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2025 NCAA WBB Tournament non LV games and news

#101
#101
JustaChicken said:
That was crazy. So 16 seed William & Mary lost 7 of their last 8 games in the reg season, then goes on to win 4 straight games & their conference tournament. Their record was 15-18 & they just won their 1st ever NCAA tournament game!
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This is a great argument for why the tourney field should not be expanded.
lvocd said:
The way I see it, her "performances" are for her players, not for anyone else, and they likely don't seem as predictable to young people who aren't yet experienced enough at life to even KNOW it's predictable. To them it's all, "Dayuuum! She's so right! They ARE dissin' us, so we're gonna prove them wrong!" Auriemma is the same with how he always uses reverse psychology -- every season. We who are familiar with him (and Dawn and, really, nearly all coaches) and his annual schtick think, "Surely that can't keep working." But again, every year that schtick is going to be all new to some players, and only a few years to others, not decades of it like we old people see it happening.

Whatever motivates their players is what they should do, IMO.
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We'll have to agree to disagree. I get it works on some of the young kids. But I don't think its helpful in the long run to fill impressionable kids with puffed up grievance as motivation for big events in their lives. Can we see how harmful that is in our culture right now? Every authoritarian billionaire is a victim.
 
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#102
#102
lvocd said:
Before the season started and everyone was making season predictions, I said then that if Connecticut is 100% healthy at tournament time I could see them winning it all. I said that, and then I said, "Ugh."

Well... Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, UGH! I believe that is still true. Draya obviously sees what I see. I hate it, but it is what it is. JuJu won't be enough to keep them out of the FF, and once they get there ... 🤮
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Ha! Ha! Ha! I do hope you're right, but you are way more positive about this than I am given their very pitiful post game. But "ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, UGH".....LMAO!!!! That was just too funny!
 
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#103
#103
lvocd said:
My goodness. I just saw that Stanford lost to Portland in OT in the first round of the WBIT. That makes me sad. I can't imagine Paye being there next season. That will be quite a prime job opening.
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It was a rough season, but that would be brutal to fire her after only one season, especially since she has the #3 recruiting class coming in.
 
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#109
#109
I knew Liberty was battle tested. They didn’t have the athletes to keep up with Tennessee when they faced the LVs in a track meet at Food City Center but matches up perfectly with a team with limited athleticism like Kentucky.
 
#115
#115
I was apparently bad luck for Karo. 😓

Editing to say I posted that immediately after she got two fairly quick fouls and Utah was making a comeback. Striplin ended up having a nice game, and she received lots of compliments from the announcers. 🥹
 
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#118
I gotta think that if you're a bottom 16-seed likely to get your butt kicked in the first round, I'd rather get my butt whipped by the defending national champions in front of a rabid sellout crowd like Tennessee Tech is doing. I mean, it'd be fun to be on the floor with so many future pro players who are coached by a storied coach like Dawn Staley.
 
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#121
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lvocd said:
I gotta think that if you're a bottom 16-seed likely to get your butt kicked in the first round, I'd rather get my butt whipped by the defending national champions in front of a rabid sellout crowd like Tennessee Tech is doing. I mean, it'd be fun to be on the floor with so many future pro players who are coached by a storied coach like Dawn Staley.
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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
 
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#123
#123
Vanderbilt is horrible. A lot of decent teams in the SEC play their best against Tennessee. Kentucky barely beating Liberty at home and Vandy getting beat down by Oregon is a prime example.
I remember something Ruby Whitehorn said about how teams bring it when they see Tennessee and that has stuck with me.
I think the best thing for this LV team is they’ve seen possibly their best and worst basketball, now it’s a matter of which team they are today. This isn’t something new either or specific to Coach Caldwell system, it’s all about team chemistry.
 
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#124
#124
lvocd said:
I was apparently bad luck for Karo. 😓

Editing to say I posted that immediately after she got two fairly quick fouls and Utah was making a comeback. Striplin ended up having a nice game, and she received lots of compliments from the announcers. 🥹
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Always loved Karoline Striplin, wish I’d seen the game. Indiana shot 58% today, with 5 players scoring in double figures, including Karoline. (Also wish I’d chosen them in my bracket.) Next game will be tough. GO INDIANA!
 
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