Women's Basketball 2022-2023

[Panther'73]

The Flames took down Drake today by 12. I hadn't looked at the standings for a bit, and didn't realized they had climbed to 5th place.

Also Illinois State lost to the Bears, so we're tied for first again. Behind us by a game is Belmont, who's won 8 in a row.

Missouri State is also just a game behind UNI

[in_the_stands]

Oops, right you are. And although Drake has fallen to 5th, I maintain that when they're on, they're as tough as anyone. I imagine coach Starr and her staff are troubled by the inconsistency.

Looks like the league tournament is going to be suspenseful! And our chances are as good as anyone's.

[Purrrrrfect]

Better news is that with the win we clinched a top 5 seed. With 6 to go. We have the head to head over UIC and beat SIU on the road.
magic number is 3!!

[Bookin' Panther]

Great Panther women's victory yesterday at Valpo! Maya had an awesome game. I sure got tired of the announcer calling us "Northern" all the time. Every time he said it, I talked back to him and said "Iowa." LOL.

[BCPanther]

Great Panther women's victory yesterday at Valpo! Maya had an awesome game. I sure got tired of the announcer calling us "Northern" all the time. Every time he said it, I talked back to him and said "Iowa." LOL.

We desperately DESPERATELY need to put our branding standards in our game notes like everybody else does. Per the brand guidelines, you can make one reference to 'The University of Northern Iowa' but after that UNI is the only acceptable reference. Just flat calling us 'Northern' or 'Northern Iowa' is not an acceptable reference.

Drives me up the freaking wall too. Though we did it to ourselves by putting 'Northern Iowa' on the baseline of our floor rather than 'UNI Panthers'.

[UNIpanther99]

I know this is a never ending debate, but I will forever die on the hill that we should be referred to as Northern Iowa. Outside of our state, UNI just makes people think too hard, and they probably don't care enough to think that hard.

[UNIAlum95]

We desperately DESPERATELY need to put our branding standards in our game notes like everybody else does. Per the brand guidelines, you can make one reference to 'The University of Northern Iowa' but after that UNI is the only acceptable reference. Just flat calling us 'Northern' or 'Northern Iowa' is not an acceptable reference.

Drives me up the freaking wall too. Though we did it to ourselves by putting 'Northern Iowa' on the baseline of our floor rather than 'UNI Panthers'.

Maybe with the completion of the university wide revamp of branding (purposefully excluding athletics), a second phase will be initiated at the athletics level though I'm sure it would have to be led by the university as a whole and not left to the athletic department to get things done.

BTW - Congrats to Coach Warren on her 300th victory. What an awesome accomplishment. She has taken what coach DiCecco built and has continued to grow from there. Very impressive given the limited budget of the program.

[UNIAlum95]

I know this is a never ending debate, but I will forever die on the hill that we should be referred to as Northern Iowa. Outside of our state, UNI just makes people think too hard, and they probably don't care enough to think that hard.

A few years ago I was right there with you. With the university rebranding, I'm all in on owning UNI. We need to make it ours by fully embracing it and it has to be done at the athletics level to help make it stick.

[BCPanther]

A few years ago I was right there with you. With the university rebranding, I'm all in on owning UNI. We need to make it ours by fully embracing it and it has to be done at the athletics level to help make it stick.

Correct. It really worked for UCF and USF among others. Make it ours and make it unique while getting rid of the directional connotation.

[clenz]

Correct. It really worked for UCF and USF among others. Make it ours and make it unique while getting rid of the directional connotation.

I can't think of too many others with similar 3 word directional/location-based names that actually use the full name. Almost of them brand around the abbreviation

List of 3 word schools - excluding things like "X State University" that have chosen to brand their university as an abbreviation rather than the directional/regional/Named after someone's full name of the university

Abelene Christian	-	ACU
Arkansas Pine Bluff	-	APBU
Boston College	-	BC
Brigham Young	-	BYU
Central Arkansas	-	UCA
Central Connecticut	-	CCSU
Central Florida	-	UCF
Central Michigan	-	CMU
Charleston Southern	-	CSU
Coastal Carolina	-	CCU
East Carolina	-	ECU
East Tennessee State	-	ETSU
Eastern Illinois	-	EIU
Eastern Kentucky	-	EKU
Eastern Washington	-	EWU
Florida A&M	-	FAMU
Georgia Southern	-	GSU
Houston Christian	-	HCU
Incarnate Word	-	UIW
James Madison	-	JMU
Long Island	-	LIU
Louisiana Tech	-	LaTech
Louisiana-Monroe-	-	ULM
Middle Tennessee	-	MTSU
Mississippi Valley State	-	MVSU
New Hampshire	-	UNH
North Alabama	-	UNA
North Carolian A&T	-	NCAT
North Texas	-	UNT
Northern Arizona	-	NAU
Northern Colorado	-	UNC
Northern Illinois	-	NIU
Old Dominion	-	ODU
Prairie View A&M	-	PVAMU
Rhode Island	-	URI
Robert Morris	-	RMU
Saint Fraincis	-	SFU
Sam Houston State	-	SHSU
South Alabama	-	USA
South Florida	-	USF
Southeast Missouri State	-	SEMO
Southeastern Louisiana	-	SLU
Southern California	-	USC
Southern Illinois	-	SIU
Southern Methodist	-	SMU
Southern Utah	-	SUU
Stephan F Austin	-	SFA
Texas Christian	-	TCU
Texas El Paso	-	UTEP
Texas San Antonio	-	UTSA
University of California Los Angeles	-	UCLA
University of Nevada Las Vegas	-	UNLV
Valparaiso	-	Valpo
Virginian Military	-	VMI
West Virginia	-	WVU/WV
Western Carolina	-	WCU
Western Illinois	-	WIU
Western Kentucky William & Mary	-	WKU W&M

There's a reason every school shortens their names as much as possible to still maintain their identity and then uses that in every aspect of their university.

Embrace UNI. Be UNI. This back-and-forth thing we do is insane. We don't enforce any branding standards on print or PxP. We should never allow anyone to refer to us as "Northern". That is someone in the AD/marketing needing to grow a backbone and enforce standards.

[KL31NY]

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[panthergirl123]

Came up a little short in the battle for the conference lead vs Illinois State last night dropping to them 70 to 72. Starting out slow hurt. So did the Redbirds shooting 70% at one point for 3 pointers.

[in_the_stands]

Came up a little short in the battle for the conference lead vs Illinois State last night dropping to them 70 to 72. Starting out slow hurt. So did the Redbirds shooting 70% at one point for 3 pointers.

Yeah that's tough to beat. I think you have to give credit to Robinson, her shot is sweet and her size is a tough match up for us to defend, particularly when Goebel gets in early foul trouble. We might be lucky that Crompton only took 3 shots, when she gets her rainbows going it's something else.

It was fun to see both Finley and Green get hot in the 2nd half, we aren't going to lose very many when that happens. I'd have liked to see a few more minutes from McDermott; Wharton has played very well for a freshman, but McDermott is the better scorer at this point.

Not looking forward to that return trip to Belmont.

[panthergirl123]

Nice bounce back victory over Bradley today. Thank you to Drake for knocking off Illinois State. Once again tied for conference lead.

[sevelev711]

Season finale against Missouri State could wind up being a huge game, HUGE game.