Any notes from today's scrimmage?

CleteyColgate · Saturday at 1:05 PM

Interested

HawksGoneWild1 · Saturday at 1:46 PM

Best I have at the moment. Hopefully a box score comes later. However, since Skim never listed it on his scrimmage listings, we may not get one. If not, hope Tom or Kyle has more player details on it.

iThinkiWill · Saturday at 6:20 PM

Dani and McKenna were reported to have excelled according to sources

HawksGoneWild1 · Saturday at 7:22 PM

Posting this here in case I miss this interview maybe others will listen to see if JJ gives out any more nuggets on it.

HawksGoneWild1 · Saturday at 11:46 PM

Put all the Top 25 Rankings together after the portal shuffle and sorted them by average.
Basically a #9 Iowa vs #20 Ok St scrimmage match up today.
OK St was ranked in the Top 25 in all 7 listings. One listing had Ok St ranked above us.

	Ranking Site	ESPN	The IX Sports	Torvik	Hoops HQ	PostHer Hoops	Busting Brackets	The Athletic
#	Team (Rec) / Date	10/13/26	10/09/26	10/07/26	09/08/26	09/01/26	05/02/26	04/27/26	Avg
1	South Carolina (36-4)	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1.1
2	UConn (38-1)	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	1.9
3	USC (18-14)	3	4	3	4	5	5	3	3.9
4	Michigan (28-7)	5	5	7	5	4	4	4	4.9
5	Duke (27-9)	4	6	6	3	3	3	10	5.0
6	Louisville (29-8)	6	8	8	6	7	7	7	7.0
7	LSU (29-6)	8	10	5	10	6	10	6	7.9
8	Texas (35-4)	9	3	10	7	10	8	13	8.6
9	Iowa (27-7)	7	13	4	8	14	6	14	9.4
10	Vanderbilt (29-5)	11	9	13	12	9	11	8	10.4
11	UCLA (37-1)	13	7	11	11	15	13	12	11.7
12	UNC (28-8)	10	12	9	9	25	9	22	13.7
13	Notre Dame (25-11)	14	15	20	14	17	16	5	14.4
14	Kentucky (25-11)	15	14	17	19	8	17	19	15.6
15	Washington (22-11)	12	23	23	17	16	12	11	16.3
16	Minnesota (24-9)	16	20	24	18	12	19	9	16.9
17	Maryland (24-9)	18	11	19	21	11	21	18	17.0
18	TCU (32-6)	19	22	26	13	21	14	16	18.7
19	Ohio State (27-8)	17	26	12	20	18	18	24	19.3
20	Oklahoma St (24-10)	21	19	25	15	13	22	25	20.0
21	Oklahoma (26-8)	23	16	15	26	23	24	17	20.6
22	Illinois (22-12)	20	18	26	22	19	20	23	21.1
23	Ole Miss (24-11)	24	26	26	16	22	15	20	21.3
24	Nebraska (19-13)	26	21	16	24	26	26	15	22.0
25	Baylor (25-9)	26	26	14	26	26	26	26	24.3
26	NC St (21-11)	26	17	26	26	24	26	26	24.4
27	Arizona St (24-11)	22	26	26	23	26	23	26	24.6
28	West Virginia (28-7)	25	26	26	26	20	25	26	24.9
29	Tennessee (16-14)	26	26	18	26	26	26	26	24.9
30	Kansas (21-14)	26	24	26	26	26	26	21	25.0
31	Oregon (23-13)	26	26	21	26	26	26	26	25.3
32	Villanova (25-8)	26	26	22	26	26	26	26	25.4

*If a team did not make a list, I placed them at #26.

Matt1nb7 · 2026-10-18T07:48:03-0500

91hawki · 2026-10-18T12:31:36-0500

Adding a true perimeter scorer to take some pressure off Ava is what this team needed.
Can’t wait to see how this team does

Scott559 · 2026-10-19T09:04:36-0500

Hawkfan_08* · 2026-10-19T09:15:04-0500

Completely forgot about Crooks

Hawkangler · 2026-10-19T09:34:10-0500

Scott559 said:

Was Ava in foul trouble? Crooks gives her fits.

Scott559 · 2026-10-19T09:41:58-0500

Hawkangler said:
Was Ava in foul trouble? Crooks gives her fits.

Hard to know what transpired without seeing the game. Did Iowa double team or play straight up, Don’t know. Audi is a force down low that we do know. Audi with 25 and 8 pretty much hit her exact season average in points and rebounds from last season.

Matt1nb7 · 2026-10-19T10:54:19-0500

feros · 2026-10-19T10:57:20-0500

Hawkangler said:
Was Ava in foul trouble? Crooks gives her fits.

ava had 4 fouls

HawksGoneWild1 · 2026-10-19T11:00:14-0500

Scott559 said:

Wow! Those are close to CC type of #s against a ~Top 20 team. That's an intital great sign. I say this because I''m worried about Dani's 3-pt shooting against Top 50/25 teams. Last year she was down around Kylie's %. This is only one game but a positive in the right direction. 42% from 3 is close Chit-Chat on 3s. Hopefully she keeps this up.

McW is as advertised if not better. Never expected those #s until the end of the season, not her initial game. You'd think we were playing a creampuff with that stat line.

The one weak spot which we all knew could be a potential thorn in our side is defense. 2 guards with 20+ pts says some work is needed in this area yet. I was worried about this because Whiting's defensive stats did not equate to Kylie. Iirc, Whiting was closer to McCabe than Kylie in D stats on Torvik.

However, it sounds like McW is not far behind Hannah in D but her offense looks like it could make up for it. 19 pts and 50% on 3s that's going to be a killer to defend along with Heiden, Dani and Chit-Chat. We really need the 3 spot player to zero in on lock down D and we're going places.

This is a great sign we make it past the R32 and E8 is not out of the possibility. We need that 3 spot to get closer to Kylie than McCabe on D and E8 is looking better.

Realize this is only one game but the markers are there to be better than last year plus some.

EDIT: Just noticed Whiting came off the bench from another post. Expected Strem would take the bench (we know her) and we'd find out what Whiting had from the opening tip. However, I have no idea who started in that 3 spot between Journey, Whiting & Strem. Maybe Journey got a start to see how she handles it? Most likely Strem and Whiting is a known there, while Journey is taking a new position/role from last year.

Jonesy5960 · 2026-10-19T12:01:05-0500

13 rebounds from our 2 guard. Is that good?

Just a reminder that our 2 guard from last year averaged 1.5 rebounds and 5 ppg on 33% from the field in conference play.

Scott559 · 2026-10-19T12:05:45-0500

HawksGoneWild1 said:
Wow! Those are close to CC type of #s against a ~Top 20 team. That's an intital great sign. I say this because I''m worried about Dani's 3-pt shooting against Top 50/25 teams. Last year she was down around Kylie's %. This is only one game but a positive in the right direction. 42% from 3 is close Chit-Chat on 3s. Hopefully she keeps this up.

McW is as advertised if not better. Never expected those #s until the end of the season, not her initial game. You'd think we were playing a creampuff with that stat line.

The one weak spot which we all knew could be a potential thorn in our side is defense. 2 guards with 20+ pts says some work is needed in this area yet. I was worried about this because Whiting's defensive stats did not equate to Kylie. Iirc, Whiting was closer to McCabe than Kylie in D stats on Torvik.

However, it sounds like McW is not far behind Hannah in D but her offense looks like it could make up for it. 19 pts and 50% on 3s that's going to be a killer to defend along with Heiden, Dani and Chit-Chat. We really need the 3 spot player to zero in on lock down D and we're going places.

This is a great sign we make it past the R32 and E8 is not out of the possibility. We need that 3 spot to get closer to Kylie than McCabe on D and E8 is looking better.

Realize this is only one game but the markers are there to be better than last year plus some.

EDIT: Just noticed Whiting came off the bench from another post. Expected Strem would take the bench (we know her) and we'd find out what Whiting had from the opening tip. However, I have no idea who started in that 3 spot between Journey, Whiting & Strem. Maybe Journey got a start to see how she handles it? Most likely Strem and Whiting is a known there, while Journey is taking a new position/role from last year.

Strem started at the 3. That is an insane stat line from Dani. Oklahoma State has built a really nice roster. McGill is a damn good player. Much like Ava is going to open things up for Iowa’s perimeter players Audi is going to do the same for OSU.

QChawks · 2026-10-19T12:13:33-0500

Jonesy5960 said:
13 rebounds from our 2 guard. Is that good?

Not bad

UpstreamHawkeye · 2026-10-19T12:44:44-0500

What were Carnegie's stats vs Virginia in last season's NCAA first round game? I was actually in Carver for that game but certainly wasn't paying attention to her play then.

Jonesy5960 · 2026-10-19T12:51:42-0500

So it seems the only remaining question is "Can they play some defense?" because it doesn't look like scoring is going to be a problem.

BTW, I accidentally came across Anon's X account while browsing the scrimmage comments. Total psycho that guy.

Matt1nb7 · 2026-10-19T12:59:34-0500

UpstreamHawkeye said:
What were Carnegie's stats vs Virginia in last season's NCAA first round game? I was actually in Carver for that game but certainly wasn't paying attention to her play then.

8 points
3 rebounds
5 assists
3-13 fg (0-7 3pt)
1 turnover

mphawk · 2026-10-19T13:01:38-0500

UpstreamHawkeye said:
What were Carnegie's stats vs Virginia in last season's NCAA first round game? I was actually in Carver for that game but certainly wasn't paying attention to her play then.

I was too and don't remember noticing her. I guess everyone can have an off day. Per the box score, she played 43 minutes, shot 3-13 from the field, 0-7 on 3-pointers and 2-2 from the line for 8 total points.

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