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Marta Suarezz leaving the Vols program mid-season. Not a playing time issue but a personal issue. She is headed back to Spain.
 
I think LSU will be a team that will grow through the SEC season. I don’t think they were challenged enough in the non conference (obviously) and other than a really good game against Arkansas hasn’t really played a NCAA tournament team. But like previously stated its gonna come down to the improvements of the guards. Especially the younger ones in Poa and Poole. But Falujae continues to impress me, and wow Angel Reese has blown away my expectations.

But Mulkey is building something very good at LSU. Between what they already have in Reese and Johnson, I think next year when they add the number one recruit is where you see them blossom. Im excited to see how they continue to grow and finish this year off.
 
If you play defense and rebound and have a dominant post player you're going to win a ton of games in NCAAW.

LSU probably won't run the table, but I don't see a lot in the SEC to give them much trouble.

I'd put their over/under for league wins at 13.
 
bballtalk said:
But Mulkey is building something very good at LSU. Between what they already have in Reese and Johnson, I think next year when they add the number one recruit is where you see them blossom. Im excited to see how they continue to grow and finish this year off.
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I wonder if Del Rosario will be more impactful than Williams. Tough situation to be in, to have two great recruits.
 
Bone Dog said:
I wonder if Del Rosario will be more impactful than Williams. Tough situation to be in, to have two great recruits.
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Both play different positions. Rosario is a center and Williams is a off guard/wing. Williams will be a day one starter like Flaujae this year. Rosario will play a lot but I suspect Kim will go grab an experienced big out the portal to help bring her along. Talented as she is she still needs more time to polish and get in better shape.
 
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It's still early in SEC play but coach Yo seems to have retained the momentum from last year. I don't think anyone had them pegged to be battling for the top of the SEC after Shakira Austin graduated. If things keep going their way, it seems like they'll secure a bye in the SEC tournament. They look to be emerging as the #4 team in the SEC. I think the winner of Ole Miss v. Arkansas will get fourth in the conference.
 
GamecockFam said:
It's still early in SEC play but coach Yo seems to have retained the momentum from last year. I don't think anyone had them pegged to be battling for the top of the SEC after Shakira Austin graduated. If things keep going their way, it seems like they'll secure a bye in the SEC tournament. They look to be emerging as the #4 team in the SEC. I think the winner of Ole Miss v. Arkansas will get fourth in the conference.
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Another school that had a fairly embarrassing non-conference schedule.

But I haven't seen them so maybe they are playing well.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
Another school that had a fairly embarrassing non-conference schedule.

But I haven't seen them so maybe they are playing well.
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They are barely top 25 in my methodology because they have not suffered more losses than Quad one wins.

They are 2-2 in Quad One with a close loss to Utah and a loss to Oklahoma. Their two wins are Georgia and Miss State. No losses in the other quads
 
Didn’t see today’s SC game but looks like Raven Johnson is rounding into form after a rough start early. Adding in a consistent playmaker and perimeter threat will be huge for SC if she continues on this trajectory.
 
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bballnut90 said:
Didn’t see today’s SC game but looks like Raven Johnson is rounding into form after a rough start early. Adding in a consistent playmaker and perimeter threat will be huge for SC if she continues on this trajectory.
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Raven looked pretty darn good out there. The last few games she has been getting better and looking comfortable. I love her court vision on offense. Her defense is outstanding and that is going to make South Carolina that dangerous. With Coach Staley being able to switch Johnson and Fletcher up like that.....Oh boy!!
 
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.
 
Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?
 
JellyBean said:
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.
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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.
 
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stwainfan said:
Did you like the blue uniforms Tennessee had today?
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Is blue a Tennessee color? I’m asking because you sometimes wear black or grey. WhatARE the official colors?
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
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.
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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.
 
SCGamecock said:
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.
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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.
 
SCGamecock said:
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.
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I think something that is missed is just how vulnerable teams make themselves when they play Boston that way.
 
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stwainfan said:
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.
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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]
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Napkin sketch led to Lady Vols logo - Knox TN Today

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...
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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.....


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JellyBean said:
OMG! That Arkansas/Vandy game what a finish!!
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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.
 
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