Women's Basketball NCAA Thread

[TU_BLA]

The NCAA and ESPN should just pay each team on UCONN's side of the bracket a flat fee for making the tournament, put UCONN through to the final four and forego playing the games and save production costs and travel fees of actually moving all the teams to sites.

With 5 minutes left in the 2nd quarter UCONN was up 3. My wife asked me what was wrong with UCONN. I then asked her if she wanted to bet me that UCONN wouldn't be up by 20 at half. Over the last 5 minutes of the half UCONN expanded the lead to 21 pts. With 9 left in the game UCONN is up 74-38. On one defensive possession, Breanna Stewart had 3 blocked shots and forced a shot clock violation essentially by herself. This team is a freaking machine.

 

[TU_BLA]

And go USF. Down a pt to UCLA with 7 to go at Pauley Pavillion.

 

[TU_BLA]

So Dakota State up 6 with 3.5 to go over Stanford (SDSU is a 12 seed). Rare for double digit or even lower seeded teams to win any games let alone be competitive on the women's side.

 

[TU_BLA]

Notre Dame loses. South Carolina loses. Hand UCONN the trophy now and donate the $ saved by not playing out a foregone conclusion to save our men's golf program for another year

 

[chito_and_leon]

Holy cow, UCONN was up 84-20 after 3 quarters! Before settling for a 98-38 win.

 

[TU_BLA]

Holy cow, UCONN was up 84-20 after 3 quarters! Before settling for a 98-38 win.

This team is a machine. They have the best 2 players in college basketball an under rated PG and possible the best FR in the country.

 

[TU_BLA]

UCONN goes from a 5 pt lead to a 17 pt lead in a matter of minutes over 2-seed Texas. This team may be the best of all time in women's basketball.

 

[TU_BLA]

UCONN is leading the national championship game by 31...without one of their starters who broke her foot on Sunday. This women's basketball season was one that didn't need to be played.

 

[Weatherdemon]

UCONN is leading the national championship game by 31...without one of their starters who broke her foot on Sunday. This women's basketball season was one that didn't need to be played.

That team was just ridiculously good.

 

[TU_BLA]

That team was just ridiculously good.

They're machine like. ESPN showed the projected 1st 5 picks in the WNBA draft and Jefferson, Stewart, and Tuck were 3 of those picks. I guess Tuck could have a year left with a medical RS but she has finished her degree. Stewart by herself is one of the best players I've ever seen between her jump shooting, passing, and ability to defend ANY position on the floor. Not many times do you see a 6'4" post defender switch off on a 5'7" point guard and be able to stay in front of her. I have followed UCONN's progression from Geno's early days and saw them in person this year when they came to Tulsa. Watching them in person gives you a better idea of how big, fast, and athletic that team is compared to so-so AAC teams. When they run top 10 teams off the court like the did to Texas, Notre Dame, and South Carolina this year you take notice that no one can match them. Samuellson is the same type of player as Stewart, tall, athletic, play inside and outside. And they're getting the nations best PG in next year.

In watching them against TU (and I've said this before), you realize that Geno Auriemma does not coach UCONN to beat the team they are playing. He coaches them to do everything perfect. He coaches them to pay attention to the details on both ends of the court. During the TU game, UCONN was up 25+ with about 3 minutes left in the 2nd quarter. One of his bench players was in and got lazy on a pass which got picked off and TU broke the other way for an easy lay-up. Most coaches...no big deal, you're still up big against a team that is severely out-manned. Auriemma has a timeout called, and chews the player out and then takes her aside and coaches her on what she needs to do to make the right play (I'm guessing through the various hand gestures I observed). It's a different approach to coaching as most will game plan according to opponent and try to do some things to confuse. UCONN doesn't do anything spectacular, they just are good at every facet of the game on both ends.

 

[aTUfan_rivals]

I saw a pre-tournament espn show where they discounted uconn because the conference was "weak".

By the way uconn plowed through the tournament, maybe the aac is not that weak

 

[TU_BLA]

I saw a pre-tournament espn show where they discounted uconn because the conference was "weak".

By the way uconn plowed through the tournament, maybe the aac is not that weak

USF also made the 2nd rd as a 6 seed and pushed UCLA to the wire. Temple was also very good this year. How anyone discounts UCONN because of their conference affiliation is crazy. UCONN routinely plays the hardest non-conference schedule in the country. They went to South Carolina, pretty much the consensus #2 team all year and pretty much destroyed them. They pummeled Notre Dame. They beat a #5 seed in the Sweet Sixteen BY 60 POINTS! This was quite possibly the best team in the history of basketball relative to their competition.