Week 16 preview (Feb. 21-27)

[SECbbfan24]

Wait, what? Deep vs. competitive are two different aspects. This conference is not deep. They are competitive. Frankly, only Stanford is a lock for the S16/E8/FF and none of the other schools would be considered guaranteed Sweet 16 participants given their up and down sets of games.

I am pretty sure the post was sarcasm

Every poster seems to throw that comment out after one of their top teams in the conference losses to an inferior/bad team. Its funny though.

 

[LoTrader]

I'm reserving judgment on deep & competitive until after the NCAA Tournament concludes. It has been said on this board in previous seasons that the PAC-12 teams with less than stellar records implies not deep and/or not competitive. Then the PAC-12 has the best winning percentage in the NCAA Tournament (at least in the past few years). Maybe not this year? In any case, that is why the NCAA Tournament is good fun for us PAC-12 fans. Truthfully, this year's OSU team w/o Taylor Jones is a tournament team, but so far, the weakest OSU team in past 7 seasons. Maybe OSU will prove me wrong today/Saturday, but I think that is a stretch.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Unless of course you're Stanford, in which case you're winning most games by 20+ and hold a 5-game lead over 2nd place.

Stanford doesn't get enough credit.

 

[cancontent]

The PAC is so deep this year. Every night's a dogfight. Can't take even one game off.

I'll never get tired of this.

Wait, what? Deep vs. competitive are two different aspects. This conference is not deep. They are competitive. Frankly, only Stanford is a lock for the S16/E8/FF and none of the other schools would be considered guaranteed Sweet 16 participants given their up and down sets of games.

I am pretty sure the post was sarcasm

Every poster seems to throw that comment out after one of their top teams in the conference losses to an inferior/bad team. Its funny though.

I'm sure @Plebe is getting a chuckle out of this as I believe they started the trend this season. I know it makes me laugh whenever I see it posted.

 

[southie]

Tonight is Gary Blair's last home game as Texas A&M hosts South Carolina on SECN at 7:30 PM Central.

 

[SECbbfan24]

Tonight is Gary Blair's last home game as Texas A&M hosts South Carolina on SECN at 7:30 PM Central.

I sorta feel for him that his last year has to end the way it has this year. But the SEC has had some very unexpected turn arounds this year.

 

[southie]

I sorta feel for him that his last year has to end the way it has this year. But the SEC has had some very unexpected turn arounds this year.

I see a lot of A&M fans posting on forums that Blair stayed too long, and him going out with a losing season (potentially) is due to that.

But, last season, they were close to being a #1 national seed. They lost 2 very good front court players to graduation, but did bring some in from the transfer portal. They returned some big scorers for their backcourt.

They did lose two veteran assistant coaches (9 seasons each at A&M) in the offseason (to Auburn and Oklahoma); perhaps that hurt more than most thought it would.

 

[SECbbfan24]

I see a lot of A&M fans posting on forums that Blair stayed too long, and him going out with a losing season (potentially) is due to that.

But, last season, they were close to being a #1 national seed. They lost 2 very good front court players to graduation, but did bring some in from the transfer portal. They returned some big scorers for their backcourt.

They did lose two veteran assistant coaches (9 seasons each at A&M) in the offseason (to Auburn and Oklahoma); perhaps that hurt more than most thought it would.

They were SEC regular season champs last year, A&M's last three tournament appearances have made the sweet 16, so its not like they were irrelevant. The problem with this team is multiple things. They lost two great posts and the chemistry and punch inside isn't the same as previous teams. They have been heavily reliant on the three ball. Losing the assistants is another thing, Starkey has been a big asset for every program he has coached at.

It just wasn't meant to be this year given the roster changes and losing multiple assistant coaches. Unfortunate way for Blair to go out but he had a nice career with a national title to his resume. Most coaches will never get to say that.

 

[Vowelguy]

Vandy leads Fla in the 3rd!

 

[southie]

Vandy upsets Florida; could cost the Gators at Top 16 seed.

 

[TRest]

Watching Duke for the first time this year, they look really average at home vs BC ((losing 44-28 in third).

 

[SECbbfan24]

Watching Duke for the first time this year, they look really average at home vs BC ((losing 44-28 in third).

We are talking about the same team that lost to Virginia.... Yes.... Virginia....

 

[LoTrader]

This year's Oregon State Team is a terrible shooting team. Can't make lay-ins, can't make open shots. Utah is a very good shooting team, and our pourous perimeter defense made them look like a WBNA Team.

 

[jchusky]

no doubt in my mind Georgia Tech loses rd 1. This team is so bad to watch offensively, this will not help Uconn in the Net.

 

[triaddukefan]

We are talking about the same team that lost to Virginia.... Yes.... Virginia....

 

[Bigboote]

I just caught the Notre Dame game. I had been really impressed by Sonia Citron at the U19's last summer. I've seen them several times this year, and I'm wicked impressed by her play. She had something like 23/13/8 and a few steals. Yes, it was against Clemson, but it's her fifth double-double, and she's spent most of the season coming off the bench.

Maya Dodson also looked really good tonight, and I'm definitely a fan of Miles. They've been bitten somewhat by the injury bug, so have a short bench, but they'll be a tough out in the show.

 

[Plebe]

What in the lord's green earth has happened to Duke?

Back in December they looked like a top 15 team. Now they're probably not even top 15 of the ACC.

 

[jchusky]

I just caught the Notre Dame game. I had been really impressed by Sonia Citron at the U19's last summer. I've seen them several times this year, and I'm wicked impressed by her play. She had something like 23/13/8 and a few steals. Yes, it was against Clemson, but it's her fifth double-double, and she's spent most of the season coming off the bench.

Maya Dodson also looked really good tonight, and I'm definitely a fan of Miles. They've been bitten somewhat by the injury bug, so have a short bench, but they'll be a tough out in the show.

special players Notre Dame has

 

[cancontent]

What in the lord's green earth has happened to Duke?

Back in December they looked like a top 15 team. Now they're probably not even top 15 of the ACC.

Good question.

One thing that sticks out is their post play. That has been a large weak spot. Players that transferred in like Green and Lewis haven't panned out as hoped from what I've observed. I'm not even sure what the situation is with Green as she hasn't been on the bench for some games.

The injury to Taylor didn't help either. Being out for several games to let her shoulder heal took away some of the swag and rhythm I was seeing in the team.

 

[LETTERL]

Oregon and Arizona with their soft losses are determined to put every Pac-12 bubble team into the NCAA tournament.

Arizona is really missing Cate Reese right now.

 

[Plebe]

Arizona is really missing Cate Reese right now.

No doubt she was hugely missed in the UCLA game, but to be fair Arizona was trailing Washington State in the 4th quarter when she exited.

 

[triaddukefan]

What in the lord's green earth has happened to Duke?

Back in December they looked like a top 15 team. Now they're probably not even top 15 of the ACC.

Cancelling sending Plebe a Duke WBB Sweatshirt...... then again... if I sent one..... it might fall apart before it reached it's destination.

 

[Vowelguy]

Another late season swoon for DePaul?

 

[Vowelguy]

DePaul loses to Seton Hall , killer for their ncaa chances. Will now be in the 4/5 game vs Marquette.
Might need to win that and beat UConn to make tourney.

 

[Vowelguy]

Md holds off Indiana 67-64

Indiana was ranked 5th just a few weeks ago. Now they’re the 5 seed in the BiG tourney.