IUP Women's Basketball | 2019-20

[IUPbigINDIANS]

What a revenge win !!

[gman16506]

My guess is they are going to have a hard time keeping her in Indiana.

Sounds like the type of player that goes Division One and doesn't look back.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I went to the Heritage Conference finals last night at the KCAC. First thing to point out is the place was packed with well over 3,000 people. Biggest crowd I’ve seen in the building for basketball this year. For the first time I saw Ava Persichetti play for River Valley. All I knew about her prior was what I read in the papers. She’s only a sophomore, but IUP shouldn’t have let her out of the building. The kid took over the game out of the gate and even though they basically doubled her in the second half to take her away, she still found a way to rise to the occasion and put the game away late. She’s also excellent defensively. In the second half she took over guarding Homer Center’s 1,500+ points scorer and it was pretty much lights out. That was senior versus sophomore.

Not only is she lightning quick, she has great hands, can shoot from anywhere, and plays with a type of swagger you don’t see as much on the women’s side. I recognize she’s at a AA school and not playing top competition every night, but at her age and what she’s already doing, she’s looking like one of the best girl’s players I’ve seen around here in quite some time. I walked away very impressed.

By the way, if you think officiating the PSAC is bad, high school games will make you want to throw up. If the girls game wasn’t bad enough, the boys game was a disaster, but at least it was equally bad for both teams.

My guess is they are going to have a hard time keeping her in Indiana.

[EyeoftheHawk]

I went to the Heritage Conference finals last night at the KCAC. First thing to point out is the place was packed with well over 3,000 people. Biggest crowd I’ve seen in the building for basketball this year. For the first time I saw Ava Persichetti play for River Valley. All I knew about her prior was what I read in the papers. She’s only a sophomore, but IUP shouldn’t have let her out of the building. The kid took over the game out of the gate and even though they basically doubled her in the second half to take her away, she still found a way to rise to the occasion and put the game away late. She’s also excellent defensively. In the second half she took over guarding Homer Center’s 1,500+ points scorer and it was pretty much lights out. That was senior versus sophomore.

Not only is she lightning quick, she has great hands, can shoot from anywhere, and plays with a type of swagger you don’t see as much on the women’s side. I recognize she’s at a AA school and not playing top competition every night, but at her age and what she’s already doing, she’s looking like one of the best girl’s players I’ve seen around here in quite some time. I walked away very impressed.

By the way, if you think officiating the PSAC is bad, high school games will make you want to throw up. If the girls game wasn’t bad enough, the boys game was a disaster, but at least it was equally bad for both teams.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Nice revenge win for the ladies tonight. They are on a roll all the sudden.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Maybe she read the board. Such an odd team to figure out.

Cardona is one of the best 'bigs' in the league. They just need to keep feeding her the ball and running plays for her to shoot from deep.

IUP's starting five last night scored 79 of their 82 points. That's crazy.

They looked great yesterday minus the first five minutes. They need to get a little payback tomorrow. That was a really big win for them. Mercyhurst beat them up the first time so to win by 18 up there was pretty impressive.

[EyeoftheHawk]

Cardona gone cray

Maybe she read the board. Such an odd team to figure out.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Mercyhurst announcers are very good.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Cardona gone cray

[EyeoftheHawk]

If Cerro was smart she'd be on the first bus out of town. They'll be even worse next year.

It’s hard to figure the top 2-3 issues because there are about 10 to pick from. I didn’t mean to imply in my earlier post praising Cerro that the others weren’t trying. I think most are, but there are a few that seem disengaged. I saw on more than one occasion where a player chirped back at Carey, and that’s just not acceptable. It tells me things in the room are a mess, at least for some. The assistant coaches barely move during the game so it makes you wonder what’s going on with that.

You saw none of that with Gannon. In fact, even with the big lead the HC didn’t let up on his players when they missed an assignment. He lit up the one girl early in the second half when she left Baughman open for a three. The kid didn’t hang her head and when she left the court she was fist bumping him on the way off the floor. The women really seem to like playing for him and they looked like a well-oiled machine. I don’t think the right pieces are in Indiana to compete with teams like that and it may be a bit before they get here.

And what’s with IUP passing up open looks and instead driving into traffic? They must have done that 20 times. It was all very odd.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

There is a reason why Gannon brought Clev back for a second go around to coach after his YSU run.

I said it weeks ago that IUP needs an overall and if it was me, Cerro is the only player that stays.

If Cerro was smart she'd be on the first bus out of town. They'll be even worse next year.

[gman16506]

There is a reason why Gannon brought Clev back for a second go around to coach after his YSU run.

I said it weeks ago that IUP needs an overall and if it was me, Cerro is the only player that stays.

No big, but I think Wright went to Miami (Ohio) when he left Gannon.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

They have two players.

That's the story.

[EyeoftheHawk]

There is a reason why Gannon brought Clev back for a second go around to coach after his YSU run.

I said it weeks ago that IUP needs an overall and if it was me, Cerro is the only player that stays.

Hard to argue with that.

[IUPalum]

There is a reason why Gannon brought Clev back for a second go around to coach after his YSU run.

I said it weeks ago that IUP needs an overall and if it was me, Cerro is the only player that stays.