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glv98 said:
In front of several dozen of their nearest and dearest. The attendance for WBB continues to plummet, and that includes the LVs. We still draw far more than other schools, but attendance has been noticably down so far this season.
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The sad part is this is in Dallas and barely any Baylor fans are there.

Idk know what the numbers were when Kim used to be at Baylor but I noticed LSU outdrew Baylor last year and a lot of the games I've seen lately have seen from Baylor have been mostly empty. For a program that has some of the richest basketball history of the last 15 years, its disappointing to be honest.

The Iowa schools, Iowa and Iowa St both have lots of fan support from what I have seen.
 
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glv98 said:
In front of several dozen of their nearest and dearest. The attendance for WBB continues to plummet, and that includes the LVs. We still draw far more than other schools, but attendance has been noticably down so far this season.
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Attendance in always better after the holidays for both college men's and women's basketball. Football is still going on and people are busy. I think women's basketball attendance nationally was up last year, as was the tv ratings, so there is no reason to expect it to plummet this year.
 
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Morris has been awful this year. She really has been killing LSU lately missing just wide open shots. Doesn't look like the same kid I saw last year
 
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Darth_Vol said:
Notre Dame wins at Virginia Tech to give them their first loss. Ivey sure looks like a great hire...
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VTech as you know barely beat UT who as you know again is 7 and 6. And wasn't that Key last game or close to? Did RJ even play(I honestly don't know that answer) UT kept it close at Stanford and lost by 3 to Vtech. That shows me UT is a top 15 squad. What other teams outside the top 15 could do the same....
 
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volnationnj said:
As much as I don't want to, I have to give LSU credit for completely dismantling a mediocre Oregon St squad, 87-55.
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Mulkey’s strategy works for her. Playing cupcakes early helps her teams gain confidence and build chemistry. LSU beat us at TBA last year and will be tough again when we play them Jan. 30 in Baton Rouge.
 
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VolBalls33 said:
VTech as you know barely beat UT who as you know again is 7 and 6. And wasn't that Key last game or close to? Did RJ even play(I honestly don't know that answer) UT kept it close at Stanford and lost by 3 to Vtech. That shows me UT is a top 15 squad. What other teams outside the top 15 could do the same....
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Not sure how that math works. Tennessee lost to them at home. ND won by double figures on the road...
 
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VolBalls33 said:
VTech as you know barely beat UT who as you know again is 7 and 6. And wasn't that Key last game or close to? Did RJ even play(I honestly don't know that answer) UT kept it close at Stanford and lost by 3 to Vtech. That shows me UT is a top 15 squad. What other teams outside the top 15 could do the same....
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I think that is a fair analysis. Despite a 7-6 record, If you look at the strength of the schedule, I would put them somewhere in the 15-20 ranking. They've lost to 5 teams currently ranked in the top 10 !! and the other ranked #23.
The upcoming conference games
that will decide their season are the unranked, decent teams in the SEC.
Florida (home & road)
Alabama (home)
Mississippi St (home & road)
Georgia (home)
Missouri (road)
Auburn (home)
Ole Miss (home)
They have very little margin of error in these games.
There are still 4 games left with currently ranked teams that could do a lot to improve their profile, if they could win a couple.
UConn at home and LSU on the road, come back to back, at the end of January. Arkansas on the road and South Carolina at home in February.
18 games left of which 16 are conference games. If they split the 2 non conference games and go 12-4 in conference, that gives them a 20 win season (20-11).
12-4 would probably be good for 3rd place in the SEC regular season standings. SEC tournament play is an x factor.
It could either improve their NCAA chances or be a detriment to it.
The question is, is a 20-11 record and a 3rd or 4th place finish in the SEC T enough for an NCAA invitation ? Given the SOS, I think yes. There will be about 8 teams from the SEC playing in the NCAAT. The scenario above will certainly put them among those 8.
 
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Dominique Darious , #26 on the 2021 Hoopgurlz rankings, has entered the transfer portal out of UCLA She was in the backcourt with ND Olivia Miles
 
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We are about to find out if Arkansas is for real….playing some highly ranked teams in a tourney coming up this week, playing Oregon and could (likely) run into OSU in second game.
 
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