tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950591139165958132024-03-13T06:46:47.822-04:00Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream BlogA fan's unofficial blog of the Atlanta Dream, a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team playing its eighth season in 2015. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-27636129056210372922015-09-26T16:54:00.002-04:002015-09-26T16:54:22.214-04:0028 March 2015 - Connecticut 105, Texas 54<br /><br />Why am I writing about this game? Opportunity. In March I taped some women's basketball games that I hoped to watch but never got around to seeing. My wife asked me to clear up some space on the DVR so I told myself that this weekend I'd watch at least one of those games.<br /><br />This was a Sweet Sixteen game in Albany, New York. Texas was supposed to be this big tall team that would give Connecticut trouble; you can see from the score that it became a laugher. Connecticut extended its lead throughout the game all the way to the end.<br /><br />My thoughts.<br /><br />* It really makes a team look good on offense when the defense can't get to the ball. When most teams have the ball, one person holds the ball and the other players move like chess pieces to try to position themselves to be in the best position to take a pass or threaten to take a pass. <br /><br />Not UConn. If you forced both teams to play in the same color, you'd never be able to tell which players were the defensive players whenever Connecticut had possession. Connecticut's defense seems to be less like chess pieces and more like those little linemen in those "electronic football" games from the 1950s where the metal board jiggles the pieces around. Basically, the Huskies defensive players are clearing space, foot by foot, for the offensive player to make the best shot, while at the same time trying to be ready to receive the pass just in case.<br /><br />This is the opposite philosophy that a lot of teams have during their possessions. The offensive players without the ball are more worried about catching the pass than overcoming the defense. When they say that the Huskies are unselfish, they mean just that. When a Connecticut player has the ball, the other offensive players are looking to help her score first and foremost.<br /><br />* Part of that help comes from off-the-ball screens. I don't think I've seen so many off-the-ball screens in my life. "Unselfish play" is almost a platitude in women's basketball, but you'll really see those things that prove that Connecticut players care more about winning than individual glory.<br /><br />* Watch the Huskies players move their feet when they play defense. They are on the balls of their feet pretty much the entire game. Watch the Longhorns. They are flat-footed a lot of the time.<br /><br />* Kiah Stokes is out there getting blocks. I don't recall how many them she had this game but it was a lot. I'm starting to come around to the fact that steals and blocks are much more important than a lot of people realize because those stats can't be cheapened - the player has to actually do something by herself to get the block; for the most part no one else can give it to her. Rebounds are a different story. Breanna Stewart was all alone after a missed shot and the ball went off the backboard and right to her; David O'Brien exclaimed "Another rebound for Breanna Stewart!" as if she fought off three Texas post players to get it and it wasn't a sub-ordinary rebound that a semi-alert grade schooler would have caught.<br /><br />* Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis was also a senior for this game. I don't know if she has the defensive lapses that people claim she has but I saw at least one occasion where I questioned if she was making good decisions on defense. She hit a few threes.<br /><br />* Breanna Stewart scored close to 30 points before Auriemma sat her down and the Huskies lead ballooned to ridiculous proportions. Is she the real thing? Oh yeah. Tall, can play the perimeter, good shot blocker, ridiculously good shooter. <br /><br />* Moriah Jefferson was less impressive to me even though she put up good numbers.<br /><br />* What put the game away was a 26-5 run just before the end of the first half that saw the Connecticut lead go from seven to twenty-eight.<br /><br />I think what happens against UConn is not that teams stop trying as it is they really don't know what to do when they're down by 20 points. And not "down by 20 points against UConn", I mean down by 20 points in <i>any</i> game. The teams that make it to the NCAA tournament are used to winning and certainly don't fall into the kind of deep ditches that UConn loves to create. The players have no emotional plan for that situation - indeed, they block it out of their minds completely because to think about losing doesn't betray "<i>the mindset of a winner</i>" or some bullship phrase. <br /><br />Everyone panics. The coaches panic, the players panic, and Connecticut just pours it on.<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-3320725234945600322015-09-23T09:56:00.005-04:002015-09-23T09:56:52.059-04:00The WNBA needs to work with Europe and not against it<br /><br />The WNBA is setting up for two exciting conference finals. If you like grit, the New York Liberty and the Indiana Fever, helmed respectively by one of the NBA's Bad Boys and a rookie coach, will be playing for WNBA title hopes in the Eastern Conference. If you like flash, you have the Minnesota Lynx and Maya Moore and the Phoenix Mercury and Brittney Griner playing in the West. Shots vs. Blocks!<br /><br />But after the Finals...then what? The WNBA loses its audience, which goes back to watching women's college basketball. The logo lady puts down her basketball and takes a deep nap which lasts approximately seven or eight months. There is no year-long news cycle in the league; the league has to recreate itself every April.<br /><br />This has been a perplexing problem for the league. Its players scatter to the corners of the earth, playing for the various pro teams with deep pockets. (Ekaterinburg's pockets were so deep they paid Diana Taurasi NOT to play in WNBA this season, protecting their investment.) With the NCAA dominating the women's basketball landscape, the W is reduce to a meek, "us too" in the off-season.<br /><br />My opinion is that the answer to the problem of off-season interest is right in the league's face. Instead of trying to pretend that European women's basketball doesn't exist, they should embrace it.<br /><br />There are lots of reasons that fans don't follow European women's basketball. It requires its own learning curve. A team from one of the power countries - Russia or Turkey - might have three or four names you recognize (all American) and ten names that you don't. You need some knowledge of regulation, of promotion, of Euroleague, of Eurocup, and in some cases about who holds what passport.<br /><br />To top that off, when the games are broadcast - usually on YouTube or some domestic league website - the picture is grainy and small. You can't identify the players. There are no announcers. The games look like they're being broadcast in some high school gym. (In some countries, the high school gym would be an upgrade.)<br /><br />Statistics are hard to come by. The reporting is in foreign languages. The hurdles appear to be too great to jump.<br /><br />But what the WNBA needs to learn is that the strength of the league is in its players. Certainly, we want to know who they are and what they do. More importantly, we want to watch them on the court playing basketball. All of the human interest stories in the world won't help the league do that; you can only whet someone's whistle for so long before they want to eat.<br /><br />The NBA's off-season is so short that they don't have this problem. College basketball has the drama of recruiting and player evaluation to keep its fans interested. The WNBA, however, needs to have something to draw attention to itself in the off-season that the NBA and NCAA women's basketball.<br /><br />And they have it. The players. The players don't stop playing basketball in the off-season. They keep playing it! <i>The season isn't over after the WNBA Finals! A new one is starting!</i><br />So why doesn't the league show the players playing basketball? There needs to be dedicated content at least involving the major countries : Russia, Turkey, Spain, France, maybe Poland. We need to know what the players are doing in each of those countries, and that involves video. <br /><br />How much would it cost to send an announcer to Russia to do an English-language broadcast of a Superleague game? (<i>Available on WNBA Live Access!</i>) Or (almost) live action from the Liga Femenina, brought to you by LaChina Robinson? I know she'd love to go to Spain!<br /><br />Perhaps a "European Game of the Week" placed on the WNBA's website itself. Want to see Diana Taurasi and Angel McCoughtry battle it out in December? If not, maybe a WCBA game in China with Maya Moore's team making on Brittney Griner's?<br /><br />For fifteen years, European women's basketball has benefited from the WNBA's free advertising. The WNBA is the best women's league in the world and the European powers know that. They watch our league with great interest, and they use the WNBA as their litmus test for a good player. You might not like how Samantha Logic is playing, but her French Calais team know that she played in the WNBA, and that's good enough for them.<br /><br />Now, we need to do to the Europeans what they do to us. We can broadcast their games, look at their players more closely. We are still the best league in the world. Perhaps if we concentrate on a handful of countries, the five mentioned above, we can make ourselves a power. Laurel Richie would get to ask, "<i>You want us to add more Chinese games, WCBA? Okay. But what can you do for us in return?</i>"<br /><br />The WNBA is not dead when the last whistle sounds at the WNBA Finals. On the contrary, it exports itself to a waiting planet. The problem is getting people to believe that - the fans, the players, and hopefully the league itself.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-39109606434975389832015-09-22T11:44:00.003-04:002015-09-22T11:44:58.272-04:00Random thoughts<br />
Some random thoughts....<br /><br />* Chicago had about as much chance as anyone to not just beat Indiana but to march to a WNBA Championship. There isn't a dominating team this season; as a matter of fact, the last time the best team in the league was this "non-dominant" was that first 1997 season.<br /><br />* Good lord, if your best scorer/MVP knocks down 40 and you can't win? Pokey Chatman said near the beginning of the season that the team was better offensively without Fowles and worse defensively. Selah.<br /><br />* The Dream front office is looking pretty good in dealing away Erika de Souza. I love Erika; she didn't help the Sky that much.<br /><br />* There are some loud Chicago fans that want to fire Pokey Chatman. Good. Atlanta will take her as a general manager any day of the week.<br /><br />* Yes, New York has the best record in the league. But even with Bill Laimbeer and all of his rings, it's one thing to be a good team and another to win a championship. I just have an instinct that New York isn't going to win a championship and that they'll fall sometime this season. This team needs one more year under its belt to really start cooking. I won't be surprised if they do win, though, there, I've covered all my bases.<br /><br />* New York filled the (lower part of the) Garden when they lost Game 1; I expect the same for Game 3. <br /><br />* Meanwhile, Tulsa and Chicago's 3000+ reported attendances at home as they were rolled out of their respective series concern me. Tulsa's is understandable - season ticket holders unable to bear saying goodbye (losing by 30 to Phoenix in Game 1 didn't help).<br />As for Chicago, a Monday night game is hard going. I just hope the Sky can hang in there.<br /><br />* No GM named yet in Atlanta. I suspect that my beloved Dream will take its time in filling that position. Maybe Chi-town will let Pokey go and she'll fall into our laps. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-87572985102320886332015-09-21T11:34:00.001-04:002015-09-21T11:34:09.997-04:00Hang in there, Adam<br />
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<i>I have NBA-TV.</i> I'm sure the bean counters over at the NBA and WNBA would be surprised to know that the <i>only</i> reason I have NBA-TV is because they show WNBA games. Period.<br /><br />I have no interest in the Hardwood Classics.<br />No interest in the NBA. (I'm not anti-NBA, I just can't afford to devote time to another sport outside the WNBA.)<br /><i>"Shaqtin a Fool</i>" goes unwatched.<br /><br />If something happened where NBA-TV stopped carrying WNBA games, I'd call my local cable provider and tell them to drop the channel. <br /><br />In short, I'm a pretty hardcore follower of the WNBA. I watched every single Atlanta Dream game this year. Many of them in person, and the ones I couldn't watch I watched either on SportSouth or WNBA Live Access, the WNBA's webcast. And I'm not even the most hardcore WNBA fan out there. There are fans that watch games over multiple teams. Richard Cohen/WNBAlien watched every single WNBA game in 2014 from his mountain redoubt somewhere in the United Kingdom. I envied the man for having the time and resources to do it.<br /><br />Now that you have that background, many WNBA fans were surprised by NBA commissioner Adam Silver's comments about the WNBA. Oddly enough, not only did he decide to sound off just before the WNBA playoffs but brought up the fact that the WNBA is almost 20 years old.<br /><br /><i>"We thought we would have broken through by now"</i>, he said.<br /><i>"We thought ratings and attendance would be higher,”</i> he said.<br /><i>"I think we might have been ahead of ourselves 20 years ago in terms of what we were doing,"</i> he said.<br /><i>"Leading into the playoffs that begin tonight, there’s virtually no coverage,"</i> he said.<br /><br />He sounded almost regretful. My theory is that he wanted to hit even harder against the fact that local media in the many WNBA cities with few exceptions seems to have turned their back on the WNBA teams. The gatekeepers - and they are gatekeepers; don't listen to that jazz about how they 'merely reflect public demand' - have kept the door shut on the WNBA for almost two decades, leaving the legion of fans like myself to do our best to promote the league in an intelligent way without the help of the jockocracy that runs most sports media. Silver was there at the league's creation and I suspect he knew that if he swung harder at the local Joe Smiths and Bob Jones (always a Joe or a Bob) that write for the newspapers and run the morning sports radio programs, they would have struck back with how they 'merely reflect public demand'.<br /><br />It's a story that he's heard before.<br />It's a story that <i>we've </i>heard before.<br /><br />But no one every said that this WNBA thing would be easy. Oh, I'm sure a lot of people hoped it would be easy, back in 1997. They hoped that women's basketball could finally step up to the rank of a major sport. The crowds were big at first, due to the novelty. <br /><br />The lack of press coverage, however, starved the infant of oxygen. Despite that, the fact that the WNBA is as healthy as it is is a miracle in itself. If the true story of the WNBA is ever written, it won't be like that written about the WPBL in <i>Mad Seasons</i>, a story where you can almost guess the end before the beginning. The true story of the WNBA will be about how it survived even though many people strongly wished it would go away. that a legion of fans kept it alive, that there were forward thinking owners that devoted their time and money to the long run against the voices of naysayers.<br /><br />There is an old saying: <i>"Power yields nothing without a struggle. It never has, and it never will." </i> Adam Silver might have forgotten that. He is the owner and operator of a billion dollar industry; he's a man used to getting his way. And still, so many fans are surprised and shocked that on some matters, not even <i>he</i> can get his way when it comes to the WNBA.<br /><br /><i>That's okay, Adam.</i> Hang in there with us. We'll hang in there with you. Why do fans follow losing teams for decades? Because the victory will taste so much sweeter when they win it all, it will be more succulent, more effervescent than the dollar-store wine guzzled by the frontrunner fans of the world, a vintage well worth the wait. Maybe we never win at all, but at least if we go down - we go down on our own terms, and not someone else's. We WNBA fans know that the fight is worth it.<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-28580270780375855112015-09-18T16:09:00.000-04:002015-09-18T16:09:10.129-04:002015 Atlanta Dream overseas : an update<br />
Here's what I've been able to find out about Atlanta Dream players playing overseas in 2015-16.<br />
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<b>Matee Ajavon</b>: Energa Torun, Poland<br /><b>Carla Cortijo</b>: unknown<br /><b>Cierra Burdick</b>: unknown<br /><b>Sydney Carter</b>: unknown<br /><b>Damiris Dantas</b>: unknown<br /><b>Reshanda Gray</b>: Techmania Bettipaglia, Italy<br /><b>Tiffany Hayes</b>: Yakin Dogu University, Turkey<br /><b>Aneika Henry</b>: Mersin, Turkey<br /><b>Roneeka Hodges</b>: unknown<br /><b>Sancho Lyttle</b>: rumored destination is UMMC (Ekaterinburg), Russia<br /><b>Ariel Massengale</b>: unknown<br /><b>Angel McCoughtry</b>: unknown<br /><b>DeLisha Milton-Jones</b>: unknown<br /><b>Shoni Schimmel</b>: expected to play overseas after spending last off-season statesideUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-35943785718175757052015-09-18T11:28:00.000-04:002015-09-18T11:28:15.888-04:00Top Ten College Seniors Using Morris Points<br />
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Now that we're looking at the upcoming college season, in light of the last post it might be interesting to look at the college juniors that ranked the highest in Morris Points. <br />
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We will only be looking at players from the power conferences...and Connecticut, which is a power conference team in a non-power conference. If we were to expand this list to all players, Ruvanna Campbell at Illinois-Chicago would be the leader with +44.46.<br />
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1. Breanna Stewart, F, 6-4, Connecticut: + 43.35<br />2. Brittney Martin, G, 6-0, Oklahoma State: + 38.67 <br />3. Lia Galdiera, G, 5-11, Washington State: + 38.07 (will forego senior year to play in Europe)<br />4. Ruth Hamblin, C, 6-6, Oregon State: + 35.01<br />5. Jillian Alleyne, F, 6-3, Oregon: +32.57<br />6. Moriah Jefferson, G, 5-7, Connecticut: +29.32<br />7. Niya Johnson, G, 5-8, Baylor: +25.56<br />8. Jamee Swan, F, 6-2, Colorado: +21.63<br />9. Talia Walton, F, 6-2, Washington: +21.25<br />10. Adut Bulgak, C, 6-4, Florida State: +21.23 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-33771318893591973172015-09-17T16:24:00.003-04:002015-09-17T16:49:28.577-04:002015 WNBA Players Evaluated Using the Morris Points System<br />
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There's an article at FiveThirtyEight.com that had me thinking. It was written about a year ago and it was called "<a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-value-of-the-nba-steal/" target="_blank">The Hidden Value of the NBA Steal</a>." The point the writer makes is that if you want the best indicator of value a player has to a game, it's to look at how many steals he has.<br />
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Through his math, he concluded that with all other box score stats being equal<br />
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* an extra rebound is worth 1.7 points<br />
* an extra assist is worth 2.2 points<br />
* (one less) turnover is worth 5.4 points<br />
* an extra block is worth 6.1 points<br />
* a extra steal is worth 9.1 points.<br />
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For example, if a player averages 16 points and two steals per game, this player has the same impact - all else being equal - as a player that averages 25 points per game but just one steal. If the first player and the second player are both missing from their teams, we expect the two teams to decline similarly.<br />
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The writer has no explanation for why an extra steal is worth 9.1 extra points. You can come up with all kinds of theories. Maybe a player who has more steals plays a lot better defense. Maybe they're just smarter. Maybe it's because that unlike rebounds, a certain number of which will go to a player because they happened to be in the right place in the right time, players have to make steals happen. Steals can't be "replaced".<br />
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So even though the results of this NBA study might not be transferable to the WNBA, I figured what the hell. Let's create an "average" WNBA player who has<br />
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8 points<br />
3 rebounds<br />
2 assists<br />
1 turnovers<br />
0 blocks<br />
1 steal<br />
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This player will earn zero points in the system. This is the per/game amount scored by the average WNBA player, aggregated over all games.<br />
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For every rebound past 3 rebounds, we'll give the player 1.7 points<br />
For every assist past 2 assists, we'll give the player 2.2 points <br />
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...<br />
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and so on.<br />
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So a player that had the same statline as above but one extra rebound would score a +1.7. A player who had one extra rebound and one extra assists would score a +4.1. (1.7 + 2.2.) If the player has the same stateline as above but one few rebound, she would score a -1.7.<br />
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Let's call these points Morris Points after the author of the article above, Benjamin Morris. So under this system, who are the highest ranking players per game and the lowest ranking?<br />
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(See table at bottom of post for results.)<br />
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The next question becomes, "Do the numbers pass the smell test? IF I were to present the first five or first ten players on this list as the WNBA's best players in 2015, would you believe it?"<br />
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It seems believable.<br />
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* It gives Candace Parker the highest rating at +44.22. Note that this is a "per game" rating, so it doesn't imply that Parker is the MVP, merely that the Sparks are hurt more missing Parker than Chicago is hurt missing Delle Donne. The second half of the season certainly proved that.<br />
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* At #2 is Delle Donne with +35.24. Delle Donne is the MVP.<br />
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* We see some familiar names - Griner, Moore, CAtchings, McCoughtry - that we think of when we think of the best players.<br />
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* It has Sancho Lyttle ranked as #5 on a per-game basis, which explains the tailspin the Dream went in when she was off the roster.<br />
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* It puts Skylar Diggins at #10, which explains how much Tulsa was hurt by not having her.<br />
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* It puts Kiah Stokes at #21, and Jewell Loyd at #72. The Morris Points system values Ramu Tokashiki over Jewell Loyd. It gives both Tokashiki and Loyd negative value. Loyd's turnovers and lack of steals really hurt her.<br />
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Does this "prove" anything? I don't know. But it is good to talk about during the off-season.<br />
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1</td>
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<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">LAS</td>
<td style="width: 98pt;" width="130">Candace Parker</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">44.22</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">2</td>
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<td>CHI</td>
<td>Elena Delle Donne</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">35.24</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">3</td>
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<td>PHO</td>
<td>Brittney Griner</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">26.33</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">4</td>
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<td>MIN</td>
<td>Maya Moore</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">25.86</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">5</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Sancho Lyttle</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">23.41</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">6</td>
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<td>IND</td>
<td>Tamika Catchings</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">21.45</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">7</td>
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<td>ATL</td>
<td>Angel McCoughtry</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">19.54</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">8</td>
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<td>PHO</td>
<td>DeWanna Bonner</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">19.05</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">9</td>
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<td>MIN</td>
<td>Sylvia Fowles</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">18.26</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">10</td>
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<td>TUL</td>
<td>Skylar Diggins</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">17.50</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">11</td>
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<td>NYL</td>
<td>Epiphanny Prince</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">16.86</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">12</td>
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<td>WAS</td>
<td>Emma Meesseman</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">14.05</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">13</td>
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<td>CON</td>
<td>Alex Bentley</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.92</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">14</td>
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<td>TUL</td>
<td>Riquna Williams</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.76</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">15</td>
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<td>LAS</td>
<td>Nneka Ogwumike</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.60</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">16</td>
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<td>NYL</td>
<td>Tina Charles</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.16</td>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">17</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Courtney Vandersloot</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">12.77</td>
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<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">18</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>LaToya Sanders</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">12.03</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">19</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Jantel Lavender</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">20</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Rebekkah Brunson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">10.86</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">21</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Kiah Stokes</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.79</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">22</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Jia Perkins</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.61</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">23</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Courtney Paris</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.22</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">24</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Candice Dupree</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.95</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">25</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Cappie Pondexter</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.04</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">26</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Kelsey Bone</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">27</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Karima Christmas</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">28</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Jessica Breland</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">29</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Sophia Young</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.93</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">30</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Shenise Johnson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">31</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Tiffany Hayes</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.39</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">32</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Plenette Pierson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">33</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Odyssey Sims</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.11</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">34</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Erika de Souza</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">35</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Seimone Augustus</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">36</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Jayne Appel</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">37</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Jasmine Thomas</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.19</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">38</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Stefanie Dolson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.15</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">39</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Crystal Langhorne</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">40</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Kayla McBride</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">41</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Alana Beard</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">42</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Alyssa Thomas</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.32</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">43</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Marissa Coleman</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">44</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Kara Lawson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.39</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">45</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Rebecca Allen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">46</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Sue Bird</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">47</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Camille Little</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-0.10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">48</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Shavonte Zellous</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-0.22</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">49</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Monique Currie</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-0.77</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">50</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Kristi Toliver</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">51</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Erin Phillips</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.31</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">52</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Erlana Larkins</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.57</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">53</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Cierra Burdick</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">54</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Matee Ajavon</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">55</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Tierra Ruffin-Pratt</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">56</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Anna Cruz</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-1.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">57</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Mistie Bass</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">58</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Ivory Latta</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">59</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Abby Bishop</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">60</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Brittany Boyd</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">61</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Leilani Mitchell</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.54</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">62</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Ramu Tokashiki</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.75</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">63</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Damiris Dantas</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-2.97</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">64</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Lindsay Whalen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-3.11</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">65</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Sugar Rodgers</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-3.61</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">66</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Briann January</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-3.63</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">67</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Danielle Robinson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-3.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">68</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Alysha Clark</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-3.93</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">69</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Clarissa Dos Santos</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">70</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Kalana Greene</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.30</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">71</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Allie Quigley</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">72</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Jewell Loyd</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">73</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Carla Cortijo</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.75</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">74</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Natasha Cloud</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-4.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">75</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Carolyn Swords</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">76</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Asjha Jones</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">77</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Tayler Hill</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">78</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Shekinna Stricklen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">79</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Alex Montgomery</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">80</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Tanisha Wright</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">81</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Natalie Achonwa</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">82</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Ana Dabovic</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">83</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Marianna Tolo</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-5.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">84</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Temeka Johnson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">85</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Cayla Francis</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">86</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Renee Montgomery</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">87</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Elizabeth Williams</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">88</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Jenna O'Hea</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.34</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">89</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Tamera Young</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">90</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Kayla Pedersen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">91</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Lynetta Kizer</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.83</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">92</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Sydney Colson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-6.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">93</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Chelsea Gray</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.02</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">94</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Vicki Baugh</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">95</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Noelle Quinn</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">96</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Markeisha Gatling</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.43</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">97</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Shoni Schimmel</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.51</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">98</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Aneika Henry</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">99</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Kia Vaughn</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">100</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Danielle Adams</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">101</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Jennifer Lacy</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-7.69</td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">102</td>
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<td>MIN</td>
<td>Devereaux Peters</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-8.03</td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">103</td>
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<td>IND</td>
<td>Layshia Clarendon</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-8.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">104</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Tiffany Jackson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-8.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">105</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Essence Carson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-8.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">106</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Dearica Hamby</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-8.92</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">107</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Brianna Kiesel</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-9.19</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">108</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Angel Goodrich</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-9.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">109</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Kayla Alexander</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-9.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">110</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Natasha Howard</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.06</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">111</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Alex Harden</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">112</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Amanda Zahui B.</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">113</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Betnijah Laney</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.69</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">114</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Jordan Hooper</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.71</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">115</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Cheyenne Parker</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-10.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">116</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Roneeka Hodges</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-11.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">117</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Bria Hartley</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-11.28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">118</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Valeriane Ayayi</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-11.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">119</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Maggie Lucas</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-11.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">120</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Kelly Faris</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-11.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">121</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Armintie Herrington</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">122</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Jennifer Hamson</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">123</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Swin Cash</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">124</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Tess Madgen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">125</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Crystal Bradford</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.52</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">126</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Reshanda Gray</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">127</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Quanitra Hollingsworth</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">128</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TUL</td>
<td>Theresa Plaisance</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.89</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">129</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Jamierra Faulkner</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-12.90</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">130</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Farhiya Abdi</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-13.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">131</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Kayla Thornton</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-13.35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">132</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Tricia Liston</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-13.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">133</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Jeanette Pohlen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-13.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">134</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Erica Wheeler</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-13.86</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">135</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Nikki Greene</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.15</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">136</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>SEA</td>
<td>Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">137</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Candice Wiggins</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">138</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>DeLisha Milton-Jones</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">139</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Sydney Carter</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.69</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">140</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Sasha Goodlett</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-14.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">141</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Samantha Logic</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-15.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">142</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Marta Xargay</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-15.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">143</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ATL</td>
<td>Nadia Colhado</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-15.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">144</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>NYL</td>
<td>Avery Warley</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-15.97</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">145</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>IND</td>
<td>Briana Gilbreath-Butler</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">146</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Andrea Hoover</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.17</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">147</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Shameka Christon</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">148</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Victoria Macaulay</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">149</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Jennifer O'Neill</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">150</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>WAS</td>
<td>Ally Malott</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-16.89</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">151</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Monica Wright</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-17.01</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">152</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CHI</td>
<td>Jacki Gemelos</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-17.06</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">153</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Jasmine Lister</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-17.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">154</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>PHO</td>
<td>Tiffany Bias</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-18.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">155</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Courtney Clements</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-19.50</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">156</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>MIN</td>
<td>Shae Kelley</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-19.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">157</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>TOT</td>
<td>Brittany Hrynko</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-21.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">158</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>CON</td>
<td>Inga Orekhova</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-22.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td align="right" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">159</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>LAS</td>
<td>Michelle Snow</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">-23.40</td>
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1. The first thing that Tulsa Shock fans should realize - <b><i>nothing is done yet.</i></b> Forget about the announcements on the Tulsa Shock website. Forget about Bill Cameron and forget about the Tulsa World. Until the moving vans are headed out of Tulsa, nothing is a done deal yet. There are very few "hard and fast" rules in the universe and the (potential) relocation of a basketball team isn't physics. We're just in the negotiations stage.<br />
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2. Tulsa has already lost the 66ers, the D-league affiliate of the Oklahoma City Thunder. According to John Klein - that guy at the Tulsa World that never wrote about the Shock except to say "good riddance" - the BOK Center wasn't an option for the Thunder because they only averaged 2,020 ticket sold during the 2013-14 season. Losing the Shock will be the last tie of any sort between Tulsa and professional basketball. Arena football moved out of Tulsa in 2012 and the replacement team shut down in 2014.<br />
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3. Many Tulsans on the internet talk about Tulsa being a bad sports town, but the examples are hard to find. Maybe the perception is more important than the reality.<br />
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4. The Shock still have half a season to play at the BOK Center. Perhaps the plan is for Bill Cameron and David Box to take a tax write-off. The news that the team is moving certainly won't help the team move any tickets.<br />
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Really, Cameron/Box win either way. If there's a fan resurgence, they pocket the increase in ticket sales. If the fans turn their backs on the shock and it shows at the turnstile, it becomes, "<i>See? Told you we had to move."</i><br />
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5. John Klein writes that it will be hard for the Shock to command the attention in the Dallas media market than they could in Tulsa. However, he fails to write two numbers:<br />
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<b>Tulsa population: </b> 400,000<br />
<b>Dallas population: </b> 1,300,000<br />
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By sheer numbers, it will be easier to draw fans in Dallas than Tulsa. Interested Dallasites are already planning their season ticket purchases. If Cameron/Box rent out the American Airlines Center, that could mean synergy with the Mavericks. <br />
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6. These numbers might be the most important ones to look at:<br />
<b><br />2012 Election Results</b><br />
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<b>in Tulsa:</b> Romney 64 percent, Obama 36 percent<br />
<b>in Dallas: </b> Obama 57 percent, Romney 42 percent<br />
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The WNBA fanbase in probably the most liberal fanbase in any professional sport. And Tulsa simply isn't a liberal city. It's a majority-white red city in a very red state. Dallas is a minority-white blue city. A WNBA team is simply more likely to find an audience in Dallas than it is in Tulsa.<br />
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When the Detroit Shock moved to Tulsa, four players decided not to travel with the team. Liz Cambage played a while in Tulsa, and then decided to stay in Australia. I doubt the same will happen if Tulsa moves to Dallas.<br />
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7. If Tulsa wants to save their team, the time is now and Tulsa will have to play hardball to do it. Klein in his article in the Tulsa World mentioned that Tulsa could at least offer the WNBA civic pride and stability. Having Tulsa be the Green Bay Packers of the WNBA is not out of the question.<br />
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If the city really wants WNBA basketball, it will have to show it. The fans will have to make the effort because no one else is going to make it. This will involve getting the <b>#saveourshock </b>hashtag in social media, this will involve networking the patrons of the arts and business in Tulsa, this will involve the city government, this will have to involve everyone, including John Klein and the Tulsa World. <br />
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This should involve, at the very least:<br />
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a) a 2016 season ticket drive, so that Shock fans can show some hard numbers to the WNBA, and<br />
b) a new owner to step up, one that has deep enough pockets so that the team can succeed there.<br />
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8. Unfortunately, Cameron and Box still own the team. They can move it wherever they want. Does Tulsa really want a replacement team, one that is guaranteed to be awful for another four years, one without the media drawing power of a Skylar Diggins? That's a tough question with no easy answer.<br />
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9. I wonder how much the staph infections that hit the team in 2010 and 2012 had to do with this move. <br />
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10. Just remember: hope isn't over. The Dream have gone through not one, but two changes of franchise ownership. And like I said, the team isn't moved until the moving vans head out. As we learned with the Sparks, a month in basketball can be an eternity.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-49556592762537211542015-07-17T10:56:00.000-04:002015-07-17T10:57:02.258-04:00Some people take the threat of the Shock moving seriously<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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See those people up there wearing what look like yellow shirts?<br />
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Those are members of the Tulsa City Council. The yellow shirts are "Save Our Shock" t-shirts.<br />
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I don't know whether or not there's any real intent to move the Shock out of Tulsa, but the Save our Shock movement is taking on momentum of its own. Whether it's just to support the Shock or to prevent an actual move, it's a good thing to see people giving high priority to the Tulsa Shock.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-49409466835994911002015-07-14T15:46:00.003-04:002015-07-14T15:46:53.800-04:00Connecticut Sun gets marquee sponsorship<br />
Remember how in an earlier post I claimed that Connecticut didn't have a jersey sponsorship because the team is named after the resort they played in? Guess I was wrong!<br />
<a href="http://sun.wnba.com/news/frontier-communications-becomes-marquee-sponsor-of-connecticut-sun/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://sun.wnba.com/news/frontier-communications-becomes-marquee-sponsor-of-connecticut-sun/" target="_blank">The Sun just announced a marquee sponsorship with Frontier Communications</a>. The new agreement will "be prominently positioned on the front of Connecticut Sun home and road jerseys" according to the agreement. The brand will be placed on the basketball stanchions as well. (I always wanted to know what those things were that held up the goal.)<br />
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This leaves Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington as the only teams that do not have a jersey sponsorship - I believe that nine jersey sponsorships are the most the league has ever had. The only team that has never had a jersey sponsorship is Atlanta.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-33418886801622720822015-07-14T10:01:00.005-04:002015-07-14T10:01:49.908-04:00Rumors of Tulsa relocating to Dallas?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/shock/from-the-blogs-is-the-tulsa-shock-leaving-tulsa/article_afbc929a-20bb-53e7-bbe3-5762ac632adb.html#user-comment-area" target="_blank">A blog posted in the Tulsa World</a> discussed the possibility that the 2015 season might be the Shock's final season in Tulsa. According to Dillon Holingsworth:<br /><br /><b>"A persistent rumor is circulating: At least a portion of the Shock’s ownership is interested in moving the team to Dallas."</b><br /><br />He doesn't say where the rumor is coming from, just that it exists. Dillon Hollingsworth decided to reach out to Shock ownership, but aside from one minority owner who stated that such plans were "erroneous", he was unable to reach majority owner Bill Cameron.<br /><br />That shouldn't be a surprise. Majority owners of WNBA clubs tend to be very busy people and they tend not to sit down with reporters as a general rule. (Else, the media requests would never end.) I also don't agree with the statement "If the rumor was false, one might think the owners would want to squash it publicly." As anyone who has read a newspaper knows, a squashed rumor is often used to stoke a fire - "hey, there must be some credence to the rumor; else why the push to deny it?"<br /><br />More interesting is the target of this rumored move -<i> Dallas</i>. Dallas hasn't generally been connected with the WNBA or WNBA moves in the past. You'd think the owner of a prospective Dallas franchise might be Mark Cuban, but he's shown no interest in owning one. (At least he's not negative about it.) It could be that he might be interested in having an existing WNBA team rent his arena over the summer, so why not Tulsa?<br /><br />Dallas does have some women's basketball background. It was the previous home of the Dallas Diamonds back in the last 1970s, when the Women's Pro Basketball League existed. The Diamonds were the first pro team of Nancy Lieberman. Dallas never did draw well, but none of the old WBL teams drew well.<br /><br />If a team in the WNBA were to relocate, wouldn't San Francisco be the natural target? Joe Lacob showed interest in acquiring the Los Angeles Sparks, the longer-standing rumor is that he's in line for the next WNBA team to relocate. That rumor might be as true as the Tulsa to Dallas rule. San Francisco with its lesbian and forward-thinking population would be the natural target for a WNBA team.<br /><br />How likely is this rumor to be true? Hard to say. No one would have thought that the Los Angeles Sparks would have an ownership crisis at the end of the 2013, but that happened. If such a thing does happen, it will appropriately hit like the lightning bolt in the Shock logo.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-21268520250697550552015-07-08T09:47:00.001-04:002015-07-08T13:35:21.201-04:00A brief history of jersey sponsorships in the WNBA<br />
<b>June 1, 2009:</b> Phoenix announces the very first WNBA jersey sponsorship. LifeLock, an internet identity-theft protection company, enters a deal with Phoenix which will replace the Mercury logo across the jersey with the LifeLock brand. The sponsorship gets a lot of media attention. The announcement is made just before the start of the 2009 WNBA regular season. It would work out well for LifeLock in 2009 as the Mercury would win the WNBA Championship that year.<br />
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<b>June 5, 2009: </b> Not to be outdone, the Los Angeles Sparks enter a jersey sponsorship with Farmers Insurance. The Farmers Insurance name and logo will appear across the jersey. The deal is announced one day before the start of the regular season on June 6.<br />
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<b>April 21, 2010:</b> The Seattle Storm enter an agreement with Microsoft for a jersey sponsorship. Rather than the Microsoft name and logo, the sponsorship deal places the logo for the search engine Bing across the front of the jersey.<br />
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<b>June 2, 2010:</b> With the 2010 WNBA season already underway, the New York Liberty enter a jersey sponsorship with the Foxwoods Casino. The Foxwoods name and logo will appear across the jersey, bringing the number of WNBA teams with jersey sponsors to four. (*)<br />
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<b>April 7, 2011:</b> The Washington Mystics move the total number of teams having jersey sponsors to five, signing a long-term deal with Inova Health System that is described as "the largest deal in the club's 13-year history". The Inova logo will be substituted for the team name.<br />
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<b>August 22, 2011:</b> The WNBA signs a long term deal with Boost Mobile. This is a league-wide jersey sponsorship which places the Boost Mobile logo on every jersey. Initially, the logo is placed on 10 team jerseys, the only exceptions being Phoenix and San Antonio which have existing business relationships with other long-distance providers. As of this writing, the jersey sponsorship is still in place.<br />
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<b>October 19, 2012: </b> The Indiana Fever announces a partnership with athletic retailer Finish Line for prominent logo placement similar to other deals across the wNBA.<br />
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<b>End 2012: </b> The deals with Farmers Insurance and Foxwoods Casino expire. The loss of the deal with Farmers Insurance is a major reason why Paula Madison would turn the Sparks over to the league at the end of the 2013 regular season. (The Sparks would soon find new ownership.) At the beginning of the 2013 season, the team names will reappear in the front of Sparks and Liberty jerseys.<br />
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<b>January 31, 2013: </b> The Tulsa Shock enter a partnership where the Osage Casino logo will appear across the Shock jerseys. Five teams - Indiana, Phoenix, Seattle, Tulsa, and Washington - will have jersey sponsorships over the 2013 season.<br />
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<b>End 2013: </b> The deal between Phoenix and LifeLock is not renewed.<br />
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<b>January 14, 2014: </b> The San Antonio Silver Stars make two announcements. The first is that they will shortening the team name to the Stars. The second is a sponsorship with locally based grocer H-E-B where the business logo replaces the team name.<br />
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<b>February 3, 2014:</b> The Phoenix Mercury enter into an exclusive partnership with Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort including branding on the Mercury home and away jerseys.<br />
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<b>March 17, 2014: </b> The Mayo Clinic enters an expanded partnership with the Minnesota Lynx. WNBA President Laurel Richie announces the partnership as "the biggest partnership of this sort that we have ever had." Six WNBA teams will wear logos in the coming 2014 seasons.<br />
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<b>May 7, 2014: </b>It is announced that Microsoft/Bing will no longer be a jersey sponsor of the Seattle Storm, ending a four year deal.<br />
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<b>End 2014: </b> The deal between Washington and Inova Healthcare runs out. In the 2015 season, the team name will return to the front of Mystics jerseys.<br />
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<b>May 14, 2015: </b> The Chicago Sky gets its first jersey sponsor. It is announced as the biggest corporate sponsorship in the team's 10-year history, a expanded relationship with Deerfield-based specialty steel distributor Magellan. However, in a difference from other sponsorship deals, the Magellan name will not replace the team's name on the jerseys - the Magellan logo is located on the jersey's upper left shoulder.<br />
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<b>May 21, 2015:</b> EquiTrust Insurance enters a partnership with the Los Angeles Sparks for a jersey sponsorship. The EquiTrust logo will replace the team name on Sparks jerseys.<br />
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<b>June 4, 2015: </b> It is announced one day before the start of the 2015 regular season that DraftKings.com will be a marquee partner of the New York Liberty. This includes a logo substitution for the team name on the jersey. Eight teams now have jersey sponsorships in the WNBA.<br />
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<b>June 20, 2015: </b>The Indiana Fever <a href="http://fever.wnba.com/news/finish-line-renews-marquee-partnership-with-indiana-fever/" target="_blank">renew their deal with Finish Line</a>. <br />
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(*) Technically, the Connecticut Sun's jersey is sponsored - or rather, the very "Sun" name itself represents a sponsorship as the team is owned by the Mohegan Indian tribe and plays in the Mohegan Sun Casino Resort, thus the name.<br />
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Excluding Connecticut, the only WNBA team not to have had a jersey sponsorship at some time in its history is Atlanta.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-80008183726074491822015-07-07T09:01:00.001-04:002015-07-07T11:14:06.656-04:00Are there women's basketball programs that outdraw men's programs? (2015 edition)<br />
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When I was writing for SA, I posted an article about <a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/11/21/3659730/ncaa-womens-basketball-attendance-mens" target="_blank">women's basketball programs that had higher average attendance than men's programs.</a> Now, with new data from the NCAA, I have updated the data to the end of the 2014-15 season!<br />
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So which women's basketball programs over the past five years have been more popular than the men's basketball programs at the same school over the same five years? As it turns out, there are six schools where the women outdraw the men.<br />
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<b>Lowest Ratio of Men's Average Attendance to Women's Average Attendance, 2010-15</b><br />
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 83pt;" width="110"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marist</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63" style="width: 62pt;" width="82">0.73</td>
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</span>Delaware</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">0.88</td>
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</span>Tenn-Martin</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">0.90</td>
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</span>Baylor</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">0.90</td>
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</span>Notre Dame</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">0.93</td>
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</span>Maine</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">0.94</td>
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</span>Hartford</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">1.05</td>
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</span>Bowling Green</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">1.09</td>
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</span>McNeese St.</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">1.11</td>
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</span>North Dakota</td>
<td align="right" class="xl63">1.12</td>
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Marist, Delaware, Tennessee-Martin, Baylor and Notre Dame all have programs where the women outdraw the men. (Apologists arriving in three...two...one....). However, there is greater variance in men's basketball attendance than women's basketball attendance and when men's schools have good years they can eclipse any women's basketball program out there. <br />
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Of course, if there are programs where the women consistently outdraw the men, there must be programs at the bottom of the list where the women's program is eclipsed by the men's. And as you can tell from the numbers posted, the scale is much greater.<br />
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<b>Highest Ratio of Men's Average Attendance to Women's Average Attendance, 2010-15</b><br />
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 77pt;" width="103"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saint Louis</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65" style="width: 83pt;" width="110">12.17</td>
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</span>Georgetown</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.03</td>
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</span>UNLV</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.10</td>
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</span>Memphis</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">14.03</td>
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</span>Utah St.</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">14.82</td>
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</span>Creighton</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">15.59</td>
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</span>Providence</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">17.39</td>
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</span>San Diego St.</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">17.88</td>
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</span>Brigham Young</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">19.75</td>
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</span>Syracuse</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">28.51</td>
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Note that there are programs where the women's program is segregated to an older gymnasium with a reduced seating capacity. Georgetown, Providence, and Creighton are all guilty of that. But would those programs be any better off playing in the men's arenas? Look at poor Syracuse at the bottom. The men can fill their cavernous dome; the women are almost an afterthought.<br />
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Some other numbers of interest:<br />
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There is only one women's basketball school that has increased its attendance every year from 2009 to 2015. That's <b>Furman</b>. In 2009-10, they averaged 257 students per game, and have steadily increased to 312, 372, 422, 428, 461 and 561. Furthermore, they are the only school that has increased its attendance from 2010 to 2015.<br />
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There are other schools, besides Furman that have increased their attendance over the last four seasons. <b> Long Beach State</b> and<b> Longwood</b> have shown increases in attendance each season from 2011 to 2015.<br />
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But the big winner from 2011-2015 is <b>South Carolina</b>. The numbers have ballooned under Dawn Staley's program, moving from 3139 per game to 3952, then 6171, then 12293 per game. The numbers in 2014-15 were good enough to make South Carolina the #1 program in women's average attendance for 2014-15.<br />
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Of course, there are programs that moving in the other direction. What follows are the schools where <b>average attendance has decreased</b> <b>over each of the last four seasons.</b><br />
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Boston University<br />
Connecticut<br />
Georgetown<br />
Loyola (Md.)<br />
Murray State<br />
New Mexico<br />
Seattle<br />
Texas Christian<br />
Texas Tech<br />
Texas-San Antonio<br />
UC-Riverside<br />
Vanderbilt<br />
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There are some big names on this list. There's no name bigger than that of <b>Connecticut</b>. It would take Connecticut fans to explain why the most successful women's basketball program in the United States has been decreasing in attendance since 2011.<br />
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For your amusement, the entire list follows. We use a "sum of averages" method to derive the final ratio.<br />
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<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">MBB</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">WBB</td>
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<td>2010-15</td>
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</span>Marist</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7111</td>
<td align="right">9742</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.73</td>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Delaware</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12473</td>
<td align="right">14102</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.88</td>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tenn-Martin</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8894</td>
<td align="right">9905</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.90</td>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Baylor</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">35069</td>
<td align="right">38878</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.90</td>
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</span>Notre Dame</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">40107</td>
<td align="right">43341</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.93</td>
</tr>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maine</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6680</td>
<td align="right">7115</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">0.94</td>
</tr>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hartford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7977</td>
<td align="right">7630</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.05</td>
</tr>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bowling Green</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9510</td>
<td align="right">8736</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.09</td>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>McNeese St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5417</td>
<td align="right">4892</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.11</td>
</tr>
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<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>North Dakota</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8929</td>
<td align="right">7988</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.12</td>
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<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Middle Tenn. St.</td>
<td align="right">22881</td>
<td align="right">20386</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.12</td>
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<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stanford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">24606</td>
<td align="right">21213</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gonzaga</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">30537</td>
<td align="right">25973</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.18</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Texas A&M</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">34857</td>
<td align="right">28762</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Toledo</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22378</td>
<td align="right">18406</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.22</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>AR Little Rock</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14542</td>
<td align="right">11696</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Connecticut</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">55758</td>
<td align="right">44462</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dartmouth</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4487</td>
<td align="right">3502</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.28</td>
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<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tennessee Tech</td>
<td align="right">8999</td>
<td align="right">7013</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.28</td>
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<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Central Arkansas</td>
<td align="right">6387</td>
<td align="right">4946</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Montana</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19856</td>
<td align="right">14985</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>James Madison</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17535</td>
<td align="right">13066</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.34</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>South Dakota</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8542</td>
<td align="right">6334</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Miss. Valley St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11590</td>
<td align="right">8492</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lehigh</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6228</td>
<td align="right">4548</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Army</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6292</td>
<td align="right">4590</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abilene Christian</td>
<td align="right">1241</td>
<td align="right">905</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tennessee</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">82669</td>
<td align="right">59816</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hampton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">16647</td>
<td align="right">12028</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Canisius</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7406</td>
<td align="right">5350</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iowa St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">67005</td>
<td align="right">48350</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.39</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Umass Lowell</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">933</td>
<td align="right">661</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Texas Tech</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">39310</td>
<td align="right">27843</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wisc. Green Bay</td>
<td align="right">16715</td>
<td align="right">11833</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alcorn St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5210</td>
<td align="right">3640</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.43</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SE Louisiana</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3434</td>
<td align="right">2390</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Dakota St</td>
<td align="right">15102</td>
<td align="right">10441</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fla Gulf Coast</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14346</td>
<td align="right">9900</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grambling St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6632</td>
<td align="right">4543</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cent. Michigan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10217</td>
<td align="right">6921</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Texas St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9687</td>
<td align="right">6561</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Louisiana Tech</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17293</td>
<td align="right">11706</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Penn St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">36367</td>
<td align="right">24454</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>South Alabama</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11040</td>
<td align="right">7410</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chattanooga</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">16253</td>
<td align="right">10740</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.51</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Portland St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4305</td>
<td align="right">2839</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.52</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Navy</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10950</td>
<td align="right">7059</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wyoming</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">26377</td>
<td align="right">16996</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stetson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5459</td>
<td align="right">3517</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sam Houston St.</td>
<td align="right">5649</td>
<td align="right">3636</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Binghamton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14210</td>
<td align="right">9120</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MD Eastern Shore</td>
<td align="right">10948</td>
<td align="right">7011</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>N.J.I.T.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3009</td>
<td align="right">1914</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.57</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New Orleans</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">2914</td>
<td align="right">1842</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eastern Illinois</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6031</td>
<td align="right">3802</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SIU-Edwardsville</td>
<td align="right">8178</td>
<td align="right">5103</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.60</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texas A&M C.C.</td>
<td align="right">6897</td>
<td align="right">4302</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.60</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prairie View A&M</td>
<td align="right">9931</td>
<td align="right">6153</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.61</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. Francis (PA)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5018</td>
<td align="right">3093</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colgate</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3243</td>
<td align="right">1969</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drake</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19270</td>
<td align="right">11586</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oklahoma</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">49066</td>
<td align="right">29350</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nicholls St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3551</td>
<td align="right">2114</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Purdue</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">63358</td>
<td align="right">37615</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E. Tennessee St.</td>
<td align="right">14425</td>
<td align="right">8523</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.69</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sacred Heart</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3202</td>
<td align="right">1883</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Florida A&M</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5612</td>
<td align="right">3292</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Georgia Southern</td>
<td align="right">8320</td>
<td align="right">4873</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.71</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>South Carolina</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">49492</td>
<td align="right">28751</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LA Monroe</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7670</td>
<td align="right">4410</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.74</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texas Pan Amer.</td>
<td align="right">4261</td>
<td align="right">2433</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.75</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Idaho St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9383</td>
<td align="right">5332</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Hampshire</td>
<td align="right">3685</td>
<td align="right">2086</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.77</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Montana St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12597</td>
<td align="right">7128</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.77</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Houston Baptist</td>
<td align="right">3370</td>
<td align="right">1898</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MD Baltimore Cty.</td>
<td align="right">6609</td>
<td align="right">3685</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.79</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>TX San Antonio</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6321</td>
<td align="right">3517</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jackson St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6574</td>
<td align="right">3635</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.81</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Youngstown St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11562</td>
<td align="right">6348</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bethune-Cookman</td>
<td align="right">4823</td>
<td align="right">2616</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.84</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arkansas St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13894</td>
<td align="right">7499</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Southern U.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6361</td>
<td align="right">3413</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.86</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Duke</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">46570</td>
<td align="right">24939</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Campbell</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8277</td>
<td align="right">4432</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alabama A&M</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7471</td>
<td align="right">3981</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>East. Michigan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4913</td>
<td align="right">2611</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Presbyterian</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4339</td>
<td align="right">2301</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.89</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indiana St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">27125</td>
<td align="right">14271</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.90</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tulane</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9475</td>
<td align="right">4895</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sacramento St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3619</td>
<td align="right">1866</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Carolina-Upstate</td>
<td align="right">3434</td>
<td align="right">1766</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>North Florida</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8746</td>
<td align="right">4453</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.96</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>TCU</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22798</td>
<td align="right">11599</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">1.97</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Central Conn. St.</td>
<td align="right">8499</td>
<td align="right">4209</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.02</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Holy Cross</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7944</td>
<td align="right">3898</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.04</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drexel</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9468</td>
<td align="right">4638</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.04</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>S. Carolina St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3802</td>
<td align="right">1858</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.05</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fairleigh Dickinson</td>
<td align="right">3681</td>
<td align="right">1784</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.06</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>N.C. Central</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8461</td>
<td align="right">4081</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.07</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Georgia</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">35184</td>
<td align="right">16942</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Samford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5599</td>
<td align="right">2690</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Howard</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5578</td>
<td align="right">2671</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Texas Southern</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9717</td>
<td align="right">4645</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alabama St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9510</td>
<td align="right">4546</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen F. Austin</td>
<td align="right">13221</td>
<td align="right">6308</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>North Kentucky</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10681</td>
<td align="right">5086</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lipscomb</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9720</td>
<td align="right">4568</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Michigan St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">73529</td>
<td align="right">34509</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Missouri State</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31242</td>
<td align="right">14588</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Louisville</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">107574</td>
<td align="right">49871</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northwestern St.</td>
<td align="right">7984</td>
<td align="right">3698</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Delaware St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5594</td>
<td align="right">2576</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.17</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charleston S.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4277</td>
<td align="right">1935</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Liberty</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10756</td>
<td align="right">4819</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coppin St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4970</td>
<td align="right">2223</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rutgers</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">26081</td>
<td align="right">11657</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>High Point</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7003</td>
<td align="right">3125</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Boston U.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4212</td>
<td align="right">1877</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern Illinois</td>
<td align="right">5511</td>
<td align="right">2452</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Incarnate Word</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">966</td>
<td align="right">428</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.26</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Georgia St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7796</td>
<td align="right">3432</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.27</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nebraska</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">60754</td>
<td align="right">26551</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Loyola (MD)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5299</td>
<td align="right">2313</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New Mexico</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">73829</td>
<td align="right">31972</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.31</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UC Davis</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9727</td>
<td align="right">4166</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kennesaw St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6500</td>
<td align="right">2736</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oregon St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">24651</td>
<td align="right">10372</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LSU</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">41274</td>
<td align="right">17354</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>AR Pine Bluff</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">16388</td>
<td align="right">6857</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.39</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mercer</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12820</td>
<td align="right">5364</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.39</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Princeton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12480</td>
<td align="right">5205</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eastern Wash.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7661</td>
<td align="right">3176</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Norfolk St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10542</td>
<td align="right">4365</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>TX Arlington</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8833</td>
<td align="right">3647</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Morehead St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12885</td>
<td align="right">5305</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.43</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern Colorado</td>
<td align="right">7816</td>
<td align="right">3203</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Harvard</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9151</td>
<td align="right">3750</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fresno St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">33861</td>
<td align="right">13658</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Brown</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5024</td>
<td align="right">2016</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Old Dominion</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">34277</td>
<td align="right">13651</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.51</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CSU Northridge</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5088</td>
<td align="right">2025</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.51</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>N.C. A&T</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10112</td>
<td align="right">4003</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>DePaul</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">35698</td>
<td align="right">14110</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Western Ill.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7207</td>
<td align="right">2834</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.54</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Radford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6629</td>
<td align="right">2599</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UC Riverside</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4278</td>
<td align="right">1674</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maryland</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">65833</td>
<td align="right">25748</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arizona St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">30998</td>
<td align="right">11983</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. Peter's</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4375</td>
<td align="right">1686</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>IUPUI</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5330</td>
<td align="right">2040</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.61</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gardner-Webb</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7468</td>
<td align="right">2829</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.64</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Albany</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13613</td>
<td align="right">5154</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.64</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tennessee St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9959</td>
<td align="right">3768</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.64</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Savannah St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8110</td>
<td align="right">3065</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>San Jose St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8342</td>
<td align="right">3149</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iowa</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">66206</td>
<td align="right">24932</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lamar</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13017</td>
<td align="right">4842</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.69</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bryant</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5339</td>
<td align="right">1961</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Northern Iowa</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23285</td>
<td align="right">8490</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.74</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Auburn</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">32731</td>
<td align="right">11910</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.75</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chicago St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">3833</td>
<td align="right">1392</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.75</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Longwood</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5791</td>
<td align="right">2100</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Idaho</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6560</td>
<td align="right">2375</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iona</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11646</td>
<td align="right">4189</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vanderbilt</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">56533</td>
<td align="right">20178</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Miami (OH)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7732</td>
<td align="right">2752</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.81</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>N.C. Asheville</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8308</td>
<td align="right">2944</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Buffalo</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15139</td>
<td align="right">5362</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Columbia</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7414</td>
<td align="right">2610</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.84</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mizzou KC</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7144</td>
<td align="right">2492</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wagner</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7892</td>
<td align="right">2738</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Elon</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6579</td>
<td align="right">2272</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.90</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rider</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7568</td>
<td align="right">2601</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.91</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>South Florida</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">21275</td>
<td align="right">7258</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.93</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Florida St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">38393</td>
<td align="right">13006</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.95</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nebraska Omaha</td>
<td align="right">5283</td>
<td align="right">1770</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">2.98</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Texas</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">57999</td>
<td align="right">19353</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>IPFW</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7157</td>
<td align="right">2376</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.01</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>West. Kentucky</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">21868</td>
<td align="right">7223</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.03</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jacksonville St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7552</td>
<td align="right">2461</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.07</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>East Carolina</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23156</td>
<td align="right">7522</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Florida Intl.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6259</td>
<td align="right">2033</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Southern Miss</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19800</td>
<td align="right">6350</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Monmouth</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8647</td>
<td align="right">2770</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lafayette</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8673</td>
<td align="right">2762</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kansas St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">62637</td>
<td align="right">19944</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SE Missouri St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11147</td>
<td align="right">3542</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.15</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>West. Michigan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13623</td>
<td align="right">4297</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.17</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jacksonville</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7025</td>
<td align="right">2193</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.20</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Florida Atlantic</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7657</td>
<td align="right">2388</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern Arizona</td>
<td align="right">5675</td>
<td align="right">1767</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furman</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7243</td>
<td align="right">2244</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Quinnipiac</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9346</td>
<td align="right">2894</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pacific</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11677</td>
<td align="right">3598</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Virginia</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">55421</td>
<td align="right">17052</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Troy</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8821</td>
<td align="right">2709</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.26</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Duquesne</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15673</td>
<td align="right">4783</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Morgan St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9875</td>
<td align="right">3008</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Appalachian St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7787</td>
<td align="right">2343</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.32</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Robert Morris</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6381</td>
<td align="right">1919</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vermont</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11981</td>
<td align="right">3591</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.34</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mississippi St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">33616</td>
<td align="right">10024</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UTEP</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">41336</td>
<td align="right">12268</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oral Roberts</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19988</td>
<td align="right">5929</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Towson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9098</td>
<td align="right">2693</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yale</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6780</td>
<td align="right">2006</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Southern Utah</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10485</td>
<td align="right">3099</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>North Dakota St</td>
<td align="right">15187</td>
<td align="right">4464</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Murray St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23714</td>
<td align="right">6947</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stony Brook</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9024</td>
<td align="right">2640</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cal Poly</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11063</td>
<td align="right">3230</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.43</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ball St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15999</td>
<td align="right">4624</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Virginia Tech</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">34085</td>
<td align="right">9835</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colorado</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">43980</td>
<td align="right">12465</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>American U.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7644</td>
<td align="right">2166</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>California</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">40575</td>
<td align="right">11417</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CSU Bakersfield</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7004</td>
<td align="right">1969</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coastal Carolina</td>
<td align="right">9157</td>
<td align="right">2560</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charlotte</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">27650</td>
<td align="right">7711</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>N.C. Wilmington</td>
<td align="right">17564</td>
<td align="right">4875</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.60</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fordham</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10710</td>
<td align="right">2967</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.61</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Illinois St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">26285</td>
<td align="right">7269</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Austin Peay</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13399</td>
<td align="right">3702</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Long Island</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8066</td>
<td align="right">2225</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.63</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>North Texas</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">16135</td>
<td align="right">4410</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kentucky</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">116959</td>
<td align="right">31896</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. Joseph's</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">20730</td>
<td align="right">5646</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Boise St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">27932</td>
<td align="right">7518</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Minnesota</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">61058</td>
<td align="right">16422</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ohio St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">79282</td>
<td align="right">21302</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Winthrop</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8148</td>
<td align="right">2183</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colorado St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23552</td>
<td align="right">6265</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>West Virginia</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">48994</td>
<td align="right">13012</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.77</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oklahoma St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">47794</td>
<td align="right">12641</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hofstra</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10714</td>
<td align="right">2824</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.79</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hawaii</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31344</td>
<td align="right">8246</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fairfield</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11076</td>
<td align="right">2913</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>San Francisco</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10000</td>
<td align="right">2625</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.81</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Washington</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">39352</td>
<td align="right">10302</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Belmont</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11252</td>
<td align="right">2930</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.84</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Temple</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31739</td>
<td align="right">8251</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mount St. Mary's</td>
<td align="right">6204</td>
<td align="right">1596</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.89</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UCSB</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13733</td>
<td align="right">3514</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.91</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wisconsin</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">85637</td>
<td align="right">21887</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.91</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South. Methodist</td>
<td align="right">20023</td>
<td align="right">5110</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.92</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rice</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8457</td>
<td align="right">2140</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.95</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Santa Clara</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9755</td>
<td align="right">2468</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.95</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geo. Washington</td>
<td align="right">13570</td>
<td align="right">3399</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">3.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. Francis (NY)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">4033</td>
<td align="right">975</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oregon</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">37242</td>
<td align="right">9003</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Niagara</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7252</td>
<td align="right">1743</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Western Carolina</td>
<td align="right">9036</td>
<td align="right">2163</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.18</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pepperdine</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6241</td>
<td align="right">1478</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.22</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>USC</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">20826</td>
<td align="right">4923</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Miami (FL)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">25401</td>
<td align="right">5977</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>San Diego</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10949</td>
<td align="right">2553</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UCLA</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">39508</td>
<td align="right">9011</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wichita St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">52669</td>
<td align="right">11410</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Georgia Tech</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31174</td>
<td align="right">6697</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Long Beach St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17152</td>
<td align="right">3672</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oakland</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14369</td>
<td align="right">3050</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.71</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UC Irvine</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">9385</td>
<td align="right">1989</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Boston College</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22760</td>
<td align="right">4739</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wisc. Milwaukee</td>
<td align="right">16555</td>
<td align="right">3417</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.84</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Washington St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22783</td>
<td align="right">4681</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cornell</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10430</td>
<td align="right">2139</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CSU Fullerton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">6130</td>
<td align="right">1245</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.92</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Portland</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10966</td>
<td align="right">2222</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">4.94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wofford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">7687</td>
<td align="right">1533</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.01</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Manhattan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8059</td>
<td align="right">1594</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.06</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loyola Marymnt</td>
<td align="right">11059</td>
<td align="right">2177</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Illinois-Chicago</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14843</td>
<td align="right">2893</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Northwestern</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31285</td>
<td align="right">6089</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>William & Mary</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">13106</td>
<td align="right">2532</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.18</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Northeastern</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">8056</td>
<td align="right">1547</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Akron</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">16866</td>
<td align="right">3220</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Air Force</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11066</td>
<td align="right">2079</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.32</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevada</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">28462</td>
<td align="right">5340</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pittsburgh</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">50887</td>
<td align="right">9488</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rhode Island</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22502</td>
<td align="right">4194</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.37</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dayton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">62193</td>
<td align="right">11560</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. John's</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">38688</td>
<td align="right">7079</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Bonaventure</td>
<td align="right">19377</td>
<td align="right">3529</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pennsylvania</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19831</td>
<td align="right">3569</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.56</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Loyola (IL)</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">10656</td>
<td align="right">1904</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.60</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kent St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15679</td>
<td align="right">2765</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.67</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Michigan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">59228</td>
<td align="right">10424</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New Mexico St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">29743</td>
<td align="right">5145</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Houston</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17194</td>
<td align="right">2880</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.97</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mississippi</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">32725</td>
<td align="right">5461</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">5.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>George Mason</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">24617</td>
<td align="right">4057</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.07</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seattle</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14536</td>
<td align="right">2386</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alabama</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">55557</td>
<td align="right">9071</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Detroit</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11991</td>
<td align="right">1917</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.26</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evansville</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23278</td>
<td align="right">3705</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Denver</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17242</td>
<td align="right">2711</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>St. Mary's</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">14432</td>
<td align="right">2247</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Missouri</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">51858</td>
<td align="right">8051</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Valparaiso</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15817</td>
<td align="right">2422</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eastern Kentucky</td>
<td align="right">12478</td>
<td align="right">1906</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>La Salle</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12478</td>
<td align="right">1904</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bucknell</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">15292</td>
<td align="right">2320</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kansas</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">82139</td>
<td align="right">12356</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>North Carolina</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">96260</td>
<td align="right">14458</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Xavier</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">49922</td>
<td align="right">7458</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.69</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>N.C. St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">71715</td>
<td align="right">10657</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tulsa</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23972</td>
<td align="right">3503</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.84</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arkansas</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">68272</td>
<td align="right">9895</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">6.90</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Utah Valley</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">11551</td>
<td align="right">1651</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indiana</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">82780</td>
<td align="right">11732</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.06</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UCF</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">26001</td>
<td align="right">3535</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Florida</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">53338</td>
<td align="right">7141</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bradley</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">34978</td>
<td align="right">4682</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LA Lafayette</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">17052</td>
<td align="right">2273</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.50</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ohio</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">31513</td>
<td align="right">4072</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.74</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weber St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">32584</td>
<td align="right">4146</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.86</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UAB</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">21411</td>
<td align="right">2679</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">7.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Richmond</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">29280</td>
<td align="right">3621</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.09</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marshall</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">27092</td>
<td align="right">3313</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.18</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arizona</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">70405</td>
<td align="right">8496</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grand Canyon</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">5413</td>
<td align="right">644</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>N.C. Greensboro</td>
<td align="right">15728</td>
<td align="right">1871</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Southern Ill.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">22614</td>
<td align="right">2690</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.41</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cleveland St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">12771</td>
<td align="right">1493</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Davidson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">19819</td>
<td align="right">2273</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.72</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wright St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">21108</td>
<td align="right">2400</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charleston</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">18373</td>
<td align="right">2071</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">8.87</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Clemson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">38981</td>
<td align="right">4317</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.03</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Illinois</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">75748</td>
<td align="right">8190</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Siena</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">32445</td>
<td align="right">3502</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.26</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marquette</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">74741</td>
<td align="right">7603</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.83</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cincinnati</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">42567</td>
<td align="right">4270</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">9.97</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Massachusetts</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">23931</td>
<td align="right">2373</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">10.08</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Utah</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">47839</td>
<td align="right">4321</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.07</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wake Forest</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">46173</td>
<td align="right">4157</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.11</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seton Hall</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">35836</td>
<td align="right">3192</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Villanova</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">46038</td>
<td align="right">4054</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.36</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td colspan="2" height="19" style="height: 14.4pt; mso-ignore: colspan;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VA Commonwealth</td>
<td align="right">37339</td>
<td align="right">3223</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Butler</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">36837</td>
<td align="right">3080</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">11.96</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Saint Louis</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">37189</td>
<td align="right">3055</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">12.17</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Georgetown</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">53169</td>
<td align="right">4082</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.03</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UNLV</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">67356</td>
<td align="right">5143</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">13.10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Memphis</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">79374</td>
<td align="right">5658</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">14.03</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Utah St.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">44062</td>
<td align="right">2974</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">14.82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Creighton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">82271</td>
<td align="right">5276</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">15.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;">
<td height="19" style="height: 14.4pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Providence</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right">39659</td>
<td align="right">2281</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">17.39</td>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-31730505373027686322015-07-06T10:46:00.005-04:002015-07-06T10:47:00.891-04:00We all want better coverage!<br />
No new material right now. One of the goals of this blog is to put up information that you just can't find anywhere else. And unfortunately, since women's basketball doesn't have the advantage of big data the way that men's basketball does, fans are forced to collect the data themselves. So I'm working on some stuff about roster turnover right now. It should be interesting, but it is time-consuming.<br />
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Here are a couple of articles worth reading while you wait.<br />
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WNBA President Laurel Richie told USA today that <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2015/07/03/laurel-richie-wants-wnba-in-the-news/29649871/" target="_blank">she wants the WNBA to be treated like one of the major sports.</a><br />
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<b>"My wish is that we get covered like any other sports league. I want more coverage and I want more discussion of the game and I want more discussion of our players," Richie said. "I feel like sometimes we get covered as good girls playing a good game of basketball and isn't it good for young girls to see these role models."</b><br />
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Yep, unfortunately that tends to be the trend when MediaMart (like WalMart, but for Media) covers the WNBA. Either that, or leaping to report all about the latest error/scandal and nothing about the league's accomplishments. Maybe when sports departments aren't 95 plus percent male, that will happen.<br />
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The New Inquiry has an article by Autumn Whitefiled-Madrano called "Watching Women Want". <a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/the-beheld/watching-women-want/" target="_blank">It's definitely worth a read. The author writes the following about the Women's World Cup</a>:<br />
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<b>What moves me is the players’ faces, and watching women want. It’s not hard to find images of women in the public act of doing beyond what’s been allotted by tired stereotypes. We see women legislating, creating, speaking, protesting—images that weren’t available just a couple of generations ago. But we still don’t often see women in the act of <i>wanting</i>. And we need to see this, because when you’re in the act of wanting something badly enough, there isn’t room for self-consciousness. How you look, your stance, your hair, your makeup, whether you appear pretty, your sex appeal: all of these things that coalesce in my brain, and maybe yours, to form a hum so low and so constant that I take it as a state of being—and when you want, they disappear. When you want, the want goes to the fore. The you can take a backseat.</b><br />
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Maybe the WNBA should communicate more of the act of wanting, the screams, the passion, the I-don't-give-a-damn. I'm not an experts at how the genders are socialized, but it doesn't take a radical to see that a lot of times, people are conditioned not to want for themselves, <i>but to want what other people want</i>. It's a radical act to stand up and say "I want this!" We need to see less of WNBA athletes smiling for the camera with perfect hair, and more WNBA athletes in game face glory, without apologies.<br />
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So I want better coverage of the WNBA, and I want it now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-59714163583572018142015-07-03T14:23:00.001-04:002015-07-03T14:23:09.496-04:00Understanding Power Conferences - some conclusions<br /><br />There will always be a subjective component in what makes a power conference. However, we can at least start with an outline of what makes a power conference a power conference. Reading the "Frank the Tank" website gave me insight.<br /><br />Basically his argument is that power conference value corresponds to a set of categories and how well the schools in the conference score in those categories <i>as a group of schools</i>. Note that he excludes sports other than football or basketball. <i>I agree</i>. Your conference might have 12 National Hockey championships but no one is going to call it a "power conference". <i>Power conference for the most part means power football conference.</i><br /><br />So here is a proposed metric. How you award the points would be up to you.<br /><br /><b>Football brand value (30 points)</b>: Clearly, this is what makes a power conference a power conference, because the revenue generated by football is massive compared to the revenue generated by other sports. Note that in this category, we put more weight on historical record and financial backing than we put on recent success. Even if the schools are having bad years in a power conference, those schools and the conference can still sell out their seats.<br /><br /><b>National TV value (15 points):</b> How much interest nationwide do these teams draw on television? Does the conference have major deals with national networks? <br /><br /><b>Local TV value (10 points): </b> How much interest do each of the power conference teams draw in their local markets? Are their local markets large or small?<br /><br /><b>Demographics/football recruiting value (20 points):</b> What is the relative strength of high school football in the areas where the schools are located? A power conference is more likely to have teams in recruiting hotbeds (Texas, Florida, California) than not.<br /><br /><b>Academics (5 to 25 points): </b> This really depends on the individual conference. Some conferences like the Big Ten prize schools with good academics, others like the Big 12 less so.<br /><br /><b>Basketball value (5 to 10 points):</b> Basketball success might be the tipping point for a marginal conference being considered as a power conference, but basketball prowess by itself won't make a set of schools a power conference.<br /><br /><b>Geographic value (5 points): </b> Are the schools in the conference "fairly close" to each other? Obviously the further west you go the more elastic you can be with distance. The states in which the schools are located should be contiguous with very few outliers. This should be an all-or-nothing value: either the conference gets the full point total or it doesn't.<br /><br /><b>Upside potential/monopoly power (10 points)</b>: By monopoly power this means that the schools involved in the conference are the biggest schools in their states. If not, are the schools flagship schools? Are they academically elite schools? Do they have a proven basketball fan base? Are they making/have they made major investments in facilities?<br /><br /><b>Historic rivalries/cultural fit (0 to 5 points): </b> Do the schools have long lasting rivalries with each other? Do the schools seem to be relatively "of the same type"? <br /><br />Now comes the conclusions:<br /><br />Clearly, the "Power Five" would score high in all of the above. By "Power 5" we mean the ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the SEC and the Pac-12 - although the ACC is geographically overstretched.<br /><br />The "Big East" is not a power conference, period. It has no football schools. The End.<br /><br />The American/AAC is not a power conference. It doesn't have much football brand value or national TV value. Its schools are very overstretched geographically. It has no natural rivalries (unlike the Big East) and its schools are not "of the same type". Frankly, some of its schools, <b>Connecticut</b> especially, are just waiting to be poached by some other power conference looking to add members.<br />
<br />This concludes today's lecture on power conferences.<br /><br /><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-55195770399383181912015-07-02T06:26:00.001-04:002015-07-02T06:26:49.961-04:00The Google Ngram Viewer and women's basketball<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You might wonder what the graph above represents. This is actually the result of something called the "Google Ngram Viewer", <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=women%27s+basketball&year_start=1892&year_end=2015&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwomen%20%27s%20basketball%3B%2Cc0" target="_blank">which can be found here</a>. Google explains what the Ngram Viewer does thusly:<br />
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I then selected the phrase "women's basketball" and asked Google to check all English books and determine how frequently this phrase occurred in books between the years 1892 (when basketball was invented) and 2008, the maximum years allowed in searching. <br />
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<b>So why is the graph shaped the way it is? </b>I suspect the big bump occurring after 1970 has a lot to do with Title IX, when women's basketball began to receive financial support. <br />
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It's hard to tell from the distorted graph, but there's another leap between 1978 and 1980, the years of the first women's pro basketball league, the WBL.<br />
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The graph peaks in 1985, and then begins to drop between the years 1985-90 and begins to skyrocket up, peaking in 1998. So it looks like a peak in women's basketball - or at least a peak in the popularity of the term "women's basketball" - predated the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the famous Dream team.<br />
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However, the peak begins to fade starting in 1999. It keeps dropping until 2006, and then it starts to rise again. I have no theory that explains that phenomenon. Economic contraction? An increase in conservatism coinciding with the Iraq War? Your guess is as good as mine. But I am glad that the graph has started an upturn. Unfortunately, we don't know what's going on after 2008, when the graph stops. <br />
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Does any of this prove anything? No. But it is interesting to look at!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-66099639795006856032015-07-01T11:08:00.003-04:002015-07-01T11:08:40.100-04:00NCAA Women's Basketball 2014-15 : How Tall, How Small<br />
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I've gathered up some statistics from <a href="http://wbbstate.com/">wbbstate.com</a>, which is a great site for women's basketball statistics. Sometimes their stats might not be accurate, sometimes the data has formatting issues, sometimes a certain school doesn't supply height data (I'm looking at YOU, Grambling State) and you just have to sigh.<br /><br />It's interesting looking at the height data. Yes, we all know that in basketball, you never know anyone's real height until you're standing next to them - sure, Ivory Latta is 5-6, if she's standing on a box. So here are some interesting facts and figures about player height in the 2014-15 season.<br /><br />The shortest player is listed at 4-8: Missouri State's Kori Farmer. She'll be a sophomore in 2015-16 if she hangs around, assuring her the title of shortest player for at least a few more seasons.<br />
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The tallest player is listed at 6-8: Nevada's Mimi Mungedi. She was a senior in 2014-15 and was drafted in the third round by the Tulsa Shock. Height will certainly get you a look in the pros. But she was the first player cut by Tulsa.<br />
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<br />We have 4,322 heights ranging over 5 positions: Guard, Guard/Forward, Forward, Forward/Center, Center.<br /><br />The average player height in Division I is 70.4 inches, or around 5-10 1/2<br /><br />There are 2,350 guards listed, the most common position. The average guard height is 68.2, or 5-8.<br />There are 226 guard/forwards listed. The average guard/forward height is 71.1, or 5-11.<br />There are 1,306 forwards listed. The average forward height is 72.7, or 6-0 1/2.<br />There are 140 forward/centers listed. The average forward/center height is 74.2, or 6-2.<br />There are 300 centers listed. The average center height is 75.0, or 6-3.<br /><br />Here is how player heights break down:<br /><br />4-08: 1 player<br />4-09: 0 players<br />4-10: 0 players<br />4-11: 1 player<br />5-00: 0 players<br />5-01: 2 players<br />5-02: 14 players<br />5-03: 41 players<br />5-04: 71 players<br />5-05: 141 players<br />5-06: 206 players<br />5-07: 366 players<br />5-08: 437 players<br />5-09: 470 players<br />5-10: 475 players<br />5-11: 343 players<br />6-00: 473 players<br />6-01: 462 players<br />6-02: 386 players<br />6-03: 250 players<br />6-04: 126 players<br />6-05: 45 players<br />6-06: 8 players<br />6-07: 3 players<br />6-08: 1 player<br /><br />Since we know so much about player heights, what about team heights? Is there a way to determine the tallest team in women's basketball over 2014-15, or the shortest team?<br /><br />We have to be very careful here. Just because a team has a tall player, does that make the team tall? If all the short players get lots of minutes and the tall player barely plays, we really can't say that the team is tall? <i>We have to weight player heights by minutes played</i>. Basically, the more a player plays, the more credit her height will be given in the final calculation.<br /><br />Here are the top 11 tallest teams in NCAA Divsion I last season. <br /><br />1. Duke, 73.8 inches<br />2. Oregon State, 73.1 inches<br />3. Gonzaga, 72.9 inches<br />4. California, 72.7 inches<br />5. Utah, 72.6 inches<br />6. Penn State, 72.5 inches<br />7. Colorado, 72.3 inches<br />8. Harvard, 72.2 inches<br />9. Wisconsin, 72.2 inches<br />10. West Virginia, 72.2 inches<br />11. Nevada, 72.1 inches<br /><br />I chose 11 instead of 10 teams, because these 11 teams are the only ones with an average weighted-by-minutes-played team height that was greater than 6 feet.<br /><br />Here are the 10 shortest teams in NCAA Division I last season.<br /><br />1. Lamar, 67.9 inches<br />2. Northwestern State, 68.0 inches<br />3. Southeastern Louisiana, 68.2 inches<br />4. North Carolina-Wilmington, 68.2 inches<br />5. Sacramento State, 68.2 inches<br />6. Farleigh Dickinson, 68.2 inches<br />7. North Carolina-Asheville, 68.3 inches<br />8. Norfolk State, 68.3 inches<br />9. California-Riverside, 68.3 inches<br />10. Kennesaw State, 68.4 inches.<br /><br />Last year's national champion, Connecticut? They ranked #24 in height at 71.7 inches.<br /><br />The smallest team among "Power Five" conferences? <i> North Carolina State</i>, which is ranked #265 out of 348 teams with a weighted height of 69.5 inches.<br /><br /><i>Does height matter? </i>Of the top ten teams in height, five of them - Utah, Penn State, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Nevada - had losing records. One, Harvard, had a .500 record. The statistical correlation between team height and win percentage is +0.20 - at best, a weak correlation. Having height might be nice, but it's no guarantee to win games. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-90654327596323379862015-06-30T14:15:00.001-04:002015-06-30T14:17:04.144-04:00The Hall of Fame Projector (2014) - "Everybody Else"<br />
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Let's now look at the players who are in the "everybody else" categories. The Projector classifies these players as<br />
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<b>Could go either way</b> (70-79 percent)<br />
<b>Dark horses</b> (60-69 percent)<br />
<b>Longshot</b>s (50-59 percent)<br />
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We have two players in each of these categories. Let's look at their careers and try to figure out where they stand. One of these players is already in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.<br />
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<b>Katie Douglas (73 percent)</b>: Has one ring with the Indiana Fever. Has six "All-Star Type" selections. Not a lot of MVP buzz around Douglas though. Generally, the Hall of Fame belongs to those players that you could plausibly say might be the best ever in some way, and I've never heard Douglas mentioned as the "Best Ever at _______".<br />
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Not to say that Douglas wasn't a very good player. She was never named to an Olympic team. Her selection to the WBHOF might hinge on her college career - she did help lead Purdue to it's only NCAA women's basketball championship in 1999 and to a Final Four appearance in 2001.<br />
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<b>Carolyn Young (71 percent)</b>: Young only played in 131 games in the ABL and the WNBA. She was a leading scorer in the ABL and holds several records for the league but only played a couple of seasons in the WNBA in 2001 and 2002 for Portland. When Portland folded, so did her career. Even though she played for a couple of Final Four teams in Auburn, I don't think she'll make the WBHOF.<br />
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<b>Adrienne Goodson (67 percent)</b>: Goodson lost many years to playing in Brazil. At around the age of 30 she played for the Philadelphia/Richmond Rage of the ABL and then went over to the WNBA, playing for Utah, San Antonio, Houston and Charlotte. She is 33rd all time in the WNBA in rebounds per game at 5.1. She won an NCAA Championship with Old Dominion way back in 1985, but I don't think anyone's clamoring to put Goodson in the WBHOF.<br />
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<b>Penny Taylor (67 percent)</b>: Penny Taylor has played in the WNBA since 2001 but only sporadically - she has only eight seasons out of a possible 15. She was a three-time MVP in the Women's National Basketball League of Australia and has made several appearances for the Opals in the Olympics and FIBA World Championshps. She's played with domestic championship women's teams in Italy, Russia and Turkey. The Projector only considers her years in the United States, so even though she scores low she'll probably get in considering her accomplishments for Australian and for European teams.<br />
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<b>Jennifer Gillom (55 percent)</b>: Gillom is another one of those early players who lost time due to lack of a professional league. It didn't seem to hurt her candidacy for the Hall of Fame - <i>she was named to the WBHOF in 2009</i>, probably on the strength of her college career at Mississippi from 1982-1986 and a 16 year career playing professionally in Italy, Greece and Turkey.<br />
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<b>Cheryl Ford (51 percent): </b>Ford, the daughter of Karl Malone of the NBA, player her college basketball at Louisiana Tech. She was the #3 overall pick in the 2003 WNBA Draft by the Detroit Shock and played seven seasons there, averaging ad ouble-double per game and earning three rings.<br />
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When Detroit's franchise was moved to Tulsa. Ford was cored by the new Tulsa Shock, but she had torn her ACL in 2008 and couldn't play in the 2010 season because her knees were inflamed. She decided to remain overseason until Bill Laimbeer signed Ford to play for the Liberty in 2013, but her knees had given out on her and she was cut by the team. Who knows what Cheryl Ford could have done with a few more healthy years?<br />
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There is also a list of players not considered because they simply haven't played enough games yet to make the Hall of Fame Projector. Maya Moore has 136 games as of the end of 2014 and will undoubtedly qualify at the end of this season, and she'll probably have a 100 percent score.<br />
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Next behind her is Elena Delle Donne. Elena Delle Donne is only at 32 percent, due to not having a lot of games, or rings, or MVP votes or All-Star selections. Something tells me that by the time she does have enough games to qualify, none of those other factors will be a problem.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-76066433753188622492015-06-30T11:16:00.005-04:002015-06-30T11:16:50.958-04:00How can the WNBA break out of the "niche" category?<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/sports/basketball/womens-teams-still-struggle-for-fans.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">The New York Times recently posted an article </a>called "Women's Teams Still Struggle for Fans". The focus was on women's basketball, and its the kind of article where a 95 percent male sports department sticks its collective finger it its nose, says, "Gee, why don't people watch women's sports?" and goes back to devoting 95 percent of its coverage to men's sports. (<i>In Atlanta, it's 98 percent of the coverage.</i>)<br /><br />I thought about what I had read, and I began looking on line. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/will-lacrosse-ever-go-mainstream/255690/" target="_blank">I found an article from The Atlantic written in 2012</a>, written about a different sport, lacrosse. The question was "Will Lacrosse Ever Go Mainstream?" <br /><br />The questions asked in that article are very pertinent to women's basketball. The writer, Kevin Craft, identifies what he thinks a sport needs to break out of the niche and into popular culture.<br /><br />
1) <b>Is there a crystallizing event that can help the sport get a toehold in the market? </b> For women's basketball, that event was the 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta. The USA women's basketball team got great ratings. The ratings were enough of an impetus to start the American Basketball League in 1996 (co-founded by US Olympian Jennifer Azzi) and the WNBA one year later.<br /><br />2) <b>Are there sports appropriate venues?</b> In order for a sport to get buzz, it has to look like its games are well-attended. <br /><br />Here is where the WNBA has a problem - its venues really don't work well for it. Its venues are NBA pro stadiums, which are sized for NBA crowds, crowds that took fifty years to grow. And this problem can't be solved as long as either a) NBA owners put WNBA teams in their NBA arena or b) independent WNBA owners rent NBA arenas. <br /><br />There are only three arenas in the WNBA that don't serve as NBA arenas. One, Key Arena, is an ex-NBA arena. The other two are Allstate Arena in Rosemont and the Mohegan Sun Arena. The crowds show up very well on screen during a Mohegan Sun game. If a core of committed fans can be depended to show up, they can fill small arenas at first, and then larger arenas later.<br /><br />3) <b>Do the characteristics of the sport mesh with long-term social trends?</b> The "basketball" part of women's basketball is a plus. Sports where movement is constant should become more popular as the culture moves more quickly. As for the "women's" part of women's basketball, women's liberation is still a work in progress and the sport still has to fight the typical male chauvinism.<br />
<br />4) <b>Will parents pass on the love of the sport to their children? </b> This is the big one. Women's basketball needs some heavy evangelization. There needs to be an emphasis at the grass roots level, and I don't mean high school basketball - I mean at the elementary/middle school level. This is hard, since there is a lot of social pressure on young girls to be "girly" as opposed to "sporty". There is still some work to do here. <br /><br />If I were running the WNBA, my efforts would be focused on the grassroots and attempting to move the games into cozier venues. Yes, I know that people think that a pro venue adds legitimacy for some strange reason. I disagree - playing in an empty cavern doesn't do anyone any good. If financial reality means that WNBA teams are wed to NBA arenas, then the seating/television angles have to be changed in order to provide a real crowd experience that not only shows well on TV but electrifies the arena.<br /><br />As for the grassroots, I don't know how that piece of the puzzle is solved. It's one thing to make an occasional appearance at an elementary school, but it's another to grow a culture where girls can succeed as basketball all the way up from elementary school to high school to college. Philadelphia had that kind of culture with its Catholic Leagues. Transplanting that culture will be the big challenge.<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-63105145287699516002015-06-29T11:24:00.003-04:002015-06-29T11:24:35.584-04:00The Hall of Fame Projector (2014) - The "Strong Candidates"<br />The next list of five players scored between 80 to 89 percent on the Hall of Fame Projector. The people over at basketball-reference.com would call these players "Strong Candidates" for a future Hall of Fame membership. One of these players is already in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame but it might take some consideration for the other ones.<br /><br /><b>Deanna Nolan (88 percent) : </b>Nolan is an odd case. She's 30th all time in Win Shares with 31.3, she has three WNBA championship titles. She falls a little short in MVP votes and All-Star (or Olympic/FIBA) selections, but there's a reason for that.<br /><br />At the end of the 2009 season, the Detroit Shock franchise was transferred to Tulsa. Nolan had played nine years with the Shock. She stated that she didn't see herself personally willing to relocate and start with a rebuilding squad, and decided to not return to the WNBA.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2015/04/return_to_wnba_unlikely_for_fl.html" target="_blank">From this article:</a><br /><br /><b>"I don't think I will return to the WNBA," Nolan said. "Of course, I would love to play in America, but there's no way any player can live off of a WNBA salary. The NBA players make millions of dollars and the top WNBA player probably makes $100,000 to $105,000 before taxes."</b><br /><br />Nolan currently plays with UMMC Ekaterinburg and is still active overseas. But we've seen the last of Nolan in the WNBA, barring her being released from UMMC and needing a job. I don't think Hall of Fame voters will be prejudiced against her; the question is if they'll have her in mind at all now that she's been playing outside the US for the last six years.<br /><br /><b>Swin Cash (88 percent): </b> Cash also has three rings with Detroit. But was she the best player on Detroit's squad? In 2003 and 2004 she was, after that she never had years with any team as good as those years. Having two national championships with Connecticut will definitely have pull on the Hall of Fame voters.<br /><br /><b>Janeth Arcain (87 percent): </b> Arcain gets the bonus for having a career that ended before 2005, but that didn't seem to hurt her too much. She won four rings with the Houston Comets. She's already in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.<br /><br /><b>Andrea Stinson (82 percent): </b>Who is Andrea Stinson? She played nine years in the league, eight of them with the now defunct Charlotte Sting. She had her number retired by the Sting, but after the Sting folded her number has come down from the rafters (and no one in Charlotte seems to know what happened to it). As the Sting haven't been around for almost a decade, is there anyone who really remembers Stinson? She played one year for Detroit in 2005 before retiring.<br /><br /><b>Taj McWilliams (80 percent): </b> I used to joke that when the sun died and the Earth was reduced to a crusty cinder, the only life forms left on the planet would be Katie Smith and Taj McWilliams playing with the last basketball. Grandmama had 538 games spread across two leagues. She played for the Richmond/Philadelphia Rage in the ABL, then with the Orlando Miracle in the WNBA, then moved with the Miracle to Connecticut, then to Los Angeles. Then a year split between Washington and Detroit, a full year in Detroit (which was the team's last), then New York, and finally Minnesota. In her final year in 2012 with the Lynx she started in every game she played.<br /><br />She's the all time WNBA leader in offensive rebounds with 1,062, and she "lost" a couple of years to the ABL. But the press never really thought of her as a MVP player. For her first three years in the WNBA she was the best player on the Miracle. She should get in on the strength of longevity and offensive rebounding alone.<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-82386578959343440722015-06-28T12:59:00.004-04:002015-06-28T13:03:14.780-04:00The Hall of Fame Projector (2014) - The "Virtually In" Class<br />
My previous post on the Hall of Fame Projector (<a href="http://atlantadreamblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/hall-of-fame-projector-method-and-top.html" target="_blank">see here)</a> listed those players that scored 100 percent - those that would be lead pipe cinches to make a pro basketball hall of fame based on traditional stats, MVP voting, rings, and All-Star appearances. We're only considering players who have played at least 160 combined games in the ABL and WNBA. For those players whose careers ended before 2005, we give them credit for the missing years of their pro career.<br />
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There are seven players who scored between 90 and 99 percent, the ones that the HOF Projector method considers "virtually in". Three of these players are active players, so with a few MVP votes or a couple of All-Star selections, they'll probably join the 14 other players listed previously.<br />
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<b>Teresa Edwards (99 percent):</b> she was already past 30 when she played for the Atlanta Glory of the ABL and was selected by the Lynx in the second round of the 2003 draft even though she was 38 years old. She has five Olympic medals (four gold) stretching back to 1992. And even with this horribly scant modern pro career she almost makes it in. Edwards is one of those players like Nera White or Nancy Lieberman or Cheryl Miller that you could argue is the best player of all time.<br />
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Edwards is already in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.<br />
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<b>Katie Smith (99 percent):</b> there were some complaints about the previous post - why didn't Smith make the list of Lead Pipe Cinches that got 100 percent in the projector? Most likely, it's the relative lack of MVP votes and a fairly low points per game - the only players above her with fewer points per game are Sue Bird and Lindsay Whalen, and their assists totals make up for it.<br />
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I have Katie Smith has having played 568 games in her career across the ABL and WNBA. The player behind her is Taj McWilliams at 538. Smith's longevity alone should be a voting factor, and I can't see her not making it into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.<br />
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<b>Angel McCoughtry (98 percent): </b> Despite not winning any titles, McCoughtry makes it to the list on the strength of her scoring. How many players other than Maya Moore or Elena Delle Donne (neither yet eligibile for the list yet) could carry an entire team on her back like McCoughtry? I see her being named to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame someday, even though she doesn't have a reputation for being so angelic.<br />
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<b>Becky Hammon (98 percent): </b> I think Hammon's lack of height gives her a boost - never has a player done so much with so little (so to speak). Her overall assist averages don't compare to Bird's or Whalen's or even Cappie Pondexter. But she was an amazing force in women's basketball and I see her as a Hall of Fame Player.<br />
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<b>Seimone Augustus (97 percent):</b> A great mid-range shooter, but her problem is that she really don't have many MVP votes. Having two rings really helps her make her case, but I wonder if future Hall of Fame voters are going to recognize her value.<br />
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<b>Chamique Holdsclaw (92 percent):</b> She was at one time considered to be the Michael Jordan of women's basketball. Unfortunately, I think most people think "what might have been" when they think of Holdsclaw. She had really great moves with the ball, but her emotional problems might have eclipsed her game. If you take her college career into account, however, she really belongs in the Hall of Fame.<br />
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<b>Sylvia Fowles (91 percent): </b> I think Fowles's candidacy is hurt by the fact that she was the best player on a bad team for an awfully long time. Idiot WNBA voters said, "We can't vote her for MVP if she's not on a winning team!" If she had been on a good team, she might have one or two MVP titles already. Maybe this is why she's decided to sit out a year; she figures that if she plays for the Lynx people might finally figure out how good she is.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-33122075928609167452015-06-27T14:35:00.000-04:002015-06-27T14:35:53.520-04:00Last Night's Game: Washington @ Atlanta<br />
Thoughts on last night's Mystics-Dream game<br />
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* I had the chance to sit courtside last night, and let me tell you, it is worth it. If you ever get a chance to get courtside seats, or even have to pay for courtside seats, do not pass it up. You will not regret it. Hearing all the little conversations, hearing the coaches yelling, the players talking, adds a new dimension to the game.<br />
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* I got to shake hands with WNBA referee Eric Brewton. He must have thought I was someone important.<br />
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* About the Dream's woes. One of the people (not a coach or a player, by the way) I spoke with thought that the Dream's problems stemmed from their lack of 3-point shooting. The theory goes that the only player on the roster who can beat anyone off the dribble is Angel McCoughtry, and in order for McCoughtry to get rolling opponent defenses have to be spread. But without anyone shooting threes, defenses can just pack the lane and kill any momentum that McCoughtry might get in a drive to the basket.<br />
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* I believe McCoughtry has four technical fouls now. Shades of Taurasi a couple of years ago?<br />
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* Only seven players played last night for the Dream, and Burdick was among them. The current roster looks like:<br />
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<b>McCoughtry *<br />Lyttle *<br />de Souza *<br />Hodges *<br />Ajavon *<br />Wheeler *<br />Burdick *</b><br />
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Carter<br />
Colhado<br />
Logic<br />
Milton-Jones<br />
Schimmel<br />
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<b>Tiffany Hayes</b> and <b>Aneika Henry</b> will return to the roster. So who goes?<br />
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<b>Hodges will stay </b>since she's a vet and was a significant free agent signing.<br />
<b>Ajavon will stay</b> since she's healthy this season.<br />
<b>Wheeler will stay</b> because a) Coach Cooper seems to like Wheeler, and b) she's from Rutgers, which gives Ajavon someone to chat with.<br />
<b>Burdick will stay</b> because a) Coach Cooper wanted to draft Burdick, but she wasn't available, and b) according to Cooper, Burdick gives him the opportunity to try different things on the court. He's played Burdick a lot, he likes her, and the fans like her.<br />
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So that leaves the bottom five players listed as targets for cuts.<br />
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My personal theory is that Carter is gone. But who is the other player?<br />
<i><br />Colhado?</i> Nope. Colhado can back up de Souza when Atlanta needs size.<br />
<i>Schimmel?</i> Nope, not unless we get something for her in a big trade.<br />
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That leaves <i>Milton-Jones</i>, who has been in the league since what, 1999, or <i>Logic</i>, a player who was probably in diapers when Milton-Jones was graduating high school. Use your common sense. Who do <i>you</i> think is going to go?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-57011895919622416492015-06-26T10:38:00.002-04:002015-06-26T10:38:57.114-04:00Hall of Fame Projector - The method and the Top 14 Players<br />
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It's time to update the Hall of Fame Projections. <a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2012/10/23/3541240/tamika-catchings-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame-probability-calculator-2012"> I used to do these for Swish Appeal</a>, but since I'm not writing there now, <a href="http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/10/14/4837352/the-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame-probability-calculator-2013-version">I'll be adding them to my blog</a>.<br />
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What are the Hall of Fame Projections? The idea, essentially, is to see if a WNBA player has a career anything like that of an NBA Hall of Fame player. We then assign a percentage that indicates the chances that a WNBA player, based solely on her pro career, would make it to the Hall of Fame.<br />
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It's important to note that we are not looking for the best players, just the players that look the most like Hall of Fame players. So what do Hall of Fame players look like?<br />
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<b>A big weight on "traditional stats".</b> The "traditional stats" in this case are Points Per Game, Reounds Per Game, and Assists Per Game. Obviously, those three stats don't tell the whole story of a player - they say nothing about defense - but the Projection System weights them for two reasons. First, those are the stats that get quoted a lot. Second, when a player fades away from memory, and fewer and fewer people living have seen her play, all that's really left are the stat sheets to look at.<br />
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<b>MVP Shares.</b> How many votes for MVP did the player get over her career?<br />
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<b>All-Star Selections.</b> How many times was the player voted an All-Star? Note that the WNBA occasionally doesn't hold All-Star games in even-numbered years, so when that happens I have substituted selection for their national FIBA or Olympic teams.<br />
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<b>Height.</b> Feats by smaller players are more impressive than feats by bigger ones.<br />
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<b>Rings. </b> Hall of Fame voters value championships.<br />
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A few notes:<br />
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* American Basketball League stats have been included. For those who don't remember, the ABL competed with the WNBA from 1996 to 1999.<br />
* Players who stopped playing before 2005 get added weight to their scores, as they lost productive years in their career to the lack of a women's league.<br />
* You have to have played at least 160 games by the end of 2014 to make this list. <i>This is why Maya Moore is not on the list. </i> She will be next year.<br />
* <i>I didn't invent Hall of Fame projection</i>. <a href="http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/hof_prob.html">The wonderful people at basketball-reference.com did</a>. However, they have tweaked their method to include Peak Win Shares, which my method doesn't have. Maybe after 2015, I'll add that to my method.<br />
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So who are my leaders as of the end of the 2014 season, and what are their chances of getting into a Pro Basketball Hall of Fame? This post might be stretched out over several days, so watch this space!<br />
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<b>Lead Pipe Cinches</b><br />
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1. <b>Lisa Leslie (100 percent)</b>: Two WNBA titles. If she were a NBA player, she would have averaged a double-double for her career. Three-time MVP and eight-time WNBA All Star. First player to dunk in a WNBA game. Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member.<br />
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2. <b>Tamika Catchings (100 percent):</b> One WNBA title. One MVP award, nine-time All Star. Member of the All-Decade and Top 15 teams. Since the Projector doesn't take into account her defensive skills, she might rank above Leslie for greatest of all time in the modern era.<br />
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3. <b> Lauren Jackson (100 percent):</b> Two WNBA titles. Three time MVP winner, seven-time All Star. Member of the All-Decade and Top 15 teams. A post player who could shoot threes like anyone's business. She has four WNBL (Australian league) MVP awards. Injuries, however, have hindered her and I don't think she'll play in the WNBA again.<br />
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4. <b>Diana Taurasi (100 percent): </b> Two WNBA titles. One MVP award, seven-time WNBA All Star. One of the most dangerous players imaginable. She was paid a seven-figure contract by a Russian team to sit out the 2015 season.<br />
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5. <b>Cynthia Cooper (100 percent):</b> Four WNBA titles. Two-time MVP. Three time All-Star, four time WNBA Finals MVP. And when she started playin in the wNBA...she was 34 years old. If she had started playing at age 22, they'd consider her the true Greatest Of All Time. Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member.<br />
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6. <b>Sheryl Swoopes (100 percent):</b> Four WNBA titles. Three-time MVP. Six time All-Star. Was 26 when the WNBA started. Fist women's basketball player to have a Nike shoe named after her, the "Air Swoopes".<br />
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7. <b>Candace Parker (100 percent):</b> Two time MVP. First player on the list not to have a WNBA championship. Second woman to dunk in a WNBA game. Missed several games due to injury. Still active, but taking some time off (how much time?) to recuperate for the 2015 season.<br />
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8. <b>Natalie Williams (100 percent): </b> Won an MVP award with the American Basketball League. Three seasons with the Portland Power, then played with the Utah Starzz and Indiana Fever, which weren't the greatest teams in the WNBA. Excellent power forward.<br />
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9. <b> Yolanda Griffith (100 percent):</b> One WNBA title, one MVP, eight time All-Star. WNBA All-Decade Team Member. In the 1997-98 ABL season, she was MVP runner up to Natalie Williams. Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member.<br />
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10. <b> Tina Thompson (100 percent):</b> Four WNBA titles. Nine time All-Star. All-time leading scorer in WNBA history.<br />
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11. <b> Cappie Pondexter (100 percent): </b> Two WNBA titles. Six time All-Star. Top 15 All Time list. <br />
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12. <b>Sue Bird (100 percent): </b> Can't have Diana Taurasi without Sue Bird. Two WNBA titles. Eight time All-Star. WNBA All-Decade team. Top 15 All Time list.<br />
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13. <b>Tina Charles (100 percent): </b> One MVP award. Three time All-Star Incredible rebounder.<br />
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14. <b> Lindsay Whalen (100 percent): </b> Two WNBA titles. Five time All-Star.<br />
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<b>Next time: </b> The seven players in the 90-99th percentile, the ones that are "virtually in". One of these players is already in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-67830518018184998392015-06-25T09:52:00.000-04:002015-06-25T09:53:08.324-04:0024 June 2015 - Chicago Sky 100, Atlanta Dream 96 (OT)<br />
Random comments about last afternoon's game in Chicago:<br />
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* Eric Collins and Stephen Bardo are a good announcing team. I really enjoyed their play-by-play and particularly the comments of Bardo. Furthermore, Bardo will give the visiting teams credit and will point out bad calls that favor the home team.<br />
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* There was one point at the end of the first quarter where Ajavon was under the basket, and McCoughtry noticed it and passed her the ball. Problem was, Ajavon stopped looking for the ball and McCoughtry's pass led to a turnover. McCoughtry was not a happy camper.<br />
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* Pondexter can shoot off the bounce. I suspect that a lot of the great shooters can.<br />
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* Pokey Chatman has an interesting phrase that I've heard her use and that the announcers reminded me of - whenever she wants to see multiple defenders on a offensive dynamo (like McCoughtry) she uses the phrase "We want to <i>take a team picture</i> whenever X has the ball". This means that if you were to snap a picture of McCoughtry with the ball, you want to see a lot of Sky players next to her.<br />
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* An interesting comment from the announcers. According to Chatman, without Fowles the Sky are "offensively better and defensively worse". I suspect they're offensively better because they don't have to worry about Fowles's (relative) lack of speed on transition. However - and this proved to be a problem - Chicago couldn't get de Souza in foul trouble because they had no dominant post player to challenge her. The Dream should do what they did in the fourth quarter, push the ball to the posts and make Chicago work.<br />
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* How many players fouled out of that game? Vandersloot, Ajavon, Hodges....<br />
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* The game ended with Delle Donne blocking McCoughtry's final shot. How apropos. I think Delle Donne set a career records in blocks, too.<br />
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* If Elena Delle Donne keeps playing like this - and if she stays healthy, which is a BIG if - it might be the most amazing season in professional basketball, men's or women's. Her PER is like over 40 right now.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595059113916595813.post-34330919622159575512015-06-24T15:48:00.001-04:002015-06-24T15:48:41.020-04:00Elena Delle Donne's amazing game<br />
It will be a while before I report the results of the game we played this afternoon against Chicago. But here is a list of WNBA All-Time statistical leaders in some categories. Elena Delle Donne of the Sky added herself to the record books today:<br />
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This list was orignally posted at Rebkell by Paul Swanson.<br />
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<span class="postbody"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Most points, game</span></span>
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51 -- Riquna Williams, Tulsa at San Antonio, September 8, 2013
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48 -- Maya Moore, Minnesota vs. Atlanta, July 22, 2014 (2OT)
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47 -- Lauren Jackson, Seattle at Washington, July 24, 2007 (OT)
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47 -- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix at Houston, August 10, 2006 (3OT)
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46 -- Katie Smith, Minnesota at Los Angeles, July 8, 2001 (OT)
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">45 -- Elena Delle Donne, Chicago vs. Atlanta, June 24, 2015 (OT)</span>
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44 -- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix vs. Seattle, July 14, 2010 (3OT)
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44 -- Betty Lennox, Atlanta at Connecticut, June 27, 2008 (OT)
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44 -- Deanna Nolan, Detroit vs. Minnesota, June 20, 2008 (OT)
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44 -- Cynthia Cooper, Houston at Sacramento, July 25, 1997
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42 -- Cynthia Cooper, Houston vs. Utah, August 16, 1999
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41 -- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix at Houston, July 27, 2006
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41 -- Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles vs. San Antonio, June 25, 2006
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40 -- Elena Delle Donne, Chicago at Tulsa, June 6, 2015
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40 -- Maya Moore, Minnesota at Tulsa, August 2, 2014
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40 -- Cappie Pondexter, New York vs. Indiana, July 18, 2010
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40 -- Candace Parker, Los Angeles vs. Houston, July 9, 2008 (OT)
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40 -- Katie Smith, Minnesota at Detroit, June 17, 2001
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22 -- Cynthia Cooper, Houston vs. Sacramento, July 3, 1998
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">19 -- Elena Delle Donne, Chicago vs. Atlanta, June 24, 2015 (OT)</span>
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19 -- Tina Charles, Connecticut vs. Phoenix, June 29, 2013
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18 -- Katie Smith, Minnesota at Los Angeles, July 8, 2001 (OT)
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17 -- Angel McCoughtry, Atlanta vs. Chicago, June 2, 2012
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17 -- Tamika Catchings, Indiana vs. New York, August 13, 2011
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17 -- Shavonte Zellous, Detroit at Atlanta, June 26, 2009
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17 -- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix vs. Houston, September 7, 2008
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17 -- Tina Thompson, Houston vs. Sacramento, June 11, 2007
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17 -- Cynthia Cooper, Houston vs. Utah, August 16, 1999
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">19 -- Elena Delle Donne, Chicago vs. Atlanta, June 24, 2015 (OT)</span>
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17 -- Angel McCoughtry, Atlanta vs. Chicago, June 2, 2012
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16 -- Elena Delle Donne, Chicago vs. Los Angeles, June 6, 2014
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14 -- Kristi Toliver, Los Angeles vs. Tulsa, June 20, 2012
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14 -- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix at Minnesota, July 24, 2010 (2OT)
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14 -- Tamika Catchings, Indiana at Washington, July 21, 2009
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14 -- Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles vs. Minnesota, July 15, 2000</span><br />
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