Weekly Roundup: A Week of Unique Performances
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The Roundup
This week was not nearly as eventful as the past few weeks, but there were still some great and/or odd performances. The triple-double queen, Sabrina Ionescu, recorded her fifth triple-double of the season with 24 points, 10 rebounds, and 13 assists against Colorado on Saturday. DePaul’s Kelly Campbell recorded a triple-double of her own with 12 points, 13 assists, and 11 rebounds on Sunday against Providence. This marks the fifth time this season that triple-doubles have been recorded on consecutive days.
Both of those games were also unique for another reason. They qualified as something called a ‘Pareto game’, meaning no other players achieved have achieved that combination of points, rebounds, and assists this season. Two other players, Delaware’s Nicole Enabosi and High Point’s Camryn Brown, also recorded Pareto games in that stretch. There have been 34 such games this season, and four have taken place in a 36-hour stretch. I will be writing a full story on Pareto games going back to the 2015-16 season will closer to the end of the season.
In Sunday afternoon’s double-overtime thriller between Rutgers and Minnesota, Gopher forward Taiye Bello scored 19 points with only two made field goals. That is the 15th time this season a player has scored 15 or more points on two or fewer field goals and the third time in the last six days. While looking at the 15 instances, I noticed that a pair of opponents accomplished the feat in the same game. On January 19, Julia Fleecs of North Dakota and Sofija Zivaljevic of North Dakota State totaled 33 points on a combined four made shots.
What We’re Working On
The semifinalists for the Becky Hammon Player of the Year Award presented by Her Hoop Stats will be announced Tuesday, Feb. 4. But first, we wrote about Coach Hammon and why she was the easy pick to name the award after. (Link)
Ben Dull wrote about Stanford freshman Ashten Prechtel and how she has been instrumental to the success of a depleted Stanford roster. (Link)
Christopher Zwart looked at what a hypothetical fantast draft of the WNBA’s top 48 players might look like. (Link)
Jenn Hatfield profiled a pair of Ivy League freshmen—Penn’s Kayla Padilla and Harvard’s Lola Mullaney—leading up to their matchup last Friday. (Link)
Weekly Series
In the lone Her Hoop Stats Podcast episode this week, John Liddle chats with Arizona State head coach Charli Turner Thorne and also looks at the focus the late Kobe Bryant gave to women’s basketball. (Link)
While it hasn’t been released as of this writing, it should be no surprise that the marquee game in the upcoming Games of the Week is Monday’s meeting between UConn and Oregon. The game will be on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. ET, so make sure to tune in to see one of the best regular-season games of the year and follow along as we live-tweet the game.
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What We’re Reading
Sarah Spain wrote a thoughtful piece on remembering the legacy—both positive and negative—of Kobe Bryant. (Link)
Lindsey Crouse, a senior staff editor for The New York Times’ Opinion section, shared her experience trying to qualify for the Olympic marathon team trials. In the process, she realized she could do so many other ‘impossible things’ that she never felt she could before. (Link)
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