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Larry 7237 said:
Nice win for Shea but officials missed a very important call. Girl had part of her foot on the end line.
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What else is new. But LSU got away with so much holding and shoving that should have been called including a shove that pushed Blake causing her foot to go out. Next time Mulkey should make sure she saves a TO for a challenge. Huge win for Vandy and they earned it. LSU has now played 2 ranked teams and lost them both.
 
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Too bad, so sad for LSU. I guess a diet of nothing but cupcakes isn't very healthy. Averaging 100+ pts per game and score 61 when they play a real team. Go Shea! Go Vandy! Blakes looked like an All-American. Watching her get mugged time and time again when cutting without the ball reminded me of what happened to Paige in many games. Going to be lots of competition at the guard spot. Lack of minutes for Azzi could be a problem!
 
Very satisfying to see Vandy beat LSU. Which also means one of my very favorite coaches beats one of my least favorite coaches. As time was ticking down Vandy was inbounding the ball and the receiving player obviously had her foot over the line. Kim saw it, the ref didn't and Kim was out of timeouts to challenge. Game over
 
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Classic game, an obvious missed call that couldn't be challenged because Kim used up her time outs was unique. On the other hand I thought Blakes was getting mugged the whole game without some obvious fouls being called. Seems like LSU read the way the game was being called and just tried to rough her up.

Overall the games today in general were very good. Iowa State vs. Baylor was very interesting, particularly how Collison devised a strategy to deliberately not guard Iowa State's worst perimeter shooter to help out on Crooks underneath. They almost turned Crooks into a liability in the second half, because if she isn't getting the ball a lot with high volume scoring and efficiency, she doesn't bring much else to the table. They took advantage of Crooks having trouble guarding the pick and role away from the hoop.
 
I have a slightly more sober assessment of the Vandy win. Both teams looked terrible in the first half, maybe even through the 3rd quarter. Blakes looked great throughout, though she was the target of a very handsy, pushy-shovey, slappy ball-denial defense for much of the game. She carried Vandy, and that doesn’t bode well for them. To be a one-trick pony is not a formula for long term success.

I was surprised by how bad the passing and rebounding was on both sides — LSU was a little better about boxing out. But the whole thing seemed like players trying to make up for having failed to hold position in the first place. Vandy ran plays sometimes on offense, but for much of the game it looked way too scattered to be an organized offense, with plays and stuff. LSU was even worse. They have some talented players, but essentially only run clearouts for one player or another. There’s enough talent for Flaujae or Mikayla or Jada to occasionally improvise a pass that looks like a play. But so much of it seemed merely random.

Neither of these teams looked much like a top-10 team, but for the fact of the general weakness (parity?) of the rest of the top 50 or so teams. Shea seems to have done more to install a system than Kim has. But both teams seem to rely mainly on hero-ball.

One last observation: why was the floor in Vandy’s arena so slippery? Blakes more than others was constantly falling down when she tried to turn a corner. But others on each team were slipping too. Is there a hockey rink underneath the floor?
 
Gael said:
LSU's SOS was stronger than Vanderbilt's.

A signature win for Vandy, and Blakes is a very strong AA candidate (again).
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I am not sure where you get the strength of schedule results that you do, but when I looked it up, it said LSU had a strength of schedule of 262, with a nonconference strength of schedule of 340, while Vandy’s SOS was 64. Including Vanderbilt, LSU had 12 quad 4 wins, one quad 3 win, zero quad 2 wins, and is 1-2 in quad 1 games. Vandy was 1-0, 3-0, 4-0, and 7-0 in quads one through four. That is if I looked up the information correctly.

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