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Dogs lose close one to CU

4Bulldogs — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:08:18 GMT

Plummer's Three Flies Wide, Drake Falls, 65-62, To Creighton

Thanks to seniors Jordann and Monique for choosing Drake!

Drake beats Evansville

4Bulldogs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:48:48 GMT

Fast break helps Bulldogs win tournament opener , 73-62

Up next, #2 CU at 6:30.

Let's go DRAKE!!

MVC tournament 7th seed

4Bulldogs — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:54:49 GMT

Drake Seeded Seventh At State Farm MVC Tournament

03/08/2010 - Women's Basketball
DES MOINES, IOWA -- The Drake University women's basketball team finished the regular season with a 14-14 overall record and a 7-11 Missouri Valley Conference record and will be the seven seed in this week's State Farm MVC Women's Basketball Tournament. The Bulldogs will take on Evansville, which is seeded 10th, in an 8:30 p.m. matchup on Thursday.

Jordann Plummer All-MVC 2nd team

4Bulldogs — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:58:36 GMT

Congrats to Jordann, the only Drake player to garner all-conference honors this year.

MVC all-conference

Knee Injuries

Bulldog Fan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:37:22 GMT

It isn't only Morgan Herrick and Brittnye McSparron who have been plagued with knee injuries. Morgan Reid, a Drake recruit from North Kansas City, injured a knee a month ago and will miss the rest of the season.

Friday's Creighton Game: Free Tickets for Faculty and Staff

Lisa Gardner — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:45:06 GMT

This was posted on blueview earlier today:

"Faculty and staff members are invited to join the Women's Basketball team this Friday night, as they take on their rivals, the Creighton Blue Jays! Game time is set for 7:35 PM on Friday, February 26 at the Knapp Center.

Tickets are available now at Human Resources. All faculty and staff are invited to claim up to FOUR FREE TICKETS, for the game while supplies last - or until 4pm on Friday. There is a limited number available, so pick yours up soon!

Thanks for your support of Bulldog Basketball and we'll see you on Friday!"

Drake - SIU

CharlesW — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:52:15 GMT

Decent weather, (for this winter), afternoon game, Hoops for Hope, Dollar Day.
It would be nice to see more than the announced 1806 that were at the Evansville game.

Drake vs. Mo. St.

CharlesW — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:38:48 GMT

In case anyone is interested, the women's game is going to be on Ch 22 at 2:00 PM today.
They could use a little support right now.

2010 commit Carly Grenfell

DUBulldog — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:45:47 GMT

link.

Drake - Creighton

CharlesW — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:41:17 GMT

Evidently everyone has abandoned the women.
Take away the unforced turnovers and we are tight in there.
Not doing badly as it is.
First substitute was in the game before 3 minutes were gone in the first half.

Freshmen

BlueDawg — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:33:20 GMT

Last week at the coaches luncheon Amber spoke.She was followed by coach Stephens reminding us that her favorite thing about freshmen is that in a year they will be sophomores. As we are starting the conference season now is a good time to take a look at this freshmen class.

Kayla Pearson is the only guard in the class. She started the season trying to do things that used to work in high school and discovering that they don't work at this level. She has progressed a long way from there. Defenses can still get her to pick up her dribble in the wrong spots and she still tries some passes that have zero change of reaching their target, but she's doing much better on the whole. If she keeps progressing at this pace she'll be in good shape come tournament time.

Steph Running is currently getting the most playing time. I'm most impressed by her footwork. Most post players didn't need good footwork to get by in high school and it takes a while to learn this instead of reaching and fouling. She also runs the court very well. Seems to have picked up the offensive and defensive schemes very well and knows where she is supposed to be in most cases. She gives us quality minutes as she continues to learn.

Katie S (too lazy to look up the spelling). She has a great shot and a really quick release. She has great potential, but needs to learn to be more agressive in grabbing her space on the floor. She gets pushed around on defense and still needs to work on her footwork. Runs the floor like a stereotypical post, too upright. First off season conditioning / strength work should solve that.

Liz Nauman. I haven't seen enough to give a fair evaluation yet. Odd minutes here and there just aren't enough.

Taken on the whole this is an impressive class at this stage of their development. If they continue developing as they have, they'll be an important part of this program going forward.

BU beats DU

4Bulldogs — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:55:56 GMT

Braves Beat Drake On Last-Second Shot

Tough 2 home games for the Dogs.

vs. UNI

4Bulldogs — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:36:47 GMT

"The Drake Athletic Department is reminding all women's basketball fans that Friday's Drake vs. UNI women's basketball game, which appears on schedules, posters and tickets as scheduled for a 7:35 tipoff, has been moved up to 7:07 p.m. The game will be televised live on Fox Sports Midwest with Dan McLaughlin and former Bulldog Laura Leonard on the call. "

godrakebulldogs

2010 Commit Angela Christianson

Mecha_Bulldog — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:25:11 GMT

http://www.echopress.com/event/article/id/67706/group/Sports/

Angela Christianson has committed to Drake. She's a 6-0 wing from Alexandria, Minn. She averaged 25ppg last year, and her career high is 54 points as a sophomore.

Drake/ Des Moines Fire Department shirts

Firefighterlamb — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:27:30 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Des Moines Firefighters are selling a Drake/Des Moines Fire Department shirt.
You can see the shirt at our Website listed below. This is a one time chance to be a
member of the Bulldog Bucket Brigade!

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cool:

@ UE

Mecha_Bulldog — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:11:56 GMT

DU tips off at UE at 2pm. UE is 3-12 overall, 0-4 in the MVC, and has lost every MVC game by double-digits. Hopefully DU's defensive effort will be much improved over the SIU game. I just got this tweet from the athletic department's Twitter account:

DUBulldogs WBB: Big ups to Evansville for starting its shoot-around to Stone Cold Steve Austin's old entrance music.

vs. SIU @ noon Today

BlueDawg — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:03:25 GMT

For some reason both the Drake vs. SIU & Evansville vs. Creighton games tip at noon (central time) today. SIU does a thing every year where they give out tons of tickets to local elementary schools and have an afternoon game for the event, that may be the reason. Don't know if the other game was moved so all teams get the same amount of rest or just a coincidence.

In any event, the Bulldogs ought to be able to take care of business today. SIU had a complete meltdown over 2 years as former coach Eikenberg was on her way out the door. Many defections, bad blood, filling the ranks w/ transfers.... Misty Tiber is in her first year and seems to have a more positive vibe going, but they are shorthanded. Managed to beat Evansville at home, but that accounts for half of their wins. Played a weak non-conference schedule and only picked up 1 win.

Tiber brought Stephanie Neptue with her from her prior team (DII) and she seems to be making an impression. Only 4 players from last years squad remain and they averaged 57 of 200 minutes available in each game last year.

They are coming off their first conference win and any team that hasn't given up can be trouble, but this one should be one the Bulldogs can dominate beginning to end. I'd like to see some of the young players get some experience minutes today.

MVC team RPI's

Lisa Gardner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:38:09 GMT

RPI Team W/L Strength of Schedule

54 Creighton 5-3 52
74 Drake 5-2 175
85 Indiana State 7-1 227
117 Northern Iowa 3-5 40
127 Missouri State 5-3 176
145 Illinois State 3-3 108
180 Wichita State 4-2 261
220 Bradley 2-5 138
250 Evansville 2-7 162
320 Southern Illinois 0-7 204

Note that our strength of schedule falls in the bottom half of the Valley. UNI has had the toughest schedule so far, followed by Creighton.

I heard a radio announcer refer to Ball State as a "pretty salty ball club" yesterday. Just out of curiosity, I looked up their RPI. Here it is, followed by their W/L and SoS: 192 Ball State 3-5 82.

Data source: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Women.html

versus Wichita State University Shockers

Lisa Gardner — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:27:49 GMT

Today, Knapp Center, tip-off is at 2:05 p.m.

Here's the short blurb from the DMR about the game: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100108/SPORTS020404/100108028/1097/SPORTS/Saturday-s-Drake-women-s-basketball-game

The Wichita Eagle has nothing on this game at this point, which is not all that surprising because they are owned by McClatchey, the same company that owns the Kansas City Star, Sacramento Bee, and a whole host of papers that used to provide good coverage of women's sports. McClatchey has been slowly going broke, and as it has, it has let go the writers who specialized in women's sports. But it appears that McClatchey no longer has anyone whose primary beat is women's sports in the Wichita (or Kansas City) area, let alone a writer who covers mainly college women's hoops during the season. They had no preview of the Creighton/WSU game that was played earlier this week in Omaha, and their short article summarizing the game was written by "Eagle Staff" -- which means they had no one from their paper at the game.

Newspapers are dying, and a lot of the good coverage of women's sports has disappeared from them. Geezers like me are distressed about this, but it is a fact of life. What is taking their place? SOCIAL MEDIA. Espn.com at the national level. Blogs at a national, regional and local level. Twitter -- great for very timely information "bites" (but not for posting "old news" like a victory that happened 2 days ago). Facebook -- more local though you can find teams from all over the country with pages on their now. And yes, Discussions Boards -- national (e.g. rebkell for women's hoops), regional (e.g. hoopscoop for the Big 12), and local, like this one. A short anecdote about how twitter and discussion boards can be used to promote women's hoops: A friend of mine who is a very good sportswriter by profession has a blog, and when she updates the blog, she puts out a tweet with the url and a short note about the topic. She does not post on discussion boards, but she knows that between her tweets and the people who just "check-in" on her blog periodically, someone is likely to post it on some discussion board somewhere. And they typically do, which then drives more readers to her blog. And this is how she gets her blog stories about women athletes heard. These are stories that probably would not be told were it not for her efforts, and often include features about women athletes, some of whom are famous and others that are not, that would not otherwise get told. But in the end, they all help support the idea that women can achieve great things through sports.

It's cold out, but the sidewalks around Knapp appear to be in decent shape. We need to win this game, and while we come into it with a better conference record, RPI and strength of schedule, Wichita State has some reasons to get fired up for a win, including the fact that they got thumped by Creighton on Thursday. Let's go Drake!

versus Missouri State Lady Bears

Lisa Gardner — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:38:44 GMT

Drake hasn't cancelled tonight's game (so far). Sounds like the bigger problem in town won't be the snow but the cold. So bundle up if you feel like it is safe to travel to the game!

Missouri State played both of its first two conference games at home and won both, beating Bradley 72-67, and UNI 90-80 (in what must have been a defensively challenged game :-)). They have two pretty strong offensive threats in Casey Garrison and Christiana Shorter, but are thin at the point guard position. We are their first MVC road game. Playing on the road is always hard, but I imagine the poor weather conditions will not work in their favor.

Here's today's coverage of the game from the Springfield News-Ledger: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100107/SPORTS040101/1070378/Lady-Bears-hit-Valley-road. One of their players notes that they want to get our post players to commit fouls. Basketball 101 stuff.

The DMR's coverage can be found here: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100106/SPORTS020404/1070332/1003/SPORTS/Women-s-basketball-Northern-Iowa-Drake-at-home-for-a-change.

I know Ellie has a stress fracture, but haven't heard when she is expected to return. Brittnye should be able to play more minutes, giving us more depth at PG.

Let's go Bulldoggies!

2011 Prospect Erika McCaster

Mecha_Bulldog — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:56:17 GMT

http://www.bnd.com/220/story/1076096.html

This says that Drake has expressed interest in Erika McCaster. She's a 5-5 junior guard from Belleville West, Ill., in the St. Louis area.

ESPN shows some love to some MVC Teams

Lisa Gardner — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:45:27 GMT

The lead story on ESPN's Women's College Hoops is about Creighton's Megan Neuvirth: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle&id=4781496

Also, Graham has Illinois State ranked in his top 15 mid-major teams in his most recent mid-major rankings: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=hays_graham&month=12&year=2009. Graham loves Illinois State.

A Little Bit OT: Gene Klinge becomes winningest coach in IA Girls BBall History

Lisa Gardner — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:09:26 GMT

"Klinge, 72, became the winningest coach in the history of Iowa girls' basketball with the 939th victory of his 48-year career, snapping the old mark of 938 that he'd shared with the late Bob Mullen."

...."Klinge now ranks seventh all-time in the history of girls' basketball in the United States. The all-time record is 1,284 victories by Leta Andrews of Granbury, Texas, from 1962-2008, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100102/SPORTS0812/1030333/1003/archive/Girls-basketball-Waukon-coach-sets-victories-record

Klinge began his coaching career in 1962 at Maynard, which eventually became Maynard West Central. Klinge's teams qualified for the IGHSAU Tournament in 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1983, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996. (Source: 2005 Hoop Scoop: 86th Annual Iowa Girls State Basketball Tournament). Worth mentioning is that he transitioned from being a highly effective coach of the 6 player game to a great coach of the 5 player game while at Maynard West Central.

While at Maynard, Klinge coached standouts:

* Mary Parsons (graduated in 1966), one of the All-American Redheads: http://www.allamericanredheads.com/id4.html;

*Deb Kaune (1972), who was the leadering scorer at the IGHSAU State Tournament in 1972, racking up 189 points in 4 games. Earlier that season, Kaune scored 88 points in a game versus Fayette, racking up 38 field goals and 12 free throws.

*Glenda Poock, who was inducted into the Iowa Girls High School Athetic Union Basketball Hall of Fame. Poock scored 92 points in a game versus Postville High in 1975, making 43 of 59 field goal attempts and 6 of 6 free throw attempts. Poock's 92 points places her 12th on the all-time scoring list for a single game in IGHSAU history.

In 2003, he moved to Waukon and has been coaching there since. Under his coaching, Waukon has been a State Tournament Qualifier in 2004, 2005 and 2009. (Before his arrival, the last and only time a Waukon team qualified for the state tournament was in 1979 when prep standout Jody Runge was playing.) Klinge's Waukon team won the 3A championship in 2004.

At Waukon, he has coached prep standout Samantha Reiser, who scored 71 points in 3 games at the IGHSAU State Tournament in 2004.

His current team is ranked second in the state: http://www.allamakee.k12.ia.us/activities0809/girls%20basketball/new_page_1.htm

Hats off to you, coach! You deserve to be in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame! http://www.wbhof.com/

vs. Indiana State Sycamores

Lisa Gardner — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:23:24 GMT

Game time is 1:00 pm central time, 2:00 pm eastern today. You can access coverage on the radio through AM 1350 or through the web at http://www.1350krnt.com/.

Today's DMR has a short blurb about game time and location, but the Terre Haute Tribune Star has a more lengthy preview at: http://www.tribstar.com/sports/local_story_001235636.html. It will be interesting to see who guards Luna -- she is tiny -- 5'5" on her tiptoes -- and very, very quick. She is their leading scorer.

Conference Play Begins

BlueDawg — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:20:33 GMT

In less than 2 hours the Bulldogs begin conference play with what will probably be the toughest road trip of the year. The Redbirds knocked off UCLA in the Iowa tournament and their most recent outing was a 2-point OT loss to DePaul. Cirone is gone, but they still have a talented team and a strong corp of coaches.

Indiana state is a rather gaudy 9-2, however, it has been an exceedingly soft schedule so they really have not yet been tested. Weide's teams always play tough aggressive D and push the ball on offense. We will find out rather quickly how they do against better competition.

vs. New Orleans

Mecha_Bulldog — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:19:56 GMT

Happy Holidays from Drake Women's Basketball

Drake plays New Orleans at 5:30 tonight. First 1000 fans get a free ornament. Come for the women's game and stay for the men's game for one ticket.

@ Iowa

Mecha_Bulldog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:00:13 GMT

Drake @ Iowa tips off at 1pm. You can see the game on the Big Ten Network, but turn down the sound and listen to KRNT

09-10 schedule

4Bulldogs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:52:34 GMT

"The Drake women's basketball team faces a challenging 29-game schedule for the 2009-10 season with games against seven squads that advanced to postseason play last season, including two which qualified for the NCAA Tournament."

09-10 schedule

Let's go Drake!

vs North Dakota

Lisa Gardner — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:25:24 GMT

Anyone have the final score? North Dakota was terrible.

MVC season preview

4Bulldogs — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:12:22 GMT

women's coverage first

Reminder 12/9 vs. TN Tech canceled

4Bulldogs — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:19:22 GMT

Likely would've been canceled anyway because of weather conditions...

Tennessee Tech notified Drake officials in early November about a scheduling conflict. Tennessee Tech will play at Drake during the 2010-11 season.

Plummer Named MVC Player of the Week

Lisa Gardner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:40:39 GMT

Another accolade for Jordann Plummer: Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week. See
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091207/SPORTS/91207022/Drake-women-s-basketball-Plummer-named-MVC-player-of-the-week, but I don't think she average 175 points per game; maybe they forgot a decimal (i.e. 17.5 points per game)?

Jordann Plummer Named Tournament MVP; Hackbarth Named to All-Tournament Team

Lisa Gardner — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:20:08 GMT

Congratulations to Jordann Plummer, who was named Air Force Classic Tournament MVP:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091205/SPORTS020404/912060356/1003/SPORTS/Women-s-basketball-Bulldogs-ride-second-half-breakout-to-road-victory Jordann scored 27 points, with 19 of them coming in the second half in the win against Mountain West school Air Force Academy.

Congratulations also go to Rachael Hackbarth for being named to the Air Force Classic All-Tournament Team:
http://www.goairforcefalcons.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/120509aaf.html

Scant though it is, at least the DMR has some coverage of the tournament. I could not find any coverage on the Colorado Springs Gazette website of this game, nor could I find anything on the Denver Post's website. :-(

vs. Air Force

Mecha_Bulldog — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:20:08 GMT

The game is on KRNT right now. AF leads 28-27 at halftime. DU scored with about 5 sec left, and AF responded by driving to the other end to make a shot at the buzzer.

DU win vs. TX A&M

4Bulldogs — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:41:38 GMT

Great job!

Drake Defeats Texas A&M Corpus Christi 56-46

vs. Iowa State

Mecha_Bulldog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:29:56 GMT

Drake hosts Iowa St at 2pm. The Bulldogs are going to have to play a great game to pull out a win today.

Drake vs UALR

DUBulldog — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:24:23 GMT

Drake vs Arkansas-Little Rock....DU wins 66-65.

at St Mary's

DUBulldog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:15:35 GMT

Drake up 45-34 at halftime.

2010 Commit Morgan Reid

Mecha_Bulldog — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:06 GMT

http://www.examiner.net/sports/x215407703/Patriots-sting-Hornets

Morgan Reid is a 6-0 senior guard at North Kansas City (Mo.) High School. She scored 15 points and grabbed 8 rebounds in a 37-50 loss to Truman.

Brittnye McSparron

Bulldog Fan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:28 GMT

Brittnye McSparron limped to the dressing room late in the game against Chicago State. Is there any word on the extent to her injury?

Don't bother looking in the Register. They didn't even have a reporter at the game.