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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 25, 2023 17:29:25 GMT -5
| #2 Wisconsin vs. TCU | Saturday, August 26, 2023
4:30 PM Central | Maturi Pavilion
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Keep ‘er movin’…
Follow Along🎟: GopherSports.com | StubHub📺: BTN🎧: FoxSports 1070 AM on iHeartRadio📊: StatBroadcastLikely Starters| Wisconsin | TCU | | OH | 13 | Sarah Franklin | | OH | 12 | Temi Thomas-Ailara | | MB | 52 | Carter Booth | | MB | 9 | Caroline Crawford | | RS | 10 | Devyn Robinson | | RS | 14 | Anna Smrek | | S | 11 | Izzy Ashburn | | S | 6 | MJ Hammill | | L | 22 | Julia Orzol |
| | OH | 23 | Melanie Parra | | OH | 12 | Julia Adams | | MB | 10 | Brianna Green | | MB | 4 | Sarah Sylvester | | RS | 5 | Jalyn Gibson | | S | 2 | Riley Buckley | | L | 35 | Cecily Bramschreiber | | DS | 33 | Riley Weigelt | | DS | 6 | Taylor Raiola |
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The series: Wisconsin owns the series, 3-0. In Madison: Wisconsin leads 2-0. In Forth Worth: Wisconsin leads 1-0 Neutral: N/A Last meeting: Wisconsin swept TCU in the second round of the NCAAs on 12/3/2022. Did you know…? On this day in 1682, British astronomer Edmond Halley first saw the comet that would later bear his name.  | Halley’s Comet seen from northern Mexico on the morning of March 13, 1986. Photograph copyright Dennis Mammana. |
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton outlined the his laws of gravity and motion in a paper called Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which Halley had not only edited, but also fronted Newton the cash to publish. Halley (rhymes with “valley”) had compiled a list of 24 historical comet observations and used Newton's new laws to calculate the gravitational effects of Jupiter and Saturn on their orbits. He concluded that the comets observed by Petrus Apianus in 1531, by Johannes Kepler in 1607, and the one he himself had observed 1682 were in fact the same celestial body, orbiting the sun every 75-79 years. He correctly predicted its return for late 1758, but sadly did not live to see it, having died in 1742. The 1758-59 sighting of the comet demonstrated that planets were not the only things to orbit the sun, and represented one of the first successful tests of Newtonian physics.  | The orbit of Halley’s Comet and other planets in our solar system. Blue is above the plane of Earth’s orbit, and green is below. Image credit University of Rochester. |
The first certain appearance of Halley's Comet in the historical record is a description by Chinese astronomers from 240 BC, and its periodic nature was first recognized by first-century Mesopotamian astronomers - a passage in the Babylonian Talmud refers to "a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err." But by and large comets were seen as heavenly portents until Halley. Writing in a 1908 edition of Scientific American, astronomer S.I. Bailey observed, “Before Halley’s time, comets had been regarded as chance visits to our solar system, except when they were looked upon as special messengers of divine wrath.” |
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Post by ndodge on Aug 25, 2023 23:26:14 GMT -5
Parra in person was awesome tonight. Seeing her try against WI block should be fun tomorrow.
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Post by JT on Aug 25, 2023 23:43:27 GMT -5
I looked it up... "horned frogs" are actually lizards. They just have a wide head, a rounder body, and a really short tail, so people think they must be frogs or toads.  |
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Post by pull3 on Aug 26, 2023 5:05:07 GMT -5
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 26, 2023 5:46:34 GMT -5
I looked it up... "horned frogs" are actually lizards. They just have a wide head, a rounder body, and a really short tail, so people think they must be frogs or toads. That was last year’s fun fact. They can shoot poison blood out of their EYEBALLS from a distance of several feet! |
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 26, 2023 7:51:31 GMT -5
Bumpety bump bump - added a poll.
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Post by pull3 on Aug 26, 2023 8:47:11 GMT -5
Bumpety bump bump - added a poll.
Rainbow, would it be too much trouble to also include the heights of the players?
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Post by Trojan on Aug 26, 2023 9:35:44 GMT -5
"Honey Badger don't care" --- perfect!
Will be interesting to see how Parra adapts to the WI block. I haven't had the opportunity to watch her play much but damn, she's fun to watch.
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Post by houstonbear15 on Aug 26, 2023 9:38:16 GMT -5
I looked it up... "horned frogs" are actually lizards. They just have a wide head, a rounder body, and a really short tail, so people think they must be frogs or toads. That was last year’s fun fact. They can shoot poison blood out of their EYEBALLS from a distance of several feet! It’s why red is used as an accent color for TCU athletics- to represent eyeball blood |
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 26, 2023 10:07:27 GMT -5
Bumpety bump bump - added a poll. Rainbow, would it be too much trouble to also include the heights of the players?
Can do in the future for sure - if I get a chance to get onto my tablet today I can add to this one. |
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 26, 2023 10:07:50 GMT -5
That was last year’s fun fact. They can shoot poison blood out of their EYEBALLS from a distance of several feet! It’s why red is used as an accent color for TCU athletics- to represent eyeball blood I don’t care if this is actually true or not, it’s canon now. |
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Post by pull3 on Aug 26, 2023 11:25:08 GMT -5
Rainbow, would it be too much trouble to also include the heights of the players?
Can do in the future for sure - if I get a chance to get onto my tablet today I can add to this one.
Thank you. Please take your time, there's no need to rush. I am interested in checking the opponent's website for their players' heights. I assume it would be helpful for other participants too.
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 26, 2023 11:56:42 GMT -5
Can do in the future for sure - if I get a chance to get onto my tablet today I can add to this one. Thank you. Please take your time, there's no need to rush. I am interested in checking the opponent's website for their players' heights. I assume it would be helpful for other participants too.
In case you didn’t realize, click/tap this icon to get to the team roster.  |
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Post by savannahbadger on Aug 26, 2023 12:10:42 GMT -5
Looks like TCU isn’t a very tall team overall.
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Post by comet on Aug 26, 2023 12:23:16 GMT -5
Looks like TCU isn’t a very tall team overall. No, but they ran a pretty quick offense and Parra can jump. Watch out for her. |
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