2020-2021 season

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Cats are a top-5 team. Guess if the men's program goes on probation, the women will be the team to watrch.
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Adia Barnes is going to have so many options in the backcourt. McDonald and Pellington in the backcourt together will be explosive.
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So glad Aari made the right decision. :)
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Who would have thought Adia would wake up the sleeping giant that is AZ women’s basketball. Who knew the next Sean Elliott would be in a mighty mite package. So exciting. I do hope She realizes all her dreams as coming back is more of a function of the disparity of pay between the men’s and women’s game as anything else. We the fans benefit for sure
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It's long past time to bring this back to the court, let's do it with a small update:

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Damn I hope the women can play next year. Looks like an even more special season is ahead.
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AZCatGirl wrote:Damn I hope the women can play next year. Looks like an even more special season is ahead.
Adia didn’t come to fuck around.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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I wouldn't count on there being a season next year sadly.
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.

i'll just go with fuck asu.
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First commit for the 2021 class. http://allsportstucson.com/2020/04/20/a ... hats-home/" target="_blank
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Chicat wrote:
I really hope we have a season since this may be the best team the women have ever had
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.

i'll just go with fuck asu.
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Nothing shows for me, could someone either summarize or drop a link to the actual tweet?
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prh wrote:Nothing shows for me, could someone either summarize or drop a link to the actual tweet?
He has Arizona 4th.
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prh wrote:Nothing shows for me, could someone either summarize or drop a link to the actual tweet?
He has Arizona 4th.
I meant I literally don't see anything, so I assumed it's a tweet. So...who is "he" and is that 4th in the country?
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prh wrote:
azgreg wrote:
prh wrote:Nothing shows for me, could someone either summarize or drop a link to the actual tweet?
He has Arizona 4th.
I meant I literally don't see anything, so I assumed it's a tweet. So...who is "he" and is that 4th in the country?
Matt Ward

Publishing his top-25 on CBS on Monday.

He’s got Arizona 4th behind South Carolina, UCONN, and Stanford, and ahead of Baylor.
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Awesome thanks guys. Really hoping for next season to be played.
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now to see if the women's team will get to actually play any games in the next couple years
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Sounds like there could be another commitment.
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#8 dang have we ever been ranked that high
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Huge news, Bendu Yeaney has been given immediate eligibility. She also has been given an extra year. She now has two years of eligibility instead of one.
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Welcome to 2020.....

Coach of a top 10 team begging for team to play via twitter.....
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Alieberman wrote: Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:19 pm Welcome to 2020.....

Coach of a top 10 team begging for team to play via twitter.....
Isn't this kinda what we're paying Heeke to handle?
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prh wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:05 pm
Alieberman wrote: Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:19 pm Welcome to 2020.....

Coach of a top 10 team begging for team to play via twitter.....
Isn't this kinda what we're paying Heeke to handle?
Ostensibly yes, but maybe it’s for the best to keep him busy with crossword puzzles or whatever he does to occupy his time.
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They should schedule some Div III or NAIA men's teams to play.
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Adia did a Zoom speaking engagement with my company’s woman’s network and I listened in.

She’s a superwoman. Now she’s doing Heeke’s job too.
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84Cat wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:27 pm
Seven of the last nine are on the road. Who made up the conference schedules...Tara VanDerveer?
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2-0.

I so wish covid didn't exist. McKale woulda been fucking loud for yesterday's game
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First of all, a big congrats to the women. Ranked in the Top Ten themselves, and they pick up a win over a top ten UCLA team, absent our normal home court advantage. I was out and about on Friday night, so I listened to the game on radio on the way home, where I was finally able to catch the last 5 minutes or so on TV. The Arizona radio PbP guy, Derrick Palmer, was extremely outspoken about the officiating, which is a problem in every sport in the Pac-12. He was going nuts about the one-sided calls. I didn't really notice anything egregious once I got home, but if anybody watched the whole game, I'd be curious on what that situation looked like. (Meanwhile, I bumped into a couple of the UCLA gals at the Starbucks on University on Saturday, so I wished them good luck in their game today at ASU.)
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Okay, never mind about Palmer's view of officiating, as that appears to be his style. Here are some statistics in the early going (not including the USC game.) 6-5 Freshman Lauren Ware is an early contributor.

G Aari McDonald 5-6 SR 17.5 PPG .267 3% .625 FT% 5.5 RPG 13 A/7 TO 8 STL
F Trinity Baptiste 6-0 SR 15.0 PPG .400 3% .667 FT% 7.0 RPG 2 A/4 TO 3 BLK
F Cate Reese 6-2 JR 13.0 PPG .000 3% .750 FT% 9.0 RPG 1 A/ 1 TO 0 BLK
G Shaina Pellington 5-8 RS JR 7.5 PPG .000 3% .500 FT% 1.5 RPG 0 A/ 1 TO 0 STL
F Sam Thomas 6-0 SR 6.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 3.0 RPG 4 A/0 TO 2 BLK
F Lauren Ware 6-5 FR 6.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 5.0 RPG 0 A/1 TO 1 BLK
G Bendu Yeany 5-10 JR 5.5 PPG .500 3% .333 FT% 5.5 RPG 5 A/4 TO 3 BLK
G Helena Pueyo 6-0 SO 1.5 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 1.0 RPG 3 A/2 TO 3 STL
G Derin Erdogan 5-6 FR 0.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 2.0 RPG 0 A/1 TO 0 STL
F Marta Garcia 6-3 FR 0.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 3.0 RPG 0 A/0 TO 0 BLK
G Tara Manumaleauga 5-10 SO 0.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 1.0 RPG 0 A/1 TO 1 BLK
G Mara Mote 5-11 SO 0.0 PPG .000 3 % .000 FT% 0.0 RPG 0 A/1 TO 0 STL
C Semaj Smith 6-6 JR 0.0 PPG .000 3% .000 FT% 2.0 RPG 1 A/0 TO 1 BLK
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Lauren Ware is the inside presence that this team needed.
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Highest ranking ever this week @ #6
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I just keep finding myself wishing we were in a normal year. McKale would be rocking every night for this team
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Nice Road Win At Colorado

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The Cats got off to a slow shooting start on the road, and Colorado jumped out to an early lead, before Arizona chipped away at it and eventually took the lead. Colorado was banging and grabbing like mad and kind of banking on the refs assigned to their home court not calling all of it, which was a good guess. Conversely, at a few key moments down the stretch with Arizona clinging to a narrow lead, the Buffalo women got some phantom/gift calls to shoot nice easy free throws to fuel their comeback. Fortunately, it worked out and the gals got out of Boulder with the win. Hopefully they can complete the mountain schools sweep at SLC on Sunday.
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Well if I ten right we lost at CU last year. I think this team is on a good trajectory abd should be peaking at the right time
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azcat49 wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:53 am Well if I ten right we lost at CU last year. I think this team is on a good trajectory abd should be peaking at the right time
They did lose at CU last year - I was there. Aari didn't play and Kate had a horrible game which was later attributed to her diabetes.
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Mountain Road Sweep

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#6 Cats dismantle Utah to complete the sweep and go 6-0. Next up, a Wednesday tussle with Idaho at McKale, followed by the Bay Area schools after the break. I've got to believe the New Year's Day game against #1 Stanford (rematch of our win last year at McKale) will at least be on Pac-12 Network.
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Is it March yet? This team gives me the same feeling as some of the men's teams that had a good run in the tournament.
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