Off topic here, but I didn't think it was worth its own thread. We play Baylor shortly, so this is relevant.
The Baylor coach, Kim Mulkey, had
surgery in August to fuse three vertebrae. She can no longer squat beside the court, nor do that stomp she used to do to emphasize something. At the So. Carolina venue, she was using a chair between the 28' and 38' lines. She was sitting some during the game, but also walking some.
While some of us may not appreciate her style of coaching, I'm sure we all wish her well in her healing.
Her team crushed South Carolina 94-69. This will be a challenging game for Stanford.
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In other games today, the University of Texas lost badly to Mississippi State, 67-49.
As a UT alumnus (grad school), I am embarrassed to say that I noticed bad sportsmanship by the Texas athletic department. The Frank Irwin Center has a lighted marquee that goes around the entire stadium, including behind the baskets. The athletic department flickers those lights during an opponent's free throw attempt, but not during their own team's attempts. This is the second administrative-backed poor sportsmanship I've seen by Texas in the past few years (remember the cheerleaders using megaphones during opponent WVB serves - I believe public outcry stopped that).
Unfortunately, the WBB rules do not clearly preclude this. For music & band, the rules say it can be played during dead ball fouls. I'd like to see that rule apply to changing the lighting. If I were a ref, I'd probably give a warning that blinking that marquee constitutes violating the rule "The court should be uniformly and adequately lighted". Uniformly applies temporally as well as spatially. The second occurrence (in any game after that first warning) I'd rule an administrative technical foul.
