[treefan]

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

add that USF (south florida) hung very well vs. UConn, at UConn. Jan. and Feb. are like August dog days in baseball. It's a long season and teams often hit the wall around this time and don't play as sharp. MD is a helter skelter team, who I expect to see in Fresno regional.

I'll say UConn by 7 over Dook.

[treefan]

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

add that USF (south florida) hung very well vs. UConn, at UConn. Jan. and Feb. are like August dog days in baseball. It's a long season and teams often hit the wall around this time and don't play as sharp. MD is a helter skelter team, who I expect to see in Fresno regional.

I'll say UConn by 7 over Dook.