Story Poster
Photo by Todd Nickle
Baylor Women's Basketball

Elite 8: Lady Bears vs. Iowa Preview and Game Thread

March 31, 2019
54,597

And then there were two left in the Greensboro Regional. The number one seed Lady Bears and number two seed Iowa Hawkeyes with a chance to go to the Final Four. The Hawkeyes lost six games in the regular season, but hasn’t tasted defeat since February 21. The one time the Hawkeyes faced superior athleticism from a top ranked opponent, Notre Dame blitzed Iowa 105-71 in South Bend. All six losses for Iowa were on a neutral floor or on the road. 

How To Watch:

Monday, April 1, 6 P.M.

ESPN2

EPSN3

ESPNGO APP

Keys To The Game:

Make Gustafson earn her baskets 

Keep Iowa off the free throw line

Get out and run

Pound the paint

Stay active on defense

Fun Facts:

Iowa owes much of it’s football history to a Baylor Bear

Megan Gustafson has had a double-double in every game this year, like Kristine Anigwe did heading into face the Lady Bears

Lady Bears win and Grayson is headed to Tampa, maybe Ashley as well...

TEAM REC PTS REB AST STL BLK FG% 3PT% FT%
BAYLOR 34-1 81.9 47.6 22.7 7.6 7.3 50.2 38.5 68.0
IOWA 29-6 79.1 38.3 21.8 6.1 3.7 52.0 35.0 77.6

 

Common Opponents:

OPPONENT BAYLOR IOWA
WEST VIRGINIA 79-47 (W), 63-57 (W) (84-81 (W)
IOWA STATE 84-69 (W), 73-60 (W), 67-49 (W) 73-70 (W)

 

Discussion from...

Elite 8: Lady Bears vs. Iowa Preview and Game Thread

45,535 Views | 203 Replies | Last: 5 yr ago by Wichitabear
KOKQB70
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
8:18p, 4/1/19
God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good.
Reply Quote
9
MrGolfguy
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
8:20p, 4/1/19
Finally back to the Final Four
Well I ain't no greenhorn!!
Reply Quote
2
historian
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to KOKQB70 • 8:24p, 4/1/19
KOK QB 70 said:
God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good.
AMEN!!!
Reply Quote
4
4th and Inches
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to MrGolfguy • 8:31p, 4/1/19
MrGolfguy said:
Finally back to the Final Four
Finally! The Mulk has come back to Tampa!

The peoples champion! (Baylor people that is...)
Reply Quote
2
Jack Bauer
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
8:31p, 4/1/19
Honest question- did we cut down the nets after we moved to the Sweet 16?
Reply Quote
BuinmyBlood
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to MommaBear • 8:33p, 4/1/19
MommaBear said:
KajunKarlsdad said:
After taking a quick look at the Iowa game thread on their site all I can say is "Run it up Herman, leave no doubt!"

https://hawkeyenation.com/forum/threads/iowa-vs-baylor.86761/page-4
LOL. Thanks for the chuckle!

This is my favorite comment from their thread:

Size matters way too much in women's bball. Seems like thunder thighs white chick and king Kong can just score whenever they want

I'm guessing they are referring to Lauren Cox and Kalani Brown!

Those comments are so foul and mean-spirited I wouldn't even want them quoted on our board, where Kalani and Lauren could possibly read them - or worse - their parents read them. I would be just as happy if that was deleted.
Reply Quote
4
Bruiser85
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:08p, 4/1/19
I have to say that those are some of the rudest comments I have ever read on a message board. What a mean group of fans.
Reply Quote
BUVA
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to BearFan33 • 9:16p, 4/1/19
BearFan33 said:
BUVA said:
OUR POWER HAS GONE OUT....I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!


Watch on phone

Prob available on watch espn app


We did until got generator up and running; got to see last few minutes on TV.
Reply Quote
2
slimecap
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Heart • 9:17p, 4/1/19
Heart said:
My favorite part was the big bucket of confetti on Coach Mulkey!! Fun

Reply Quote
BUVA
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Bruiser85 • 9:21p, 4/1/19
Bruiser85 said:
I have to say that those are some of the rudest comments I have ever read on a message board. What a mean group of fans.


Probably Karen Aston signed on their fan message board.
Reply Quote
2
CHP Bear
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:42p, 4/1/19
Read their message board and just considered the source. Won't lower myself with hateful remarks. Instead I'm going to say something positive about Iowa's performance tonight. Wright County, Iowa, has the highest percentage of grade-A topsoil in the country.
Reply Quote
1
slimecap
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
12:08a, 4/2/19

Reply Quote
6
slimecap
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
3:49a, 4/2/19

Reply Quote
ladybears4eva
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:17a, 4/2/19
Omg. Awful comments on iowa board.

Hilarious speculation that Aston was on board too
Reply Quote
historian
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
5:56a, 4/2/19
That's why I almost never go to opposing fan boards. There are too many people who place way too much emphasis on sports and what "their" team is doing. They don't know how to win or lose gracefully. They give all fans a bad name and it is not worth the effort paying any attention to them.
Reply Quote
1
slimecap
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
8:26a, 4/2/19
POST-GAME LOCKER ROOM INTERVIEWS
by Smoaky

.. Juicy Landrum
.. DiDi Richards
.. Kalani Brown
.. Lauren Cox
.. Chloe Jackson

Post-game press conferences
.. Baylor
.. Iowa

One link for all
http://www.listencentraltexassports.com/lady-bears-85-iowa-53-elite-8/
Reply Quote
2
WacoKelly83
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to historian • 8:36a, 4/2/19
historian said:
That's why I almost never go to opposing fan boards. There are too many people who place way too much emphasis on sports and what "their" team is doing. They don't know how to win or lose gracefully. They give all fans a bad name and it is not worth the effort paying any attention to them.

In all fairness, most of those coarse and crude comments are most likely from non wbb fans who jumped on the bandwagon. You can assume this based on their lack of knowledge as to who the main players are and the incessant jabbing at Kim's appearance and personality. Pretty lame but I would guess this is not the norm for their wbb fanbase.
Reply Quote
TechDawgMc
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Jack Bauer • 9:49a, 4/2/19
Jack Bauer said:
Honest question- did we cut down the nets after we moved to the Sweet 16?
I don't think so -- I think Mulkey's thinking is conference championship, making the FF and championship.
Reply Quote
ladybears4eva
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:59p, 4/2/19
Very true. Seems like misogynistic bandwagons
Reply Quote
Russell Gym
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to TechDawgMc • 11:09p, 4/2/19
TechDawgMc said:
Jack Bauer said:
Honest question- did we cut down the nets after we moved to the Sweet 16?
I don't think so -- I think Mulkey's thinking is conference championship, making the FF and championship.

Nets are not typically cut down on the first weekend.
Reply Quote
1
slimecap
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
7:00a, 4/22/19

Iowa forward Megan Gustafson (10) tries to work inside against Kalani Brown during the first half of the Greensboro Regional championship game..

Megan Gustafson of Iowa Named Honda Sport Award Winner for Basketball

April 10, 2019

Link for entire article
https://www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com/releases/2018-19/20190419gustafson

Excerpt
"Megan Gustafson, a senior forward/center from the University of Iowa, was named the Honda Sport Award winner for Basketball as announced today by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).

The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 43 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies "the best of the best in collegiate athletics". With this honor, Gustafson becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious Class of 2019 Honda Cup which will be presented on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on June 24, 2019, in downtown Los Angeles."
Reply Quote
1
1 edit
Wichitabear
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to slimecap • 7:33a, 4/22/19
I can clearly see that she deserves this. Lol. I' m just being ugly. She is a talented young lady
Reply Quote
2
Pale Rider
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Wichitabear • 8:25a, 4/22/19
Wichitabear said:
I can clearly see that she deserves this. Lol. I' m just being ugly. She is a talented young lady

We know of at the very least two girls who were superior.
Reply Quote
1
Wichitabear
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Pale Rider • 9:34a, 4/22/19
Indeed within picture spitting lol
Reply Quote
historian
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:53a, 4/22/19
I found it curious that during each of the tournament games, the TV announcers hyped the star player of the opposing team to show how they could beat Baylor. I know this is standard TV fare but it was quite amusing how each one of these women was a superstar that was going to lead their team to victory only to be run over by Baylor. This goes back to Bridget Carleton of Iowa State in the Big 12 Championship game (& probably earlier too) and includes Kristine Anigwe of Cal, Gustafson of Iowa, Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon, and of course Arike Ogunbowale of ND. I'm sure there was one for S Carolina but I cannot remember who.
Reply Quote
2
franklin
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:39a, 4/22/19
Historian, They probably do that so that we will stick around and watch the ads they sell. They are unlikely to want to opine, "This game is going to be a blood bath; Baylor will kick butt and take no prisoners."
Reply Quote
3
historian
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to franklin • 2:54p, 4/22/19
franklin said:
Historian, They probably do that so that we will stick around and watch the ads they sell. They are unlikely to want to opine, "This game is going to be a blood bath; Baylor will kick butt and take no prisoners."
lol
Probably correct. At times, they even did say something like that, although more diplomatically.

I liked how an espn writer (Voepel) recently described the Lady Bears as "like a giant sledgehammer that keeps pounding." That was before the NCAA Tournament, however. I think the games during that tournament only confirmed that view. It is easy to imagine how high the score differential could have been against ND had Lauren Cox not gone down late in the 3rd.
Reply Quote
1
1 edit
Wichitabear
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to historian • 4:15p, 4/22/19
Yes, the score would not have been close if our Lauren had not gone down.
Reply Quote
 
×
subscribe Verify your student status
See Subscription Benefits
Trial only available to users who have never subscribed or participated in a previous trial.