Elise's Point of View on Sports

Last night, there was a double header of the Women's and Men's basketball teams. It started off with the BYU Women playing against San Francisco at home. Through out most of the game San Francisco had control over BYU. They couldn't find a way to stop Taylor Proctor. Proctor led her team in scoring with 27 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block, and 4 steals. They did a great job in creating turnovers for the Cougars.   The Cougars struggled in getting their shots to go down in the first half. At the three point line (in which usually they are pretty good at) they only hit 4 shots out of 19. The most frustrating part was the turnovers. The team all around had 17. However, they were much better in the second half, especially in the 4th quarter. Just like how the Dons were good in creating turnovers on BYU, the Cougars also did a good job with creating turnovers on San Francisco. Both teams had 39 turnovers. So it was pretty sloppy on both sides, but BYU made the plays dow...

In college women's basketball one team has dominated for many years. That team is the Connecticut Huskies. Under coach Geno Auriemma they have won 10 NCAA championship, including winning the last 3 years. Most team's successes comes from recruiting. Auriemma has been able to do that over the years. A lot of his players that he has coached have gone on and had success in the WNBA as well, including Rebecca Lobo, Swinn Cash and Sue Bird. In my opinion, they are like the Patriots of Women's basketball. They rarely lose. In the past 3 seasons alone they have won 100 games and have only lost once. Whether or not you like them or not, that's very impressive. They always have a lot of talent. I remember when BYU went to the Sweet 16 and they had to play Connecticut. Hamson and Bailey stayed with them in the first half but in the second half, unfortunately the Huskies took over. It's definitely going to be an interesting game tonight as they play a talented South...

Super Bowl 50 shocked a lot of sports writers and Carolina fans, including Golden State Warrior's own Stephan Curry. Curry said (and I paraphrase) that Carolina was going to blowout Denver. I respect and love watching Curry, but I would have wanted to ask him if he was paying attention to the Bronco's defense this season? Here's a Bronco's team that was able to beat Tom Brady and the Patriots twice. It's very hard to do that but the defense was able to get to Brady and frustrate him. They lost four times during the season. Once to the Colts in Indianapolis, once to the Steelers, and then losses to the Raiders and the Chiefs. Here's some stats compiled from the Bronco's defense this season. They ranked #1 in net yards. They held opponents to the least amount of yards all season. They only gave up 19 Touchdowns to opposing teams. They also had 14 interceptions and 52 sacks (the most in the league). Not a lot of people would have thought defense w...