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veryolddog said:
The problem with South Florida is Hernandez. He recruits a lot of European talent and he does not know how to put together a "team". When Courtney was their, the offense was dribble down the court and give the ball to Courtney and let her shoot. USF should have won that game. You would think that from playing UConn all the time he would learn something about offense and defense.
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Say what you will, but I think he did pretty darn well this year with just 6 players and having lost so much talent from last year. A win over Missouri would've been a very significant upset.
 
Plebe said:
Heartbreaker for South Florida. Second year in a row they've lost in a game that went down to the wire. Just a defensive breakdown on that last play, left a player wide open under the basket.
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Well they had a 13 point halftime lead so if they took care of business it shouldn't have come down to the wire. Bad job.
 
Blueballer said:
Well they had a 13 point halftime lead so if they took care of business it shouldn't have come down to the wire. Bad job.
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Missouri is just a better team than USF. If Missouri had been up 13 at the half, no one would've been surprised.
 
ed4ourgirls said:
Ohio State played like it was Saturday night at the Y. Unless they shoot a very high percentage
as they did against Maryland, they won't be able to beat a good team.
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They always play like that. Athletic and physical, and occasionally they'll shoot well, but among the top-twenty teams they're the most undisciplined.
 
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HoopsFan21 said:
Anyone watching Ekmark's new team??
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I sure am. ASU has gotten out to a good start shooting, up 16-8 with 2:44 left in 1Q. That is a veritable offensive explosion by ASU's standards.
 
Is Notre Dame an actual town in Indiana? They are showing ND now and it said they are playing in Notre Dame IN.
 
Btw, great win by Purdue over Green Bay. Purdue looked lost at the start of the season, with losses to Maine (by 20), Villanova (by 14), and a weak Southern Illinois team in 3 of their first four games. They finally gained their footing in the Big Ten season, and seemed to sneak up out of nowhere in the last 2 weeks to grab their bid.

Gotta be happy for Sharon Versyp, who just recently announced she is battling breast cancer.
 
oh hey look they are playing Robert Morris and Coach Buscaglia's son is the coach! Remember last year? It was 40-4 UConn after the 1st quarter.
 
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I know ND is gonna blow this one open eventually, but Robert Morris hanging in there better than they did against us last year. I'd like to say that playing UConn last year helped play a part, but I don't know about that.
 
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Plebe said:
Say what you will, but I think he did pretty darn well this year with just 6 players and having lost so much talent from last year. A win over Missouri would've been a very significant upset.
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Sagarin had Missouri 36th and South Florida 41st. Basically even.
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Weird - there's no UCONN town in Connecticut.
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Can't because there are 169 towns and every square inch of the state is incorporated in one of those towns. Storrs itself isn't even a town, but part of tax town 078 a.k.a. Mansfield.
 
FSU continuing their late season struggles down 7 to Western Illinois after one.

If you ranked the 20 best teams in this tourney I'd bet 15 came from the UConn half bracket.
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Weird - there's no UCONN town in Connecticut.
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Mississippi actually has a place called this: Mississippi State, Mississippi

On an unrelated note, I've been flipping around between games in both tournaments today and several times during some of the men's games I've seen the announcers read little promos alerting folks that the women's tournament is being aired over on ESPN2. Maybe the NCAA makes them do that, but I still thought it was nice to see, especially given that it's a different network.
 
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Sluconn Husky said:
Sagarin had Missouri 36th and South Florida 41st. Basically even.
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Mizzou improved a ton between the first half and second half of the season. Lost a key player to injury at start of season. Had losses to Georgia Tech, IUPUI and St. Louis in the OOC. Didn't even look like a tournament team at that point. Then beat A&M, Kentucky, and South Carolina and ended up tied for 3rd in the SEC. I'm not saying they're a Final Four team, but they were clearly better than South Florida by the end of the season.
 
Jimbo said:
Maybe the NCAA makes them do that,
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Yes, absolutely they do.
It also used to be the reason that CBS would air a few random women's games on a Sunday in January (not sure they still do this?) - twas part of the contract for the men's tournament.
 
ochoopsfan said:
ASU Sun Devils showing WBB what a real Devil looks like. Not those Blue ones from NC.
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Also showing the Pac 12 might be a little better than the doubters say they are after Oregon St.'s poor showing earlier. I can assure everyone that OSU was better than ASU this year beyond a shadow of a doubt.
 
I hope our team is watching some of these games and take it as a cautionary tale. You cannot take a 15 or 16 seed lightly. ND having trouble putting away Robert Morris a team that was down 50 to UConn at half last year plus the LBSU-Oregon St game.
 
Florida State has come back to take a 2-point lead in 2Q over W. Illinois. Shakayla Thomas just had back-to-back pick-6's to give her team the lead.

I'm rooting hard for the Leathernecks, but they have to adjust to the athleticism deficit.
 
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