Baylor-Tennessee game thread

[Vowelguy]

When you are on the ESPN payroll, it is reporting.

No it's not.

There is big difference journalistically between print, blogs, and tweets. Reporters have much more leeway with what they can do/say on the latter.

As I said, dude, you need to chill out. Or at least find another place to blow off your steam. Blasting Rebecca here will win you NO friends.

Tread lightly my friend.

 

[UConnChapette]

When you are on the ESPN payroll, it is reporting.

Only if she gets paid by the tweet.

 

[Wbbfan1]

Unfortunately your still on this board, instead of you own board. It was a natural reaction by fans to wonder if Griner and others leaving the bench area would be suspended for the next game. No one was clapping up and down saying Yeah Griner is suspended so now other teams besides Baylor will win the championship. I suspect we'll see you gloating about Baylor until they win the National Championship. We know what you'll do, if they do lose, you'll run back to East Texas and we won't see you on this board until next year.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Per the NCAA Rule Book:

"Any individual who leaves the bench area and enters the
playing court but does not participate in a fight (Art. 2.j) shall
not be assessed a CLASS B technical foul (no free throws
awarded). That individual shall be ejected but is not subject to
suspension."

If you can keep your head when all those around you are losing theirs - and your team is down 14 points too - you are a man my son!

 

[McHuskyFan]

IMHO you are beginning to overstay your welcome. We don't need your constant praise of Baylor on this board. Now you start to say things about Rebecca who is an ICON to the UConn Women's Basketball program. Let's say that Baylor players almost cost themselves a championship by the stupid actions of three players who left the bench area, regardless of what they were attempting to do. If Stricklen wasn't held back, the incident could have easily gotten much worse.

that's why employed the "ignore" option

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Time for a lock down!

 

[UConnChapette]

that's why employed the "ignore" option

Damn, I miss that thing!

 

[Vowelguy]

Damn, I miss that thing!

It still exists. Click on the poster's name (to the left of this pots) and you will see the ignore option.

 

[BooRadley]

Based on what? Obviously not the rule book.

As I later revised... the rule is wrong and the rule itself needs to be revised to assess suspensions... I know that this won't happen but that behavior cannot be allowed even once. It's my opinion, that's why.

I also believe Stricklen should have been tossed for fighting. (watch as Stricken lingers over Sims with her(Stricklen's) right knee ad bot arms pressing down nto Sims. Had she jsut gotten up as is normal, all would be fine, but Stricklen was jawing and left her hands and knee pressing into Sims for far too long...

YOPB

 

[HuskyNan]

LOL. I just couldn't believe how quickly so many wanted to think that Griner was going to be suspended.

No, people were wondering if she would be suspended because it would have huge implications for the Final Four.

You have been on this board long enough to know how topics can take on a life of their own. You might take your own advice and try a exercising a few moments of restraint before posting as your criticism of Rebecca, who is much beloved by UConn fans, and Boneyard posters was ill-timed and ill-advised.

 

[BooRadley]

she should have kept her big mouth shut if she didn't know the rule for sure

I've been nothing but decent to you during your time on this board. But you ARE becoming overly aggressive with talk like that... Rebecca made a simple mistake... it has been undone... no harm... Calling her out is fine but be respectful as you do it and refrain from a cycle of re-pounding it.

If you choose otherwise, your time here will become unproductive & and unpleasant for all concerned. Just relax a bit... Griner gets to play in the next game... even though I would amend the rule to suspend players that left the bench. So, we disagree... big deal... life goes on... keeping the fever up does no one any good and does you the most harm... Grab some Merlot and let it go.

Your Ol' Pal Boo

 

[Alydar]

the refs said there was no fight so the rule is not applicable.

 

[Wbbfan1]

If Sims plays like she did tonight, IMHO Baylor is unbeatable. A team can win if Griner gets 20-25 points they can lose unlikely as it would be. However, give Sims 20 plus points then its almost impossible.

 

[BigO]

If Sims plays like she did tonight, IMHO Baylor is unbeatable. A team can win if Griner gets 20-25 points they can lose unlikely as it would be. However, give Sims 20 plus points then its almost impossible.

agreed. the lady vols actually played griner really well. i was VERY proud of that...however, when their guards are draining threes like that there is nobody that can beat them. NOBODY

 

[Kait14]

I'm commenting on her reporting skills. She had no right to send that out without knowing the rule. Had that been Kara Lawson or Carolyn Peck concerning a UCONN player the board would be steaming.

Good thing this is a UConn board, so it would be expected

 

[Kait14]

If shoving and nasty words exchanged is not fighting, I need to inform my mother she wrongfully punished my sister and I for "fighting" for all those years of our youth.

Does the NCAA rule book define "fighting"?

This is what has me baffled.. how is that not considered a fight? Just because I don't punch someone in the face doesn't mean I'm not fighting with them

 

[Kait14]

When you are on the ESPN payroll, it is reporting.

So is Jay Bilas's morning rap song quotes followed by "I gotta go to work" reporting? What's he reporting on?

 

[VAUConnFan]

If shoving and nasty words exchanged is not fighting, I need to inform my mother she wrongfully punished my sister and I for "fighting" for all those years of our youth.

Does the NCAA rule book define "fighting"?

Very clearly:

Section 26. Fighting
Art. 1.

A fight is a flagrant 2 foul.
Art. 2.

A fight is a confrontation involving one or more players, coaches or other
team personnel wherein (but not limited to) a fist, hand, arm, foot, knee or leg is
used to combatively strike the other individual.
Art. 3.

When during a confrontation, an individual attempts to strike another
individual with any of the actions defined in Art. 2, whether there is contact is
irrelevant. The perpetrator shall be deemed to have been involved in a fight.
Art. 4.

When during a confrontation, an individual uses unsportsmanlike acts or
comments which, in the opinion of the official, provoke the other individual to
retaliate by fighting, it shall be ruled that both individuals have been involved in
the fight.
Art. 5.

When a physical confrontation has occurred, the officials shall determine
the individuals who were involved in the fight or left the bench area to participate.
Art. 6.

A combative confrontation may occur when the ball is live, in which case,
it is a flagrant 2 personal foul; or when the ball is dead, and a flagrant 2 technical
foul shall be assessed.
Art. 7.

When during the course of play (live ball), an individual strikes an
opponent with the hand, elbow, arm, foot, knee or leg in a nonconfrontational
manner but the act is excessive or severe, it shall be ruled as a flagrant 2 personal
foul and not a fighting action. When a defined body part is used to strike an
opponent but the contact is not severe or excessive, a judgment shall be made by
the official as to whether the contact is a flagrant 1 personal foul.
Art. 8.

Anytime an individual uses a closed fist in an unsportsmanlike manner,
it shall be deemed that the individual has initiated a fighting act and shall be
penalized accordingly.
Art. 9.

When any flagrant 2 foul is ruled to be a fight, the fighting penalty shall
be invoked.

 

[Icebear]

Clear as mud.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

World's longest lived game thread...call Guiness!

 

[pinotbear]

I'd rather have a Guiness than read through this puppy again!

 

[Bestiarius]

agreed. the lady vols actually played griner really well. i was VERY proud of that...however, when their guards are draining threes like that there is nobody that can beat them. NOBODY

When a team throws everyone at one player and that player comes one block from a triple double, I'd hardly call that playing Griner very well. And when guards are left wide open to shoot, they are going to make a high percentage of their shots. Not a good strategy.

 

[ezxccsc]

Can’t for the life of me recall when that type of childish playground behavior took place during a UCONN women’s game. Maybe someone could jog my memory when players under GA acted like that.

 

[doggydaddy]

Can’t for the life of me recall when that type of childish playground behavior took place during a UCONN women’s game. Maybe someone could jog my memory when players under GA acted like that.

They don't.

When your success if predicated on emotion, like Tennessee, it's a double edged sword. It helps when things are going well, but you lose some control when things are going poorly.

 

[Vowelguy]

They don't.

When your success if predicated on emotion, like Tennessee, it's a double edged sword. It helps when things are going well, but you lose some control when things are going poorly.

How many similar alteractions have occurred in the last decade? 20 yrs?

 

[VAUConnFan]

Can’t for the life of me recall when that type of childish playground behavior took place during a UCONN women’s game. Maybe someone could jog my memory when players under GA acted like that.

We can't all be like UConn now, can we?

 

[suzyq]

What makes no sense here is that there WAS a fight, and the players DID get involved.. not by fighting, but they were involved none the less

Kait I think you and I are the only ones who think there was a fight.

 

[McHuskyFan]

Kait I think you and I are the only ones who think there was a fight.

A fight is only when you combatitively strike someone? Not shoving? That seems very wrong to me ....

Then again, i don't agree with the officiating so why would i agree with the rules they're supposed to enforce ?

 

[Goodies07]

When a team throws everyone at one player and that player comes one block from a triple double, I'd hardly call that playing Griner very well. And when guards are left wide open to shoot, they are going to make a high percentage of their shots. Not a good strategy.

I thought they did a decent job on Griner, especially in the first half. They held her to just 3-10 shooting with 8 points, while also forcing Baylor into a handful of turnovers as they tried to force it inside to her. If they had stuck someone to Sims' hip, They would have been well in the game at halftime. I would live with Baylor's other guards chucking threes if it meant Griner isn't getting touches and hitting layups and short jumpers in the post.

 

[Scotter]

How about Stefanie Dolson in the Louisville game? Isn't much difference in my opinion. Two players got physically tangled up and took exception. Only difference is the UConn players that were on the bench stayed there. You can bet that most UConn players would react to having their arm pulled like Sims did to Stricklen as evidenced by Dolson's reaction to having her arm pulled. There was nothing unusual about what happened outside of the players running onto the court and the importance of the game. It certainly wasn't a fight.

Can’t for the life of me recall when that type of childish playground behavior took place during a UCONN women’s game. Maybe someone could jog my memory when players under GA acted like that.