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Congrats to Stanford!  I thought that we shouldn't have been rated as low as #4, considering what we had returning.  Now maybe the pollsters will pay a bit more attention to us.  I'm eager to see the stats later.  (I don't think Stanford is as good as it needs to be;  there's a lot to be improved.)

To listen to the KZSU announcer, Amber has somewhere north of 100 points and has stuffed Briner's shots.  What I've seen (1.5 games, not counting today's fuzzy video) of her play, it doesn't live up to what the announcer has portrayed her as.  She can be flashy, but seems to forget to play defense some of the time.  To my mind, Toni is still our best guard at both ends, by quite a bit.

Do others think Amber deserves the lion's share of compliments?  Is this a bias of this announcer that we'll have to put up with all season?  Or have I just been seeing nothing but her questionable plays?

A question:  If both Baylor and Stanford win out the rest of the regular season (a BIG IF), what do you think the rankings will be at that point?  Would they put Stanford #1, or ignore this game and put Baylor ahead of an unbeaten team that beat Baylor?  I'd bet they'd put Baylor #1, with the excuse/reason that Baylor played tougher teams after mid-January.  I'm very confident that if the two teams have the same record (say, having a single loss), they'll choose Baylor.

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Congrats to Stanford!  I thought that we shouldn't have been rated as low as #4, considering what we had returning.  Now maybe the pollsters will pay a bit more attention to us.  I'm eager to see the stats later.  (I don't think Stanford is as good as it needs to be;  there's a lot to be improved.)

To listen to the KZSU announcer, Amber has somewhere north of 100 points and has stuffed Briner's shots.  What I've seen (1.5 games, not counting today's fuzzy video) of her play, it doesn't live up to what the announcer has portrayed her as.  She can be flashy, but seems to forget to play defense some of the time.  To my mind, Toni is still our best guard at both ends, by quite a bit.

Do others think Amber deserves the lion's share of compliments?  Is this a bias of this announcer that we'll have to put up with all season?  Or have I just been seeing nothing but her questionable plays?

A question:  If both Baylor and Stanford win out the rest of the regular season (a BIG IF), what do you think the rankings will be at that point?  Would they put Stanford #1, or ignore this game and put Baylor ahead of an unbeaten team that beat Baylor?  I'd bet they'd put Baylor #1, with the excuse/reason that Baylor played tougher teams after mid-January.  I'm very confident that if the two teams have the same record (say, having a single loss), they'll choose Baylor.