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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 4518651, member: 7171"] I was there with 14,000 or so other nervous nellies, none more so than me. Lots of pink colors throughout the building, and a tribute to a number of breast cancer survivors that was very well done. Touching. I had underestimated Villanova, they are a much better team than I saw at Mohegan Sun in December when Iowa State trounced them. I thought they would play as a small finesse team but they are actually pretty physical. And Olsen is very good. In person, you can see she has very long arms. Dalce obviously gave Aaliyah some problems. I thought we were done when it was 51-45, but Nika`s three that made it 51-50 really got the crowd into it. And it was a great crowd. Gutsy three by Dorka. That was the shot that showed and she took it without hesitation. Looked like Geno decided to go with individual isolations down low in the fourth quarter and that strategy won us the game. That, and some pretty tough defense down the stretch. Siegrist was held scoreless for the last 8 minutes, that is pretty remarkable. Aubrey was special today. Really special. She had four fouls for a long time and was able to stay on the floor and not foul out. Aaliyah did a nice job in that regard as well. Aubrey`s fourth foul was in front of me and looked like a phantom foul in person but maybe the replay shows otherwise. I saw a couple of others like that as well (especially a foul against Lou on the baseline) but down the stretch, it seemed like the refs let the players decide the game. I like how Nika is taking it to the hoop. I saw that Stanford only beat Oregon State by three the other day. Ohio State (overrated IMHO) lost a couple recently. The Boston Celtics dropped three in a row recently before winning in overtime last night. A sportswriter friend of mine told me many years ago that at this time of year, late January to mid-February, strange things can happen in the basketball world. Win, and move on. [/QUOTE]

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