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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 2097208, member: 656"] I absolutely concur with Bags' view that regardless of the outcome of this championship run, we should celebrate this unusual, unanticipated, mind-blowing triumph of a season. The bracketology gods have placed an obstacle course in front of us that would make Tamino blanche and Sarastro gloat; seemingly a reprise of our out of conference test, so successfully negotiated. We start off with a single gimme and then its all serious stuff; Syracuse, UCLA, pick-em Duke? Maryland? West Virginia (my choice)? and then (if the seeds hold) two of our most familiar rivals. And yet, I sense that the team has it; that they will prevail. It's not about logic, which has been pulled asunder, since November...It's about will. This group has learned to will itself to victory...to internalize whatever it takes to prevail. Geno frets about the defense...sure, no block monster to dispel penetration but the switching (at its best) is the most artistic, efficient and intricate I've ever seen...reminds me of the choreography of some of my favs: Twyla Tharpe's [I]Push come to Shove, [/I]Mark Morris'[I] L'allegro. [/I] And this newfangled, offense,predicated on a point forward, an elusive, slithering undersized, 4/5 , a good sized 2/3 with range who is just discovering that there is more to the game than hoisting 3's...Combine that with a retread guard, never much counted on for anything and one real vet..... This is the starting five that's tyrannized the woman's game all season? Well, they did and I reckon they will. The one thing they just haven't quite figured out is how to lose. [/QUOTE]

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