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Yes, players need to focus one game at a time, but the coaches need to scout the road ahead.  Stanford gets a benefit because they've played MD and TX before, so they've got a head start on preparing for the possible match-ups this coming weekend, and the players already have faced those teams.  LSU/Ohio State will need new preparation beginning later today for the winner of that game.

MT, you must’ve been channeling Tara - from today’s NYTimes: “We never look ahead,” Tara VanDerveer, Stanford’s coach, preaches to her team, “but we have to plan ahead.”

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Yes, players need to focus one game at a time, but the coaches need to scout the road ahead.  Stanford gets a benefit because they've played MD and TX before, so they've got a head start on preparing for the possible match-ups this coming weekend, and the players already have faced those teams.  LSU/Ohio State will need new preparation beginning later today for the winner of that game.

MT, you must’ve been channeling Tara - from today’s NYTimes: “We never look ahead,” Tara VanDerveer, Stanford’s coach, preaches to her team, “but we have to plan ahead.”