2009–10 Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Season
The 2009–10 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2009, followed by the start of the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play began in January 2010 and concluded in March 2010. Bowling Green won the regular season title with a record of 14–2 by two games over Toledo and Kent State. Lauren Prochaska of Bowling Green was named MAC player of the year. Top seeded Bowling Green won the MAC tournament over second seeded Toledo. Lauren Prochaska of Bowling Green was the tournament MVP. Bowling Green lost to Michigan State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, and Akron played in the WNIT. Preseason awards The preseason poll was announced by the league office on October 28, 2009. Preseason women's basketball poll ''(First place votes in parentheses)'' East Division # (22) # (12) # (2) # # Ohio # West Division # (18) # (14) # (4) # # # Tourn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until 1957, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the University Division and the College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Division I (NCAA)
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the Football Bo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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College Basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA). Each of these various organizations is subdivided into one to three divisions, based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. Each organization has different conferences to divide up the teams into groups. Teams are selected into these conferences depending on the location of the schools. These conferences are put in due to the regional play of the teams and to have a structural schedule for each team to play for the upcoming year. During conference play the teams are ranked not only through the entire NCAA, but the conference as well in which they have tourn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2008–09 Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Season
The 2008–09 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2008, followed by the start of the 2008–09 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play began in January 2009 and concluded in March 2009. Bowling Green won the regular season title with a record of 15–1 by one game over Ball State. Lauren Prochaska of Bowling Green was named MAC player of the year. West Division winner Ball State won the MAC tournament over Bowling Green. Tracy Pontius of Bowling Green was the tournament MVP. Ball State defeated defending national champion Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA tournament before losing to Iowa State in the second round. Bowling Green reached the third round the WNIT. Preseason awards The preseason poll was announced by the league office on October 30, 2008. Preseason women's basketball poll ''(First place votes in parentheses)'' East Division # # # # Ohio # # West Division # # # # # # ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010–11 Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Season
The 2010–11 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2010, followed by the start of the 2010–11 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play began in January 2011 and concluded in March 2011. Toledo won the regular season title with a record of 14–2 by one game over Bowling Green. Kourtney Brown of Buffalo was named MAC player of the year. Second seeded Bowling Green won the MAC tournament over fifth seeded Eastern Michigan. Lauren Prochaska of Bowling Green was the tournament MVP. Bowling Green lost to Georgia Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Toledo, Central Michigan, Kent State, and Eastern Michigan played in the WNIT. Toledo won the WNIT championship by defeating USC in the final. Preseason awards The preseason poll and league awards were announced by the league office on October 27, 2010. Preseason women's basketball poll ''(First place votes in parentheses)'' East Division # # # ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009–10 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season
The 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began in November 2009 and ended with the 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament's championship game on April 6, 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The tournament opened with the first and second rounds on Thursday through Sunday, March 18–21, 2010. Regional games were played on Thursday through Sunday, March 28–31, 2010, with the Final Four played on Sunday and Tuesday, April 4 and 6, 2010. The Connecticut Huskies successfully defended their national title from the previous season, defeating Stanford 53–47 in the final. This was the Huskies' second consecutive unbeaten championship season, unprecedented since the NCAA began to organize women's basketball in the 1981–82 season. Season headlines *May 4:The tenth annual 2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam is a women's basketball tournament that will take place on November 26–28, 2009. Eight teams from the NCAA have been invited to participate in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament was the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2009–10 college basketball season. The 2010 tournament was held March 6–13, 2010. Top seeded Bowling Green won the championship over second seeded Toledo. Lauren Prochaska of Bowling Green was the MVP. Format The top four seeds received byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division were awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two receives the #1 seed. First round games will be played on campus sites at the higher seed. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena. Seeds Bracket All-Tournament Team Tournament MVP – Lauren Prochaska, ''Bowling Green'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:MAC women's basketball tournament 2010 tournament A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009–10 Michigan State Spartans Women's Basketball Team
The 2009–10 Michigan State Spartans women's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2009–2010 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Spartans were coached by Suzy Merchant and played their home games at the Breslin Center. The Spartans are a member of the Big Ten Conference and advanced to the NCAA tournament, where they lost in the second round to Kentucky. Offseason *May 5: The Big Ten Conference office announced today that the Michigan State women's basketball team will face North Carolina in the third-annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Spartans and Tar Heels are scheduled for a Thursday, Dec. 3 matchup at the Breslin Center. *May 19: Michigan State head coach Suzy Merchant completed her first experience with USA Basketball. Merchant, Charli Turner Thorne and fellow assistant Julie Rousseau, took part in the three-day trials at the U.S. Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo. *Junior Kalisha Keane is representing Canada at the 2009 World Un ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament started Saturday, March 20, 2010 and was completed on Tuesday, April 6 of the same year with University of Connecticut Huskies defending their title from the previous year by defeating Stanford, 53–47. Tournament procedure Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2010 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 bids are "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another). The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a single-elimination tournament of 64 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2010 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The tournament is played entirely on campus sites. The highest ranked team in each conference that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament received an automatic bid to this tournament. The remaining slots were filled by the WNIT Selection Committee. 2010 Preseason WNIT At the beginning of the season, there is a Preseason WNIT. Round 1 *The games for round one were played on November 13. Bracket 1 *New Mexico 81, Northern Colorado 59 *Florida Gulf Coast 66, UTEP 54 *Georgia Tech 63, Winthrop 30 *Oklahoma State 67, Arkansas Little-Rock 58 Bracket 2 *Ohio State 91, Eastern Illinois 68 *Bowling Green 76, Chicago State 41 *Marist 80, North Carolina A&T 64 *West Virginia 79, Towson 42 Round 2 *The games for round one were played on Nove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009–10 Ohio Bobcats Women's Basketball Team
The 2009–10 Ohio Bobcats women's basketball team represented Ohio University during the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bobcats, led by second year head coach Semeka Randall, played their home games at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio as a member of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 8–22 and 4–12 in MAC play. Preseason The preseason poll was announced by the league office on October 28, 2009. Ohio was picked fifth in the MAC East. Preseason women's basketball poll ''(First place votes in parenthesas)'' East Division # (22) # (12) # (2) # # Ohio # West Division # (18) # (14) # (4) # # # Tournament champs Bowling Green Preseason All-MAC Schedule , - !colspan=9 style=, Non-conference regular season , - , - , - !colspan=9 style=, MAC regular season , - !colspan=9 style=, , - Awards and honors All-MAC Awards References {{DEFAULTSORT:2009-10 Ohio Bobcats women' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jodi Kest
Jodi Kest (born March 30, 1962) is the former head women's basketball coach for the University of Akron. Career In her first season at Akron, the Zips posted double digit wins for the first time in more than eight years. That included a six-game winning streak, which was the longest in several years. Prior to coaching at Akron, she coached at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. She posted a 73–40 () record there, and was named Independent Coach of the Year in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She announced her resignation from Akron on April 21, 2018 after 12 years at the school. In the 2004 season, the Islanders went 23–7, setting school records for wins, and winning percentage. She also served as the head women's basketball coach at Gannon University in Pennsylvania for six seasons. She has a career record of 236–172 () as a college head coach. She has also served as an assistant coach at the University of Maine, Cleveland State University, and the University of Nevada, Reno. She ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |