02-23-2023, 07:56 PM
Okay, I just finished watching the recording of the game without knowing the outcome. I'm exhausted and my legs are actually shaking.
I knew we were in trouble when I saw it was Bacon and Barlow on the whistles. Boy was I right. This was the Missy of old, not the new and improved. Nonetheless, we played poorly for long stretches tonight. We have to be able to overcome bad officiating. In the end we did . . . barely.
At the end of the first OT we were trailing by 1 with 6.2 seconds to play and Sherrod was going to the FT line to shoot 2. That's where I gave up and accepted that we had lost. I was so upset that I fast forwarded and missed Sherrod missing both free throws and Fran pulling down the rebound and immediately calling time out. We had 5.2 seconds to play and trailed by 1. Tara drew up play where Lepolo set a screen for Betts who rolled under the basket and caught a perfectly lobbed inbound pass from Haley. She was hacked as she missed the point blank layup. With 3.8 seconds to play, this true freshman had to hit one FT to tie and another to go up by 1. She made her first and missed her second sending the game into a second overtime.
Fortunately we blew them out in the 2nd OT and secured at least a tie for the Pac-12 regular season title.
Man we knew that these last 2 road games were going to be brutal, but this was shear torture. I hope all of you Cardboarders out there didn't suffer any lasting damage from the stress of watching this game. You can bet the next game won't be any easier to watch.
I knew we were in trouble when I saw it was Bacon and Barlow on the whistles. Boy was I right. This was the Missy of old, not the new and improved. Nonetheless, we played poorly for long stretches tonight. We have to be able to overcome bad officiating. In the end we did . . . barely.
At the end of the first OT we were trailing by 1 with 6.2 seconds to play and Sherrod was going to the FT line to shoot 2. That's where I gave up and accepted that we had lost. I was so upset that I fast forwarded and missed Sherrod missing both free throws and Fran pulling down the rebound and immediately calling time out. We had 5.2 seconds to play and trailed by 1. Tara drew up play where Lepolo set a screen for Betts who rolled under the basket and caught a perfectly lobbed inbound pass from Haley. She was hacked as she missed the point blank layup. With 3.8 seconds to play, this true freshman had to hit one FT to tie and another to go up by 1. She made her first and missed her second sending the game into a second overtime.
Fortunately we blew them out in the 2nd OT and secured at least a tie for the Pac-12 regular season title.
Man we knew that these last 2 road games were going to be brutal, but this was shear torture. I hope all of you Cardboarders out there didn't suffer any lasting damage from the stress of watching this game. You can bet the next game won't be any easier to watch.
Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.