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Ole Miss takes down Stanford (merged)

Really good game. Senior H. Jones had some pretty good plays to get Stanford back in but two really costly turnovers at the end of the game.
 
Yo wasn’t Ole Miss’ first choice?!
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hoophuskee said:
It was a great game. Great game.
Ole Miss's Defense is relentless.
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Great game? Might have set the game back 20 years. Ole Miss shot under 30%, and didnt make a basket the last 10 minutes of the game. This was their offense - throw up a shot (usually a brick), everyone crash the boards, and hope that they dont get called for over the back & they get the foul call on a putback. On defense, they committed so many fouls that didnt get called. I know its the Tourney, but if you're trying to win a game by playing over the top physical/defense game, the refs have to call it as such. This isnt an SEC game. Its a Tourney game at Stanford.

Granted, Stanford and Tara were terrible. Their team wasnt ready mentally or physically. You're getting beat on the boards by a smaller team. Why not play Betts just as a rim/Board protector?

I have no rooting interest for either team But, this was not a good fan experience.
 
Probably the worst season of coaching by Tara in a long time. All that talent and size, and the team looked lost tonight.

Have to laugh that she whined and whined to the media last season about how physical Texas played and got in the officials' ears prior to our Elite 8 matchup one year ago. Tonight, Ole Miss gave her some physical play in her own arena and she couldn't whine her way out of it this time around.
 
This season is really bad look for Tara. All those has AAs and this whole season was a let down not just today. Stanfords best win on the season was just within their own conference. The pundits used the "eye test" to seed them as a #1, not their resume.
 
southie said:
Probably the worst season of coaching by Tara in a long time. All that talent and size, and the team looked lost tonight.

Have to laugh that she whined and whined to the media last season about how physical Texas played and got in the officials' ears prior to our Elite 8 matchup one year ago. Tonight, Ole Miss gave her some physical play in her own arena and she couldn't whine her way out of it this time around.
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I'm sorry to see Stanford go out, but I have to agree either Tara coached a really poor final few minutes or her players executed really badly... possibly both.

Ole Miss plays a game that's a distant cousin to Georgia, very aggressive D (just not as rough), cutting off passing lanes and such, but the Cardinal simply blew it. Brink and especially Jones missed a ton of shots around the hoop.

Can you imagine? I believe Tara called four timeouts in the final minute and never really got a decent shot from any of them.

I saw the finish of four of Stanford's six losses this season and each had a familiar ring: lots of bad misses around the hoop, ugly turnovers and bad clock management. Too bad... 'twas a sad end to Haley Jones' fine career.
 
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I thought my eyes were deceiving me, so I logged onto the Boneyard for confirmation. And, I’m truly stunned. March Madness indeed!
 
Hayven said:
Tara just said in the postgame press conference that Jump will be back next year. But Belibi, Prechtel, and Jones all plan to move on. With Jones and Prechtel wanting to play professionally
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6'5 Prechtel does play like a Euro preferring to roam around the arc and shoot 3's instead of playing much inside the paint
 
southie said:
Probably the worst season of coaching by Tara in a long time. All that talent and size, and the team looked lost tonight.

Have to laugh that she whined and whined to the media last season about how physical Texas played and got in the officials' ears prior to our Elite 8 matchup one year ago. Tonight, Ole Miss gave her some physical play in her own arena and she couldn't whine her way out of it this time around.
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I think that, despite having similar size, the biggest reason Stanford didn’t have the season that South Carolina is having is that they don’t have someone like Zia Cooke on their team
 
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southie said:
I don't know if any player (potential-wise) has confused me more than Fran Belibi. 4 years later and not sure that she has developed into a better player than when she arrived. 1 point tonight.
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Brink happened and took her spot/minutes, and then fighting for playing time with Betts/Prechtel/Iriafen also reduced minutes. I hope Belibi grad transfers somewhere, she could be a huge force at another program. Duke could be a good fit with her academic background. She could also play overseas but I don't think she's a WNBA caliber player. Coming out of HS she talked about wanting to become a doctor (she had a near perfect GPA/test scores in HS) though if she goes the med school route, basketball is probably over for her.
 
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bballnut90 said:
Brink happened and took her spot/minutes, and then fighting for playing time with Betts/Prechtel/Iriafen also reduced playing time. I hope Belibi grad transfers somewhere, she could be a huge force at another program. Duke could be a good fit with her academic background. She could also play overseas but I don't think she's a WNBA caliber player. Coming out of HS she talked about wanting to become a doctor (she had a near perfect GPA/test scores in HS) though if she goes the med school route, basketball is probably over for her.
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Tara said she’s going to grad school at Harvard next year, so it seems like her career is done
 
I think this upset opens things up specifically for Iowa and South Carolina. Iowa will have a regional full of pesky defensive teams, but I think that bodes better for them than going up against Stanford's size and more fluid style of play.

As for South Carolina, I don't think they'll have much trouble with anyone on their side of the bracket since no one can compete with their size. I do think Iowa has an outside chance if 3 of their shooters are red hot and Cooke goes ice cold, but SC is just so much bigger and more athletic. I know Ole Miss pushed them to overtime but I don't see that happening again.
 
I watched a lot of Stanford the past 3 years and something that Geno and the 2002 Undefeated team said on their SNY broadcast about while teams can be talented sometimes offcourt chemistry is missing and that happened with UConn in 1999 which had an extremely talented team with the TASSK force, Svet and Shea on it but yet fizzled out at the Sweet 16. That could be exactly the same thing with Stanford this year. While Brink and Jones are clearly talented, this team was weak at the guard position and could struggle mightily getting scoring due to inefficient ball movement as they really only had 1 shooter on the team in Hannah Jump. I wouldn't say that Tara did a "terrible job" this year but it certainly did not stand out given the perceived talent.

On the flip side this Stanford team will still be missing strong back court again next year so Geno has a chance to close the win gap currently at 7 (1,186 to 1,179) with some more wins this year and a strong run next year. ;)
 
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I thought the Ivies didn't take grad transfers as student athletes. I know their 4 year players aren't allowed to stay for a 5th year as a grad student.
 
Jones’ lack of development as a shooter/scorer was so disappointing. How can someone so smart let themselves be so easy to defend? Relatively speaking.
 
123me said:
Perhaps Fran is moving on academically and not with basketball. Happens to many of us.
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That's what I was assuming. The link saying it wasn't certain if she would be playing basketball next year or not surprised me.
 
sweetspot said:
Jones’ lack of development as a shooter/scorer was so disappointing. How can someone so smart let themselves be so easy to defend? Relatively speaking.
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I don't really get it either. She seemed to peak as a sophomore when she tore up the NCAAs and led Stanford to a title. She was mostly solid the last 2 years but her FG% dropped significantly for a player who doesn't take many jump shots, and I also thought her decision making was suspect at times. She made similarly poor decisions vs SC this year, and tonight had several crucial miscues down the stretch. Seems like a great kid and I hope she finds success in the pros but I thought she'd be a better player at this point as a senior.
 
bballnut90 said:
I don't really get it either. She seemed to peak as a sophomore when she tore up the NCAAs and led Stanford to a title. She was mostly solid the last 2 years but her FG% dropped significantly for a player who doesn't take many jump shots, and I also thought her decision making was suspect at times. She made similarly poor decisions vs SC this year, and tonight had several crucial miscues down the stretch. Seems like a great kid and I hope she finds success in the pros but I thought she'd be a better player at this point as a senior.
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Maybe this is just me, but I think this is a Stanford issue to some extent. Players arrive, look like gangbusters right away and then sort of disappear for a year or two or three or don't really develop. I think Prechtel falls in the first category, while Jump seems to have been on vacation from her freshman year until this season. Iriafen seems headed in the same direction: eye opening as a freshman but not that this year. On the other hand, Belibi and Jones belong in the second category: good players who haven't seemed to get much better year by year. I think some of this has to do with the way Tara substitutes and the success Stanford has overwhelming most of its opponents with what seems like an endless parade of talented players. That's admirable in many ways, but I don't think it's good for either player development or the overall performance of the team when faced with a tough opponent.
 
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