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GoCardinal said:
A few mid-majors advance past the first round and now all of a sudden it’s P5 fawning….I guess we missed FGCU getting blown out today. It was a great game for Creighton, but apparently these teams have scrimmaged often so familiarity helps.

I’m wondering where the “smackdown” took place at. That particular game came down to the last play and 9/10 Czinano hits that shot.
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Wow. The fact that it's touched such a nerve with you to the point where you would make such statements, from the position of an ivory tower p5 homer, only proves my point.

LOL Maryland is a 4 seed playing on home court against a 12 seed. But sure go ahead and make them a banner
 
The Iowa game happened earlier, but this Baylor game should take some heat off them, gotta be considered a bigger upset.

Have 2 #2 seeds ever lost in the 2nd Round before?
 
Quick someone do a Jordan crying face Baylor meme.

In the meantime I'll be doing another little dance.


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nwhoopfan said:
More @Plebe gloating in 3.2.1...
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Gloating sounds harsh. I call it rejoicing. More spiritual.
 
Was it me or did the Baylor players seem disinterested in the huddles. Smith was standing outside the time out huddle with her arms behind her back. Just looked odd. Even the announcers mentioned it.
 
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ReadR00ster said:
Dawn needs to hire a coach for the offense. I am tired of seeing that stagnant mess year after year with no screen action.
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Dawn needs to get away from the current SEC style instituted when Vic was at Mississippi St.
It's not thrilling to watch football when watching what is supposed to be a basketball game.
 
GoCardinal said:
But I think the point is like Tara said at the Pac12 tourney, “this isn’t football”. You can be physical, but some teams “physical play” borders on being dangerous. Throwing your body around, lowering shoulders, elbowing, the constant holding and shoving makes it unwatchable at times.
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Posts like this remind me of what Geno said several years ago after Tara made similar comments:

Auriemma said: "That's great to hear. Because last time we were here [2010] we probably could have used some helmets. That was one of the more physical games played that year."

Stanford has never been opposed to physical play when it has been helpful.
 
Topsy turvy seasons for both Collen/Elzy....both had real rough patches by midseason and then seemed to right the ship and ended the season red hot, only to flame out early in the NCAAs. Baylor especially looked dejected and like they just gave up at the end.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Did I say before the Tourney started that results of conference tourneys don't matter? SEC Champ out in 1st Round and Big 10 Champ out in 2nd Round. Conference tourney results DON'T MATTER.

edit--w/ the caveat, it matters for 1 bid leagues, or bubble teams who play their way in or out
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the SEC champ is in the Sweet 16 : )
 
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Methinks the end of Baylor WBB as we know it is at hand. Smith, Egbo, Lewis & Bickle may all be gone next year. There’s an OK class coming in, but no one to build a team around, and Nicki Cullen is no Kim Mulkey.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Context. You know exactly what I meant, it was very obvious I was talking about conference Tourneys.
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Labeling a team who was as bad this year as Kentucky as the SEC champ was intentional shade, so I'm not sweating it. I added a smiley face.
 
oldude said:
Methinks the end of Baylor WBB as we know it is at hand. Smith, Egbo, Lewis & Bickle may all be gone next year. There’s an OK class coming in, but no one to build a team around, and Nicki Cullen is no Kim Mulkey.
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There's always transfers.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
Labeling a team who was as bad this year as Kentucky as the SEC champ was intentional shade, so I'm not sweating it. I added a smiley face.
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I don't like conference tourneys, but conferences call the winning teams "Champs." That's why they get the auto bids. Clearly South Carolina was the best SEC team this year, everybody know that.

And again, it's all about context. My point was that getting hot and winning a conference tourney really doesn't help much in the Big Dance.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
I don't like conference tourneys, but conferences call the winning teams "Champs." That's why they get the auto bids. Clearly South Carolina was the best SEC team this year, everybody know that.

And again, it's all about context. My point was that getting hot and winning a conference tourney really doesn't help much in the Big Dance.
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Nah, the SEC calls the regular season winner champ.

It's ok, you knew what you were doing and it doesn't bother me. I smile emoji-Ed.

I agree. Winning conference tournaments is pretty bad way of determining a champ and doesn't often mean much for the tournament when a big long shot wins it. It maybe has for a couple of times.

Worse news for the upset as it tends to show a potential fatal flaw. But not even that most of the time.
 
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UConnCat said:
Posts like this remind me of what Geno said several years ago after Tara made similar comments:

Auriemma said: "That's great to hear. Because last time we were here [2010] we probably could have used some helmets. That was one of the more physical games played that year."

Stanford has never been opposed to physical play when it has been helpful.
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I knew Stanford was going to have a pretty good run for a few years when my father complained about Kayla Pedersen "beating up" Rutgers during a game November 2007.
 
Plebe said:
Wow. The fact that it's touched such a nerve with you to the point where you would make such statements, from the position of an ivory tower p5 homer, only proves my point.

LOL Maryland is a 4 seed playing on home court against a 12 seed. But sure go ahead and make them a banner
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Bashing P5 conferences every chance you get doesn’t strengthen your point in the way you think it does. Is it stemming from bitterness since UConn can’t get an ACC or Big 10 invite? When you’re from the outside looking in, I can surely understand the argument.

Upsets happen, this is the first time this many double digit seeds won in the first two rounds. In fact, this is Creighton’s first time EVER winning in the second round. Maybe when upsets of this scale becomes a pattern, then sure maybe we can start saying the P5 aren’t good. Sure, conference tourney champs in P5s are out. But the regular season champ or co-champ in every single P5 except for one is still in play.
 
dabears17 said:
I knew Stanford was going to have a pretty good run for a few years when my father complained about Kayla Pedersen "beating up" Rutgers during a game November 2007.
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Reminds me of Pat Summitt saying this to the media after Stanford defeated Tennessee in 2007:

"I told Debby [Jennings] that Candace [Parker] isn't coming into the press conference tonight because she's in there a little beat up."
 
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