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Monday, February 20, 2006
Young, Augustus or who?
Not surprisingly, Sophia Young was one of 30 players named as a midseason candidate for the Naismith Trophy. Presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, the Naismith is one of two major awards given to the national player of the year. Young was previously named as one of 20 midseason candidates for the Wooden Award. The 6-1 senior forward is averaging 21.1 points, 9.8 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 2.1 assists per game. The predictable Naismith list includes Seimone Augustus and Sylvia Fowles of LSU, Ivory Latta of North Carolina, Duke’s Monique Currie, Ohio State’s Jessica Davenport and Tasha Humphrey of Georgia. The only other Big 12 players are Erin Grant of Texas Tech, Tiffany Jackson of Texas and freshman Courtney Paris of Oklahoma.
Putting your Baylor bias aside, who would you pick as the national player of the year?
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Like winning the lottery
Considering they had not exactly set the world on fire with their free-throw shooting, I knew the odds of the Lady Bears going a perfect 20-of-20 from the line in Sunday’s 73-60 win over Texas Tech had to be astronomical. Dr. Alan Reifman, who teaches statistics at Tech, actually put pencil to pad and came up with a number. With Baylor shooting 69.3 percent coming into the game, he said the odds of making all 20 free throws was less than 1-in-1,000. Compute it out, and it’s exactly .0007. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack when you’re blind-folded.
