than four years here. Sounds like there wasn't much team chemistry. Look at how many players left the program over the last eight years.

qwertyus · Post by **qwertyus** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 1:38 pm

Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.

You ain't wrong. Heck, I care more about Women's soccer, and I don't care about that either!

az91 · Post by **az91** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 2:39 pm

Irish27 wrote:
Merkin wrote:Should have happened a long time ago. Butts never should have been hired in the first place. Never a HC. At least Ben Lindsey was a HC at some level. Interesting how Barnes will work out too.

AD and the UA fanbase just didn't care about UA WBB.
I don't know how Butts lasted more than four years here. Sounds like there wasn't much team chemistry. Look at how many players left the program over the last eight years.

I don't think they wanted to pay the money to get someone better than Butts. What was once a respectable if not great program went down the drain while Butts lingered on as coach.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:16 pm

Whose the woman in the dress? Hot!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:27 pm

Merkin wrote:Whose the woman in the dress? Hot!

Rosalyn Gold Onwude I believe.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:31 pm

Yum.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:51 am

Nice start to the year. 6-1

az91 · Post by **az91** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:16 pm

Is she gone for Udub?

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:37 pm

az91 wrote:Is she gone for Udub?

Just because she coached there doesn't mean she would leave. I doubt she would leave her alma mater.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:46 pm

Adia doing work. Highest rated recruit ever signed by UA women's basketball:

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:50 pm

Wow #12 in the ESPN rankings

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:46 pm

Adia does it again. She is building this program as fast as Lute did.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:45 pm

Where is Paola Boivan when you need her? The recruiting gap is closing. She was finally right

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:46 pm

Can RichRod hire her as a recruiter?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:11 pm

Merkin wrote:Can RichRod hire her as a recruiter?

I'm at the point where I'd hire her to be the football coach.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:40 am

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketbal ... hce-tucson" target="_blank

prh · Post by **prh** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 1:34 pm

ghostwhitehorse wrote:https://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketbal ... hce-tucson

Thanks ghost, that was a really cool article.

Barnes actually recruited Plum to Washington when she was an assistant there, and now is trying to use the San Diego native as an example for her current team at Arizona.

“I remind our players that she wasn’t a top-10 kid coming out of high school,” Barnes said. “She was a top-30, top-40 kid. No one would have thought that she would’ve been the first draft pick. No one thought she would’ve broken all the records. No one would’ve thought that at all. But her work ethic, her determination, her mentality set her apart.

“So I’m bringing in pieces like that to change the culture here like Kelsey Plum did at Washington.”

The turnaround in our program makes a lot more sense after that snippet from the article.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:23 am

Adia gets a commit from 5-star center Semaj Smith. Adia is really turning things around. https://www.azdesertswarm.com/recruitin ... 2018-class" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:45 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:56 pm

How much do we pay women's hoops recruits?

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:16 am

Got to stop the culture of losing though.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:34 am

From someone who has seen the girls on this team multiple times: "The only Division I talent they have currently roster are redshirting due to transfer or are freshmen, next year will be a lot different."

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 2:35 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Nov 18, 2018 5:33 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Dec 05, 2018 11:23 am

What a huge heads up play.

This team might be fun to watch too.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:49 pm

They just exceeded their win total from all of last year. I’d say the turnaround is underway.

prh · Post by **prh** » Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:58 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:48 pm

This team is talented and young. Barnes has this program rising fast. What is crazy is next year's incoming freshmen are all from outside the United States.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 5:44 pm

The ladies are playing ASSu right now on the network.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:01 pm

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:50 pm

So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:58 pm

The Cats upset the 17th ranked Devils 51-39.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:58 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:59 pm

RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?

Up to now they haven't played anybody.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 6:59 pm

Big win!

Fuck ASU.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:00 pm

Fuck Yeah!

ByJoveByJingle · Post by **ByJoveByJingle** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:02 pm

Nice! Way to go, ladies.

Crowd was impressive, too.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:04 pm

The ladies have nicer unis than the guys.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:10 pm

azgreg wrote:
RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
Up to now they haven't played anybody.

Yeah well it looks to like when A$$U played 'somebody', they lost. Badly.

Who cares... 'under the radar' and all that, amirite?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:23 pm

RichardCranium wrote:
azgreg wrote:
RichardCranium wrote:So why isn't UWWBB ranked already?
Up to now they haven't played anybody.
Yeah well it looks to like when A$$U played 'somebody', they lost. Badly.

Who cares... 'under the radar' and all that, amirite?

It's clear Barnes has this program going in the right direction. They're playing great. However, coming off 7 straight losing seasons it's no wonder they weren't ranked. That won't last long.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:26 pm

azgreg wrote:The ladies have nicer unis than the guys.

No kidding. C'mon Nike.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:54 pm

Keep on keepin’ on ladies!

prh · Post by **prh** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:56 pm

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 8:05 am

Big game today against #6 Stanford at McKale. Looking forward to watching the lady cats keep rolling

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:30 pm

Bit of a setback today, but Stanford was always going to be a very tough game.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:54 pm

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:07 pm

Blown out in 4 of the last 5 games

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:05 pm

azgreg wrote:

Um... somebody at AZDS doesn't know how to spell New Zealand even when it is staring him/her in the face.

Edit: she is a Kiwi, but went to school in Oz. She plays for the New Zealand under 18 national team. So are guys who are born overseas, but go to school in the USA, considered Americans? Guys like, Ayton or Bol-Bol, or countless others?

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