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Post by coyotecrazie5 on Mar 8, 2016 16:56:05 GMT -6
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Post by kiyoat on Mar 8, 2016 19:30:36 GMT -6
Seekamp was so good today, ice water in her veins! Clutch player. I hope she gets a chance to show that in another championship game. (The WNIT)
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Post by Charlie on Mar 8, 2016 21:30:07 GMT -6
Have to give credit where credit is due, SDSU has built a great program. They played well today and at the end of the day they simply made the plays to win. I have watched hundreds of basketball games in my life and sometimes you walk away and feel like you lost and other times you feel like you got beat. SDSU beat USD today. Sure, USD could have done some things that would have changed the trajectory of the game but USD by no means handed the game to the Jacks. It was a fun college basketball game. Unfortunately, the Yotes didn't come out on top. I like that Skylar Diggins was tweeting about the game today. When one of the best women's basketball players in the country was tweeting about it, you know it was good.
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Post by Yotes on Mar 8, 2016 22:06:12 GMT -6
Really not big on giving credit to a team that wins one out of three against us. I'll say they won because we shot poorly but I will not give them credit.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Mar 8, 2016 22:27:41 GMT -6
Really not big on giving credit to a team that wins one out of three against us. I'll say they won because we shot poorly but I will not give them credit. Bottom line is that the Jacks won the one that mattered like they almost always do. They are 21-1 all time in this tourney so they elevate their game in the post season and are unmatched in their success when the chips are down. They haven't been the #1 seed a few of those times and still end up coming out on top. I thought the Coyotes as a program had caught up but they still are a little bit behind when you look at the big picture. Everything was in the Coyotes advantage today with senior leadership and good depth (which should pay off in a 3rd game in 4 days) but SDSU has a team that is better suited for the post season where the better defensive teams usually come out on top. Even in the men's tourney the teams that play at the slower pace or play better defense tend to win out. Denver should have beaten the Jacks and NDSU definitely relies on their D.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2016 3:03:36 GMT -6
I was NOT surprised by the Jacks students taunting Seekamp with the "U-S-A" chant during her free-throws. I guess xenophobia is alive and well at State College. I wonder what Ena Viso, SDSU's Danish player, thought about that chant? Stay classy, Bunnies. It was out of fun. Lighten up a bit. I'm sure that isn't the worst thing that has been chanted or said to an opposing teams players. Did anyone see Charlie the Coyote going over to the SDSU student section and get into a playful tussle with Jacks the Jackrabbit? Charlie then tossed some drum sticks from a band player on the ground near the hoop. It was pretty funny. No one is getting pissed off about that. It was just a great day/past 4 days of good basketball. No reason to get your undies in bunch over something little like that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2016 3:11:59 GMT -6
Really not big on giving credit to a team that wins one out of three against us. I'll say they won because we shot poorly but I will not give them credit. Didn't SDSU sweep USD in 2014 but ended losing to USD in the semis-finals? BTW Both SDSU and USD are pretty even. All 3 games came down to the end, the only difference is that SDSU made the plays today. I guess it is tough for a team to beat a good team 3 times in 1 season. It's a shame that both schools can't make it. Both are very deserving.
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Post by yote14 on Mar 9, 2016 8:48:34 GMT -6
Really not big on giving credit to a team that wins one out of three against us. I'll say they won because we shot poorly but I will not give them credit. Bottom line is that the Jacks won the one that mattered like they almost always do. They are 21-1 all time in this tourney so they elevate their game in the post season and are unmatched in their success when the chips are down. They haven't been the #1 seed a few of those times and still end up coming out on top. I thought the Coyotes as a program had caught up but they still are a little bit behind when you look at the big picture. Everything was in the Coyotes advantage today with senior leadership and good depth (which should pay off in a 3rd game in 4 days) but SDSU has a team that is better suited for the post season where the better defensive teams usually come out on top. Even in the men's tourney the teams that play at the slower pace or play better defense tend to win out. Denver should have beaten the Jacks and NDSU definitely relies on their D. Win when it matters? USD won in Brookings to avoid a 2 game deficit in the conference to the bunnies. Then they won at home to clinch the conference for the second consecutive year. Those do not matter.
The final goal is always to make the national tournament. And at small schools like SDSU and USD the only way you will ever make that tournament is the auto bid so that puts importance on the tourney. But that does not make the team who wins the conference tournament the more successful team or the better team. If IUPUI won the tourney this year would both of our fan bases being talking about how much better than us the Jags ended up being? Or that they got the best of us? Bottom line USD had the better season and was the better team. The loss yesterday does not take that away.
I wonder if Kansas loses their conference tourney to Kansas State this year if they will be talking about how much better the K-state team ended up being. You are putting too much stock into the conference tournament as the decider for who the better team/program this year was.
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Post by coyotecrazie5 on Mar 9, 2016 9:02:38 GMT -6
While true, unfortunately in a league like the Summit where only one team makes the dance, the only thing that really matters is the conference tourney.
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Post by feared on Mar 9, 2016 9:42:29 GMT -6
Guys it's fine, we'll just use the infamous "we'd rather make a run in the WNIT anyways" excuse
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Post by coyote61 on Mar 9, 2016 10:22:40 GMT -6
The Coyotes will play more games the rest of the year then the bunnies will.
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Post by Yotes on Mar 9, 2016 10:25:12 GMT -6
The Coyotes will play more games the rest of the year then the bunnies will. Not the silver lining any of us are looking for.
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Post by coyote61 on Mar 9, 2016 18:33:41 GMT -6
The Coyotes will play more games the rest of the year then the bunnies will. Not the silver lining any of us are looking for. I too was disappointed in the outcome. We are still the better and deeper team. My point is we have the better, deeper team, and if we can get a couple home games, we could end up playing 3 maybe 4 games. As for the jacks, they are pretty much playing with 6 with the other 2 off the bench, don't score much, I think they'll run out of gas in game one. Especially against a more athletic and deeper team.
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Post by Yotes on Mar 9, 2016 18:57:45 GMT -6
Not the silver lining any of us are looking for. I too was disappointed in the outcome. We are still the better and deeper team. My point is we have the better, deeper team, and if we can get a couple home games, we could end up playing 3 maybe 4 games. As for the jacks, they are pretty much playing with 6 with the other 2 off the bench, don't score much, I think they'll run out of gas in game one. Especially against a more athletic and deeper team. Possible home games are based on winning bids, correct? I recall having to go Greeley to face a team with a much worse RPI last year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2016 19:00:37 GMT -6
Not the silver lining any of us are looking for. I too was disappointed in the outcome. We are still the better and deeper team. My point is we have the better, deeper team, and if we can get a couple home games, we could end up playing 3 maybe 4 games. As for the jacks, they are pretty much playing with 6 with the other 2 off the bench, don't score much, I think they'll run out of gas in game one. Especially against a more athletic and deeper team. You do know that SDSU hung right with Notre Dame (lost by 11) and Maryland (lost by 6 (lead in the 4th)). And the Jacks beat Arkansas and DePaul. SDSU is more than capable of pulling off a win in the 1st round. SDSU's depth is fine. Their bench doesn't have to score to win games. The best defenders come off the bench and provide a spark by causing turnovers. All of them are more than capable of making timely shots when needed and they all have at some point this season. Bench play isn't all about scoring. SDSU's RPI is 51. USD's RPI is 61. USD did go 2-0 against the Jacks during the regular season. All THREE games came down to the wire. SDSU made the plays that USD made the first 2 games in the game that mattered the most. BTW in the championship game all 3 of SDSU's bench players played at least 12 minutes. USD's played 7 players off the bench but only 3 of them played more than 12 minutes and 3 of them played 5 minutes or less. USD's bench isn't that much deeper than the Jacks. AJ could easily play another 3 players 3 minutes or less if he wanted.
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