[treetop11]

First of all, I hate the beavers - not just in WBB, but also MBB, football, and probably other sports. So I'm thrilled that we swept them this year. Many years ago, I got censored from their board for saying their players were dirty. It seems like whenever we play them, at least in the major sports, we suffer injuries. Probably "dirty" is not the correct word as I don't think they intentionally try to hurt our players. But of all, the P12 schools, they are the only one that plays aggressively without any regard for the rules or concern that doing so can lead to injury. Other teams play tough, aggressively, and physical, but OSU is always pushing the envelope. WSU is somewhat similar, but still not as bad. It seems that these schools can't recruit at the same level as the other P12 schools so they get kids who over compensate and don't seem to care about risk to their bodies or opponents. 

Statistically, OSU beat us tonight in just about every category. Kianna again saved our bacon - you can bet Oregon will look to put major pressure on her and contain her. Dodson looked unstoppable at first, not so much later. I'm happy we avoided an epic collapse, but it was disturbing that we did some inexplicable things on both O and D to allow OSU to mount a comeback. Our defense, though generally very good, sure allows far too many drives to the basket with scores, either allowing a lay in, or we foul, or lay in and a foul. Also, too many post up scores. We aren't doubling this year or trapping and we don't see much help defense especially on the drives. It's mostly all one on one defense and if our player gets beat, the other team often scores. 

Again, FTs reared its ugly head. OSU was perfect from the line 12-12. We missed 4 and were 67% - can't do that in close games, if we had matched them at the line, a more comfortable win and not a nail biter.  Good part is that we had as many FTs as them whereas usually the other team has more.

Good win though. I don't see how we beat Oregon though. Our depth is closer to what it was at the beginning of the season, but Oregon is superior in talent at every position except PG and Ki can't do it all especially if Oregon shuts her down. The season has been misleading with Carrington out, Dodson only playing last three games, and Jones now out. If Oregon had injuries at the same positions, Hebard, Sabbally, and Ionescu would be out and ducks would have lost many games. Our three players don't equal their three, but ours are still excellent and would have made a big difference. 

Terrific simulator posted above, and from what I see, we have no chance for a #1 seed, win 1-2 games of the remaining three and highly likely to be #2 seed, or if we tank, we could slip to #4 seed. Wins over Oregon and/or Arizona are the most important. Would be nice to win out and tie Oregon for regular season first place, but still would be #2 seed since Ucla came back and beat WSU tonight. However, doesn't much matter if we are 1 or 2 a we would not be in Oregon's bracket; only difference might be depending on remaining games, which teams would end up in our bracket and the types of match ups we would face.

[treetop11]

First of all, I hate the beavers - not just in WBB, but also MBB, football, and probably other sports. So I'm thrilled that we swept them this year. Many years ago, I got censored from their board for saying their players were dirty. It seems like whenever we play them, at least in the major sports, we suffer injuries. Probably "dirty" is not the correct word as I don't think they intentionally try to hurt our players. But of all, the P12 schools, they are the only one that plays aggressively without any regard for the rules or concern that doing so can lead to injury. Other teams play tough, aggressively, and physical, but OSU is always pushing the envelope. WSU is somewhat similar, but still not as bad. It seems that these schools can't recruit at the same level as the other P12 schools so they get kids who over compensate and don't seem to care about risk to their bodies or opponents. 

Statistically, OSU beat us tonight in just about every category. Kianna again saved our bacon - you can bet Oregon will look to put major pressure on her and contain her. Dodson looked unstoppable at first, not so much later. I'm happy we avoided an epic collapse, but it was disturbing that we did some inexplicable things on both O and D to allow OSU to mount a comeback. Our defense, though generally very good, sure allows far too many drives to the basket with scores, either allowing a lay in, or we foul, or lay in and a foul. Also, too many post up scores. We aren't doubling this year or trapping and we don't see much help defense especially on the drives. It's mostly all one on one defense and if our player gets beat, the other team often scores. 

Again, FTs reared its ugly head. OSU was perfect from the line 12-12. We missed 4 and were 67% - can't do that in close games, if we had matched them at the line, a more comfortable win and not a nail biter.  Good part is that we had as many FTs as them whereas usually the other team has more.

Good win though. I don't see how we beat Oregon though. Our depth is closer to what it was at the beginning of the season, but Oregon is superior in talent at every position except PG and Ki can't do it all especially if Oregon shuts her down. The season has been misleading with Carrington out, Dodson only playing last three games, and Jones now out. If Oregon had injuries at the same positions, Hebard, Sabbally, and Ionescu would be out and ducks would have lost many games. Our three players don't equal their three, but ours are still excellent and would have made a big difference. 

Terrific simulator posted above, and from what I see, we have no chance for a #1 seed, win 1-2 games of the remaining three and highly likely to be #2 seed, or if we tank, we could slip to #4 seed. Wins over Oregon and/or Arizona are the most important. Would be nice to win out and tie Oregon for regular season first place, but still would be #2 seed since Ucla came back and beat WSU tonight. However, doesn't much matter if we are 1 or 2 a we would not be in Oregon's bracket; only difference might be depending on remaining games, which teams would end up in our bracket and the types of match ups we would face.