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toadfoot said:
I wouldn't pencil in Baylor for the FF just yet. I would put Oregon St./Baylor as a toss up.
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Really? I shouldn't have penciled the Bears in, true. But wouldn't you agree Baylor is a strong favorite?
 
Who would have thought at the beginning of this tournament that Syracuse would be the last surviving ACC team and Tennessee the last surviving SEC team.

Also, that UW and Syracuse would be their conferences representatives in the Final Four. (Oregon St. could join UW. If they can beat Baylor)
 
toadfoot said:
No.
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Fair enough. The bigger and deeper front line leads me to favor Baylor over OSU. But if Oregon State wins, it might (?) be better for the Huskies. Or maybe not.
 
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Syracuse, with a small lineup and bombing away from downtown, possesses the ultimate David strategy. Washington is a much better match-up for us.
 
It must feel good for the Day Twin's to beat Tennessee. They originally committed to UNC and then were shown the door after Diamond and the others committed and wound up at Syracuse and now they are in the Final Four and UNC is nowhere to be found.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Really? Not sure how you spin this as a positive. I would argue Syracuse was the first really good team they played this tournament and they are being taken to the woodshed. Holly with no answers. They had S Carolina out of the way and still will have their Final Four drought.
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Yeesh. Of course it's a positive for Tennessee to get to an Elite 8, especially after the poor regular season they had. You're really going to argue that Arizona State and Ohio State weren't good teams? Forgive me for saying but that's absurd.
 
Plebe said:
It's a positive for Tennessee to have put a bad regular season behind them. You're really going to argue that Arizona State and Ohio State weren't good teams? Forgive me for saying but that's absurd.
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Tennessee was clearly better than both. It was obvious from the tip. Bigger, stronger, faster. Syracuse was the first team that had comparable talent and they got drilled. The problems still exist.
 
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...!!!

Couldn't be more pleased to see Tenn bow out, and not just by a bit, but in a blowout. People who think Tenn made such great strides in the NCAA's need to remember they squeaked past the 10 seed, beat a highly over rated ASU team tailor made for Tenn (a bunch of slow white girls), ran into an undermanned OSU team, and then got blown out by Syracuse. Tenn showed they are a top 25 team, but they are a long way from being an elite team. and with no recruits coming in, and losing who they lose, I will be surprised if they even squeak into the top 10 next year.

But hey, anyone who wants to really believe that Tenn is back can go enjoy the orange kool aid with the Tenn fans. Watching them this tourney showed me that they are a top 20 team. Nothing more. And they are decidedly NOT back.
 
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LadyVols9 said:
i am sure I will get some backlash for saying this but having graves, carter, and reynolds hurt at the same time just made this impossible. TN was never going to win like that. if they had been healthy, TN would be headed to Indy.....NO DOUBT
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(( yawn ))
 
Quentin Hillsman is among my least favorite coaches. I rooted for him today because he helped set the following milestones.

1. Tennessee's Final Four drought now spans 2009-2016.
2. TENN finished with a record 14 losses (19-14).
3. They failed to win 20 games for the first time since the mid 1970s (Pat summitt's second season).
 
ASweet3781 said:
Tennessee was clearly better than both. It was obvious from the tip. Bigger, stronger, faster. Syracuse was the first team that had comparable talent and they got drilled. The problems still exist.
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Tennessee played better against both. They shared the ball well, got good movement on offense, limited turnovers. Everything they hadn't been doing well for most of the season.
 
I just noticed that if our ladies take care of business and reach the finals, one of two interesting scenarios will occur: it will either be Huskies vs. Huskies, or Stewie gets to play against the coach that wouldn't schedule a game near her home during her senior year. Karma could be a real b**ch.
 
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LadyVols9 said:
i am sure I will get some backlash for saying this but having graves, carter, and reynolds hurt at the same time just made this impossible. TN was never going to win like that. if they had been healthy, TN would be headed to Indy.....NO DOUBT
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Are you serious? If Tenn had not been given the gift of the greatest bracket in the history of the NCAA"s, they'd have been out on the 2nd round. The squeaked past a 10 seed, beat the 2 seed ASU that was the perfect storm - slow white players who were simply out athleted, and then a depleted OSU team. Then they were absolutely destroyed by Syracuse, a fringe top 20 team.
 
ericsandiego said:
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...!!!

Couldn't be more pleased to see Tenn bow out, and not just by a bit, but in a blowout. People who think Tenn made such great strides in the NCAA's need to remember they squeaked past the 10 seed, beat a highly over rated ASU team tailor made for Tenn (a bunch of slow white girls), ran into an undermanned OSU team, and then got blown out by Syracuse. Tenn showed they are a top 25 team, but they are a long way from being an elite team. and with no recruits coming in, and losing who they lose, I will be surprised if they even squeak into the top 10 next year.

But hey, anyone who wants to really believe that Tenn is back can go enjoy the orange kool aid with the Tenn fans. Watching them this tourney showed me that they are a top 20 team. Nothing more. And they are decidedly NOT back.
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This pisses me off. Why was ASU "highly overrated"? Anybody who watched the game against Tennessee could see that it was a case of Tennessee elevating its game to close to its talent level. ASU swept both Washington and Stanford in the regular season, and no one's calling those two teams "overrated".
 
ericsandiego said:
Are you serious? If Tenn had not been given the gift of the greatest bracket in the history of the NCAA"s, they'd have been out on the 2nd round. The squeaked past a 10 seed, beat the 2 seed ASU that was the perfect storm - slow white players who were simply out athleted, and then a depleted OSU team. Then they were absolutely destroyed by Syracuse, a fringe top 20 team.
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That "fringe top 20 team" just beat a top-3 team in South Carolina on a neutral court.

I get that people don't like Tennessee and want to diminish them in every way, but they had a good tournament, considering all they'd been through.
 
In the closing moments of the Syr/Tenn game Deshields let go with one of the most bizarre passes (let me clarify, attempted passes) I've ever seen. What was she trying to do here? There is no Tenn player within 5 yards of where she throws this?????
 
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Plebe said:
Tennessee played better against both. They shared the ball well, got good movement on offense, limited turnovers. Everything they hadn't been doing well for most of the season.
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Only for the first 3 Q. The last Q Tenn played like D2 school.
 
Plebe said:
This pisses me off. Why was ASU "highly overrated"? Anybody who watched the game against Tennessee could see that it was a case of Tennessee elevating its game to close to its talent level. ASU swept both Washington and Stanford in the regular season, and no one's calling those two teams "overrated".
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As a 2 seed, ASU was over rated and a gift to Tennessee. If you can't see that I have no words. OSU had injuries and had only 6 players really to use vs. Tenn. Again if you can't see how lucky Tenn was, I have no words. I'm just so thrilled that Tenn has lost and is out of the tourney. Just because a team sprang an upset in the NCAA"s does not make them a top 10 teams, even tho anyone in the final 4 will probably be in the top 5 come the year end rankings.
 
Me thinks Baylor's time is running out. Their toughest games this year have been with Texas, whom they are very familiar with. Yes, they played Depaul earlier, and FS . However now they have a far more difficult schedule starting tomorrow. I think they might sqeak by Oregon State, maybe. Now they will contend with teams that are capable of scoring.
 
Plebe said:
That "fringe top 20 team" just beat a top-3 team in South Carolina on a neutral court.

I get that people don't like Tennessee and want to diminish them in every way, but they had a good tournament, considering all they'd been through.
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Why is that impressive? Didn't it prove that they had no business losing 13 games to begin with? I watched Tennessee-ASU and Tennessee-OSU. Tennessee clearly had more talent that those teams and played good and won. My thoughts were how did this team lose 13 games in the first place?

I'll give them a bit of a pass because they were missing their PG today but Syracuse, much better IMO than OSU/ASU, exposed the same problems about this team which caused them to lose 13 games in the first place. Coaching and chemistry.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Why is that impressive? Didn't it prove that they had no business losing 13 games to begin with? I watched Tennessee-ASU and Tennessee-OSU. Tennessee clearly had more talent that those teams and played good and won. My thoughts were how did this team lose 13 games in the first place?

I'll give them a bit of a pass because they were missing their PG today but Syracuse, much better IMO than OSU/ASU, exposed the same problems about this team which caused them to lose 13 games in the first place.
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Because they were horribly inconsistent. That sometimes happens in sports. Teams have good games and they have bad games.
 
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