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 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 [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women The Big East is not the only place where changes are about to happen in women’s basketball as more shifts predicated from the men’s side and also in the sport of football continues to occur. Temple is saying adios and moving on to whatever the group of football schools left [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Here are the key combined performances to date thru Sunday, Mar. 3, 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 [...]
(Guru note: At the middle-of-the-night hour this post is being written there was no one around to confirm some of the A-10 standings information and the Guru proceeded with the discussion based on traditions of the past. Any errors will be updated Thursday or – if someone says, Good Guess, the Guru will confirm that.) [...]
By Mel Greenberg Senior Editor/Women Here are the key combined performances to date thru Wednesday, Feb. 27, 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 The podcast has returned and as we near March Madness the new Dishin and Swishin – Philly style features an interview with local legend Dawn Staley, the coach now at South Carolina, who previously coached Temple and starred at Dobbins Tech, Virginia, The ABL and WNBA and, of course, in [...]
