ksu ladycats

[pissclams]

oh good, we get to play west virginia again.

[MakeItRain]

I feel like a schmuck for buying semifinal and final tickets already. We'll get past BYU/UCF easily. West Virginia is obviously going to be a challenge but we can beat them, especially when they're away from Morgantown.

Without Ayoka there to get easy baskets when we need them, this team exclusively relies on an ability to hit the three point shot. We have to get better at getting to the rim when it isn't a live ball turnover.

[Fyodor]

I feel like a schmuck for buying semifinal and final tickets already. We'll get past BYU/UCF easily. West Virginia is obviously going to be a challenge but we can beat them, especially when they're away from Morgantown.

Without Ayoka there to get easy baskets when we need them, this team exclusively relies on an ability to hit the three point shot. We have to get better at getting to the rim when it isn't a live ball turnover.

So, we are not going to have Lee back at any time?  If so we are not going to do much in the post season, again.

[pissclams]

we tried to iso serena on sunday but isu wasn’t having it so we ran the walker black hole and sanchez yeeting 3’s from downtown offense and surprisingly it didn’t yield positive results

neither one of them have yet to figure out why other teams leave them open

i feel like a combo of lester and taylor on the blocks should have played with rotations on the perimeter but what the eff ever

[MakeItRain]

I feel like a schmuck for buying semifinal and final tickets already. We'll get past BYU/UCF easily. West Virginia is obviously going to be a challenge but we can beat them, especially when they're away from Morgantown.

Without Ayoka there to get easy baskets when we need them, this team exclusively relies on an ability to hit the three point shot. We have to get better at getting to the rim when it isn't a live ball turnover.

So, we are not going to have Lee back at any time?  If so we are not going to do much in the post season, again.

She'll be back for the NCAA tournament.

[MakeItRain]

we tried to iso serena on sunday but isu wasn’t having it so we ran the walker black hole and sanchez yeeting 3’s from downtown offense and surprisingly it didn’t yield positive results

neither one of them have yet to figure out why other teams leave them open

i feel like a combo of lester and taylor on the blocks should have played with rotations on the perimeter but what the eff ever

Yeah, they played Serena like we played Crooks. Poindexter was able to shoot the ball, no one else did including Sides and Glenn. Mittie absolutely lost his crap at Sanchez after she missed terrible jumpers on three straight trips in the third quarter.

I get what you're saying with trying something different with Taylor and Lester at the same time but I don't think either of them are good enough offensively to make that work and defensively it would have been a disaster as Iowa State plays a 4 out 1 in and the thought of one of them guarding the three point line, or both of them getting put in a PNR is frightening.

[pissclams]

anyone going to the friday game?

we will beat wvu in kc.

[ChiComCat]

anyone going to the friday game?

we will beat wvu in kc.

I got the day off.  It's tempting me

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Ladycats win 80-65 --> on to the quarterfinals in the Phillips.

[cfbandyman]

Good win, tomorrow will be telling

[meow meow]

does mittie have what it takes to not completely suck crap and actually do something in a tournament?  doesn't seem likely

[Kid In the Hall]

does mittie have what it takes to not completely suck crap and actually do something in a tournament?  doesn't seem likely

Well, if his 30 year career as a DI head coach who has never advanced past the second round of the NCAA Torunament is any indication... no.

[pissclams]

i ran into the team bus on the way into the arena

[cfbandyman]

does mittie have what it takes to not completely suck crap and actually do something in a tournament?  doesn't seem likely

Well, if his 30 year career as a DI head coach who has never advanced past the second round of the NCAA Torunament is any indication... no.

The opportunity to the greatest turnaround in NCAA tourny history is here and not to be taken lightly

[Kid In the Hall]

Up 44-36 at the half...

Points off TOs: KSU 19, WVU 4.

Didn't see that coming.

[Dugout DickStone]

rumors from sprint that clams is completely in the lady 'neers heads

[meow meow]

coaching masterclass by mittie down the stretch

[Kid In the Hall]

Walker 3-for-12

Rest of the team 24-for-38

We have to sit Walker (and her good defense) on the bench for most of the 4th quarter because she can't stop taking shots that the opponent wants her to take.

33 points in the first quarter... 36 the rest of the game.

Say what you will - we make things interesting.

[waks]

That final possession was hard to watch.

[cfbandyman]

sigh

[pissclams]

really really bad coaching today.  some of those lineups were awful.

aside from the coach, I really liked this team.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

So no March Madness in the OOD, now?

[Kid In the Hall]

So no March Madness in the OOD, now?

The only way is if the committee ONLY looks at the NET rating. That's the only measure by which we're a top 16 team. Or, if they factor in Lee's absence (and alleged return) and the fact that we've only lost 1 game in which she's played. That's probably partially why we didn't risk playing her in the Big 12 tourney - that the committee might take that into account. If she went down in 5 minutes against WVU and/or UCF, we don't have that argument any more. 

If you look at anything else - primarily our record against Q1 teams (now 2-6), there is zero case that we deserve a top 4 seed. As of today, the only other teams in the top 25 of the NET with 2 Q1 wins or fewer were West Virginia (2 as of today) and Baylor. No other team in the top 16 (as of yesterday) has fewer than 6 Q1 wins.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

So no March Madness in the OOD, now?

The only way is if the committee ONLY looks at the NET rating. That's the only measure by which we're a top 16 team. Or, if they factor in Lee's absence (and alleged return) and the fact that we've only lost 1 game in which she's played. That's probably partially why we didn't risk playing her in the Big 12 tourney - that the committee might take that into account. If she went down in 5 minutes against WVU and/or UCF, we don't have that argument any more. 

If you look at anything else - primarily our record against Q1 teams (now 2-6), there is zero case that we deserve a top 4 seed. As of today, the only other teams in the top 25 of the NET with 2 Q1 wins or fewer were West Virginia (2 as of today) and Baylor. No other team in the top 16 (as of yesterday) has fewer than 6 Q1 wins.

[MakeItRain]

It's going to be close, like it was last year. Ole Miss, K-State, Baylor, and Ohio State will be teams 14, 15, 16, and 17, what order, we'll see.