Major upset in women's tourney

[love2refbball]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Were there any upsets Monday?

Actually there were - #7 Rutgers beat #2 Auburn.
The Gonzaga(12)/Pitt (4) game was very good and competitive and so was the Ohio St.(3)/Miss. St. (11) game even though the higher seeds moved on.
I enjoy women's basketball, I work on the women's side and being a girl myself, I have more interest than most here, but I do agree that usually there are not many upsets and even during the regular season there is a HUGE disparity between the #1 team in the country and the #10. That being said, this years tournament has been fun to watch with many more close games and even some upsets.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by love2refbball

Actually there were - #7 Rutgers beat #2 Auburn.
The Gonzaga(12)/Pitt (4) game was very good and competitive and so was the Ohio St.(3)/Miss. St. (11) game even though the higher seeds moved on.
I enjoy women's basketball, I work on the women's side and being a girl myself, I have more interest than most here, but I do agree that usually there are not many upsets and even during the regular season there is a HUGE disparity between the #1 team in the country and the #10. That being said, this years tournament has been fun to watch with many more close games and even some upsets.

I was asking facetiously. I was forced to watch NCAA-W last night as I worked out on the eliptical. North Carolina and Florida State were also upset.

[love2refbball]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I was asking facetiously. I was forced to watch NCAA-W last night as I worked out on the eliptical. North Carolina and Florida State were also upset.

I figured you were, but maybe someone really wanted to know...

[grunewar]

And, down goes Duke (1) and down goes Auburn (2) ........

[Nevadaref]

I don't find it surprising that the only #1 and #2 teams to lose did so on their opponent's home courts.

"PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Rutgers used its home-court advantage to run second-seeded Auburn right out of the NCAA tournament."

"Duke insisted it wasn't unfair, as a top-seeded team, to play on Michigan State's home court."

Well, that's the public statement. They pretty much have to say that. However, anyone with any brains at all has to admit that it is simply wrong for the lower-seed to be playing on its home court.

The reality is that until the women's side can generate enough fan support and thus money at a neutral site in the early rounds, they will continue to use home sites of teams playing in the tournament and, unlike on the men's side, will continue to allow the host teams to play there.

I believe that it is grossly unfair.

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I was asking facetiously. I was forced to watch NCAA-W last night as I worked out on the eliptical. North Carolina and Florida State were also upset.

What the Wizards weren't on? Or, not interested in the WBC?
PS - the women of Austin Peay went down to defeat also although it wasn't an upset.

[mbyron]

"The women of Austin Peay..."

Reminds me of a prim and proper lady I worked with in my youth, who would do the following cheer (and reduce herself to giggles):

"We're the girls of Norfolk U.,
We don't smoke and we don't chew!
Norfolk U.!
Norfolk U.!"

The women's tournament follows the same format as the volleyball tournament. The first two rounds are played at pre-determined home campuses, which are determined before teams are even chosen for the tournament. Some of these end up truly being neutral sites, while some, the pre-determined host school ends up playing at home (economics driving this). An example of a pre-determined site that the host school didn't even make the tournament: Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. There are probably a couple of others, but without looking at the brackets, I couldn't tell you what they are. The only reason I know about the TTU situation is because I've been keeping my eyes on South Dakota State (have some friends in Sioux Falls who were jumping for joy about them) and they were the only non-Texas school in the Lubbock group, and a mention was made that hopefully the Tech supporters who had tickets would get behind SDSU.

[mick]

...Also carrying Jewel's banner.

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