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Several upsets last night, intense games to the wire, and it's only the first full week of February! Gotta love the chaos this season. Can't wait to see what next week is like! 😀 😀
 
bballnut90 said:
Texas gives themselves more breathing room for the #1 seed spot. Harmon's statline isn't eye popping but she was hands down the player of the game. She's the best PG in America right now IMO. Incredible defender and she's just such a good facilitator and decision maker. I still think she has what it takes to make in the WNBA despite being undersized, she defends players 6 inches taller than her incredibly well.

Also, Aaliyah Crump is a monster off the bench, she's a huge difference maker for the Horns.

LSU was pretty much shut down aside from Williams. Flaujae had a forgettable game, Fulwiley didn't play well and Richard also struggled shooting. These two will likely meet again in the SEC Tournament and it should be a battle. Really fun game to watch.
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Flaujae feels like she has regressed and her stock has gone down quite a bit. To be a senior and not show in some in these big conference game is not a good look. And it’s not the fact that she went 3-14, it’s the fact that she continues to be a horrible decision maker and fail to make her teammates better unlike her teammate Mikaylah

WNBA scouts are noticing
 
FlauJae still going in first round despite odd senior year. Maybe later in 1st gets her a better team matchup.

TX played their best game of the year. Their defense was exceptional causing plenty of TO, but more importantly, leading to absolutely dreadful shots by LSU late in the shot clock.

Amazingly, despite being outplayed LSU kept hanging around. It was still a 4pt game in early fourth...then the dam broke.

LSU v SC still coming. We'll see if they learn from the TX film.
 
packwrap said:
Amazingly, despite being outplayed LSU kept hanging around. It was still a 4pt game in early fourth...then the dam broke
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And not one timeout was called while having a string of 5 turnovers the two first minutes of the 4th and while Flaujae went iso ball with bad decision making

Also 11 shots for Williams is insane. By far their best player but she doesn’t demand or want the ball enough when her team needs her. See Vanderbilt game as well…
 
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Vowelguy said:
Does this mean you’ve finally put away the bag, for this season?
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Never say never, but its likely no more bags until at least next December


Basingstoke said:
Duke has really come together over the course of this season after a bad start while playing an extremely challenging schedule.
One of the differences from the start of the season, for me, is that they are making open shots that they should make.
Louisville really hung in there after a horrible start tonight, but their abysmal foul shooting eventually did them in.
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Having Riley Nelson as a starter has been HUGE. Early in the season she was still working her way back from missing last year, 13pts 9 rebounds and 2 blocks in this game... Can shoot the three, great in the mid-range... unselfish, and contributes on the defense side of the ball. Our lack of guard depth might come back to bite us.... but so far so good.
 
Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm stunned sometimes to see the gap between haves and have nots in some of the mid majors. Today North Dakota St. beat Omaha 102-51.
 
Is everybody excited about today's MAC-SBC (Sun Belt) Challenge? Seems pretty late in the year for an interconference event like this.
 





Let me offer an explanation. High Point beat Radford by 38 points a few weeks ago. Today, my Panthers were missing its 2nd, and 3rd leading scorers. Not sure if its related to the altercation in the Winthrop game earlier in the week, or injuries. Judging by the tone of the announcers, it was something that decided this morning, and the team didn't have practice time to prepare for the absences

High Point's chance of a 30 win regular season is gone 😥 HPU's chance of a #13 seed likely is gone...... hopefully we can run the rest of the table and finish 29-3.
 
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Tough weekend for Oregon St. Blown out @ Gonzaga, bad 2nd half leads to a loss @ Portland. Zags went 2-0, OSU went from 1 game ahead in 1st place to 1 game back in 2nd, with Portland nipping at their heels.
 
SC dominating Tennessee in the second quarter. I'm tempted to say Tennessee looks like a team with a broken spirit. But the fact is SC is who broke their spirit. And is Tessa the one who speaks in on-court huddles now? I'm used to seeing Raven do that. Has she passed the torch to Tessa?

UCLA seems to be beating Michigan but can't seem to pull away. I can't quite put my finger on what's stopping them.
 
Bone Dog said:
SC dominating Tennessee in the second quarter. I'm tempted to say Tennessee looks like a team with a broken spirit. But the fact is SC is who broke their spirit. And is Tessa the one who speaks in on-court huddles now? I'm used to seeing Raven do that. Has she passed the torch to Tessa?

UCLA seems to be beating Michigan but can't seem to pull away. I can't quite put my finger on what's stopping them.
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Glancing at the box score, if you take away Betts & Kneepens (8/15 FG), the rest of the team is 6/17 FG, which isn't typical of players like Leger-Walker, Jaquez or Dugalic. They also have 9 turnovers at the half which indicates they're not taking care of the ball and giving Michigan additional opportunities on offence.
 
cancontent said:
Glancing at the box score, if you take away Betts & Kneepens (8/15 FG), the rest of the team is 6/17 FG, which isn't typical of players like Leger-Walker, Jaquez or Dugalic. They also have 9 turnovers at the half which indicates they're not taking care of the ball and giving Michigan additional opportunities on offence.
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Yes, that's what shows up in the stat sheet. But watching the game, it's hard to figure why they aren't playing better and pulling away. It doesn't appear to be anything Michigan is doing.
 
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Bone Dog said:
Yes, that's what shows up in the stat sheet. But watching the game, it's hard to figure why they aren't playing better and pulling away. It doesn't appear to be anything Michigan is doing.
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Gotcha.
 
Bone Dog said:
SC dominating Tennessee in the second quarter. I'm tempted to say Tennessee looks like a team with a broken spirit. But the fact is SC is who broke their spirit. And is Tessa the one who speaks in on-court huddles now? I'm used to seeing Raven do that. Has she passed the torch to Tessa?

UCLA seems to be beating Michigan but can't seem to pull away. I can't quite put my finger on what's stopping them.
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The pundits who continue to keep SC off the contenders list to beat UCoNn and win the title should be warned. They are a formidable team with all the pieces.
 
Another good win for Creighton. They are doing a good job playing spoiler in the big east.

Probably can knock Villanova out of the ncaa tournament with a win next weekend.
 
Stagnant said:
Another good win for Creighton. They are doing a good job playing spoiler in the big east.

Probably can knock Villanova out of the ncaa tournament with a win next weekend.
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They came back from a 10 point deficit and pushed the game to overtime. An entertaining game to watch this afternoon.
 
Oh look, Tennessee playing a good team and getting destroyed. Again. It's been happening all year long. They are an average team, their record is inflated due to schedule but will be self correcting down the stretch. Maybe next year Vols. Or not. Seems like this has been going on for 15+ years now.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Oh look, Tennessee playing a good team and getting destroyed. Again. It's been happening all year long. They are an average team, their record is inflated due to schedule but will be self correcting down the stretch. Maybe next year Vols. Or not. Seems like this has been going on for 15+ years now.
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41-9 in 2nd half

Not sure who the problem folks are, but TN basically quitting in these games. 5 seniors graduating will probably help
If Caldwell wasn't so slavish to her system, she'd start benching players.
 
Vowelguy said:
41-9 in 2nd half

Not sure who the problem folks are, but TN basically quitting in these games. 5 seniors graduating will probably help
If Caldwell wasn't so slavish to her system, she'd start benching players.
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I posted this in the TN thread:

Heard one of the announcers quote Coach Caldwell, saying something along the lines of the players needing to have faith and invest in the system, it works. Not taking anything away from SC today, however at the beginning of the 4th Q, three starters with 3 or less points, team shooting 27/22% (overall, 3 pt). TN has gone 11 deep, where SC is down a few players and only 7 have played so far.
 
BRS24 said:
I posted this in the TN thread:

Heard one of the announcers quote Coach Caldwell, saying something along the lines of the players needing to have faith and invest in the system, it works. Not taking anything away from SC today, however at the beginning of the 4th Q, three starters with 3 or less points, team shooting 27/22% (overall, 3 pt). TN has gone 11 deep, where SC is down a few players and only 7 have played so far.
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They looked like they'd given up in the second half, maybe even in the second quarter. SC looked really solid -- not spectacular, but utterly solid.
 
I can't say I expected such a dominant win with so many players either playing hurt (Tessa and Latson) or out of the game (Makeer and McDaniel). I think it is in part our will to win but equally just a horrific coaching and player performance from Tennessee. I gotta say that Coach Caldwell looks over her head. She doesn't know how to adjust when her system isn't working and I found it quite alarming that they never figured out how to break the zone. I don't think I've seen such a bad coaching job by a SEC coach since I started watching women's basketball. Yikes!
 
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I still think Kim Caldwell has what it takes, but she’s going to have to change her system. If it doesn’t work with Cooper, Barker, Spearman, and a top recruiting class, it’s not going to work any other year.
 
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