According to Charlie Creme, it does. Baylor's loss moves them down to the 4th seed, and SC up to the 3rd seed. So, you get your wish.
If Baylor is in fact the 4th 1 seed, that may move them to the Stockton region, and to the same side of the bracket as UConn.
Not many teams can keep up with a T. Martin draining (and not missing 3's from the get go. Without Jones, we simply don't have anyone quick enough to break thru a screen and get in her face. They were screening at the arc thus T. Martin was making those threes from 3 ft outside the arc--a pure clinic in long-distance 3's. T. Martin is such a quick release athlete she was deadly from 2-3 feet outside the three arc. You kinda figure that will cool off; last night it didn't, and a much as gamer as our Cohen is, she's NOT able to slide thru a screen and keep Martin from launching. She's a short #4 (6'1") trying to guard a lightning quick bona fide #2--not a good matchup for our guys at all.
We (aka Alexis Prince) did a decent job in answering with our own 3's, but we were too far down against a team fighting for survival that was on a higher plane than we've seen them. I'm assuming we felt like if we slid behind the screen and dared her to shoot from 20'+ that she'd not be able to do it consistently. Buddy bubba were we wrong if THAT was our defensive game plan.
The night before we played an error free and as smooth a game as we had played all year (now, given it was lower end of conference team we did it against)--almost like playing against air, but two different nights/two different teams wearing 'BAYLOR' on their jersey. We haven't seen that kind of "off" night in a while. Hope its an aberration.
You KNOW the universe is out of whack when KMulkey put a zone defense on the court.
Issue now is, even IF Jones gets back on the court, will she be in game condition and will she have her game-day stroke. No time for a few games to knock off the dust. I fear everyone is expecting the All American Jones simply to walk on the court after a month+ layoff and pick right back up where she left off. Pretty naive expectation I think.
If we somehow break that Elite 8 ceiling of the last few years and end up as #4 in Dallas vs. you guys in the semis, then so be it. To be the best you gotta beat the best--semis or finals, one or the other. We're not looking JUST to make the final four. We're looking forward to a rematch with your guys in Dallas IN THE FINALS.
I don't know but I been told, women's seeding committee DOES take ticket sales at into consideration with the teams at the higher end of the bracket (thought they won't admit it), so I'm still thinking we go to OKC regional. But, if not, nobody to blame bur ourselves. Didn't seem to affect last night's game that we were just 6 hours up the road in terms of fans support. And with the venue being pretty well sold out for FF, our senior citizen fan base is snot going to buy tickets up in the rafters, nor probably pay any overpriced costs on StubHub. Our senior citizens are rabid fans; but they're not the kind just to hop in the car and face 6-7 hours (senior citizen speed) of I-35 traffic without thinking about that being a LONG hard drive for them.
Whatever, as always, hope to see you there.
