By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women (To keep the files shorter to make things easier to read and to support the photos, the Guru is offering segment coverage from last weekend’s Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame induction in Knoxville, Tenn. The Guru is concentrating on his locally-connected people here – speeches of Jim Foster and former [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Though the big tests are still ahead, former Saint Joseph’s senior star Chatilla van Grinsven is so far fitting nicely the first few days into the WNBA training camp routine of the defending regular season Eastern Conference Connecticut Sun here at the Mohegan Sun casino-entertainment complex following [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Hours before Saint Joseph’s celebrated its most successful season in a while at the annual women’s basketball awards dinner at Drexelbrook, the Hawks dominated the Big Five women’s awards announced Tuesday afternoon. Senior Chatilla van Grinsven was named player of the year, while coach Cindy Griffin, who guided the Hawks [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women It was a big night to celebrate as these pictures illustrate from our seven PhilahoopsW teams who will continue to play on. Your Guru was drafted to provide some help to his former paper at The Inquirer to help with print coverage which can be found at philly.com but an [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women NEW YORK – The Saint Joseph’s women’s basketball team killed two droughts for the price of one here Saturday night in the new magnificent Barclays Center and as a result coach Cindy Griffin’s group can gather Monday night to watch the ESPN telecast of the NCAA 64-team draw knowing their [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women NEW YORK, N.Y. – The last time Saint Joseph’s advanced to the title game of the Atlantic 10 women’s basketball tournament, coach Cindy Griffin’s Hawks started out as the fifth seed in 2007 and after taking an opening win against Rhode Island, upset fourth-seeded Charlotte in the quarterfinals, took down [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women PHILADELPHIA – Saint Joseph’s coaches of present and past will be on opposite sides Saturday night contesting for an Atlantic 10 women’s basketball title and automatic bid to the NCAA tournament at the new Barclays Center, home of the NBA New York Nets, in Brooklyn. The Hawks of today win [...]
(Guru note: A separate story the Guru did on Duquesne for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can be found at the papers website.) By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women PHILADELPHIA – Not that many seasons ago Temple and Xavier played several times for the Atlantic 10 title in the conference postseason tournament with the Musketeers getting the automatic [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Here are the key combined performances to date thru Friday, Mar. 8, involving teams in our PhilahoopsW group. At some point in time soon, this file will be enhanced and placed in a special area. As long as this list has gotten, search on the date of the previous day [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women PHILADELPHIA – Two rivals who hooked up at the end of the Atlantic 10 tournament will meet each other in one of the four opening round games at Saint Joseph’s Hagan Arena Friday when 10th-seeded Temple (12-17, 5-9 A-10) meets seventh-seeded Xavier (13-15, 7-7) in the 5 p.m. contest. Temple [...]
