Miami Women at Toledo Wednesday

7:00 on ESPN+. Skin 66 will be there. Of course Toledo just had 6,527 fans for the BG at Toledo rivalry game on Saturday. So I figure their crowd against Skin 66, it should be about even. Toledo of course has been a great program with great support for a long time. After losing in the NIT third round and saying good by to two 5 years starters who each earned a MAC POY award, their long time Coach said good by herself and went to Miami F as head coach.

Toledo hired Ginny Boggess who was at Monmouth as head coach the last 3 seasons and won 20 the last two years and had an NCAA appearance. She was an assistant for 6 D-1 teams, including Marquette and Penn State. Her team is mostly 5 girls in their 5th year and 7 freshmen. So far they are 13-5 (5-3), just a game ahead of Miami 11-7 (4-3).

Key players include 5-10 GS Sammi Mikonowicz who leads the team in scoring 12.5 and rebounds 5.8 .5-9 GS Khera Goss averages 12.3 and is a 50% shooter from the floor and 40% from behind the arc. 5-7 sopomore Kendall Carruthers averages 10.9. They have 3 girls who have been sharing the Center position for the last 4 years. 6-5 GS Hannah Novaroski was averaging 7 points and 5 rebounds but has been injured for about a month. 6-2 Jess Cook averages 4 points and 3 rebounds. 6-0 Nan Garcia averages 7 points and 4 rebounds. All 3 Centers are very strong. Toledo also runs in 4 or 5 freshmen every game.
Toledo has beaten Kent, but lost to Western and NIU, so with all their young girls they have been a little up and down. We certainly have enough talent that we could beat them, but better play a very strong game if we intend to do it.

It would be even if it was just me, but with the addition of my wife it will be no contest.

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14-9 Toledo at the first TO. We do not have a single rebound yet, and Box took out Amber, Ilse, and Enjulina quickly. UT hit 3 threes already.

22 to 12 Toledo. Our defense has been poor, especially Ilse. We are not boxing out . Offense has been one on one by Singer and Gonzalez. Not good.

Rebounds are 18-6 . Tretter gets third foul.

28-17 Toledo half way through the second. Tretter with 3 fouls in 6 minutes of action. Toledo is shooting 50%.

As much as we have improved there is a clear gap between us and the top teams in the league.

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Getting killed on the boards in the defensive end…3,4 and 5 extra chances for the Rockets on shots in the paint…

Down by as many as 18 we cut it to 11 at the half.

We have been out of position defensively most of the night. Tretter is on the bench because of her making ticky tack fouls…Again. Ilse was totally lost and out of position. I don’t know if Coach will put her in again. We played the last 5 minutes with Richason as the only big and it was better, but Edwards is too slow to stay with the faster Rockets. Down 11 at halftime. Anjulina has 11 and has been our only real threat. Until the last 3 minutes, this was as bad as we have played, IMO. Chandler and Singer with 5 each.

Man, there are a thousand screaming kids here.

We are getting killed on the boards. No offense from a post player at all. So I guess we need a post or two to compete w the top of the league. I do like the intensity of our guards.

Well, we are playing better on defense. When we went to one big girl instead of two we have done better. Katey played better and Amber looks better since replacing her. Down 10 halfway through the third.

Nice close down the stretch in Q3. Down 3 at the start of Q4.

Better D. Would like to see us hit a three. Good coaching. We are behind our bench. All the players are involved.

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Great third quarter and we are down 48-45 at the end of three. Singer with 14 on all layups and free throws, Gonzalez with 15. Toledo got some rest while with some subs while we were working hard to get back into the game. We will see how this plays out. Anyway, we played well in quarter 3.

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This coach and staff are excellent. With a few more horses they will win the MAC. Prolly within two years. Then, they are gone to somewhere better. And that’s ok as they will have made us better.

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We are tied at 55 with 5 minutes to go, Toledo going to the line for two.

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We are down 1 with 1:28 to go. our ball out of bounds.

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And we lose 64-59.UT executed a little better than we did at the end.