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  1. KnightBridgeAZ

    Pac 12 as we know it: 23-24 Season Outlook

    I'm not a men's basketball fan but obviously root for Arizona in all things. This seems like a pattern, as you say. It's too early to say Lloyd can't win the big one, but I can hear the rumblings. The thing I always remember - Lute only won once, and got him adored. Heck, his statue is in...
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    Let the Carousel begin!

    I didn't say it was accurate - but that was what fans at Rutgers back in the late '90's and early 2000's were saying about the mid-west teams, based largely on the style of play that some of the coaches (especially in the Big 10) favored. It was perceived that this was one of the reasons Vivian...
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    Coaching hot seat turned mildly warm....

    Remember that their AD came to Arizona, so there may be a bit of a gummed up works there.
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    Coaching hot seat turned mildly warm....

    Yes, he returned. I don't think he missed that many games, really, nor did I ever hear much about it. He looked like himself the one game I saw.
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    Next year's regionals ...... Birmingham and Spokane?

    Yes - and actually the hotels were at the outer edge of acceptable on NCAA rules, apparently, hotels need to be within 30 minutes of the arena, as you know teams playing in Storrs are (at times) staying in Hartford. All specified in the "bid" that every potential host (including Gonzaga, I...
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    Let the Carousel begin!

    That was a bit unfair, but there "is" a stereotype (or was in years past) of the type of players that schools like Wisconsin and it's neighbors tended to recruit locally. I don't know they were local, but I think of Ohio State's run of centers (including Jessica Davenport, IIRC) and other teams...
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    Mulkey story coming?

    I just realized that according to reports - and Mulkey - this all started before they won it all last year (how long they asked for interviews). Also, I continue to repeat, this is a well respected writer and author. I doubt his agenda is anything nefarious, unless you consider folks who write...
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    Sweet Sixteen Game Announcers

    Probably, but it is also perception, knowing that this is the conference she knows best, follows the most and played in. There were some RU fans (this is over 13 years ago when we were in NJ) who thought Rebecca was a UConn homer, which I never really saw. There are some who think Joan...
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    WBIT - Villanova still in it (Go Lucy!)

    And I just looked up my BE spreadsheet where I list schedules and highlight according to wins and losses. I don't see that the Big East - at least this year - has much to complain about. So far as a quick glance goes, the out of conference schedules of teams that didn't make the dance don't...
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    Question about tournament game scheduling

    As we were watching games this weekend, we noticed that Sunday's games provided one of the teams to each of the Sweet 16 games, and their opponents were the winners on Monday. What got my wife thinking was this means that the teams that played Sunday have an extra day of rest as compared to...
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    2024 Tournament Attendance

    Huh - almost 6000, about 80% of capacity. Not horrible, really.
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    Jackson State’s Coach Reed, on Geno

    Mostly yes, but I doubt Geno would look at Jackson State in the abstract because their conference is pretty dreadful. That still matters, the others you mention are solid teams on the whole (I think you mean South Dakota State, South Dakota is just ok, Arizona beat them OOC). With the really...
  13. KnightBridgeAZ

    “The best four in the history of college basketball”

    I don't mind Mowins herself, it is the nonsense she gets into with her color commentator that can be annoying. As I watched all the games this weekend (or parts of all them), yes, there were clearly some awful blah-blah. At times, several announcers were better, including Mike Thibault...
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    Mulkey story coming?

    Yes, in a Q and A after one of her radio shows, Adia mentioned that schools offer amounts. She said she was personally aware of some schools were the suggested money did not materialize for some football players, she didn't mention the school. She offered no specifics as to NIL amounts, but...
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    New WNIT

    You are taking a "long" view, I must say. Triple Crown Sports started the current version of the WNIT in 1998, the NCAA had dropped the postseason women's version of the NIT in 1996. The WNIT is "pay for play" in the sense that you pay pretty much your own expenses and you pay (and bid) for...
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    ESPN Announcing Teams for NCAA Tournament

    I actually like Pam Ward, very professional. As female play by play folks go, her and Mowins have been doing it for a long while. Christy Thomaskutty is very good, I've enjoyed her all year. Comments on 3 of the teams - 1 - I like Ann Schatz a lot, and she is based in the NW, so I get it...
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    Athletic’s anon coaches poll

    The offensive is interesting - past Geno I would have been scratching my head. While I might have struggled to put together the defensive and adjustment lists, in the end, they are not surprising.
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    Best collegiate players whose pro careers didn't pan out

    And the person who brought up Jessica Davenport, but I think you nailed it. Very few classic centers have great WNBA careers, they need more. An outside shot would count as "more". Ability to dribble. Extra special rebounding or shot blocking skill (not all are equal). Ability to draw...
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    The Bracket

    They do that kind of thing. Rutgers had a few of those set-ups in history, as well, and I caught a couple others as they were announcing the brackets, although I don't remember them off-hand.
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    Men's & Women's Conf Titles

    I don't have the info - but would expect UConn to be the leader. I researched one school as I felt they were probably a frequent winner on both sides - Gonzaga. They have had 9 seasons where both schools have won tournament championships, all between 2007 and 2022; the men have won a huge...
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    Let the Carousel begin!

    Nice person. Excellent Associate HC at Rutgers. Awful as a head coach in 2 tours, both in California. UCSB and CSUN. We saw her team play when she was at UCSB and my take was that she was asking too much skill of the players at the level she had. We at Arizona certainly saw our former...
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    Interesting - same crew did Mountain West Final. Pantoja and Murray did the WCC with Benny Luna. Big Sky on the other hand was Schofield, Bird and Trimble.
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    Conference Tournament Dates and Links

    Campus sites. Not that it requires that long off, but all the tournaments played on campus sites are very spread out. You do have travel time, of course, but Maine stayed home and Vermont played in Albany. Limited travel.
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    Conference Tournament Dates and Links

    I shockingly discovered it isn't the Colonial anymore. It is the "Coastal" Athletic Conference. Interesting change.
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    Pac 12 as we know it: 23-24 Season Outlook

    Yeah, they were spending money like they could print it. As I was recently reading, while athletics is a "bad look" it really didn't drive the fiasco. The "global campus" stuff didn't help, of course, but also didn't drive it. I wondered where the money was coming for all these initiatives...
  26. KnightBridgeAZ

    Top 16

    If they do, I'd love to hear it. I would be surprised if they didn't. I would also like to know what sports they consider their primary rivalry. They are all over the place in football and I think in men's basketball as well. While Stanford is great in WBB I don't think Cal has ever been all...
  27. KnightBridgeAZ

    Paige and Dawn Staley Award

    You ask a good question. The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia selects the winner, no explanation that I could find on the web site. FWIW, and I didn't see it mentioned in the thread, Caitlin Clark has won the last 3 years in a row!
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    Pantoja was a teammate of Adia's at Arizona and is not allowed to ref Arizona games. Jones went to ASU and worked for the fire department in Phoenix up until fairly recently, I think. Adia mentioned her as one of the best refs in the league on her radio show.
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    Inouye hasn't done the PAC recently. At one time she was married? to Bryan Enterline and based in the mid-west. Of course things change, but I tend to associate her with games in the mid-west. Yeah, Benny Luna isn't a favorite, but I really have no particular feelings about the others you...
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    Just like every conference, the referees tended to call games similarly. Most conferences have a "style". For the PAC, a lot of physical play was tolerated in the post - but if you touched a shooters arm gently, expect a foul. Very strange. Also very tolerant of scrums for the ball, but not...
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    None, really, per se. The conferences share officials, the "best" of whom work 6 or even 7 days a week all over the country. The PAC is slightly different, the vast majority of officials don't work the other Power 5 conferences, though a few do. Historically, the Big 12 shared the most PAC...
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    Officiating in the Post-Season

    FWIW - each edition of the rule book includes the committee at the time the book was issued. In the current NCAA rule book, some of the terms expired in 2023. All the rest are per your list. Back in the day, Barbara Jacobs autographed our NCAA Rule Book, she was the editor or some such...
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    What a day!

    For what? They were absolutely not involved in this. And I have never seen any evidence they encourage it. I will say that both allow a lot of trash talk, but what's new about that? Men do it all the time in their sport - is it not OK because they are women?
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    Week 18 - March 4 to 11 (conf standings, NET, conf tourney games)

    We had that chalk talk the last time Arizona played USC - JuJu is relatively ineffective when forced in one direction (sorry, I don't remember if it was right or left). 100% backed up by her shot chart. Of course, easier said than done. She also tends to jump when defending - Arizona...
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    Week 18 - March 4 to 11 (conf standings, NET, conf tourney games)

    Thank you for giving Helena credit. She was outstanding for us this year. Yes, Adia constantly asked her to shoot more. She said it at every event I was at and even with Helena present. But she also credited Helena with being a true European player not interested in her own stats, only the...
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