It’s interesting that three of the teams at the Raleigh Regional could be seen as running a relay where they didn’t really pass the baton but rather grabbed it away from each other.
Here’s what I mean: If all of women’s college basketball is in a yearly race to keep proving that the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Way to soar, Cardinals
Posted in Women's basketball on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
March’s losses and victories one in the same
Posted in Women's basketball on March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
March Madness (which leaks over to April) is always presented as this thrill ride of possibility, a grand adventure only the most fortunate get to take part in, an athletic festival.
I suppose it is all that … until the men’s and women’s tournaments actually start, and it just becomes almost like this demonic game [...]
Missed it by *that* much
Posted in Women's basketball on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s something we see in every sport, but never so achingly often as each year in the NCAA tournament. To lose stinks, sure. To lose a close game stinks worse.
But nothing stinks more than to lose after giving up a decent-sized lead.
To get blown out is no fragrant affair, either, but the emotions are usually [...]
It was 27 years ago today …
Posted in Women's basketball on March 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
To borrow from “Sgt. Pepper’s” … we celebrate the birthday of the first NCAA women’s championship game: March 28, 1982.
Now, it is not the anniversary of the first women’s college basketball national championship, which started way back in 1969 at West Chester State. And we know that some folks felt that the NCAA _ [...]
Day 4: Bears escape Jackrabbits, and other tales
Posted in Women's basketball on March 25, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I’m sure to get some Michigan State folks ticked that I wrote on ESPN.com that the predetermination system is flawed. And some peoples will say, “Louisville won at LSU, so it’s just tough for Duke and Auburn that they couldn’t manage to win on the road.” And others will say, “Just SHUT UP about predetermination [...]
Day 3: Auburn’s perfect storm
Posted in Women's basketball on March 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Auburn’s season “back on top” is over, and Monday night the Tigers found out where 30 victories and and an SEC regular-season championship will get you: an elimination game on the home court of a team that lost nine more games than you did (coming into the NCAA tournament) and was seeded five [...]
Day 2: The bell tolls for Tennessee … at least for now
Posted in Women's basketball on March 23, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Tennessee never dropped out of my Top 25 poll this season, and I had the Orange Crush moving on to the Sweet 16 in my bracket (which I reluctantly fill out every year).
But now Tennessee is out of the tournament after the first round – a sentence I never thought I would type. [...]
Day 1: That’s how the cookie crumbles
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Got through the first day of Twittering and it was not so different than live-blogging at the Big 12 tournament, except for the handy word limit that kept me from making each post,er, Tweet, too long. Of course there’s nothing to limit your amount of Tweets, so … the long-winded stay long-winded.
Also, while I generally [...]
Just as we prepare to tip off …
Posted in Women's basketball on March 21, 2009 | 14 Comments »
It appears “yes, you should tweet” won the poll. So I will Twitter. Look for MechelleV if you are interested in following that. Rebecca Lobo is Twittering … she is very funny, and of course she brings the insight of having won a national championship and a gold medal.
Meanwhile, my street cred is not quite [...]
To tweet or not to tweet
Posted in Women's basketball on March 19, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I’ve always thought I only had so many words in me each day … except it’s a different number every single day, and I never really know until the day hits what it might be. (Or what it might have to be depending on my assignment.)
The day that the U.S. women’s soccer team beat China [...]
