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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 4422521, member: 7492"] I would add that what everyone seems to be forgetting is tOSU earned their way to the Sweet16 last year without Dorka and has all the players returning (the most crucial ones). This is a VERY GOOD Buckeye team and this thread, while rejoicing in the Tennessee loss is overlooking how good and under-rated Kevin McGuff's team is. They are a top 10 team and should be the co-favorite with Iowa to win the Big10 and as the game showed, they play defense, which is foreign to the Hawkeye's. That said, yes, I noted many a time how just adding Rickea Jackson whose press clippings are far more substantial than anything she has earned, seemed to justify the scribe's lunacy to try and make Tennessee relevant again. Rickea never earned a first team SEC selection and was not a leader when MSU needed her to be so color me skeptical. Powell too, was to be the PG answer yet that Minnesota team did not show any signs of quality while she was there so again, I am suspect. Add in the turnover machine that is Jordan Horstan and the lack of any offensive scheme and you have what we all saw. But to write off Tennessee after 1 game against a top team would be a mistake. They are still very long and have talent on this team so they have significant room to improve. [/QUOTE]