[petersalas]

Georgia Tech did seem to run some full court press today and it resulted in easy baskets for Stanford. The previous Stanford teams would have gotten flustered and turned it over more. This also bodes well for the future. I hope there’s still lots of basketball left.

It appears we are the 11th seed and will play Clemson on Wednesday.

https://x.com/kevo408/status/18963362187...QaSyTEUwgA

Very kind of folks to acknowledge my "labor of love."  Yes, at times it felt more like "a labor of labor," but I am pleased that we ended the regular season on a positive note.  That loss at Virginia was a really bad result, but other than that, we went 5-1 without our star player.  I think that has to count for something, and it has to be a credit to Kate Paye that she turned the team around, despite the adversity, and gave us some positive energy as we face the future.

During the late part of the season I really think the improvement shown by Ogden, Clardy, and Stevenson are substantial and bode well for the future.  Today Ogden seemed like a different person.  She has always driven under the basket and thrown up shots, but today she was finishing them.  That has been the missing piece of her offense, and it fell in place for today.

Stevenson too has been a very good rebounder--maybe our best for her height--but she had previously not shown a lot of offense.  Today there were times when she seemed to be driving at will.

There were also times in the game when the Princeton has never looked prettier or better executed.  That was a lot of unopposed back door cuts!  Yes, it also led to a few bad entrance passes for turnovers, but that seems to be part of the price of running that system.  But whether Georgia Tech was simply more vulnerable to the system or whether we are finally running it better--the offense was superb for long stretches.

Defense.  Well darn.  Not only did we give up a 31 point game to their third leading scorer, GT had three other players in double digits too.  Very little to like about our defense, I am afraid.  In the first quarter we held Georgia Tech to 15% shooting, and I mistakenly thought we had figured them out.  But that was short lived.

Now on to the ACC tournament.  We are tied with Virginia for 10th, and I am not sure how the tiebreaker works, but I presume they win since they beat us.  So we are probably the 11th seed?  If so, we would play in the 3rd game against the 14th seed on Wednesday at 6:30 Greensboro time--3:30 Pacific.  The 14th seed would be either Syracuse or Clemson--they are tied.  But I am not sure about any of this--someone who really knows, please chime in.

[petersalas]

Georgia Tech did seem to run some full court press today and it resulted in easy baskets for Stanford. The previous Stanford teams would have gotten flustered and turned it over more. This also bodes well for the future. I hope there’s still lots of basketball left.

It appears we are the 11th seed and will play Clemson on Wednesday.

https://x.com/kevo408/status/18963362187...QaSyTEUwgA

Very kind of folks to acknowledge my "labor of love."  Yes, at times it felt more like "a labor of labor," but I am pleased that we ended the regular season on a positive note.  That loss at Virginia was a really bad result, but other than that, we went 5-1 without our star player.  I think that has to count for something, and it has to be a credit to Kate Paye that she turned the team around, despite the adversity, and gave us some positive energy as we face the future.

During the late part of the season I really think the improvement shown by Ogden, Clardy, and Stevenson are substantial and bode well for the future.  Today Ogden seemed like a different person.  She has always driven under the basket and thrown up shots, but today she was finishing them.  That has been the missing piece of her offense, and it fell in place for today.

Stevenson too has been a very good rebounder--maybe our best for her height--but she had previously not shown a lot of offense.  Today there were times when she seemed to be driving at will.

There were also times in the game when the Princeton has never looked prettier or better executed.  That was a lot of unopposed back door cuts!  Yes, it also led to a few bad entrance passes for turnovers, but that seems to be part of the price of running that system.  But whether Georgia Tech was simply more vulnerable to the system or whether we are finally running it better--the offense was superb for long stretches.

Defense.  Well darn.  Not only did we give up a 31 point game to their third leading scorer, GT had three other players in double digits too.  Very little to like about our defense, I am afraid.  In the first quarter we held Georgia Tech to 15% shooting, and I mistakenly thought we had figured them out.  But that was short lived.

Now on to the ACC tournament.  We are tied with Virginia for 10th, and I am not sure how the tiebreaker works, but I presume they win since they beat us.  So we are probably the 11th seed?  If so, we would play in the 3rd game against the 14th seed on Wednesday at 6:30 Greensboro time--3:30 Pacific.  The 14th seed would be either Syracuse or Clemson--they are tied.  But I am not sure about any of this--someone who really knows, please chime in.