#4 Indiana vs #1 Maryland - 3/07/20

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Big Ten Tournament Semifinal
Indianapolis, IN - 6:30 PM ET
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Are these poll results just wishful thinking?

 

[garddog]

They beat SC on a neutral court, so!!°°

 

[DefenseBB]

Are these poll results just wishful thinking?

...or wishful thinking by us UConn faithful...

 

[TerpWomenFan]

If Maryland play their game, they win. Indiana has never defeated Maryland.

 

[garddog]

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Looks like your right! Indiana 0 - 9 vs Maryland.

 

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IND hanging with MD in the first 13-12.

 

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28-24 MD at the half

 

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Patberg has 13 pts for IND. No other player on the team has more than 4 pts.

 

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Maryland finally has a ten point cushion. Will Indiana start to unravel?

 

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38-26 MD at the third media break

Jones 9 pts, 10 reb

 

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With this defense, Marilyn doesn’t need a lot of offense.

47-28 MD with 2 min left in third

 

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50-33 MD end of third

If Mikesell wasn’t having one of her cold shooting nights, this would be an even bigger blowout.

 

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Don’t look now, but Indiana is attempting a comeback.

They’re down 11 with 6:24 left.

 

[seeya27]

Maryland's losses were to:
* SC at home;.
* NC State on the road;.
* an 81-58 loss to unranked Northwestern on the road;.
" and a loss to unranked Iowa on the road in January.

Not a mention a close two point win over James Madison.

They are undefeated since January 9. But still, when comparing resumes that are paper thin close, are they really one seed material?

The only ranked teams they beat were a few B10 teams ranked lower in the top 25 (Iowa, Northwestern,.etc.). Good but hardly great clubs.

I would love to play them in a regional final.)-:

 

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66-51 MD final

Miller 15 pts, 2 reb, 1 stl, 1 blk
Owusu 14 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk

 

[Plebe]

Maryland's losses were to:
* SC at home;.
* NC State on the road;.
* an 81-58 loss to unranked Northwestern on the road;.
" and a loss to unranked Iowa on the road in January.

Not a mention a close two point win over James Madison.

They are undefeated since January 9. But still, when comparing resumes that are paper thin close, are they really one seed material?

The only ranked teams they beat were a few B10 teams ranked lower in the top 25 (Iowa, Northwestern,.etc.). Good but hardly great clubs.

I would love to play them in a regional final.)-:

The polls are 100% irrelevant to NCAA tournament seeding. Midseason poll rankings are even more irrelevant, if that's possible.

The resumes in contention for the final one seed are not "paper thin close". In fact they're not even close at all.

Maryland had 12 top-50 wins coming into today's games. If they win the Big Ten tournament, they'll have 14 as of Selection Day. Compare that to Louisville, who has 8, or to UConn, who will at most have 6.

Maryland also has 7 wins over the RPI top 25, compared to only 4 for Louisville and only 2 for UConn.

Any loss to a team that's a 3 or a 4 seed is not a bad loss. Whether they were "unranked" in the irrelevant polls at the time of the contest doesn't matter. Yes, those losses are slightly worse than UConn's only losses, but Maryland's overwhelming advantage in quality wins makes this a very easy decision for the committee.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

If we see the Maryland that was on a 14 game winning streak to end the regular season, they can beat UConn. If we see the team from the Big 10 tournament, they don't have enough offense to win.

 

[seeya27]

Being from a non-P5 conference is tough. UConn scheduled a series of teams that were expected to be better national contending teams and fell far short. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tenn, OK, Vanderbilt. And it sucks that no AAC team (USF) stepped up.

There is no margin for error in scheduling except to win virtually every OOC game.

Still, being penalized for a weak conference and losing only to the top 3 teams in the country is a tad unfortunate. To the eye test, MD looked slow motion slow and hardly extraordinary. Just my opinion though.