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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 5179551, member: 7631"] Getting to the Final Four [I]should[/I] be a steep hill to climb. If it's not, it's a down year for WCBB and probably not that much fun to watch. All the points in the OP are valid, but open to interpretation -- half full, half empty and all that. There are six, maybe seven if you count LSU, teams that are head and shoulders above the rest, and to go a step further, I think South Carolina and maybe UCLA are above most of those. So to make the Final Four, UConn's big challenge is going to be the round-of-eight game. That will depend strongly on the draw. I don't think it's out of the question for UConn to get a #1 seed. I'm still not drinking the USC Kool-Aid even after they defeated UConn. I think they'll falter more than UConn will, and which winds up the higher seed will depend on the committee. Notre Dame has already lost to a couple of lower-ranked teams. They don't have a very challenging schedule the rest of the year, so are likely to win out. Again, it's up to the committee whether they've earned a #1 seed. Yes, Betts is good, but I'd hesitate to use the Maryland game as an example. She was marked by Amari DeBerry for half the game and 6-2 Christina Dalce and 6-2 Saylor Poffenbarger for the other half. Yes, UConn can cover her way better than that with El Alfy, Brady, Strong, and maybe Griffin. (ETA: Jonathan 14 posted while I was composing this message. I pretty much agree with that post.) [/QUOTE]