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Big Ten weekly awards:

PoW: Betnijah Laney, Rutgers
Honor roll: Jacqui Grant, Illiniois; Bethany Doolittle; Iowa, Nia Coffey, Northwestern
FoW: Carlie Wagner, Minnesota

Although the release says it's Laney's 2nd PoW, it's actually her 3rd (somehow they missed the one in January), so she's the only player in the conference to have 3 so far. The Rutgers WCBB page got it right, though.

Kelsey Mitchell from OSU has 6 FoW awards, plus two PoW awards. I'd say she's the runaway favorite for FoY.

The best, this week

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True or false: The last time a Big 10 team went undefeated in conference play, that team went on to win the national championship.

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Michigan State beats Penn State. Aerial Powers gets to 1,000 career points as a sophomore which is really tough.

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Will ya look at that....Badgers aren't in the basement!

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[mzonefan]

Tough news for the already thin Huskers....

(from the Journal Star)

Nebraska won without Theriot for the first time this season, after losing three straight games against top-20 teams.

With each game that Theriot watches in street clothes, her return is less likely, which is a major blow to the Huskers. The All-Big Ten point guard leads Nebraska with 16.5 points and 5.2 assists per game.

Yori revealed to reporters for the first time Sunday that Theriot may need surgery on her ankle.

“Yes, there is a chance. There is a very good chance,” Yori said.

Yori said she “didn’t feel comfortable” discussing a timetable for a decision on Theriot. She said Theriot needs to practice if she’s going to return, and she hasn’t been able to do much of that since the injury occurred during practice 14 days ago.

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Bobbi Kelsey assessing where Wisconsin is now, where they need to be, and how she hopes to get there: http://tinyurl.com/m8ro39p

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The Journal Star reported today that Theriot is done for the year. Good luck to her.

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"Before the game, Nebraska coach Connie Yori said in a pregame radio interview that junior point guard Rachel Theriot has a complete tear of a ligament in her ankle and will have surgery Thursday. Theriot will miss the remainder of the season.

Theriot has not played since injuring her ankle in practice two weeks ago. She leads the Huskers with 16.5 points and 5.1 assists per game. Nebraska has lost four of the five games since Theriot was injured.

“It means that we’re just going to have some other folks do a little bit more for us,” Yori said. “We’ve missed her here the last four games and we’re going to miss her the rest of the season, but at the same time, there are opportunities for young players in our program to step up and elevate their game. We’ve seen some of that already. We kind of saw this coming, but it is a chance to have some of those younger kids do some things.”

Theriot, along with current seniors Emily Cady, Hailie Sample, Tear’a Laudermill and Brandi Jeffery, helped lead Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference Tournament title last season.

“You definitely feel for our seniors in particular because, of course, Rachel is a big part of who we have been these last few years and those seniors have played with her,” Yori said. “In the meantime, you've got to have some young players play well, but we also have to have our seniors play well. Those guys are going to have to carry a bigger load; do more for us and stay positive. We have four more regular-season games and each of them in their own way are winnable, but they’re also each in their own way losable, so we’re going to have to play some good basketball down the stretch.”

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Oweeeee! Having done that at the age of 17 (it was mis-diagnosed and so not treated properly and has dogged me ever since) I have nothing but sympathy for Rachel. Hopefully she gets all the right things done and has a good recovery over the summer.

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[cthskzfn]

Well, at least she's a jr.

I had ankle ligament reconstruction surgery at 35. It was successful but very painful and it had a long recovery time.

After surgery the pain was severe and for a week afterward I couldn't even have my foot lower than my heart because the pain was unbearable. It was quite a while before it could withstand any pressure at all.

Even 6 months later it wasn't 100% healed and it was more than 2 years before the constant pain/discomfort at the incision site ended.

The surgeon said that of all the patients he'd done this procedure for, it was the women who weighed least that had less painful and shorter recovery periods.

Good luck to her.

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