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Message: [QUOTE="newfrontier, post: 3315528, member: 8141"] Prediction: I'm pretty certain the Team USA game versus Oregon State on Monday night will not be anywhere near as close as this one today with Stanford. That's because there is no way Team USA repeats the same prolonged as well as intermittent, well below par performance we witnessed. No doubt Stanford is a very good team, but Team USA is bound to do much better. A more lopsided final score will say less about whether Stanford is better than Oregon State or not, and more about how different the competitive appearance of a game is when a team (in this case Team USA) avoids an extensive period of, as well as sporadic, self-inflicted, uncharacteristic poor play. OSU will be playing an improved team on Monday night. With this in mind, I don't think the scores, performances, and results of the game Saturday (USA vs. Stanford) versus the game Monday (USA vs. Oregon State) will be as directly comparable as many people think (but folks all over the country are going to compare them a lot anyway). [/QUOTE]