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Since there appears to be interest regarding former basketball players enrolled at the University of Delaware who are not playing for the top-ranked and undefeated UConn women's basketball program, I thought as a public service I would update you on former Lauralton Hall basketball player Kim Ovittore.
Now a senior infielder for the Blue Hens, Ovittore was 3 for 3 in the Delaware softball team's 11-2 loss to Seton Hall on Friday to take over the team batting lead. Unless you count Katie DeSalvo going 2 for 2 in her only game (which would not qualify her for the batting championship by any rules I know of), Ovittore's .381 average allowed her to move by Michelle Grap (who fell to .353 after going 0 for 2) and into the top spot.
What's that? That wasn't the Delaware athlete you were hoping to read about? Oops, my bad.
My only question is this? Do the Delaware women's sports teams get more coverage in Delaware or in Connecticut?
BUBBLE BURSTING
Maybe I was imagining things, but I could have sworn I heard the members of the selection committee unleashing an audible sigh of relief after they saw the score Utah 56, New Mexico 55. There will be some creative seeding this season since host teams in the subregionals are mandated to play at home if they are selected to the NCAA tournament. It's going to be tough enough to justify how teams like Rutgers and LSU figure to draw a seven or eight seed meaning that either a No. 1 or No. 2 seed may have to play at Rutgers or LSU in a second-round game just to reach the regionals. But could you imagine what would have happened if New Mexico (another of the 16 hosts for the subregionals) had earned an automatic bid by winning the Mountain West tournament? New Mexico likely would have been a 12 or 13 seed meaning the Lobos would have hosted either a 4 or 5 seed in the first round.
It wasn't a great day for former UConn players now serving as assistant coaches. Tamika Raymond, in her first season at Kansas, saw her Jayhawks lose to top-seeded Oklahoma in the Big 12 quarterfinals. Menawhile Towson, which includes Morgan Valley on its coaching staff, lost to Drexel in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.
Now a senior infielder for the Blue Hens, Ovittore was 3 for 3 in the Delaware softball team's 11-2 loss to Seton Hall on Friday to take over the team batting lead. Unless you count Katie DeSalvo going 2 for 2 in her only game (which would not qualify her for the batting championship by any rules I know of), Ovittore's .381 average allowed her to move by Michelle Grap (who fell to .353 after going 0 for 2) and into the top spot.
What's that? That wasn't the Delaware athlete you were hoping to read about? Oops, my bad.
My only question is this? Do the Delaware women's sports teams get more coverage in Delaware or in Connecticut?
BUBBLE BURSTING
Maybe I was imagining things, but I could have sworn I heard the members of the selection committee unleashing an audible sigh of relief after they saw the score Utah 56, New Mexico 55. There will be some creative seeding this season since host teams in the subregionals are mandated to play at home if they are selected to the NCAA tournament. It's going to be tough enough to justify how teams like Rutgers and LSU figure to draw a seven or eight seed meaning that either a No. 1 or No. 2 seed may have to play at Rutgers or LSU in a second-round game just to reach the regionals. But could you imagine what would have happened if New Mexico (another of the 16 hosts for the subregionals) had earned an automatic bid by winning the Mountain West tournament? New Mexico likely would have been a 12 or 13 seed meaning the Lobos would have hosted either a 4 or 5 seed in the first round.
It wasn't a great day for former UConn players now serving as assistant coaches. Tamika Raymond, in her first season at Kansas, saw her Jayhawks lose to top-seeded Oklahoma in the Big 12 quarterfinals. Menawhile Towson, which includes Morgan Valley on its coaching staff, lost to Drexel in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.
posted by Jim Fuller at
11:56 PM
1 Comments:
Your fellow blogger on the Courant suggests that Della Donne is no longer listed on the Delaware Volleyball roster. Perhaps a year away from the sport has brought back her love for basketball.
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