SEC Regular Season 2023

[SCspur]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

No.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

South Carolina reminding me so much of that UNLV men's squad that won the NCAA title back in the 90s. South Carolina already got a solid defense but now their offense is getting better, and they are making game adjustments at the right time. They are rounding into March Madness form.

The schedule is helping SC learn how to deal with junk defenses.

This isn't 2014 where we had two complete non-scorers on the floor.

 

[visitingcock]

No.

Well, blue IS better than orange

 

[SECbbfan24]

 

[TC22]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

Is blue a Tennessee color? I’m asking because you sometimes wear black or grey. WhatARE the official colors?

 

[stwainfan]

Is blue a Tennessee color? I’m asking because you sometimes wear black or grey. WhatARE the official colors?

It's Summitt blue. That's the official name. In honor of Pat. If you look on the teams that Pat coached. There was blue trim in the uniform.

 

[SCGamecock]

The schedule is helping SC learn how to deal with junk defenses.

This isn't 2014 where we had two complete non-scorers on the floor.

Andraya brought up a good point in today’s game about junk defenses. She mentioned how SC goes into every game not really sure what defense team’s are going to throw at them because teams are creating entire schemes just for their one game vs. SC. It’s a compliment, but it also leads to some dogfights. Then you have games like today where SC is clicking regardless and not even a junk defense and a hot shooting team can slow them down.

 

[militarydog]

Andraya brought up a good point in today’s game about junk defenses. She mentioned how SC goes into every game not really sure what defense team’s are going to throw at them because teams are creating entire schemes just for their one game vs. SC. It’s a compliment, but it also leads to some dogfights. Then you have games like today where SC is clicking regardless and not even a junk defense and a hot shooting team can slow them down.

I obviously have not watched South Carolina as much as others but I’ve enjoyed watching A Boston expand her game during the course of her career. She is so much more mobile without losing her power. I could see her exploding at the next level.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Andraya brought up a good point in today’s game about junk defenses. She mentioned how SC goes into every game not really sure what defense team’s are going to throw at them because teams are creating entire schemes just for their one game vs. SC. It’s a compliment, but it also leads to some dogfights. Then you have games like today where SC is clicking regardless and not even a junk defense and a hot shooting team can slow them down.

I think something that is missed is just how vulnerable teams make themselves when they play Boston that way.

 

[shiverz45]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

Initially no. It might grow on me.

 

[JDuro]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

Like it when used as trim offsetting the orange. Looks too Tarheel-y as the primary color.

 

[ConwayGmck]

It's Summitt blue. That's the official name. In honor of Pat. If you look on the teams that Pat coached. There was blue trim in the uniform.

It was actually started at Tennessee in the late 60s, by the predecessor of Summit and her future Athletic Director, Joan Cronan:

The Columbia blue came about because Cronan couldn’t find what she needed when rummaging through the basement of Alumni Gym, where the women’s basketball team played before moving to Stokely Athletics Center in the mid-1970s.

“In 1968, I was basketball coach, and I think we were the Volettes or something exciting like that,” Cronan said wryly. “I had very little budget, and I had to order uniforms. Many people weren’t playing women’s basketball at that time. I could find white uniforms with Tennessee orange letters. But I couldn’t find anybody that was making women’s orange uniforms.

“So, I had a choice. I could get men’s uniforms or come up with a third color. Without a marketing study, without an OK from anybody, I sat in the basement of Alumni Gym and said, ‘What color do you think looks good with orange and white?’ And I said Carolina blue. So, if you go back to the 1968 to 72 teams, we wore blue uniforms with orange letters and white trim. So, that was how we got the Carolina blue.”{/QUOTE]

Napkin sketch led to Lady Vols logo

In August of 1976, Pat Summitt, Gloria Ray and Terry Crawford gathered around a table at the now-defunct Old College Inn on Cumberland Avenue near the University of Tennessee campus to sketch a new logo for the women’s teams. Summitt, then known as Pat Head, had been the Tennessee women’s...

www.knoxtntoday.com

Over time, due to the great trail-blazing career as WBB Head Coach that Pat Summitt would have, the iconic blue for the women's team would be named Summitt Blue in honor to her, with Cronan's blessing, if not insistence.

There is some discrepancy between the blue being Carolina Blue as Cronan described it, or being Columbia Blue, which is the blue used by Columbia University. Both colors of blue are identical in shade, although Columbia Blue is a slightly paler shade: most people think of Carolina Blue as being a "pastel" shade of blue, but Columbia Blue would be a pastel shade of Carolina Blue. but nowadays both UNC and Columbia use varying shades of their official blues, to where often they wear the same exact blues.....

A neat tie-in involving Cronan: she was the head coach at Tennessee in the late-early 60s-70s, mostly to following her husband to Knoxville when he got an assistant coaching job at Tennessee. Then she left and became the head coach at the University of Charleston, SC when she again followed her husband to South Carolina. At the Univ. of Charleston, she not only was the HC of WBB but also helped with other women's sports there as women's sports at most universities were still club programs. Eventually, Cronan's experience and leadership in many women programs led to her becoming the Athletic Director of women's sports at College of Charleston, a university position that was very rare for collegiate sports at the time.

While the WBB HC at CoC, Cronan hired a young woman to be her assistant coach, and upon being elevated to AD there, she promoted that woman to succeed her as HC. The woman was Nancy Wilson, and Wilson went on to become College of Charleston's winningest Head Basketball Coach, and led the Cougars to Division II AIAW championship games. In time, Cronan would leave College of Charleston to return to Knoxville, and take the same job as AD of women's sports at the University of Tennessee, where she served from 1983 to 2012 and still serves in an Emeritus capacity.

Wilson would eventually leave the Cougars program as well, becoming the Head Coach of the University of South Carolina. As the HC of the Gamecocks - at a time when the Gamecocks was a member of the Metro Conference - she led them to multiple conference titles and NCAAT appearances. Once the university joined the SEC however, they struggled to get a foothold in the then- toughest WBB conference in the nation. But Wilson would go on to become the Gamecock's all-time winningest Head Coach there, just like she did at the CoC - until that is, Dawn Staley passed her back in 2017 or 2018.....

 

[JellyBean]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

Gotta admit, that blue and orange combo looked rather impressive! Is that royal blue or is that Summit Blue?

 

[JellyBean]

OMG! That Arkansas/Vandy game what a finish!!

 

[Blueballer]

OMG! That Arkansas/Vandy game what a finish!!

That was insane. 3 - threes in a row by Vandy to tie and then Ark banks in a 3 at the buzzer to win. Poor Vandy can't get that first SEC win.

 

[JellyBean]

That was insane. 3 - threes in a row by Vandy to tie and then Ark banks in a 3 at the buzzer to win. Poor Vandy can't get that first SEC win.

Yes indeed. Insane ending. Vandy might shock the world and pull an upset. They got South Carolina next followed by Florida and Texas A&M. Crazy season. Anything can happen.

 

[DefenseBB]

Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?

NO. We need a revision of "The Blind Side" quote to include TN Blue....

 

[visitingcock]

SEC 01/17/2023

	CONF	OVERALL	HOME	ROAD	NEUTRAL	PF	PA	STRK
LSU	6-0	18-0	10-0	4-0	4-0	1596	910	W18
Scar	6-0	18-0	10-0	7-0	1-0	1470	820	W18
Tenn.	6-0	14-6	10-2	3-2	1-2	1561	1297	W7
Ole Miss	5-1	16-3	10-1	5-1	1-1	1350	996	L-1
Arky	4-1	17-3	9-1	5-0	3-2	1545	1246	W4
Bama	3-2	14-4	8-1	5-2	1-1	1323	1008	W2
Mizzou	3-3	14-5	8-3	4-1	2-1	1275	1139	L-3
Miss State	2-3	13-5	8-2	2-2	3-1	1326	945	W1
UGA	2-4	13-7	8-3	2-2	3-2	1331	1161	L-2
Florida	1-4	12-6	7-3	3-2	2-1	1340	1218	L-3
Kentucky	1-5	9-9	6-6	2-2	1-1	1253	1218	W1
Auburn	0-5	10-7	9-3	0-3	1-1	1195	1104	L-5
Vandy	0-5	9-10	6-4	3-4	0-2	1279	1252	L-5
A&M	0-6	5-11	5-6	0-5	0-0	824	939	L-7

 

[JellyBean]

SEC 01/17/2023

	CONF	OVERALL	HOME	ROAD	NEUTRAL	PF	PA	STRK
LSU	6-0	18-0	10-0	4-0	4-0	1596	910	W18
Scar	6-0	18-0	10-0	7-0	1-0	1470	820	W18
Tenn.	6-0	14-6	10-2	3-2	1-2	1561	1297	W7
Ole Miss	5-1	16-3	10-1	5-1	1-1	1350	996	L-1
Arky	4-1	17-3	9-1	5-0	3-2	1545	1246	W4
Bama	3-2	14-4	8-1	5-2	1-1	1323	1008	W2
Mizzou	3-3	14-5	8-3	4-1	2-1	1275	1139	L-3
Miss State	2-3	13-5	8-2	2-2	3-1	1326	945	W1
UGA	2-4	13-7	8-3	2-2	3-2	1331	1161	L-2
Florida	1-4	12-6	7-3	3-2	2-1	1340	1218	L-3
Kentucky	1-5	9-9	6-6	2-2	1-1	1253	1218	W1
Auburn	0-5	10-7	9-3	0-3	1-1	1195	1104	L-5
Vandy	0-5	9-10	6-4	3-4	0-2	1279	1252	L-5
A&M	0-6	5-11	5-6	0-5	0-0	824	939	L-7

Shocked at Florida. I was expecting them to be in the middle of the pack. They, like the rest of that group of six with one or zero wins, are scrappy teams and play hard, just can not put the whole piece together to get a win. Florida gave one away against Kentucky the other day and gave Georgia a good run. Florida is just right there. They just need to figure things out.

 

[dws3665]

Florida has just been riddled with injuries. Broughton out for the year in preseason, and Merritt hasn't played since early December. Correa missed some time as well. Matharu isn't eligible, apparently (2nd transfer non-waiver?) Their team has been a M*A*S*H unit at times.

 

[stwainfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Will A&M win a game in conference this year? What did Joni Taylor step into?

 

[Wonder 12]

Angel Reese hard to take

 

[SECbbfan24]

I am low key rooting for LSU to lose a game. These players deserve some humility.

You deserve to lose when you are celebrating after making a basket and don't even run back to defend. I think Arkansas has gotten 12-14 points on strictly refusing to run back and the players celebrating/showing off. I'm also pretty sick of Morris's on and off moods pouting this year. There was none of that last year.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

It's Hard not to love watching Arkansas.