Duke under Lawson doesn't do it either.
Because the ACC was no good this year and Duke lost to everyone with a pulse in OOC?
SDSU is almost a stone cold lock for the upset in Round 1, I'm fully prepared for it.
Probably yes. Iowa State/Syracuse and Oklahoma State/Princeton could be interesting too.
It's almost like it's a tired and extremely lazy narrative.
Simply awful, especially focusing on the ACC. A P4 team that wins its conference and conference tournament titles--gets a 3 seed. An 11-loss team that got blown out by 35 by a Stanford team that wasn't even in the field gets an 8 seed ahead of two teams that beat them. A team that only beat one ranked team all year gets to host. Madness.
Because LSU and Vandy couldn't be placed in Texas' or South Carolina's bracket. Michigan and Iowa could not be placed in UCLA's bracket. This means that UConn could only face the SEC teams (because both Texas and South Carolina had to be paired with the Big Ten teams). The weaker of the two went to UConn, hence Vandy being paired with UConn and LSU being paired with UCLA.
This! The production was absolutely horrific.
This is not true. Teams from the same conference can meet in the Elite Eight game.
I want to kick their ass. They were campaigning for Blakes to be player of the year. (And I think she has a case.) but that makes them adversarial in my books. Let’s demolish them.
Sure, but that's not what I said.
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UConn’s path was potentially rocky for about 5 minutes when Vandy was slated as a 1, which would have put Texas or LSU as the Huskies’ 2.
I agree that the committee and the supposed rules or guidelines it operates under is terrible. The SEC,ACC and Big 10 teams we played this season ( all of whom were ranked when we played them) could not even give us a competitive game, with the notable exception of MICH yet those conferences got undeserving teams in the tournament for beating each other. These same conferences teams also benefit unfairly when it comes to seeding as they won’t put their top teams in the same regional so for example the # 1 and #2 teams ( UConn and UCLA this year) don’t get to play the true # 7 and # 8 seeds as they’ve earned and deserve and instead the SEC teams who aren’t as highly rated or seeded or deserving are slated to play lesser 2 seeds. These supposed big time conferences also have overrated teams that benefit from upsetting each other and getting highly ranked based on both these wins and losses because it artificially increases their strength of schedule. I know many will disagree but there’s no way TN, So Cal or Virginia should be in the tournament, they are terrible teams who lost too many games. TN is an especially egregious case as they get credit for their high strength of schedule yet they were badly beaten by the top tier teams they played and beat nobody really good and have 13 losses and have lost 7 straight and 10 of 12. The other 2 have 13 and 11 losses and were not competitive against any good teams. Something has to be changed and the conferences should not be protected by not having to play their own teams in the regions.
This is my reading too. Vandy reminds me a bit of Syracuse two seasons ago, with Dyaisha Fair and Georgia Woolley, and a few freshmen who had career shooting nights from 3. Fair, like Blakes, is a free throw generating machine. UConn beat them narrowly with one of their thinnest teams in recent years, essentially Paige Nika Aaliyah KK Ash and Ice. In that game, Fair was held almost scoreless for most of three quarters and then went on a tear in the final stretch. I attribute that mainly to the inevitable fatigue of a thin roster. Nika fouled out, also fatigue related in my view.
I stand corrected. But at some point they stopped cutting down the nets at the Regionals. In Albany in 2017 I was at the Regionals when they rolled out the ladder after the game. It just stood there, like a lonely guy on the dance floor.
I would expect that a few of us, especially newbies, would like to see our Huskies participate in the watch party tradition. It reflects genuine enthusiasm for the event and shows a willingness to acknowledge the privilege of the process.
Crossing another name off this year's Christmas card list.
Texas is number 3
