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RockyMTblue2 said:
Despite the magic 100 today Tenn put all of its defects on full display. A decent team would have put them behind and those defects would become cracks and it would be lights out UT before the 4th quarter.
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Oregon St. needs to be able to handle Tennessee's pressure, they had issues with that at times this year. They've also struggled to beat good teams on the road. I'm not hugely optimistic about OSU's chances.
 
Watching the VA/Cal game. Around the 7:30 mark of the 3rd quarter, Cal player gets a steal and it's a 2 player breakaway. The Cal player with out the ball is trailing and decides to step in front of the closest pursuing Cavalier player and basically slows down enough so that the Cavalier player would run up her back if she didn't stop. Is this sort of blocking legal in basketball? (There was contact made.)
 
nwhoopfan said:
Oregon St. needs to be able to handle Tennessee's pressure, they had issues with that at times this year. They've also struggled to beat good teams on the road. I'm not hugely optimistic about OSU's chances.
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I didn't say Oregon State was a decent team. As Holly said, it is HUGE that they got to be at home with the young crew, but they would absolutely get creamed bya good mid-major with a big who could say scat to Russel.
 
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RockyMTblue2 said:
She limp off? Not watching it.
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She was subbed off after 3 or 4 minutes. I was sort of half-watching so I didn't see what happened. Folks on McGraw's bench said it was an ankle injury.

She played with a bad ankle last year and then never quite healed properly from off-season ankle surgery. So she's been playing through some amount of pain all year.

Hopefully keeping her out of the rest of the game was just a precaution.
 
Centerstream said:
Watching the VA/Cal game. Around the 7:30 mark of the 3rd quarter, Cal player gets a steal and it's a 2 player breakaway. The Cal player with out the ball is trailing and decides to step in front of the closest pursuing Cavalier player and basically slows down enough so that the Cavalier player would run up her back if she didn't stop. Is this sort of blocking legal in basketball? (There was contact made.)
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I don't think it's illegal. It's fairly smart.
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
I didn't say Oregon State was a decent team. As Holly said, it is HUGE that they got to be at home with the young crew, but they would absolutely get creamed bya good mid-major with a big who could say scat to Russel.
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Oregon St. is more than a decent team, better than all but a few mid majors I would say. Gulich is 6-4 or 6-5 and a very good post player. If OSU doesn't turn the ball over a ton and their shooters are hitting behind the arc, they can definitely win. They could definitely lose as well. I think you're underselling Tennessee a bit. They have beaten Marquette, Texas, Stanford, South Carolina (X2), Texas A&M and Georgia this year. They are inconsistent but a terrible team is not going to have that list of wins.
 
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A pair of 10 seeds just beat 7's. Gotta put a big asterisk next to the Virginia win though. Cal without their leading scorer and rebounder Anigwe, not the same team without her.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Oregon St. needs to be able to handle Tennessee's pressure, they had issues with that at times this year. They've also struggled to beat good teams on the road. I'm not hugely optimistic about OSU's chances.
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Let me help you out- Based I what I saw today and previously I think that OSU has good size, great perimeter shooting, strong defense to stimy the freshman guards and force plenty of turnovers. I expect Scott to slow the game down a bit and force Tenn to utilize their awful halfcourt offense, which, frankly is offensive!
My money is on the orange from the NW. :)
 
So nice to see Villanova and Harry Perratta again! Long time no see! V still shooting 3s in bunches. Remember that Israeli player who helped beat UConn with 3s -- she couldn't miss that night.
 
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Cal is one of the worst 7 seeds in the history of the tournament. They're horrible and accomplished nothing all year outside of a rivalry win vs Stanford. It's incredible they are a 7 seed and Miami is an 8.
 
wbball novice said:
So nice to see Villanova and Harry Perratta again! Long time no see! V still shooting 3s in bunches. Remember that Israeli player who helped beat UConn with 3s -- she couldn't miss that night.
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I am guessing that you don't remember her seeing that you didn't post her name :rolleyes:
 
DefenseBB said:
Let me help you out- Based I what I saw today and previously I think that OSU has good size, great perimeter shooting, strong defense to stimy the freshman guards and force plenty of turnovers. I expect Scott to slow the game down a bit and force Tenn to utilize their awful halfcourt offense, which, frankly is offensive!
My money is on the orange from the NW. :)
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It was nice to see Oregon State get the 1st game in the books, and win convincingly (as they should have). As nwhoopfan has rightfully pointed out, if Tennessee does a better than average job of turning over OSU, and scoring off of the turnovers, then Tennessee can stop this OSU Team. If OSU takes care of the ball (15 or less turnovers), and doesn't give up many of offensive rebounds, OSU can upset Tennessee.
 
wbball novice said:
So nice to see Villanova and Harry Perratta again! Long time no see! V still shooting 3s in bunches. Remember that Israeli player who helped beat UConn with 3s -- she couldn't miss that night.
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They're off to a nice start so far.
 
Boo ESPN. I don't want to watch Baylor, I'd rather stay w/ Villanova-SDSU until the Oregon game starts. I've generally been really unhappy with their coverage today.
 
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uconnbaseball said:
Cal is one of the worst 7 seeds in the history of the tournament. They're horrible and accomplished nothing all year outside of a rivalry win vs Stanford. It's incredible they are a 7 seed and Miami is an 8.
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Cal was missing their 3-time All PAC12 post player. They are much better with Anigwe. But, they are not deep with talent.
 
wbball novice said:
I saw the game on TV. All I can remember was that she was Israeli. I'm terrible at names (ask my family). Anyone?
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Not the name you are looking for. My favorite (but also the only one I can think of off the top of my head) Israeli player was Shay Doron at Maryland.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Boo ESPN. I don't want to watch Baylor, I'd rather stay w/ Villanova-SDSU until the Oregon game starts. I've generally been really unhappy with their coverage today.
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That's their MO. They always go with the higher seed. Even though it's likely to be a very eraly blowout.
 
LOTRADER said:
Cal was missing their 3-time All PAC12 post player. They are much better with Anigwe. But, they are not deep with talent.
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They managed to win a 1st round game last year (I think against LSU) after only going 6-12 in conference. I was shocked they got in. They were much improved this year, regardless of post season record.
 
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