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Message: [QUOTE="ocoandasoc, post: 2633795, member: 3032"] I'm a Mizzou fan, but -- as Geno says -- you have to adjust to the way the refs are calling the game. Missouri didn't. It was the tightest game I've seen called all year (65 free throws!), and it played right into FGCU's excellent game plan. They spread Missouri out then drove in on a single defender who -- the way this game was called -- fouled them. (In a typical rough and tumble SEC game there might have been 25 fouls called instead of the 56 that these refs whistled. But you have to say that they were consistent for the entire game. FGCU had Missouri well-scouted. That let Cunningham have her 35 points, but held the other Mizzou players in check. They were too athletic for Missouri's bench players who had to play a lot of minutes because of foul trouble for the starters. (Three of Mizzou's starters played less than 18 minutes!) No question that Missouri swooned late (or peaked too early, LOL!) this season. Porter had a bad flu and never got back to full strength. (FGCU let her take all the shots she wanted from beyond the foul line -- she made none of them.) And a few of the three point shooters went cold which resulted in them passing when they should have shot. Often in their last few games the Mizzou offense would pass up two or three decent shots and then wound up taking desperation heaves or very tough shots to beat the shot clock buzzer. I also think that Missouri got a bit too predictable with their offense -- a few more new wrinkles over the last quarter of the season might have helped. Plus, when they missed their goal of getting a $4 seed and playing a couple of games at home for the first time ever fell through, I think it took the edge off. I cringed when I saw that FGCU was Mizzou's first round opponent. I have admired their program for years. They always acquit themselves well in the Tourney and always have to battle a much higher seed. I don't care what conference you're in, you don't win thirty games in a season unless you have a talented and disciplined team. They also improved quite a bit over the course of the season -- their only loss in their last 21 games was by two points, and a lot of their wins were blowouts. Does FGCU have a chance against Stanford? Maybe. I'll be rooting for them. I actually thought that Missouri would match up better against Stanford than they would against FGCU. I guarantee you, though, that Coach Vanderveer and her assistants are watching film tonight. [/QUOTE]

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