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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5129870, member: 12088"] I agree. I wonder if the voters pay enough attention to good losses. I mean, Ole Miss was exposed by UConn in this game and only kept it as close as it was because Todd-Williams had her best shooting night of her life -- not a reproducible event, I'll wager -- but that 3rd quarter showed them at their best. That and another near miss against USC in their season opener showed it wasn't a fluke. I have a feeling they'll be a menace in the tournament. What hurts them is they don't have a lot of highlight-reel scorers. Their helter-skelter, high energy trapping defense is really effective, and they can send a lot of long arms to the offensive glass, but it's not glamorous. I assumed that because they play nobody taller than 6'2" that there'd be no height advantage, or that UConn would have it. But Jacobs plays well above her height in the low post. She impressed me. And Madison Scott is a really good player -- I've followed her since high school and she's always been the type a team could rally around. As a team, other than Deans and Sadler, they are long, lanky and quick. I expect they'll do well against bigger teams, especially ones who rely on slow moving super-bigs. I'm looking at you, UCLA and K-St. Come March, they could be giant killers. [/QUOTE]