Women's Hoops Blog

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Wisconsin-Green Bay has been pretty good for a while-- they make the Big Dance, and last year nearly beat Minnesota.

In fact, they've been good enough that head coach Kevin Borseth got offered a Big XII job, which he turned down, saying he'd stay in Green Bay until he retired.

This year his team already has three losses, including a blowout at Indiana State; they needed overtime to beat Northern Illinois.

Last night they couldn't keep up with DePaul at DePaul. The Blue Demons led by 25 at the half. The loss is no surprise, but the blowout might be: the Phoenix couldn't remotely compete on the boards.

UWGB lost (to graduation) Tiffany Mor, a real post who could shoot lots of threes, but still has scorer Nicole Soulis. Is this a down year for them? How far down will it be?

DePaul needed the win after this week's loss to unranked USF. Their rebounding prowess comes largely from Khara Smith, whose dad played for the NBA Clippers: she talks about him in the Chicago Sun-Times.