Recent content by bballnut90

I think South Carolina is the weakest of the 4 but has the easiest path. I’m not seeing Iowa or TCU as a team likely to upset them whereas UCLA has Duke/LSU in their path.

Didn't see any thread for this accomplishment so thought I'd share: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/sarah-strong-named-2025-26-152230072.html Congrats to Sarah on another well deserved Player of the Year award. I think she's 3/3 so far. Fudd also named a 2nd Team All American.

Probably yes. Iowa State/Syracuse and Oklahoma State/Princeton could be interesting too.

South Carolina and UCONN will meet in the Final Four if both advance. If Texas advances to the Final Four they'll play the winner of UCLA's region.

South Carolina is overall #4, not Texas

I probably would've picked Duke over Michigan, but Duke's losses to Clemson/South Florida killed them.

I guess we have different views on it because for me, context matters beyond the specific seed differential. For example, I'd absolutely say 2013 #1 Baylor losing to #5 Louisville was a bigger upset than 2023 #1 Stanford losing to #9 Ole Miss. And injuries are incredibly relevant for upset...

Top 2 for me as noted above are UCONN/Mississippi State and Baylor/Louisville. Other games that were very unexpected: 2016: 3/4 of the #1 seeds go down in the Sweet 16 or Elite 8. Notre Dame/South Carolina both had incredible seasons losing just 1 game to UCONN in the regular season and...

UCONN/Mississippi State ranks #1 or #2 all time for me considering the stage and magnitude of the upset. I know it was a 1 vs 2 seed but UCONN was undefeated and looked like a machine, having only lost 2 games in the previous 5 years. They were a 23 point favorite in the Final Four and no one...

They met early in the year when Tennessee was ranked 8th and NC State 9th. They're easily the two most underachieving teams this season.

NCAA prioritizes teams that finish top 4 in the same conference being placed in different brackets. SC/Texas were both 1 seeds so they avoid putting Vandy/LSU in the same bracket with them, meaning UCONN was always going to get either Vandy or LSU. I think LSU is the more dangerous opponent.

Disagree about their losses being terrible. The volume of losses is bad but they aren't losing to awful teams: 9 of their 13 losses are to teams projected to get a top 5 seed 2 of their 13 losses are to Alabama and NC State (projected 6 and 8 seeds) The last 2 losses are to Mississippi State...

I’ll never get annoyed at someone playing until the final whistle, especially a player on the losing team

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make other than maybe claim she's an inefficient player? If you're using TS% to define elite scoring and have her ranked behind players like Mitchell, Ziebell, Heckel, and Kate Koval, you've lost me. Almost everyone that you referenced is nowhere close...

Call me crazy but I'd consider Blakes a more elite scorer than her 3 teammates who have a higher TS% than her.