2011 NCAAW Sweet 16

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

You mean Ohio St?

Yeah, it was OSU. I fixed it.

Thanks BNR (aka - Mr Wrong Team Picker on Fellow Poster Guy (MWTPFPG))

[Judtech]

Looks Like I was a little off on the ND call!

[River Ref]

You gotta love Pat Summits half time inspirational pep talk. "Sick to my stomach" and her traditional stare downs. Most would wilt if she was in there face.

[Nevadaref]

As expected by many, Gonzaga rides the home town advantage to a third tourney win. When will NCAAW reach the level at which it can prevent this injustice?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

As expected by many, Gonzaga rides the home town advantage to a third tourney win. When will NCAAW reach the level at which it can prevent this injustice?

Duke and UNC have done it for years: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Raleigh.

All defacto home games.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Duke and UNC have done it for years: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Raleigh.

All defacto home games.

But typically earned by virtue of having the higher seed. I don't think Nevada would have been as upset if the Zags were the higher seed in this game.

[grunewar]

Georgetown played UConn very, very well, but could only manage ~ 32 minutes of excellent ball. Good ball game.

I think I even saw Geno sweat. No, really!

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

As expected by many, Gonzaga rides the home town advantage to a third tourney win. When will NCAAW reach the level at which it can prevent this injustice?

Injustice??

Seriously?

You honestly believe that this rises to the level of an injustice?

Wow...like I stated before, the NCAA will site these games where they KNOW they can draw a good crowd. Spokane has been good them before and is doing so again. Place has sold out (or close to it) for all of the games.

If you are wondering why, then you have never been to Spokane before. There ain't much else to do there.

[jbduke]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Injustice??

Seriously?

You honestly believe that this rises to the level of an injustice?

Wow...like I stated before, the NCAA will site these games where they KNOW they can draw a good crowd. Spokane has been good them before and is doing so again. Place has sold out (or close to it) for all of the games.

If you are wondering why, then you have never been to Spokane before. There ain't much else to do there.

Nevada didn't write that he couldn't understand why this happened, he wrote that the circumstance was unjust. And I completely agree with him. Gonzaga got to play home games at a regional. And not just a de facto home game or games, a la Baylor's men at the 2010 South Regional in Houston. No, we're talking the actual home court. If you're Louisville, you have to wonder why they didn't just drop the pretense and let Gonzaga wear the whites.

On the men's side, this is strictly prohibited. Seeding and bracketing would be turned upside down before this were allowed to happen. But on the women's side it's allowed, for purely market reasons.

All of which brings us back to Nevada's original question: when will the women's game get to the point at which this doesn't happen? My guess is that it won't ever happen. The women's basketball committee may be making the right decision in the short run to allow situations like the above to continue to happen, but in the long run what the sport needs is to be taken seriously by a broader audience. And allowing situations like the one above doesn't help.

[Raymond]

I tried watching some of ND/Tenn but Dayton has absolutely the worst camera positions. Probably why I never watch the play-in games.

[Judtech]

Nikki Caldwell, how YOU doin

[Rich]

This is almost unwatchable.