01-29-2012, 02:42 PM
Just to keep heads up--
This has been a week of utterly mind-boggling upsets in women's b-ball. Just today, you have #9 Ohio State (okay, I know they're almost always overrated, but still...) losing at unranked Minnesota by 11. And you have #18 Georgetown just destroying visiting #12 Rutgers 54-36.
But possibly the biggest upset in years? On Thursday, #7 Maryland gets beaten AT HOME by not only unranked but just plain bad Virginia Tech 75-69. Tech was 6-14 going into the game, and had lost 5 games in a row while failing to break 50 points in any of them. They also shot 38% and still managed to beat the homestanding Terps, who a lot of people were touting as a darkhorse Final 4 team a couple of weeks back.
And tomorrow, you're likely to see one more blowout - I'm not sure Duke can stay with UConn, even at home.
We may not be on the level of Baylor, the Irish or the Huskies (at least not without a healthy Nneka), but no one else is either. Through my admittedly Cardinal colored glasses, I think Stanford should be either the #3 or #4 one-seed (and I won't be convinced about the Irish until they win a tough one on the road or at a neutral court (vs. the Huskies at the end of the season, most likely).
VG
This has been a week of utterly mind-boggling upsets in women's b-ball. Just today, you have #9 Ohio State (okay, I know they're almost always overrated, but still...) losing at unranked Minnesota by 11. And you have #18 Georgetown just destroying visiting #12 Rutgers 54-36.
But possibly the biggest upset in years? On Thursday, #7 Maryland gets beaten AT HOME by not only unranked but just plain bad Virginia Tech 75-69. Tech was 6-14 going into the game, and had lost 5 games in a row while failing to break 50 points in any of them. They also shot 38% and still managed to beat the homestanding Terps, who a lot of people were touting as a darkhorse Final 4 team a couple of weeks back.
And tomorrow, you're likely to see one more blowout - I'm not sure Duke can stay with UConn, even at home.
We may not be on the level of Baylor, the Irish or the Huskies (at least not without a healthy Nneka), but no one else is either. Through my admittedly Cardinal colored glasses, I think Stanford should be either the #3 or #4 one-seed (and I won't be convinced about the Irish until they win a tough one on the road or at a neutral court (vs. the Huskies at the end of the season, most likely).
VG