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Tourney Results - 1st Round

Stagnant said:
Vandy is about to be my first miss on my bracket. I only picked them to win one game. But flaming out in this manner diminishes their season a bit imo. So that’s unfortunate.
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Vandy is an interesting case because I can't tell if their season should be deemed a success or a disappointment.

Success
  • Single-digit seed in NCAAs (i.e. not a bubble team)
  • Swept Tennessee
  • National ranking
  • Mikayla Blakes' individual brilliance as a freshman in the SEC
  • Significant improvement by Khamil Pierre
  • Defense looked great at times (swarming, in-your-face brand)
  • Played mainly without a true post (Sacha Washington missed entire season with blood clots)

Disappointment
  • Finished 8-8 in SEC (down from last season's 9-7 finish) and not competitive with Texas, South Carolina, or Kentucky
  • Player roles not clearly defined (pointing mainly to Moore and Kapinus)
  • Depth/rotation issues (note Pierre's exhaustion during the Mississippi State game--a game they should've won and had won until the end)
  • 3-point shooting was atrocious (30%)
  • Leadership (or lack thereof)--for a team that had three graduates and a senior in the rotation, they lacked on-court leadership in the worst way (Jordyn Cambridge was sorely missing--too bad she ran out of eligibility last year)

The things they need to fix can be fixed through a combination of maturation, portal enhancements, and leadership/role defining. That may be easier said than done, though.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Are we talking about the same play? Doesn't sound like it.


I also remember when cracking down on flopping was a big thing, but that quickly went by the wayside.
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Wasn't Prince's fourth foul where she was called for the arm and her fifth the charge?
 
In 2012, a #15 seeded Lehigh men's team traveled down to NC and stunned #2 Duke. 13 years later a #15 seeded Lehigh women's squad ventured down to NC to take on #2 Duke. If you thought that Lehigh was gonna repeat that feat, you thought wrong. :mad:
 
Like I said in another thread... if I was a mid-major team that was gonna receive an arse whipping of the highest magnitude.... I'd much rather get on a plane for a cross country trip as opposed to driving on the pothole filled interstates of SC on the way to Columbia. (No offense to the great state of Little Carolina)

My Spartans might get beat down worse than any team in the history of the city of Greensboro, but hey.... they are enjoying some sights and sounds of LA.... AND get to play for the first time on national network TV (ABC)

 
Does anyone feel like we're going to have some bigger upsets today? Yesterday was pretty much all chalk with exception to Oregon beating Vandy.

I think there is potential. Some upsets to keep an eye on:

Murray State over Iowa
SD State over Oklahoma St.
Harvard over Michigan St.

Any others?
 
GamecockFam said:
Does anyone feel like we're going to have some bigger upsets today? Yesterday was pretty much all chalk with exception to Oregon beating Vandy.

I think there is potential. Some upsets to keep an eye on:

Murray State over Iowa
SD State over Oklahoma St.
Harvard over Michigan St.

Any others?
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You have Oklahoma State mixed up with Oklahoma here. Oklahoma State is playing UNC today.
 
cancontent said:
You have Oklahoma State mixed up with Oklahoma here. Oklahoma State is playing UNC today.
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Oregon State is playing UNC today and Oklahoma is playing Florida Gulf Coast. I just verified that Oklahoma State is in fact playing South Dakota State.

Lots of state schools with similar looking names, so I can see where the confusion came from. :D
 
GamecockFam said:
Oregon State is playing UNC today and Oklahoma is playing Florida Gulf Coast. I just verified that Oklahoma State is in fact playing South Dakota State.

Lots of state schools with similar looking names, so I can see where the confusion came from. :D
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This is where having only 10 provinces and 3 territories to remember has its advantages. :D
 
packwrap said:
Big10 #10 (in league) over SEC#8.

Happy for Oregon, but will miss Vandy and Shea. Wanted to see more of Blakes & Pierre.

Vandy back next year with a little more ammo, and hopefully another step forward.
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Vandy with a major portal addition could be terrifying, but thought they were getting a little too much press in NCAA previews.
 
@WBBTakeover I would still qualify this Vandy season as a huge success. Their two stars are a freshman and sophomore and they lacked post season experience as evidenced by all the fouls. Now they have it. As @visitingcock notes, a few more quality portal transfers (including a post player) would drastically help this team. I think most forget how dreadful Steph White was as a coach with them 13-55 in league play never finishing better than 12th in a 14 team league.
 
cancontent said:
I hear you but Prince's last 2 fouls were legit offensive calls. I was with 2 referees who made the same assessment while the games were live. Hard to see her foul out that way, but they were the right calls.
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Agreed! Prince made the Freshman error of going "too hard" to
the basket on that 5th foul. Three problems: 1. a fifth foul = you're
gone. 2. the two-point basket is erased!! , they needed those points, and 3. Louisville gets the ball back for Jada Curry to get two for two foul shots, and then: AGAIN, two for two fouls shots. (Nebraska had to foul) and H.C. Walz had
the answers in his back pocket: a 90+% foul shooter! Nebraska then had a time out for a last-ditch attempt to do SOMETHING. The pass inside went and over the team
mates HEAD. (I guess she took her eyes off the ball). Possession
back to Louisville. I saw the grey hairs forming on the Nebraska's
H.C.'s head! On to TCU and Hailey Van Lith!!!
 
When Shea headed down to Vanderbilt a substantial number of us were less than sanquine about her ability to turn Vandy into a power for the simple reason that it would be hard to recruit against the powerhouses ahead of them in the SEC. Shea is an excellent coach but she does not draw in enough horse power. Apparently the SEC 54M+ isn't much help to her program. Her slice may be very thin.
 
Stuelke picked up 2 fouls almost instantly for Iowa. Interesting that Heiden checked into the game before O'Grady.
 
Iowa in serious foul trouble. Stuelke has been sitting the whole game. Olsen and Heiden both have 3. Those 2 have scored almost all of their points.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Iowa in serious foul trouble. Stuelke has been sitting the whole game. Olsen and Heiden both have 3. Those 2 have scored almost all of their points.
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And pops in 13 points before getting a dumb freshman foul for her third. She's going to be a good post for Iowa, especially considering their aptitude for developing posts. Gal runs the court REALLY well for a gal her size (and she has some size and muscle).
 
Iowa finished the half on a 7-0 run w/ Olsen, Stuelke and Heiden on the bench. Continued the momentum into Q3, blowout city now.

Young went out with an injury for Murray St. She'd been fairly quiet anyway, but can't help their chances.


Jeez, it's a layup drill for the Hawkeyes now. One easy basket after another.
 
Iowa was already blowing the game open when Young got hurt, but it looks like Murray St. completely shut down at that point. In boxing this is where the ref would have to step in and stop the match because one of the fighters is defenseless.
 
GamecockFam said:
Lol we've had the same record beaten 3x in a row during this tournament. I'm trying to decipher what that means. First Notre Dame with the 52 point beatdown record which holds until South Carolina wins by 60. Then that record holds a few hours until Duke wins by 61. Is this a sign of the widening gap from the transfer portal, coincidence, or something else...?
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UConn says, "Hold my beer," up 50 not even at the halfway mark.
 
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