03-11-2019, 03:37 PM
(03-11-2019, 12:08 AM)M T Wrote: I'm not sure we want to be in Portland. We had trouble with Gonzaga, which I bet will wind up in Portland. The NCAA is already ignoring their #13 RPI and not putting them in the top 16.
The Zags may not be quite the team they have been all season come tournament time. Two of their best players were injured in the game today vs. St. Mary's (which Gonzaga won in 2OT).
Quote:The win came at a cost as the Zags lost two players to leg injuries. Laura Stockton went down early in the third quarter and Jill Townsend in the second overtime. Stockton was hurt underneath the basket and the Gonzaga training staff came out to comfort her and help her off the court to the locker room a few minutes later. She was putting no weight on the injured leg. Her father, Hall of Famer John Stockton and his wife Nada, went to the back minutes later to be with their daughter. The senior guard came back out with 4:27 left in the fourth quarter to support her team on crutches with a brobdingnagian black brace on her left leg.
Townsend's left leg buckled as she tried to help on defense early in the second overtime. She was down on the court for a few minutes before they carried her off the court to the locker room with an air cast on the injury.
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000