Stanford/New Mexico St

[LETTERL]

I am a proud New Mexico State alum. It gets tiring seeing national outlets call us the Lobos and UNM the Aggies.

Huge difference between us and UNM

I feel your pain. You'd be surprised how many times NCState is called North Carolina. Just yesterday, on the Texas website Hook 'Em, a writer previewing the NCState/Auburn game called us North Carolina.

 

[JellyBean]

Good Lord. The refs should just hand Stanford the game. Touch foul calling. Wow.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Good Lord. The refs should just hand Stanford the game. Touch foul calling. Wow.

New Mexico St. was getting friendly whistles earlier, but agree those and-1's weren't much contact.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Geez, missing most of the 4th quarter because the last 30 seconds of Marquette-Quinnipiac is gonna take about 10 minutes.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm telling ya, Brook Salas from NMSU looks more like Karlie than Katie Lou does. Switched at birth? She's a baller too, has 26 points.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Stanford joining Oregon State as another example of those super tough Pac-12 teams that UConn is lucky not to have to face yearly.

SEC and PAC-12

That leaves the ACC which would be a barren desert had it not poached ND, Louisville, and Syracuse from the Big East.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Stanford gonna survive, but the Aggies gave them all they could handle.

 

[triaddukefan]

Stanford joining Oregon State as another example of those super tough Pac-12 teams that UConn is lucky not to have to face yearly.

SEC and PAC-12

That leaves the ACC which would be a barren desert had it not poached ND, Louisville, and Syracuse from the Big East.

Like the Big East didnt poach ND and Louisville from other conferences

Quit whining... and just enjoy the AAC

 

[Plebe]

I just looked up New Mexico State's resume, and it's uh ... interesting.

The only top-100 opponent they'd faced all season was Quinnipiac, on a neutral court in December, and they lost that game by 3.

They split a home-and-away OOC series with New Mexico, but that was their only win over a team in the RPI top 200 (!). They also had OOC losses to UNLV (by 5), Arizona (in OT), and Santa Clara, none of which are as bad as their RPI indicates.

They played 21 of their 28 games against teams outside the top 200, and they play in a dreadful conference (29th out of 32 conferences in the RPI). And that's how you secure a #308 overall SOS.

 

[nwhoopfan]

That's interesting Plebe. Yeah, if Arizona beat them you wouldn't think Stanford should've had any trouble. I guess that's why they play the games.

 

[Plebe]

That's interesting Plebe. Yeah, if Arizona beat them you wouldn't think Stanford should've had any trouble. I guess that's why they play the games.

Yeah, but teams can improve a lot between December and March. Those early games are not good predictors.

 

[ochoopsfan]

That girl from NMSU that just caught an elbow almost looks like she could be another Samuelson sister.

Brooke Salas is from Orange County, like the Samuelson sisters. She played for the same club team as Lou and Karlie, Cal Swish. However since she is a sophomore like Lou, i dont think they played together as Lou played 2 years ahead of most players.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Brooke Salas is from Orange County, like the Samuelson sisters. She played for the same club team as Lou and Karlie, Cal Swish. However since she is a sophomore like Lou, i dont think they played together as Lou played 2 years ahead of most players.

That's cool. I was unaware of her before today but she was really impressive.

 

[LO TRADER]

I know you think the PAC-12 teams don't deserve their seeding, but so far

Is Arizona State one of the top teams? They have 2 teams on the 2 seed line getting all they can get from 15 seeds.

How many PAC-12 teams do you think will make the Final 4 this year?

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Like the Big East didnt poach ND and Louisville from other conferences

Quit whining... and just enjoy the AAC

Who's whining? I'm simply rebutting lots of nonsense I've heard recently about how good all these secondary teams are in the power five conferences that would make like so tough on UConn.