Mizzou - South Carolina

[Wbbfan1]

This is Dawn's 18th Year Coaching, sorry that's not young from a coaching perspective. Dawn in her press conference was playing a Victim Card, Woe is South Carolina my Players aren't treated properly and they need me to protect them. That especially applies to her NPOY Candidate.

I too just had a chance to watch the SC-Mizzou replay. Mizzou seemed to play better and SC seemed short-handed.

I'm not a big Dawn Staley fan but she doesn't deserve the vitriol expressed above. She's stilling relatively young and learning. I remember an NCAA playoff game in 2013 where a Maryland player lowered the boom on Kelly Faris just before the half; no foul was called. The announcers and the people in the stands were howling that Geno get a technical to "protect" his players. He did but at the beginning of the second half he said he regretted doing so as it resulted in a swing of 6 points. I know he has CD clinging to him but I can't remember another technical since then.

 

[HuskyNan]

Finally found the link to this article.

For Auriemma, It's Foul Trouble

 

[MSGRET]

It is 15 seconds, and they changed it a couple years ago, but only from 20 seconds to 15.

I was looking it up, because I thought it had been a minute relatively recently, but apparently not.

It looked like the refs gave her more than 15 seconds. Maybe it's the men's game that is a minute.

 

[cabbie191]

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Now this is how one should make an exit!

I've always thought it was a good thing that Kim hurls her jackets and not her shoes. They could be lethal!

I can't remember the last time she had a temper tantrum like this. Maybe she's mellowed alongside Geno?

 

[mbr33ct]

I have already marked my calendar for the "Thrill-a in Columbia" rematch. Be there SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY, January 28th, 6:00pm on ESPN2

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Watch the replay. It's still up on ESPN's web site. Porter and Wilson walked into each other. One of the replay angles shows that clearly. (Surprise, that's not the angle the SC media showed!) Porter's skull went into Wilson's teeth. Totally accidental. (And clarify for me how it could have been deliberate if Porter didn't intend to do it?) Get over it. Then review Wilson's five fouls and tell me which one was a bad call? BTW, in case you hadn't noticed, Wilson and her teammates play a physical game as well. Watch the SC fouls in the last 90 seconds of the game -- some are a lot rougher than required and could easily have been called intentional.

Dawn is a great coach, but she has a mouth like a sailor and is on the officials constantly. There are not that many officiating teams that are assigned to the big tv games, and Dawn has worn a bunch of them out. (And she knows it, which is why she tries to influence who gets assigned to her games.) So, yeah, these refs probably come in with a bit of a short fuse -- but whose fault is that? When she sat motionless on the bench after Wilson's fifth foul she was simply showing up the refs. They had had enough at that point, and made the exceedingly rare call of a technical for failure to substitute in a timely manner. She was very surprised that her little stunt back-fired. I thought it was overkill, myself. But they were sending her a message. Maybe she should listen.

The fouls were actually even until the last two minutes when SC started fouling on every play to try and overcome the double digit Mizzou lead. And more Missouri players fouled out than SC players. Sure, there were missed calls and poor calls along the way. But I think they broke about even.

I remember when Louisville upset Baylor by employing a sagging triple-team on Griner all the Baylor fans were upset and Mulkey wound up getting fined after a review of the game didn't bear out her charges of bad officiating. It seems whenever David beats Goliath someone is there to say "No fair, he used a sling!"

Yes, SC is the reigning National Champion. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee, but it won't -- and it shouldn't -- get your coach or star player preferential treatment by the refs.

South Carolina is the reigning national champion and that means we are the reigning national champion. Upsetting, I know, but true.

It has nothing to do with anything I was talking about. This team is the champion of nothing.

I don't have a problem with Missouri playing physically. I don't have a problem with Dawn complaining that Wilson fouled out for the second time in two years against the same physical bunch of Missouri players. I don't have a problem with her making a show for her players and making moves to affect future games. Coaches do that sometimes.

Missouri obviously outplayed USC. I'm disappointed that USC response to physicality was to lose composure and basically let Missouri dictate the tone of the game. I think USC backed down and that's disappointing.

I disagree with your interpretation of the collision. I think it was intentional. Not the head butt necessarily, but the collision. She was sending the message that she wasn't going to cede Wilson any space.

To my knowledge that's Staley's first ejection. I'm unaware of her particularly questioning officiating before. She definitely will question a lack of a respect or a characterization that she doesn't like, but I don't recall her being as outspoken about officiating before.

Wilson doesn't foul out much. It was an extraordinary situation all around.

Chalk it up as one loss in a basketball season and move on. Hopefully you respond better at home vs Missouri in the future.

 

[winlots]

Have you ever gone to Bruno's and have their Pizza?

MSG: MANY a time - the best. Was a regular there on Sunday nights; they didn't even have to ask what I wanted. Mushroom. Way back in my day, there was a young fella named Whitey tossing crusts-to-be in the front window of the place.

What brought you there and when???

 

[MSGRET]

MSG: MANY a time - the best. Was a regular there on Sunday nights; they didn't even have to ask what I wanted. Mushroom. Way back in my day, there was a young fella named Whitey tossing crusts-to-be in the front window of the place.

What brought you there and when???

My mom used to waitress there and at Orlando's across from the Fieldhouse. I also used to bus tables and eventually work the kitchen when I was growing up. Of course this is when it was the old Bruno's Swiss Inn at State St and State Road 43. I remember Whitey, he started out as a dishwasher and worked his way to the front line. Never did learn how to toss the pizza, always went through with my fist. The busiest day of the year was the Purdue - ND football game, we would have a line out the door waiting for up to 2 hours to get in and eat. Bruno Sr. passed away some years back just after they moved to the levee and Bruno Jr and Orlando own it now. I have gone there every time I go back. My favorite pizza was sausage, onion, and anchovies, and both still remember that.