The Guru NCAAW Report: Ranked Teams Cruise to Six Home Wins; Brugler of Saint Joseph’s, Collins of Penn, Baker of Drexel Pick Up Weekly Conference Awards

By Mel Greenberg @wimhoopsguru

Monday was a night of perfection for those ranked teams that played in a short overall schedule that did not contain any local teams in action.

Some individuals did get to receive weekly awards – Talya Brugler from Saint Joseph’s earned the A-10 award, this time all along, while Drexel’s amaris Baker shared the Coastal Athletic Association honor, and Penn’s Katie Collins earned her second Ivy freshman citation.

If you want to look ahead first, locally, three games feature local teams – Temple is going for its third straight victory, all on the road, when the Owls visit Georgetown in Washington at 7 p.m. (FloHoops) at the Hoyas’ McDonough Arena.

Delaware holds its field trip day at 11 a.m. at the Bob Carpenter Arena in Bewsrk, hosting Colgate, and Rutgers’ schedule picks up with the Scarlet Knight’s first road trip, visiting Virginia Tech (ACCNX) at 6 p.m.

The National Scene

As for the six games with ranked teams in the season’s third Associated Press poll, week 867 in season 49, all of the outcomes were by double digits.

No. 7 LSU in Baton Rouge beat Troy 98-59 to go 5-0 as Flau’Jae Johnson had 27 points and nine rebounds while Aneesah Morrow had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the host Tigers.

Ole Miss downed visiting Jackson State of the Southwestern Athletic Conference 76-44 in Oxford as Sira Thienou had a career-high 16 points for the Rebels (3-1) who won their third straight after the opening day loss to No. 3 Southern Cal in Paris.

No. 23 Oregon (5-0) is still unbeaten after topping Western Athletic favorite Grand Canyon 70-54 as Peyton Scott scored 17 points.

No. 22 Illinois (4-0) also hosting a field trip day crushed Le Moyne 94-25 as Kendall Bostic had 25 points and 12 boards.

The closest outcome saw No. 15 Kentucky (5-0) beat visiting Purdue Fort Wayne 79-67, Virginia Tech transfer Georgia Amoore, who followed coach Kenny Brooks to the Wildcats, had 23 points and Dazia Lawrence was 8-15 from the field, five from deep, for 21 points.

No. 10 Kansas State cruised to a 73-43 victory over Little Rock of the Ohio Valley Conference as Ayoka Lee and Zyanna Walker each scored 16 points.