Catching up with Emily Kuipers

Wed., Jan. 13, 2010

Dave Trimmer

I was a little remiss yesterday in posting my weekly women’s basketball notebook , which appeared in today’s paper, along with the standings. Today’s subject was former U-Hi player Emily Kuipers , now a fifth-year senior at Regis University in Denver.

I can’t link the standings and weekend schedule, but those appear below with the area leaders and any other notes I stumble discover before I resume figure skating research.

There is Graham Hays story on ESPN.com about scheduling that is spot-on. Read it, it’s a great jumping off story for a discussion on this blog by you reluctant posters. Also, a heads up, ESPN is taking its Game Day show to a women’s game for the first day, Saturday’s No. 1 UConn vs. No. 3 Notre Dame Big East matchup.

LeftCoastHoops moved Gonzaga up to No. 2 in its rankings. … The Bulldogs conclude a five-game homestand this weekend against the two teams that opened WCC play 2-0 while the Zags were playing their travel partner. Thursday’s game features Louella Tomlinson of St. Mary’s , who leads the nation in blocked shots and had a monster opening weekend to garner Player of the Week honors, plus GU coach Kelly Graves ‘ birthday. Saturday it’s San Diego and there are all kinds of things to report. There’s a book drive (press release posted below), Heather Bowman is 37 points shy of the WCC record entering the weekend and Courtney Vandersloot , the national leader in assists (and fourthin steals ), is 22 dimes shy of the school career record (and yours truly is covering figure skating.)

On Saturday, January 16th, Gonzaga Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host their 5th annual book drive at the Gonzaga women’s basketball game against San Diego. Fans who bring a new children’s book to the game or make a donation will be entered into a raffle to win Gonzaga memorabilia, including signed basketballs, autographed jerseys, and ticket packages. Fans will receive one raffle ticket for every book donated and every donation made!

No doubt some of you wonder why I don’t go into such detail for every team and the answer is simple, I don’t have time. Home games and area girls coming “back home” get first consideration. Gonzaga is the five-time defending league champion and has all their games on radio and home games on TV and draws enough fans to push them to the top of the list.

That said, Eastern Washington is tied for the lead in the Big Sky Conference going into road games at Northern Arizona (with local product Jenna Galloway , Ferris) and Northern Colorado. It’s a big weekend for the Eagles to get back into the league tournament. Don’t forget you can watch EWU games on your computer by going to Big Sky TV .

Time to return to figure skating.

WCC

	Conference	All Games
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
St. Mary’s	2	0	1.000	11	6	.647
San Diego	2	0	1.000	10	6	.625
Gonzaga	1	0	1.000	12	4	.750
Pepperdine	1	0	1.000	10	5	.667
Portland	0	1	.000	11	5	.688
Loyola Marymount	0	1	.000	7	8	.467
San Francisco	0	2	.000	4	15	.211
Santa Clara	0	2	.000	2	15	.118

Pacific-10

	Conference	All Games
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
Stanford	3	0	1.000	13	1	.929
Oregon	3	0	1.000	12	3	.800
UCLA	3	1	.750	10	5	.667
USC	3	1	.750	9	6	.600
Washington	3	1	.750	8	6	.571
Oregon St .	1	2	.333	9	4	.692
Arizona St .	1	3	.250	9	6	.600
Arizona	1	3	.250	7	7	.500
California	0	3	.000	6	8	.429
Washington St .	0	3	.000	5	10	.333

Big Sky

	Conference	All Games
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
E. Washington	3	0	1.000	9	6	.600
Portland St .	3	0	1.000	9	7	.563
Idaho St .	3	1	.750	8	9	.471
Montana	2	2	.500	7	9	.438
N. Colorado	1	2	.333	8	8	.500
N. Arizona	1	2	.333	3	13	.188
Montana St .	1	3	.250	8	9	.471
Weber St .	1	3	.250	7	10	.412
Sacramento St .	0	2	.000	4	10	.286

WAC

	Conference	All Games
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
New Mexico St .	2	0	1.000	12	4	.750
Fresno St .	2	0	1.000	11	5	.688
Utah St .	2	0	1.000	10	5	.667
Nevada	2	0	1.000	8	8	.500
La Tech	0	1	.000	9	4	.692
Idaho	0	1	.000	2	12	.143
Boise St .	0	2	.000	11	5	.688
Hawaii	0	2	.000	6	9	.400
San Jose St .	0	2	.000	4	11	.267