Monday Links: Looking Back At Weekend Tournaments & A Few Upsets

If you were away for the weekend and unable to keep up with all that happened around the nation in women's basketball, we provide you a brief overview of the weekend in the form of links starting with Sunday results...and as a post-Thanksgiving treat, I will even provide an appropriate soundtrack (with my sincerest apologies to any Ohio State fans). 

• California Golden Blogs held a game thread for Cal's 59-50 win over the Virginia Cavaliers, which norcalnick suggests was an important game not only in terms of building a potential tournament resume, but also because it was the Bears going up against their old coach. You can follow the blow-by-blow in their game thread, but the key stat was rebounding, rather surprisingly led by Layshia Clarendon's 11. Read more >>>

• Dan Fleiser of GoVolsXtra takes a look at Tennessee's loss to Baylor yesterday and specifically why sophomore guard Meighan Simmons only played one minute in the second half. Ultimately, it came down to Simmons just not making plays. Read more >>>

• Herman of SBN's Sippin on Purple was hoping for a second straight upset for his Northwestern Wildcats, but DePaul used 12-for-25 three point shooting to avoid being Northwestern's latest victim. The Wildcats struggled with DePaul's pressure defense in addition to guarding the three point line. Read more >>>

Saturday

• Curt Rallo of the South Bend Tribune says that Notre Dame's dramatic 56-54 win over Duke on Saturday was "one of the more remarkable victories in the storied program's history." Senior Natalie Novosel won the game for the Fighting Irish with a buzzer-beating bank and was named MVP of the Freeport Division of the Junkanoo Jam for her efforts. Also of note: Notre Dame was once again ice cold from three point land against a top opponent. Read more >>>

• Nick Kosmider of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports on the Texas Tech becoming the 15th women's basketball program to reach 800 wins with a blowout of Central Arkansas on Saturday. The article includes a brief rundown of the program's history. Read more >>>

• Andy of SBN's Anonymous Eagle offers his summary of Marquette's loss to Michigan with a focus of how the first four possessions of the game for the Golden Eagles were a harbinger of things to come: turnovers. He attempted to give the Player of the Game award to someone who didn't commit a turnover to no avail. Read more >>>

• In a fit of Maize & Blue excitement we double-posted the Wolverines' 7-0 start, but there's no harm in saying more about Michigan. MGoBlue.com has coach Kevin Borseth's postgame comments and more about Courtney Boylan winning MVP of the Paradise Jam. Read more >>>

• Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times reports on Seattle University falling to Akron in the championship game of its own Thanksgiving Tournament. Redhawks coach Joan Bonvicini commented that they've made strides from a year ago to now. Read more >>>

• The University of San Francisco is still looking for their second win after they took a pair of losses at the Seattle tournament this weekend, including a difficult 1 point loss to Loyola-Chicago after a pair of last second free throws. Read more >>>

• SBN's I Am The 12th Man summarized Texas A&M's performance at the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas this weekend. He points out that the Aggies might need more from Karla Gilbert to maintain their success this season. Read more >>>

• The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported on the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay's 67-62 overtime win over Georgia Tech on Saturday night. The Phoenix overcame a poor shooting night by winning the offensive rebounding battle by 12.2%. Read more >>>

• T Kyle King of SBN's Dawg Sports gave a brief summary of the Georgia Lady Bulldogs' weekend at the UNLV Lady Rebel Roundup, which began with a loss to Georgetown. He notes multiple reasons for the loss, but the most significant was probably the Hoyas winning the offensive rebounding margin. Read more >>>

Friday

• UCLA fell to West Virginia on Friday night at CSU Northridge's Holiday Inn Thanksgiving Basketball Classic. Once again, rebounding killed UCLA in loss: they were beat by 27.4% on the offensive boards by West Virginia. Read more >>>

• Andy of SBN's Anonymous Eagle actually kept track of the entire Paradise Jam from a Marquette point of view, with quick summaries, stats and players of the game for the first two games. Read more >>>

• Matt Sussman of SBN's Hustle Belt continued to take stock of the MAC's results this weekend, but one that stood out was Dayton's win over Buffalo in the World Vision Classic on Friday: Dayton took 42 threes and hit 15 to help them beat their third MAC opponent of the early season by 20. Read more >>>

Other pseudo-women's basketball related links:

• SBN's Bruin's Nation has been upset about UCLA A.D. Dan Guerrero for some time and yesterday's loss to USC set them off again. Among their grievances is the handling of former coach Nikki Caldwell who left for LSU after last season. Read more >>>

• SBN's Tom Ziller has done an outstanding job covering the NBA lockout, which tentatively ended this past weekend. If you're concerned about the revised NBA schedule conflicting with the WNBA schedule significantly, Ziller suggests it won't much more than planned: in the end, the NBA Finals could only end a week later than originally expected. Read more >>>