She still isn’t practicing with the team yet but she does stuff on her own. She said she felt great earlier today
Geno said it best tonight! Some conferences have 7,8, or 9 teams selected with the theory that they beat each other up during their conference games. But Big East teams get punished because they get dominated by UCONN. Their other inter- conference games should get the same consideration.
I wouldn't call Taurasi or Bird stellar defenders and they've each won a zillion titles. I don't see Iowa as a realistic title threat, but their defense is much much better this year if you've watched their games. They aren't a great defensive team but they are far more active on defense than they were a year ago.
Anything can happen. Remember, Stanford won BOTH of their FF games last year by 1 point.
That was the year after A'ja. Dawn's worse team in the last 8 years.
Big East got the lucky draw if anything, they have 6 teams in conference with winning records and 4 made the cut, including both of Villanova/DePaul who were bubble teams and snuck in. Seton Hall/Marquette were the two others that had winning records but didn't make the NCAAs. The problem is that they had zero quality wins (Marquette) or egregiously bad losses, plus no quality wins (Seton Hall). The programs from other conferences that get more teams in have better wins and less egregious losses.
And you better believe she's going to show up!!
I believe I saw an article a few weeks ago that this Inn is closed.
The difference were they weren't as ball dominant as Clark.
The premise of Peck's comment was that this is Geno's practice, which is quite untrue because he develops everyone or tries to, in any case. And, although Geno encouraged Paige to shoot instead of pass and that she did, she was not alone on offense: Christyn and, often enough, Evina were. True that in crucial moments, Paige dominated the offense but the fact that he averaged high enough with the assists tells you she involved others...
18 Quad 1 wins (SC) to 13 is the difference.
It does kind of look that way at times, but statistically NC State is one of the top offensive teams in the country. 76.8 PPG, #6 in Massey offensive efficiency. Not too far behind in defensive rating. I agree with the assessment that they’re the “third” threat but they are very much in the title conversation. Bowed out early last year and returned their entire core. Seem to be on a mission.
To add a bit of refinement to the "First Four" question: the eight teams composing the First Four are split evenly between the four lowest seeded Automatic Qualifiers (practically all mid-major conference tournament winners) and the four lowest At-Large Bid seeds (11-13 seeds, usually). This is for equity across the tournament field - if it was just the eight lowest seeds, then they would all likely be from mid-major qualifiers. The tournament itself is fairly evenly divided between AQ and At-Large bids.
This is what ESPN has become! Pretty sad. A bunch of phony people talking about everything except what they really should be talking about. Painful, is the word that comes to mind.
I saw a really interesting interview this season where Dawn spoke about that year and said she called Destanni and V into her office to ask them to stick with her and ride it out. She knew they weren’t a good basketball team and had off-court issues (Dawn didn’t say this, but based on the Herbert-Harrigan almost-transfer and T’ea Cooper issue before transferring again, I think Cooper was at the root of it). I remember thinking that team looked super disjointed and out of sync with one another.
ESPN didn't make a whole lot of money when they were good. So they make a little less now, with not even an effort; who cares? There's no real motivation to be good; you just do the minimum possible to get by. As an individual executive these days, you actually get bonuses for plans to do that: the minimum possible to get by.
Why would a new coach, with a relatively inexperienced team, (tournament wise) turn down an opportunity for her team to get all that valuable extra experience and practice? If she did decline, I wonder why?
Let’s just hope Howard doesn’t foul her out.
If Dawn did decline, perhaps she might have felt the WNIT invite was beneath their bar of expectation.....
I believe that the Oregon team was seeded 10th.Recalling Brenda complaining bitterly about ending up in Bridgeport in 2017, particularly the fact that MD fans couldn’t purchase additional tickets outside of their meager allocation, as UConn fans had already purchased everything in sight.
Unfortunately, MD didn’t even make it to the Elite 8, as a young freshman named Ionescu lead a 6-seed to an upset win over the Terps. At the end of that game, MD fans couldn’t sell their tickets to the Elite 8 game fast enough.
Kindly UConn fans, including yours truly, helped Terp fans out by taking Elite 8 tickets off their hands at a considerable discount.
Certainly, that's the risk of putting AE on Howard, if we play Kentucky, but I can't think of anyone else to guard her. Maybe we go to a zone and use an iso on Howard. Howard deploys a guard mentality when she has the ball, she will start her attack well beyond the 3-point line and AE may have trouble guarding her on the perimeter, that's why we might need to zone KY. On the other side, KY is very venerable to fast break opportunities, so if we can hold down their shooting percentage. get some rebounds, and get into the open court, we can hurt KY mightily...
Well said! Her comment said a lot more about her than it did Geno.
I was able to watch 2 of the segments on the NCAA website.
Aaaweee! If UCONN had won all their games, they’d have earned the #1 seed in Bridgeport. And if NC State had won the SC game, they’d be the #1 seed in the Greensboro region. Both teams had significant losses, so this is where they end up. I’m happy for the Bridgeport placement, but it means squat, if the team only shows up. They have to play, and win the games. And....... Geno will make sure they are ready for the big stage.
If you want the sport to grow, mention needs to be given to all of the other teams.
