Elite 8 games: Washington-Stanford and Syracuse-Tennessee

[uconnever]

Refs trying to get Stanford to the final four

Exactly it's the older male ref. He is refereeing like he is paid off

 

[GoUconn7961]

So..how do you think Geno would feel about a kid that doesn't participate in conditioning drills? ​

 

[HoopsFan21]

I think Kelsey's mom has an iWatch

 

[UConnCat]

Asst Coach Morgan Valley going to the Final Four!!!

 

[HoopsFan21]

Washington moves on to the final four

 

[HoopsFan21]

The crowd looks sparse

 

[Plebe]

Exactly it's the older male ref. He is refereeing like he is paid off

That continuation call and then the charge call on Plum were probably the two worst calls I've seen this entire postseason.

I'm just glad it didn't change the outcome. Kudos to U-Dub.

 

[chuck.r]

So..how do you think Geno would feel about a kid that doesn't participate in conditioning drills? ​

I read the other day that she has balky knees or leg issues and most of her between-game conditioning therapy is in the pool. Coaching staff limits her practice time between games. She played practically the entire game - 39 min.

 

[HoopsFan21]

I read the other day that she has balky knees or leg issues and most of her between-game conditioning therapy is in the pool. Coaching staff limits her practice time between games.

So basically they treat her the same way UConn handles Tuck with her knee issues.

 

[HuskyNan]

I read the other day that she has balky knees or leg issues and most of her between-game conditioning therapy is in the pool. Coaching staff limits her practice time between games.

There were times Osahor didn’t know if she would get to this point, particularly during a trying first year at UW in which she was struck by a car while riding her bicycle.

The accident happened after a team practice at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the night before what was supposed to be Osahor’s first UW game in November 2013. She was riding on the Burke-Gillman Trail back toward her dorm when a young male driver failed to stop at a trail crossing, striking Osahor, flipping her over and onto the hood of the car.

Osahor had damaged joints in her right shoulder, which absorbed the brunt of her fall, and on which doctors later recommended surgery. (She elected rehab instead, and pain still lingers in the shoulder.)

The accident was an ominous start to a frustrating freshman season that was also derailed by a stress fracture in her right foot and the discovery of a benign tumor in her right knee, which was surgically removed after the season.

“There were definitely times where I was like, ‘I’m done,’ ” she said. She credited her teammates and her Nigerian-born parents, Dennis and Vicky, for their support to help her through the mounting injuries.

Mucho respect to this young woman.

Washington’s Chantel Osahor makes her Husky women’s basketball teammates better

 

[Plebe]

I read the other day that she has balky knees or leg issues and most of her between-game conditioning therapy is in the pool. Coaching staff limits her practice time between games. She played practically the entire game - 39 min.

Wow. Shame on Antonelli and Pasch for not doing their homework on that. They made it sound like she was just too lazy to do the work.

 

[Jimbo]

I read the other day that she has balky knees or leg issues and most of her between-game conditioning therapy is in the pool. Coaching staff limits her practice time between games. She played practically the entire game - 39 min.

If that's what's going on, then (1) I apologize to the extent my post above implied any laziness on her part, and (2) Plebe is absolutely right that ESPN did a horrible job. They mentioned the accident that Nan just brought up, but they treated her lack of participation in conditioning workouts as a big joke throughout the game.

 

[msf22b]

There were some calls and non-calls that were astonishing
Example...McCall was challenged in the key and came down (after jumping) to a non-call
There were (at least) 3 possibilities: walk, held ball, foul...a no-call is not within the rules.

Plenty of other problems...a clear doucle dribble...and another play in the first half I don't recall in which a no-call was not within the rules.

The charge on Plum near the end...give me a break...these officials have to be put out to pasture.

 

[BRS24]

Thinking about Stanford's performance today vs. Friday night. You wonder if they were emotionally spent after the victory, improbable but not impossible, over ND. Geno has always said that the Elite Eight game is the hardest to win.

 

[HoopsFan21]

Thinking about Stanford's performance today vs. Friday night. You wonder if they were emotionally spent after the victory, improbable but not impossible, over ND. Geno has always said that the Elite Eight game is the hardest to win.

Was thinking the same thing. Seemed to happen to them last year after they beat us. It's why I thought Washington would have a pretty good chance today that there would be some let down for Stanford.

 

[Kaizen]

Asst Coach Morgan Valley going to the Final Four!!!

 

[Plebe]

Jordan Reynolds is out with concussive symptoms. Cooper will have to have a great game and handle the ball well.

Butler's first two 3 attempts missed horrendously. This could be an ugly game.

 

[Jimbo]

Tennessee up 22-20, end 1st. Somebody's going to have to explain to me why Syracuse insists on pressing after every made bucket. Tennessee is breaking the press easily, every time, usually resulting in layups and/or fouls. On the other hand, when Tennessee is stuck in a halfcourt offense against Syracuse's zone, more often than not it devolves into their windshield-wiper offense, passing the ball from one side of the perimeter to the other for a while and eventually launching a 3. They've made a couple of those, to their credit, but I don't think it's looked great.

 

[Gus Mahler]

Tennessee up 22-20, end 1st. Somebody's going to have to explain to me why Syracuse insists on pressing after every made bucket. Tennessee is breaking the press easily, every time, usually resulting in layups and/or fouls. On the other hand, when Tennessee is stuck in a halfcourt offense against Syracuse's zone, more often than not it devolves into their windshield-wiper offense, passing the ball from one side of the perimeter to the other for a while and eventually launching a 3. They've made a couple of those, to their credit, but I don't think it's looked great.

Good one. Yours?

 

[Tenspro2002]

Neither of these teams impress me, but I would rather not breathe any life into a moribund Tennessee program by getting them off the Final Four schneid.

 

[Kaizen]

Syracuse is 6-13 3 pts.

 

[Jimbo]

Good one. Yours?

I'm afraid not. I think I heard that from a basketball announcer doing a game some years ago, but I have no idea who it was.

 

[msf22b]

Thinking about Stanford's performance today vs. Friday night. You wonder if they were emotionally spent after the victory, improbable but not impossible, over ND. Geno has always said that the Elite Eight game is the hardest to win.

I was thinking the same too.
After Stanford upset UConn a few seasons back, they went into a mult-game skid.
Left it all out on the court vs ND? very possible.

 

[Plebe]

Tennessee up 22-20, end 1st. Somebody's going to have to explain to me why Syracuse insists on pressing after every made bucket. Tennessee is breaking the press easily, every time, usually resulting in layups and/or fouls. On the other hand, when Tennessee is stuck in a halfcourt offense against Syracuse's zone, more often than not it devolves into their windshield-wiper offense, passing the ball from one side of the perimeter to the other for a while and eventually launching a 3. They've made a couple of those, to their credit, but I don't think it's looked great.

The press is pretty much Syracuse's identity and it'd take a lot for them to waver from it. They lead the nation in turnovers forced and turnover margin. They just got a turnover off the press and a bucket in transition.

 

[Carnac]

If you read any of my posts recently, you'll remember I said there's ALWAYS a dark house in every NCAA tournament. This year's tournament being no exception. It took a while for them to emerge. They came out of the shadows into the light this past Friday when they knocked off Kentucky in the first round of the Lexington Regional. Even ol' Carnac didn't see this one coming. I've thrown in the towel. I've packed everything up, put away all of my soothsaying tools of the trade (crystal balls, tea leaves, rabbits feet, envelopes, etc.) for the season. Because if I were any good, I should have seen this coming.

This year's dark horse and Cinderella team is coach Mike Neighbors' Washington Huskys (if nothing else, you've got to like their mascot) . Washington becomes the first No. 7 seed to reach the semifinals since the Minnesota Golden Gophers' lead by Lindsay Whalen and Janel McCarville did it more than a decade ago. To say they were a long shot to reach the final 4 is an understatement.

They were given a 2% chance of reaching the final 4, or a 98% chance of NOT to. The most amazing thing about Washington punching their ticket to Indy, is that they finished the regular season unranked in the final top 25 coach's poll.

Washington will play the winner of the regional final between No. 4 Syracuse and No. 7 Tennessee in a national semifinal next Saturday at Bankers Life Field house in Indianapolis. Washington lost to Syracuse 66-62 on a neutral court in late November. Congratulations to the Washington Huskys. How many of you had Washington to come of of the Lexington Regional? Stand up and be recognized.