02-27-2016, 03:01 PM
It was a topsy turvy game for sure, with Bird hitting maybe two or three layups and a bunch of long shots. If a team takes shots confidently and makes them, any zone is going to be in trouble. Super defensive effort by everyone. Seemed like we were less concerned with doubling Hamblin than past games, preferring to stick on their guards, especially Wiesner, who went off in the 4th quarter when we lost up at OSU. We did double her but not at the expense of letting OSU's shooters get free.Â
P-12 tournament will be interesting. Probably we would play UW, a team that can go off but is not deep and will have played the day before. I think if we win that game and get into the P-12 semis or better, we are in great shape to host unless wackiness happens in other conference tournaments and teams in our range of RPI and ranking do very well. Best of course is to keep winning, notch another two or three more. If we win the P-12 tournament, we might be a 3 seed. I do worry the committee will not want to give 4 P-12 teams top 4 seeds, just because in the past the conference as a whole has not done well in the NCAAs except for us and Cal's one miracle F4.
P-12 tournament will be interesting. Probably we would play UW, a team that can go off but is not deep and will have played the day before. I think if we win that game and get into the P-12 semis or better, we are in great shape to host unless wackiness happens in other conference tournaments and teams in our range of RPI and ranking do very well. Best of course is to keep winning, notch another two or three more. If we win the P-12 tournament, we might be a 3 seed. I do worry the committee will not want to give 4 P-12 teams top 4 seeds, just because in the past the conference as a whole has not done well in the NCAAs except for us and Cal's one miracle F4.