Tag: Women's Basketball
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Build for the future: Suggestions for OUA basketball marketing
Jacob Smith I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who has been around OUA basketball for a decade and OUA basketball marketing for 7 years, but this will just be what the title implies, suggestions based on observations. I’ve followed along very closely with every OUA women’s basketball team’s social media over the last…
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Stars show out for day one
Photo: Don Volkander/Alberta Athletics Jacob Smith There’s a overused saying, big time players make big time plays in big time games. That phrase couldn’t be more true after day one of the U SPORTS Women’s Basketball Final 8. In every game, the stars came out to play and pushed their side over the edge, and…
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Chadwick DPOY a long time coming
Jacob Smith Julia Chadwick won the OUA’s Defensive Player of the Year award for the 2023-2024 Women’s Basketball season, and it’s about time. As the Queen’s Gaels have been rising to the level of national contenders where they’re at now, Julia Chadwick has been playing at a MVP level, and aside from All-Star nods, hasn’t…
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Kali Pocrnic keeps the Ravens beating
Jacob Smith Kali Pocrnic is a 5’4 guard from Oakville Ontario who has seen and done everything in the OUA. From winning at Lincoln Prep in the OSBA to being a full-time starter in her first year with the Ravens, Kali has grown with the transitioning Ravens team, and become the best point guard in…
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The more they stay the same
Jacob Smith The OUA Critelli Cup finalists were decided on Wednesday, and the matchup in sight is a familiar picture. The Carleton Ravens will host the Queen’s Gaels on Saturday at 7pm EST to hoist the Critelli Cup. The reigning champs looking for back-to-back, going against the team they beat in the championship, hungry for…
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Gaels redemption meets Bold rally
Jacob Smith The Queen’s Gaels finished the season with a 18-4 record with the tiebreaker giving them the second seed over the Ottawa Gee-Gees. The TMU Bold finished 16-6 and the sixth seed in the playoffs. With Queen’s having a first round bye they’ve only had to play one game, TMU two, and wins from…
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A circled matchup, Ravens host Gee-Gees
When I was looking at the bracket and how it could play out at the start of the playoffs, there was one matchup that I circled, and now we have it. The first seed Carleton Ravens host the fifth seed Ottawa Gee-Gees in the Critelli Cup semis, the best team in the OUA against arguably…
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Game of the Week? Waterloo hosts Ottawa in OUA quarters
The Gee-Gees fresh off a victory over the Laurentian Voyageurs, travel to Waterloo to take on a team that beat them in the regular season in the Waterloo Warriors. Waterloo off a bye week come in as the fourth seed, Ottawa the fifth, and if this game is anything like their regular season encounter, it’s…
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Reigning champs return to playoffs with Marauders
Jacob Smith The reigning champs the Carleton Ravens, are back in the playoffs, but with the top seed and ranked first in the country. After a 21-1 season, they host the 15-7 McMaster Marauders who are coming off of surviving a last second win over the Laurier Golden Hawks. The recipe for the Ravens win…
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Gryphons meet Gaels in OUA Quarterfinals
Jacob Smith The Gryphons defeated the Windsor Lancers 74-50 in the first round of the OUA Critelli Cup playoffs, and they now travel to Kingston to play the Queen’s Gaels. Queen’s having received a bye in the first round sat back and watched as their opponent was decided, now these two go face to face…
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