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Friday (3/22) games: NCAA 1st round

Plebe said:
Arizona State dominated UCF and won 60-45. UCF started the game cold and pretty much stayed cold throughout. At one point in the 2nd half, UCF managed to cut the lead from 20 to 12 but then squandered opportunities, including a wide-open missed layup by Wright.

Ekmark had 20 points for ASU. One of the best games I've seen her play, actually.
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UCF, the second best team in the AAC, losing big to a fourth or fifth best team in the Pac 12, is one of the reasons the NCAA Committee was hesitant to seed UConn as highly as some think they should. The other teams in the AAC have got to start upgrading their talent or this may continue to happen.
 
Just got around to watching the postgame interviews from the Wright State and A&M game. Wright State’s Senior G Emily Vogelpohl broke her wrist in practice last week and still played 22 minutes with a brace. When asked about it, Coach Merriweather said that she had played several games as a freshman with a fractured knee, so there wasn’t any doubt Vogelpohl would play after the doctors said she couldn’t damage it further.

I’m impressed!
 
Reypl21 said:
Aston is a great recruiter, but terrible in-game coach and developer. Charli Collier is going to leave that program probably the same player she came in as, and will probably not even be a first round draft pick. Atkins had a great rookie season, but that just showed that Aston wasn't using her to the best of her ability. Holmes is a shell of herself. When are elite players going to stop looking at Texas and Tennessee as legitimate options when they have terrible track records of underachieving and not developing players?

I bag on Aston any chance I see fit, and this definitely is a good moment to. I had Indiana winning this game in all of my brackets I made.
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I was at the game and second everything you say based on what I saw. Indiana is a very well coached team, but they were completely overmatched physically and, surely, in terms of recruiting ratings. That said, I was actually surprised they didn't win by an even greater margin. Texas turned the ball over some 22 or so times, doesn't really play defense very well (although their huge height advantage did lead to some blocked shots), and seems to want to be the second coming of Tennessee on offense. (I think they had nearly twice as many rebounds as Indiana, partly due to their athleticism and partly due to how badly they shot.) To me Joiner-Holmes seems to be exactly the same player she was as a freshman: lots of physical talent coupled with a lack of conditioning and basketball savvy, as well a penchant for attempting, mostly without success, highlight plays instead of completing simple (and successful) ones. Collier rebounded well, but seems to lack any semblance of an offensive game, while Williams seems to have regressed since her days at A&M.

One of the highlights of the day was watching Joiner-Holmes and White jogging ever so slowly down the court. (I've never seen anything quite like it.). The other (from the Oregon game) was Ionescu taking a "pass" late in the fourth quarter while sitting on the bench and then (apparently without thinking) launching a three. It missed and she got a technical.

Sunday will "reunite" two exiles from Notre Dame: Ali Patberg and Erin Boley.
 
biobioprof said:
Just got around to watching the postgame interviews from the Wright State and A&M game. Wright State’s Senior G Emily Vogelpohl broke her wrist in practice last week and still played 22 minutes with a brace. When asked about it, Coach Merriweather said that she had played several games as a freshman with a fractured knee, so there wasn’t any doubt Vogelpohl would play after the doctors said she couldn’t damage it further.

I’m impressed!
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is that interview anywhere on the web?
 
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jonson said:
One of the highlights of the day was Ionescu taking a "pass" late in the fourth quarter while sitting on the bench and then (apparently without thinking) launching a three. It missed and she got a technical.
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WHAT????
 
8 out of the 16 games today were kinda close. Bucknell/Florida State, Iowa/Mercer, Marquette/Rice, Indiana/Texas, Buffalo/Rutgers, Clemson/South Dakota, Missouri/Drake, Miami/Florida Gulf Coast.

The higher seed pulled out 5 of them. Maybe there are a lot of good teams in this tournament. Surprised more upsets didn't happen given how tight some of these lower seeded teams played, but they just didn't really finish well.


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donalddoowop said:
UCF, the second best team in the AAC, losing big to a fourth or fifth best team in the Pac 12, is one of the reasons the NCAA Committee was hesitant to seed UConn as highly as some think they should. The other teams in the AAC have got to start upgrading their talent or this may continue to happen.
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UCF is trying, and has improved, and USF is usually better than this year but, yeah, I agree
 
lol at the season stats on Marquette's website:
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2018-2019 Women's Basketball Cumulative Statistics - Marquette University Athletics
 
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HuskyFan1125 said:
I was sitting here watching this South Carolina game and realizing they dont lose a lot to graduation and have a great recruiting class coming in next season. Will there be enough minutes to go around. Could be a log jam. I would defer to our South Carolina friends for more insight.
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Dawn likes to play a lot of people, so I don't think that will be a problem. I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of seldom-used players transfer after the season because they're not going to get more minutes next season.
 
biobioprof said:
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I saw Steph Curry do that once, earlier this year. He was out of the game, standing up in front of the bench, and someone threw a pass right to him, so he shot it.

No technical for that case. Maybe because he took the shot from out of bounds instead of stepping on the court; maybe just because the NBA ref had a sense of humor.
 
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