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NCAA Tournament Week 2 of 3

If I counted correctly, this is Tara's 14th Final 4. First consecutive appearances since a string of 5 straight ending in 2012. Not bad. If it wasn't for a couple characters named Geno and Pat, that number would be fairly phenomenal.
 
undersized said:
South Dakota opened the season at #17 on my BY Top-25 ballot. After some early losses I couldn't justify continuing to give them a vote, but it was so awesome to see them live up to their potential at the season's end. Does Plebe do postseason rankings?
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In previous seasons I polled voters to see if they wanted to do a postseason ranking, and the majority sentiment was no.
 
Iluvacc2 said:
Apparently the Texas Coaches aren’t too happy with Tara right now :eek:



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The first play of the game, or one of the first, Gaston put two hands on Jones twice and was whistled for a foul right away. It almost seemed planned to where Texas was setting the tone of physicality, and the rest of their one hand hand checking wouldn't look as bad in comparison. They do get away with a lot of pushing and then on the other side as much as I love how hard Harmon and Warren play they are floppers. And why are these assistants talking smack on Twitter? Tara clearly responding to a question in a press conference. They have not accomplished one iota or what she has, so have some respect. If its head coach to head coach and Vic said something then whatever. I don't wanna hear from Vic's kid who wouldn't even have that job if it wasn't for her dad.
 
The comments to her tweet are LOL. Texas got whistled for 24 fouls, Stanford for 22. The Hull sisters are a lot of things, but "soft" is not one of them. Why take the high road when the low road practically unfolds itself before you in the form of 280 characters?

(BTW- Tara uses the football/rugby analogy All. The.Time. She's probably said it 5 or 6 times just this season.)
 
I thought there was a fair bit of contact being let go on both sides yesterday. It was going to be a physical game no matter what was said before the game.

At the same time, haven't there been similar comments have been made by other coaches in the Big 12 about their style of play (e.g. Fennelly)? Don't recall seeing her go to Twitter to respond when it's happened.
 
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TheFarmFan said:
The comments to her tweet are LOL. Texas got whistled for 24 fouls, Stanford for 22. The Hull sisters are a lot of things, but "soft" is not one of them. Why take the high road when the low road practically unfolds itself before you in the form of 280 characters?

(BTW- Tara uses the football/rugby analogy All. The.Time. She's probably said it 5 or 6 times just this season.)
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And Texas was intentionally fouling at the end so is there a chance Stanford had more fouls called than Texas before that?
 
Iluvacc2 said:
Apparently the Texas Coaches aren’t too happy with Tara right now :eek:



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From a poster on our board, who has some screen capture delights...

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Q.E.D.
 
HuskyMJ said:
The first play of the game, or one of the first, Gaston put two hands on Jones twice and was whistled for a foul right away. It almost seemed planned to where Texas was setting the tone of physicality, and the rest of their one hand hand checking wouldn't look as bad in comparison. They do get away with a lot of pushing and then on the other side as much as I love how hard Harmon and Warren play they are floppers. And why are these assistants talking smack on Twitter? Tara clearly responding to a question in a press conference. They have not accomplished one iota or what she has, so have some respect. If its head coach to head coach and Vic said something then whatever. I don't wanna hear from Vic's kid who wouldn't even have that job if it wasn't for her dad.
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I am a fan of Vic but his teams are always like this going back to his days at MSU. They get away with a lot. This team they do especially between Ebo and Gaston bulldozing defenders posting up and going over the back.

There was flopping on both sides. But that is a issue across basketball
 
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triaddukefan said:
:oops: dag State... I feel for yall :(:(:(:(:(:(

I'm not sure if I can handle watching the State press conference :(:(:(
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I'm sure they're as devastated as Notre Dame and Ivey were on Saturday. Sports can be cruel like that
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Insane game for UCONN/NC State. Both teams blew so many opportunities in regulation but fought like heck in OT/double OT. One of the best games of all time. Bueckers is just ridiculous. She maybe has the best pull up midrange jumper I've ever seen, her consistency at nailing the elbow jumper dribbling off a screen is uncanny. It seemed like a lightbulb finally went off and she just took over. Felt awful for Juhasz--she looked like she was in a lot of pain. Losing her depth will make things difficult matching up with Stanford's plethora of bigs. If there is foul trouble, Westbrook being forced to defend Brink or Belibi likely wont go well for UCONN.

NC State battled hard and made some huge plays down the stretch. Missed FTs late cost them dearly as well as an abundance of unforced travels and all of the offensive rebounds they gave up. They also should've been more aggressive going at ONO/Edwards when they were in foul trouble. They did all the leg work to force 4 fouls but should've taken the ball right at them every time down. Incredible shot by Brown-Turner and some really guts play all around. Sad someone had to lose but this was one of the better NCAA games of all time. Reminded me a LOT of the 2006 Georgia/UCONN game. Regional matchup in Bridgeport with a home crowd, back and forth battle with several late lead changes, and the game ending on a crazy off balance 3 by Turner to win the game.
 
triaddukefan said:
I thought this was close.. Guess I wasn't the only one

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How was it not 5 seconds? Let's see, my wild guess is that the official who was doing the counting hadn't yet reached the 5 count at the time the ball was in-bounded? Just a guess.

Of all the gripes I've heard, this ranks among the lamest.
 
Plebe said:
How was it not 5 seconds? Let's see, my wild guess is that the official who was doing the counting hadn't yet reached the 5 count at the time the ball was in-bounded? Just a guess.

Of all the gripes I've heard, this ranks among the lamest.
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It was close though
 
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Plebe said:
How was it not 5 seconds? Let's see, my wild guess is that the official who was doing the counting hadn't yet reached the 5 count at the time the ball was in-bounded? Just a guess.

Of all the gripes I've heard, this ranks among the lamest.
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The lamest. Haters are left saying the refs counted to 5 too slowly. Okay.
 
triaddukefan said:
I thought this was close.. Guess I wasn't the only one

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Didn't notice it in game, but per several trials of my very unofficial cell phone timing, it was 5.2-5.3 seconds. Not sure how this qualifies as a lame gripe, it's a cut and dry textbook rule of college basketball that you have 5 seconds to get the ball inbounds, and if you aren't able to inbound the ball in under 5 seconds, you lose possession. If the Huskies went over 5 seconds (which it appears they did) and the call was made, NC State would've had the ball back down 2 with 10 seconds to go.
 
bballnut90 said:
Didn't notice it in game, but per several trials of my very unofficial cell phone timing, it was 5.2-5.3 seconds. Not sure how this qualifies as a lame gripe, it's a cut and dry textbook rule of college basketball that you have 5 seconds to get the ball inbounds, and if you aren't able to inbound the ball in under 5 seconds, you lose possession. If the Huskies went over 5 seconds (which it appears they did) and the call was made, NC State would've had the ball back down 2 with 10 seconds to go.
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Mine counted 4.9. Phew. Just made it. Lucky UConn.
 
UConnCat said:
The lamest. Haters are left saying the refs counted to 5 too slowly. Okay.
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The hilarious part is that the twitter video itself has a countdown timer on it. Liv gets both hands on the ball at 0:02 and releases at 0:06 (see bottom right of both screen caps).
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If folks were critical of the refs on the Texas Tech / Arizona non-call at 2 seconds left when the TT guard was falling back aiming for a Hail Mary trey, there's no credible ref in the country calling a 5 second violation at 4.5 seconds with 10 seconds left in double overtime.
 
TheFarmFan said:
The hilarious part is that the twitter video itself has a countdown timer on it. Liv gets both hands on the ball at 0:02 and releases at 0:06 (bee bottom right of both screen caps).
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If folks were critical of the refs on the Texas Tech / Arizona non-call at 2 seconds left when the TT guard was falling back aiming for a Hail Mary trey, there's no credible ref in the country calling a 5 second violation at 4.5 seconds with 10 seconds left in double overtime.
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It's inaccurate. The ball is handed to her at the 1 second count
 

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Plebe said:
Didn't even need to continue reading after this. No more need be said.
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Exactly. We now need an analysis of how UConn has benefited from uncalled 5-second violations over the past 20 years. I'm sure there's one at the ready.
 
TheFarmFan said:
Clock starts at the time of "disposal" of the ball by the ref to the inbounding player. "Disposal means the official has either handed the ball to the inbounding player or has otherwise made the ball ready for play."

In your screen cap it's clear Liv has just been handed the ball in one palm and is moving it into her other hand to prepare to be able to pass. IMHO, the ref has not "made the ball ready for play" when Liv barely has one hand on it. The second she gets her second hand on the ball is when I stopped and screen capped.


The Dijonai one was much more colorable than this, IMHO.
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When Liv grabs the ball from the ref, she had two hands on it at her waist, then brings the ball overhead, smacks the ball to trigger the other players to start the play and puts two hands on it. In your screen cap it's after she's smacked the ball and you can see the ref is already signaling the first second. Based on the rules, IMO the ball was disposed before she brought it overhead.
 
Iluvacc2 said:
I'm sure they're as devastated as Notre Dame and Ivey were on Saturday. Sports can be cruel like that
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At least ND is still a young team with most everyone of note returning. That was the most gut wrenching loss in the history of State WBB. Not sure when or if State gets back this far in the tournament again.
 
While not as dramatic as that double OT last night, I'd like to give Michigan credit for a valiant effort against Louisville last night. Not sure if many thought they'd keep the game close after getting beat by 30 the last time. They went cold in the fourth and unfortunately were not able to capitalize on the stops they got in the second half.

Happy for Louisville at the same time. Watching Engstler with this team has been very entertaining in comparison to her playing days at Syracuse. The announcers are right, seeing her play man to man defence is something else! I think they match up well against South Carolina in some areas. Looking forward to this game.
 
Congrats to both UCONN & Louisville. The UCONN vs NC State Game was so fun to watch. Geno looked spent after the game. Paige & Fudd are tremendous young players. Some serious clutch in both. I really like Wes Moore, and hope this helps his recruiting.
 
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