#7 Washington St vs #2 Arizona - 3/04/21

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Pac-12 Conference Tournament - Quarterfinals
Las Vegas, LV - 8:00 PM ET
TV: Pac-12 Network (Krista Blunk, Mary Murphy)

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[nwhoopfan]

The stars Aari and Charlisse are both ice cold, but the rest of UA has been quite a bit better than the rest of WSU. 13-5 thru Q1. Cougs have 11 TOs already.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Bizarre stat--all 3 P12 tourney games have featured 1 of the teams scoring only 5 points in the opening quarter. OSU battled back to win, USC not so much...

 

[nwhoopfan]

This is a suckfest. Terrible basketball. Arizona jumped out to a lead and now decided to quit scoring, but WSU hasn't started scoring yet. 21-7 about 4 minutes into Q2.

 

[nwhoopfan]

WSU has 16 TOs and is shooting 26%. Arizona should be up by about 30.

 

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Not sure WSU can make up this kind of deficit even though it’s still early.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Matuga w/ a massive shoulder to the defender's midsection to clear space, no call. Instead they get the defender. Ridiculous. WSU creeping back in this. I had a feeling Arizona was gonna regret not burying them early when they had a chance.

 

[nwhoopfan]

WSU is nearly at Arizona St. level of fouling constantly and not getting called for anything. Why do the most physical teams always get away with everything?

 

[nwhoopfan]

WSU mauling the ball handler, mauling cutters, mauling everybody...foul on Arizona on a pick.

 

[nwhoopfan]

29-21 at the half. WSU has 20...yes, 20...turnovers. How the hell is this a single digit margin? Arizona is absolutely squandering this.

 

[LETTERL]

29-21 at the half. WSU has 20...yes, 20...turnovers. How the hell is this a single digit margin? Arizona is absolutely squandering this.

In a half? Wow! No wonder they were stuck in single-digit points for so long. That's lots of missed opportunities to even attempt a shot.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona has turned those 20 TOs into only 19 points, that's pretty bad.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona has to start grabbing some defensive boards. That's what's allowing WSU to hang around.

 

[nwhoopfan]

A whopping 2 points have been scored 3 1/2 minutes into Q3. WSU just makes games so ugly and I really don't like teams that play that way. That's why I refuse to root for them.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Okay, I can't watch anymore. So so ugly. Again, some call it good defense, I call it inept offense and unwatchable.

 

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36-24 AZ at the third media break

Baptiste with 15 pts

 

[nwhoopfan]

WSU had TWO 5 point quarters in one game?! Wow!

60-42 UA w/ about a minute left. Another poor shooting game for Aari but Baptiste stepped up. Even worse shooting game for Charlisse (2-17). I think she's hit the wall at the end of the season. I'm fine w/ her getting Pac 12 FOY, but I think there are several Fr. who are better players.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think Charlisse is 5-33 in the 2 games in Vegas. Next year I think they've gotta expand on the strategy of letting her shoot as much as she wants. She's way too inefficient to justify it.

 

[nwhoopfan]

McDonald did have 9 assists, offsets the poor shooting a little bit.