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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2607876, member: 5798"] The same thing that happened to UConn last year happened to MS yesterday. They did not bring their "A" game. When McCowan went out in the 1st quarter with 2 quick fouls, that opened up the door, leveled the playing field, and allowed Wilson to come in and operate freely. The Bulldogs, who lost the past two SEC tournament finals and last year's NCAA championship game to the Gamecocks, just were not sharp from the start. Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer and his players talked Saturday about being concerned with not playing well in the first quarter, and that happened again Sunday. It was worse this time, though, because it carried over into a dreadful second quarter in which the Bulldogs scored just five points. Center Teaira McCowan got into early foul trouble and played just four minutes in the first half, after which the Bulldogs trailed 30-19. Schaefer was asked if he considered putting McCowan back in during the second quarter as South Carolina extended its lead and the Bulldogs' offense was sputtering. [I]"I thought about it, [but] I thought, 'We're going to be all right,'" Schaefer said. "We had protected her and got through the first half."[/I] McCowan added, [I]"I just wanted to come back out and dominate in the second half. Foul trouble is part of the game, so it wasn't too much worried about it."[/I] Indeed, down 11 with 20 minutes to go might not have seemed too high a mountain to climb for a Mississippi State team that came in averaging 83 points per game and had beaten every SEC opponent but one this season by double digits. But Sunday, the offense never got on track. The Bulldogs finished with their lowest point total of the season. They shot 34.5 percent from the field and 15.8 percent (3-of-19) from behind the arc. [I]"It's not a good feeling,"[/I] said Mississippi State senior Victoria Vivians, who led the Bulldogs with 17 points. [I]"But I'm glad it's not the NCAA [tournament], when it's the end of a career."[/I] You know the old saying........on any given day....................... :cool: [/QUOTE]

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