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For those of us without cable of any sort here's the replay of the best performance of the day.
Yes. See here: Women's basketball top-16 reveal: Breaking down the NCAA committee's latest rankings | NCAA.comDid the reveals actually indicate to which sites the seeds were placed?
yesDid the reveals actually indicate to which sites the seeds were placed?
Based on the guidelines that you use, what justifies UConn as a #1 seed then? They have that win over Notre Dame, but pretty much nobody else after that. Unless you're counting 3 wins over UCF as quality wins.
Are you forgetting that UConn also beat South Carolina? I'm sure the Mississippi State folks would love to know that you don't consider their best two wins to be worth anything.
I personally would project Louisville as still ahead of UConn at #3 overall. I don't believe, as Charlie apparently does, that losing to ND with 2 starters (presumably) temporarily out injured is going to drop them behind teams that haven't beaten anyone nearly as good as Notre Dame **since the last reveal six days ago**.
But IMO UConn stays a #1 seed (for now, pending tomorrow's outcome) because I don't believe that MSU, Oregon or Stanford did enough **in the past 6 days** to bring their **overall resume** up past UConn's. Remember it was the committee that had UConn as #4 overall on March 4. UConn's resume is light on quality wins but they also have no losses to teams outside the committee's most recent top 2 teams. It wouldn't have shocked me to see UConn on the 2 line six days ago, but again it was the committee who still had them as a 1 seed.
For me Louisville has 3 losses one was a blowout out by ND, they are not a number 1 seed.Mississippi State wins over RPI top 30 teams: SC (x 2), Kentucky, Marquette, A&M, Missouri, and Texas. That's 7.
Louisville wins over RPI top 30 teams: NcState (x 2), UConn, Central Michigan, Kentucky, Syracuse, Florida State, and Arizona State. That's 8.
The big win Louisville has is over UConn, otherwise our win total against top 30 teams is identical. Whether or not we deserve #1 or #2 I dunno. Maybe committee thinks 1 less overall loss (30-2 vs 29-3) overcomes 1 less win over an RPI top 30 team. But you can also argue that Louisville winning over UConn essentially jumps you up one seed regardless of what else you do with the rest of your opponents.
I'm a Mississippi State fan, so obviously I'll come to the support of my team, but I get the arguments for Louisville. Again this is a borderline case, so I have no strong position on this either way.
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I watched the replay, Vic and Mike shook hands, spoke and then continued down line, no difference than any other game. Guess we see what we want to see!Real classy by Vic. Leaving his starters in when they're up by 20 with less than 2 minutes just so they can hit 100 and run the lead up to 30.
You see that Neighbors (one of the most affable coaches around) wanted nothing to do with the handshake? That's why.
Thanks for those links.
The Greensboro regional will be pretty low in fan attendance if Baylor and Iowa are sent there as the top two seeds (and they end up in the regional final). NC State there as a #3 seed helps a bit, but placing South Carolina there, too, would guarantee a better fan turnout.
The other 3 regionals will do fine in attendance if Oregon, ND, and UConn go to nearby regional sites.
Shepherd is a beast
I've watched a bit of Iowa this year, they're entertaining. Gustafson is outstanding of course. I also find myself appreciating Doyle and Stewart, nice complimentary players.
Iowa pulling away, up 15 w/ about 6 minutes left. Gustafson has 43 points and counting.
I was also cautioned as to my characterization of Ms Ogunbowale as anything other than lovely! So I get it!I was banned for calling them something else. So yes, facetious it is!
Hard to beat someone when your entire frontcourt fouls out. I knew when Stephanie Jones got a foul 30 seconds into the game it was going to be a long night. Maryland bigs had 11 fouls in the first half.Maryland had one job.... and they could have presumably have a 4.5 hour drive to their old stomping grounds here in Greensboro... and sent Iowa presumable to Chicago.... about a 4.5 hour drive from their campus. But they failed at that job
Hard to beat someone when your entire frontcourt fouls out. I knew when Stephanie Jones got a foul 30 seconds into the game it was going to be a long night. Maryland bigs had 11 fouls in the first half.
For me Louisville has 3 losses one was a blowout out by ND, they are not a number 1 seed.
I watched the replay, Vic and Mike shook hands, spoke and then continued down line, no difference than any other game. Guess we see what we want to see!
Some of that must fall on the players though.Hard to beat someone when your entire frontcourt fouls out. I knew when Stephanie Jones got a foul 30 seconds into the game it was going to be a long night. Maryland bigs had 11 fouls in the first half.
The telling story was Mikesell and Lewis didn't commit any fouls. That was because they played poor defense. There were several times when Iowa lobbed a pass over a defenders head and Gustufson caught it in front of the basket. Where was the help defense in those instances? Someone should have rotated over and deflect those passes at a minimum. Also Fraser had three fouls for a grand total of 18 fouls by our bigs. And that doesn't include Charles three fouls guarding Gustafson late in the first half because there were no other players to guard her.Some of that must fall on the players though.
Owens had 5 fouls in 6 mins of play.
Austin had 5 fouls in 14 mins of play.
Jones had 5 fouls in 10 mins of play.
Sounds like the MD players weren't learning anything or Gustafson is just that BEAST!
And of course that was predicated on Louisville winning the ACC Tournament. If ND had lost to Louisville, your "I had ND going to Chicago..." would not have been true, they would be in Portland or somewhere else by the Committee, the only bracket that matters.Charlie has had Louisville pegged for Chicago, not Notre Dame.
YEP...@Centerstream, Charlie posted a NEW Bracketology last night at 12:30AM with the new placements.And of course that was predicated on Louisville winning the ACC Tournament. If ND had lost to Louisville, your "I had ND going to Chicago..." would not have been true, they would be in Portland or somewhere else by the Committee, the only bracket that matters.
Arike and Mabrey have mastered getting away with the forearm push off when they dribble
Thanks for the suggestion. Since the P12 network is done with women's bball now that the conference is done, however, I may not need to login until next year.If you have it at all on your cable TV package, you can probably watch Pac-12 net on your computer in hi-def by logging in with your TV provider login. Of course your internet connection to the Pac-12 net's servers has to be good for that to work well.
Based on yesterday’s gaAmes, Oregon is lucky to stay in the top 8 teams. Maybe it was an off day, but I didn’t see anything to warrant all of their hype.
Do Maryland fans travel well?Maryland had one job.... and they could have presumably have a 4.5 hour drive to their old stomping grounds here in Greensboro... and sent Iowa presumable to Chicago.... about a 4.5 hour drive from their campus. But they failed at that job