2011 NCAA women thread ... better late than never?

It wasn't interesting until UConn lost. Too bad that didn't happen until the Final Four.

 

I'm not sure if this was the same interview, but in the TV interview with Lobo as soon as the game was over, Geno wasted no time making a veiled comment about the refs "letting Notre Dame play the way they wanted to" or some such bullshit. Total bullshit no-class ref excuse.

 

Impossible. Right?

 

Ya know, I listened expecting to hear that exact thing, and I didn't.

It was more along the lines of "They drove right at us and made the officials make a decision. We didn't recover from that very well."

He may well have thought the refs screwed him, but that's a fairly diplomatic way of saying as much.

 

I will say that the court design, with the old school lane and what not, is rather ballsy.

 

Killjoy

 

Why does he even have to reference the refs? If he thought that highly of ND's play, then just say that. HE introduced the ref element, which means it was something he had a problem with, in my humble estimation. No one asked him about the officiating, it just came out of his own self-generated ether.

 

On a basketball note, boy could you tell the UConn women haven't played a close game in three years. That final two minutes was one big exercise in "Holy shit I have the ball WHERE'S MAYA!!!!!"

On a note that's closer to what we're all thinking, Skyler Diggins restored my faith in the ability of a women's basketball player to look feminine.

 

I would say it extended to more than just the last two minutes. And what, Brittany Griner ain't feminine?

 

Notre Dame was also able to exploit what no one else could all season long -- UConn's zero depth in the post. But yeah, Doris Burke was saying with about 2 1/2 minutes to go, I think, that Moore was going to be taking just about every shot.

I don't know what it says about the women's game that even a UConn team that's not up to par (one real scorer, lack of post depth, six-woman rotation) was still one of the last four standing.

Meanwhile, Texas A&M's drive-and-dish with no time outs left was a thing of beauty. I can see Tuesday's game going down to the wire but sucking in the ratings because the majority will think that if it's not a UConn-Stanford final, it won't be worth watching.

 

I see what you did there.

 

Stanford's Tara Vandeveer (I know that's not spelled right) was interviewed during the second half of the earlier game, so that wasn't just a UConn thing. I'm glad UConn lost, though. Geno's a weasel.