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02-13-23 08:36 PM - Post#351567
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https://www.thenexthoops.com/ncaaw/mid-majors/colu ...
The story above explains what happened to Sienna Durr, but suggests she is coming around.
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02-14-23 11:36 AM - Post#351591
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Terrific article--thanks for posting. Sienna Durr has been a huge contributor to the success of the Columbia Women's Basketball Program under Coach Megan Griffith. She is a very talented athlete and a fierce competitor.
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Chet Forte
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02-14-23 11:50 AM - Post#351592
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I think she is an excellent player and frankly am puzzled as to why she is still not starting. But I do admire her team first attitude. Compare her attitude to the decision of the captain of the football team a few years ago who quit the team when he was beaten out for the starting position by Joe Green. He could have stayed as a valuable reserve/wildcat option but decided to leave the program.
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02-17-23 10:14 PM - Post#351825
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Great win over Harvard tonight… 75-70. Hsu was red hot… 6 for 10 from beyond the arc. Abbey did her Buck Jenkins impersonation, scoring 35 for the game.
The Crimson made a surge late, netting 33 points in the 4th quarter with just about every shot going down, but the Lions held on.
Wow. The bus ride to Hanover should be fun.
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02-17-23 10:39 PM - Post#351835
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And the game itself much easier.
Edited by cc66 on 02-17-23 10:40 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Chet Forte
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02-18-23 09:46 AM - Post#351874
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Anybody see the MBB game? If you saw the AD website you might have guessed that we won but of course another crash landing.
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02-18-23 02:03 PM - Post#351897
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I doubt many people were watching from home because what happened was exactly the same as before. Columbia's guards, in this case really only Geronimo de la Rosa, kept us in the game for awhile, but our opponent, in this case, Harvard, could score at will inside the paint, and dominate us on the boards. Once again, it was obvious that Engles for the sixth straight season had screwed up things from the start and had misled Columbia's tiny little fanbase into thinking we might be competitive during the Ivy League season. In prior years, the story was that Coach Smith had left poor little Engles a bare cupboard, and there were unanticipated injuries, player defections, or whatever. Hoever, it has become evident the last two months, that this time around Engles simply failed to tell us that he had forgotten to recruit any skilled big man who could rebound. Not only that, but the one talented rebounder he had, Patrick Harding left the program,followed shortly thereafter by the news that a back-up center had also departed. Those tiny coaching omissions have made it impossible for the Lions to be competitive for still another year. Of course, Engles won't admit that and will laugh at all of us because now he can make the argument is that Columbia still has to give him another year so his new recruits can join the team and correct the problem. By now, I believe that everyone except possibly Pilling realizes that we have been conned.
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02-18-23 03:06 PM - Post#351900
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I listened to his post game interview—his contention is that we defended the first shot well but are not yet strong enough to rebound effectively. That of course will lead to the argument that a year in the weight room plus an incoming recruit or two will turn things around. Pilling will probably buy it. I hare being so negative because Engles seems to be a genuinely nice man who should be able to do better in recruiting a competitive team.
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02-18-23 03:18 PM - Post#351903
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Joe Jones was 86 and 108 after 7 seasons and was still apparently pressured into taking a job as an assistant supposedly because of his failure ever to win more than 16 games in a season.
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02-18-23 06:00 PM - Post#351919
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Columbia Women are leading Dartmouth 44-21 at halftime. Coach Griffith is trying some new things out. Hey Chet, you need to stop calling Engles a "nice man." His personality is not an issue here, and he has supervised the destruction of a winning program. There is no excuse for allowing Engles to destroy te program and the athletic director's job is to win a personality contest, but to make certain Columbia's players have competent coaches--see Al Bagnoli and staff, Brett Boretti and staff, Jim Bolster, Tonelli, etc., etc.
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02-18-23 07:13 PM - Post#351925
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Fair point
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PeteD
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02-19-23 12:05 AM - Post#352044
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Standings after today's 80-38 win over Dartmouth.
Columbia 10-2
Princeton 10-2
Penn 8-4
Harvard 8-4
Yale 5-7
Brown 4-8
Cornell 3-9
Dartmouth 0-12
Penn's loss to Brown today significantly helped Columbia's chances of getting the #1 seed because Princeton would win the tie-breaker if Penn finishes in sole possession of 3rd place.
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02-19-23 11:06 PM - Post#352172
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I am surprised by Penn's lose to Brown. What happened? Columbia plays Brown next.
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02-20-23 10:41 AM - Post#352179
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Brown showed a 2/3 zone that Penn could not figure out and in general played with a lot more energy. Penn came out flat footed in the second half and Brown erased the 12 pt halftime deficit pretty easily. Brown looked the more confident aggressive team and as Penn's lead slipped away the Quakers had zero answers for Brown's speed and energy.
On a side not, the refs really swallowed their whistles and before Penn started desperation fouling in the final 2:00 the teams had combined to take 2 FTs the whole game (Penn finished with 0 FTs).
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02-20-23 05:05 PM - Post#352214
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Thanks for the info. I just watched segments of the replay of the Brown game on ESPN and agree with your observations. I was also very impressed with the play of Brown's two freshman guards who I believe were the top scorers in the game.
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02-20-23 05:19 PM - Post#352215
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Yes, Arnolie and Moreland played great. Arnolie is a very good shooter, she's going to score a lot of points in her career and Moreland looks like a Swiss army knife type wing who shows flashes of very good athleticism. Coach Leblanc has gone all in with the team's youth and you're seeing clear signs of a brighter future for Brown.
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02-20-23 08:18 PM - Post#352231
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Coach LeBlanc now has a win over an Ivy League Tournament Team which makes her recruiting in the off-season that much easier.
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02-25-23 12:42 AM - Post#352466
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Princeton women just barely got by Harvard 51-47 at Princeton tonight. Harvard led Princeton for most of the game, but failed to execute late in the fourth quarter.
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02-25-23 02:36 AM - Post#352469
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Princeton's had a lot of trouble with Harvard the past two seasons... I hope Griffith can figure out what the Crimson has been doing right and put that knowledge to good use against the Tigers in a couple weeks.
Meanwhile... Abigail Hsu continues to climb the leaderboards.
Career 3-Pt Field Goals (Ivy League):
1. Katie Benzan (Harvard) 287
T2. Courtney Banghart (Dartmouth) 273
T2. Jeannie Cullen (Dartmouth) 273
4. Abbey Hsu (Columbia) 263
Career Points Scored (Columbia)
1. Camille Zimmerman 1,973
2. Ula Lysniak 1,447
3. Abbey Hsu 1,364
I'm expecting a big game from Abbey today in Providence.
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02-25-23 09:10 AM - Post#352475
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Agreed--Neither Princeton nor Harvard played very last night, and the game was more about Harvard losing to Princeton than Princeton defeating Harvard. Obviously, Princeton has its share of problems on the court this season and Harvard exploited those issues for about 80% of the game before handing the game over to Princeton. It would be interesting to see Columbia's scouting report for last night's game as there were some glaring weaknesses on display--advantage Columbia and Penn
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