[treefan]

brief report from here in Spokane. First, hats off to UNC, they are very good team and played us tough as I knew they would. One of my reporter friends who is here told me if UNC played like that during the year, they would have easily won the ACC.  

I was actually more worried about UNC than Lville or Zags because of their size, athleticism, and streaky shooting. I\'m pretty sure UNC never went 5-9 from threes in the first half of any game, but of course they dd vs. Cardinal, but our D was very SOFT in the first half. However, the best stat of the game for us is we only had 7 TOs!

The refs were incredibly passive and let a ton go in the paint, no blood no foul. UNC climbed over our backs many times but NO calls. They would get 2nd and 3rd chances with all the fighting under the basket. Brenda Pantoja was lead ref, who also did UConn game at Maples, was pathetic. She was the one who called the ridiculous block on Nneka, and made the call from sideline when baseline ref let it go. It was a total charge because Nneka was set for a day!

Game ball to O sisters! Other good minutes by the bench including Jos and Lindy.  Kayla was steady eddy as usual and came up with some big boards.

Now on to Zags. Their 10,500 fans will be screaming VERY loud (yeah, an 11 seed playing on their own court sucks), but we gotta execute!

I actually like the match-up vs Zags because they have no one who can stop the O sisters or Pedersen in the paint. We beat then in Nov. (in front of 6k fans) with going to Nneka (22 pts). but Chiney only played 11 min. (third game of the yr). We are much more polished now, as Zags are, but we are still better. Card by 10.

[treefan]

brief report from here in Spokane. First, hats off to UNC, they are very good team and played us tough as I knew they would. One of my reporter friends who is here told me if UNC played like that during the year, they would have easily won the ACC.  

I was actually more worried about UNC than Lville or Zags because of their size, athleticism, and streaky shooting. I\'m pretty sure UNC never went 5-9 from threes in the first half of any game, but of course they dd vs. Cardinal, but our D was very SOFT in the first half. However, the best stat of the game for us is we only had 7 TOs!

The refs were incredibly passive and let a ton go in the paint, no blood no foul. UNC climbed over our backs many times but NO calls. They would get 2nd and 3rd chances with all the fighting under the basket. Brenda Pantoja was lead ref, who also did UConn game at Maples, was pathetic. She was the one who called the ridiculous block on Nneka, and made the call from sideline when baseline ref let it go. It was a total charge because Nneka was set for a day!

Game ball to O sisters! Other good minutes by the bench including Jos and Lindy.  Kayla was steady eddy as usual and came up with some big boards.

Now on to Zags. Their 10,500 fans will be screaming VERY loud (yeah, an 11 seed playing on their own court sucks), but we gotta execute!

I actually like the match-up vs Zags because they have no one who can stop the O sisters or Pedersen in the paint. We beat then in Nov. (in front of 6k fans) with going to Nneka (22 pts). but Chiney only played 11 min. (third game of the yr). We are much more polished now, as Zags are, but we are still better. Card by 10.