02-03-2020, 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2020, 07:29 PM by Viking_Guy.)
Oregon ends up beating UConn 74-56, largest ever loss for the Huskies at Gampel Pavilion. They also play some home games at the XL Center in downtown Hartford, where they lost to Baylor by 16 earlier this season.
And what is the ESPN post game about? How can UConn get back to being a #1 seed? And funny how no one ever used the words "blown out" or never really competitive (the closest the game got after the first quarter was 6 points. I don't think it ever got below double digits after halftime, and if it did, it was only to 8 or 9.) Crystal Dangerfield played well, but the rest of the Huskies didn't ever get going against a Ducks 3-2 zone with Sabally at the top.
Right now, the only indication that the game happened on ESPN's home page is a photo of Geno with a Kobe in memoriam shirt on, and a small score ticker. With no change in the headline to reflect the outcome. Sheesh.
More to the point, UConn has one game left this season against a better than good team - at South Carolina next Monday. If they don't win that, they will have exactly one win against team in the RPI top-20, for as bad as the RPI is - at #20 Depaul. Hell, they'll have only played 4 games against the top-20 all season long, in spite of their extolled out-of-conference scheduling.
At this point, I think they should be worried about dropping to a #3 seed, not climbing to a #1. Right now, they're #8 in the RPI themselves, which makes the NCAA's "pre-release" seeding of them as the #5 overall a pretty large joke. And you can bet they'll be sent to Fort Wayne, Indiana, even if they are a lower ranked 3 seed, instead of to one of the three dominant hosts sites (Portland for Oregon, Dallas for Baylor, and Greenville for South Carolina,)
The other problem with that pre-release? Stanford getting shipped off to Dallas lined up against Baylor, when by the NCAAs seeding they should be in Fort Wayne (if travel isn't an issue) or Portland (if it is.)
VG
And what is the ESPN post game about? How can UConn get back to being a #1 seed? And funny how no one ever used the words "blown out" or never really competitive (the closest the game got after the first quarter was 6 points. I don't think it ever got below double digits after halftime, and if it did, it was only to 8 or 9.) Crystal Dangerfield played well, but the rest of the Huskies didn't ever get going against a Ducks 3-2 zone with Sabally at the top.
Right now, the only indication that the game happened on ESPN's home page is a photo of Geno with a Kobe in memoriam shirt on, and a small score ticker. With no change in the headline to reflect the outcome. Sheesh.
More to the point, UConn has one game left this season against a better than good team - at South Carolina next Monday. If they don't win that, they will have exactly one win against team in the RPI top-20, for as bad as the RPI is - at #20 Depaul. Hell, they'll have only played 4 games against the top-20 all season long, in spite of their extolled out-of-conference scheduling.
At this point, I think they should be worried about dropping to a #3 seed, not climbing to a #1. Right now, they're #8 in the RPI themselves, which makes the NCAA's "pre-release" seeding of them as the #5 overall a pretty large joke. And you can bet they'll be sent to Fort Wayne, Indiana, even if they are a lower ranked 3 seed, instead of to one of the three dominant hosts sites (Portland for Oregon, Dallas for Baylor, and Greenville for South Carolina,)
The other problem with that pre-release? Stanford getting shipped off to Dallas lined up against Baylor, when by the NCAAs seeding they should be in Fort Wayne (if travel isn't an issue) or Portland (if it is.)
VG