This a generously optimistic outlook on a team that tanked really hard in the latter half of last season.We've got DePaul at #28. Now to see where UConn gets ranked as the final Big East team out of the 3.
#28 DePaul Women's Basketball 2021-2022 Preview
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It is a bit of a head scratcher. Tanked has a different connotation to me nowadays though. Most take the term tanking as losing intentionally lately.
We've got DePaul at #28. Now to see where UConn gets ranked as the final Big East team out of the 3.
#28 DePaul Women's Basketball 2021-2022 Preview
Good call. I don’t really understand the thought process behind it though. Lol
Yup. If you ever venture to the UNC boards, they are all the time referring to NC State as either Moo U or Cow College.
Definitely have this dynamic in the Northwest w/ Washington/Washington St. and Oregon/Oregon St. Location plays a big role too. There is a contrast between Eugene and Corvallis, but Seattle and Pullman might as well be on different planets.
Truth be told, during the spring at Oregon State (my alma mater) you can smell the MOO when the wind blows. The rest of the commentary from @triaddukefan & @nwhoopfan is spot on.
I hope the Coyotes make some noise in the postseason. I wouldn’t want to be the 3 or 4 or 5 seed playing them.#25 South Dakota Women's Basketball 2021-2022 Preview
A few years ago I heard, probably on All Things Considered or Morning Edition, an interview with a pair of friends, one of whom was an Oregon fan, the other an OSU fan. The interviewer asked the OSU fan if he knew the UO fight song. He said, “I dunno — AFLAC?” I just about drove off the road.
It's not UNC-Duke or Kentucky-Louisville, etc. but the long standing hatred between OSU and UO is still considerable. On OSU's message board they often won't refer to the Ducks by name, they call them tsdtr (that school down the road), the Quacks, the Zeroes (their O can easily be mistake for a 0), the Holes, and worse. I'm sure Oregon has similar disrespectful names for OSU.
No way LSU should be that high.#24 LSU Women's Basketball 2021-2022 Preview
Yeah, this one has me perplexed. Guessing they have a lot of faith in Mulkey being able to manage a quick turnaround.
Am I the only one who finds it somewhat ironic that a fan of a quintessentially upper-crust school like Duke is claiming the mantle of "common folk" and "salt of the earth" in the land-grant vs. flagship question?Well its usually a Public School that was created to focus on studies like engineering, agriculture, science, architecture, the vet sciences. Typically they are the leading blue-collar public schools, the schools for the common folk, the salt of the earth citizens. So instead of the uppity people that go to schools like UVA, UNC, Ole Miss, and U of South Carolina.... the land grants of VPI, NC State, Miss State, and Clemson are the schools for the down to earth types. The Uppity Flagships look down on the Land Grants.... as Moo U's.
If you want an more unbiased look..
Land-grant university - Wikipedia
If you see a school with a State or A&M in the name... chances are its a Land-Grant. The Act of 1890 helped establish HBCU Land Grants. In some states, the Flagship is also the Land Grant. Schools like UCONN, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Rutgers, Arizona.
