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VolBall09 said:
idk. I think Arkansas is having a bunch of players not getting along. They have had trouble with that before. Ramirez was part of the issue. Mid season transfer of Marquesha Davis and then those two missing raises some questions.

Creighton is going to drop 45 on them in the first half. Playing really uninspired right now. Daniels picked up two fouls early so that hurt them. 9 turnovers in the first half which is as many they usually have in a game.
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Not surprised about Davis. She was pushed further down the rotation, and there were better options that Neighbors was turning to. Surprised to hear your take on Ramirez. It seems that she has been a good fit for them the last few years and a big part of their gameplan.

As far as the missing players, I did see this in a writeup:

"Arkansas has won four in a row, but have dealt with some injuries recently. Post players Erynn Barnum, the team's leading rebounder, and 6-3 freshman Emrie Ellis have missed the last three games, while Amber Ramirez missed Saturday."
 
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Amb3096 said:
Not surprised about Davis. She was pushed further down the rotation, and there were better options that Neighbors was turning to. Surprised to hear your take on Ramirez. It seems that she has been a good fit for them the last few years and a big part of their gameplan.

As far as the missing players, I did see this in a writeup:

"Arkansas has won four in a row, but have dealt with some injuries recently. Post players Erynn Barnum, the team's leading rebounder, and 6-3 freshman Emrie Ellis have missed the last three games, while Amber Ramirez missed Saturday."
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Ramirez, Dungee and another player had issues two years ago. Ramirez has a history of not getting along with teammates.

Arkansas has had player issues since Neighbors arrived. Doesn’t seem to run a very tight ship or maybe it’s just the kind of players he likes. They have a lot of internal drama it seems.

Ramirez hasn’t been producing much for them this season anyhow.

Barnum is a loss, they need her back before SEC play or they’re in hot water. She pushes their offense and rebounds. Plays good defense as well.

Ellis is their most physical player and best interior defender. Even at 6’1”.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Good win for Ole Miss 61-53 winner over USF. Will be interesting to see how the box score looks.

Arkansas gets Ole Miss next. That's a game I'd like to watch!
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Really thought USF would win that game. Wish I could have watched. Still don’t think Ole Miss is very good. USF has been up and down some. Just played yesterday as well?
 
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LadyVols_WBK said:
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The majority of those games look like non conference games.

BTW, Duke's forfeit win over Miami will count as a win in the conference standings but it's not going to count towards their overall record. I'm guess the conferences didn't want to have those uneven conference records like they did last season.
 
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travis929 said:
I think we're about to see a TON more cancellations or the entire NCAA season go on pause after players go home for the holidays and return to campus. Omicron is just so contagious; I don't see how the season is going to continue.
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We very well could see mass cancellations. Hope not but there will be a loss of control as they go home.
 
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travis929 said:
I think we're about to see a TON more cancellations or the entire NCAA season go on pause after players go home for the holidays and return to campus. Omicron is just so contagious; I don't see how the season is going to continue.
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Contagious but not harmful to young people. There must be some rational basis for policy. For example, do we cancel games because someone on one of the teams has a cold? Why not?
 
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youcancallmeAl said:
Contagious but not harmful to young people. There must be some rational basis for policy. For example, do we cancel games because someone on one of the teams has a cold? Why not?
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I agree. Aren't we at critical mass with vaccinations? If the vaccine is controlling symptoms even if transmission occurs, why the continued paranoia? At some point, life has to just go on. We're going on 2 years with this already. We can't hide in a bubble forever.
 
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Amb3096 said:
I agree. Aren't we at critical mass with vaccinations? If the vaccine is controlling symptoms even if transmission occurs, why the continued paranoia? At some point, life has to just go on. We're going on 2 years with this already. We can't hide in a bubble forever.
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The metric that should be followed is hospitalizations rather than infections. If hospitals are starting to overflow with covid patients, take action. If more people are being infected, but without serious symptoms, then let's get on with life.
The United Kingdom could be a guide, as far as what action to take. They saw the Omicron wave hit weeks before us. It should give us a good idea of what direction to take.
 
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volnationnj said:
The metric that should be followed is hospitalizations rather than infections. If hospitals are starting to overflow with covid patients, take action. If more people are being infected, but without serious symptoms, then let's get on with life.
The United Kingdom could be a guide, as far as what action to take. They saw the Omicron wave hit weeks before us. It should give us a good idea of what direction to take.
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That's what I implied with my reference to severity of symptoms. If they are mostly asymptomatic, there's no need for hospitalization.

I have less trust in our politicians if they're just jerking around with our lives for political posturing.
 
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volnationnj said:
The metric that should be followed is hospitalizations rather than infections. If hospitals are starting to overflow with covid patients, take action. If more people are being infected, but without serious symptoms, then let's get on with life.
The United Kingdom could be a guide, as far as what action to take. They saw the Omicron wave hit weeks before us. It should give us a good idea of what direction to take.
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I mostly agree, but no one wants to talk about long COVID (see Asia Durr for a basketball-specific example), which typically follows a very mild COVID case, i.e. no serious symptoms, but leads to months and [still unknown length of time] pain, fatigue, etc., which could be devastating for a student-athlete (or anyone).

I agree about hospitalizations, just think there’s this added layer, too, that makes it really hard to judge what feels safe (for me personally and for the NCAA).
 
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volnationnj said:
I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a temporary halt to college sports after New Years.
Many colleges have already returned to virtual instructions.
It doesn't look good.
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There needs to be one. Stop everything as is for 3 weeks and push the season back 3 weeks. No cancellations just postpone everything. March Madness can be April Madness.
 
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Still salty about the outcome of the game last night. Was really pulling for a Stanford victory.

Truly don’t think SC looks that much better than anyone else. They got a very heavy hand from the officials. Not unsurprising as Dawn is a master of the whine. I’m sure she was working them for all it was worth.

Good on her, but I prefer seeing the players decide the outcome of games.

We lost our match to Stanford and fouls were part of the issues. But never once did I feel like the officiating was unfair. The fouls were called equally and the officials really weren’t very noticeable even though there were a lot of foul calls. Just felt it was a well called game.

There were so many questionable plays in the game last night that were decided by officials. In the final 2 minutes of the game the ball was awarded to SC on about 5 possessions that were really suspect. Two where the ball went off a SC player and wasn’t reviewed then several missed foul calls. Blowing the game dead when Boston flopped (delay of game) was totally insane and have never seen that before.

Lastly, Boston leaning into Belibi and causing a lane violation. I’ve seen that before and have seen the officials handle that very differently. Should have been a made basket and Stanford’s ball out of bounds. You cannot create contact in the line and force someone into the lane.

Just think it’s sad that a #1/#2 matchup was decided in large part by how the game was officiated. SC fans can say it wasn’t, but go check social media. Anyone with a brain is making fun of how obvious the homer officiating was.
 
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