Relevant to the above,

Over the weekend there was a record-tying 8 wins by double digit seeds.

2-seeds had only 3 losses against 10 seeds since the tourney expanded to 64 teams in 1994 coming into the year. 2-seeds went 0-2 against 10 seeds this year in the tourney.

Could just be a blip of course.

Yeah, I think it's getting better, though that's mainly at the top, but the depth isn't there yet. I imagine it's similar to what the men's tourney would have looked like had there been 64 teams back in the 60's and 70's when UCLA was destroying everyone. Takes time for more and more girls to start playing but eventually, because roster spots are limited, that depth starts trickling down. Doesn't happen overnight though.

There was the 16 over a 1 upset of Stanford but that was due to Stanford losing two players to injuries right before the tournament. Other than that, no 14 or 15 seed has won a game in the women's tourney. By comparison, we see a 14 or a 15 seed win about a game year on average in the men's side. Even in the second round the 1's on the women's side rarely lose (100-3 all time).

Could have been worse for Hawaii.

South Carolina was up on Howard 22-2 after the 1st, 44-4 at half and 60-8 after the third quarter in their first round game.

Stanford shut out Montana State 20-0 in the 1st quarter of their first round game.

Well in Hawkins's case, he had already transferred from Arizona St so he would have been eligible a year earlier for us. Then he would have had to sit out a year had he transferred from UC Davis. I assume he would have been able to use a redshirt year like he did when he transferred from Arizona St. He could have still done that though and might have wanted to if he felt it would help his pro prospects or if he wanted to give a big school another shot. In a world where he doesn't have to sit out a year going from ASU -> UCD, he could have redshirted and still been a junior at his new school.

Shorts is a trickier case. He would have been going into his senior year with only one year at the DI level already. I would guess he would have just stayed at UCD.

It will probably be a mixed bag. For every team it helps it will hurt another team. Smaller schools will lose a guy after a year or two who wants tougher competition but they'll also gain guys who might be less hesitant to transfer from a bigger school they're not playing as much as they'd like to if they don't have to sit out a year.

LBST gets the ball down 1 with 21 seconds left and can't get a shot off. Fullerton played some good D on that last possession but you have to get a shot up there.

I would think, recruiting wise, it might be easier to sell a higher level recruit on playing early knowing you just lost three senior starters. There's no longer an entrenched group of starters that you, as a freshman, would really have to blow out of the water to get playing time. Sure, the fresh and sophs in the program have a bit of a leg up having been in the program for a couple years. But it's not like they're proven at the collegiate level.

But yeah, like you said, it will be interesting to see how things shake out the next two years to see if they can get back to the top of the conference.

Thanks for the info. I wonder if Turner just assumed the foul would come right away (which she shouldn't have since there were still 30 seconds left) and then was caught off guard when they didn't foul right away.

For those that were watching, the turnover at the end of regulation, was it a bad inbounds? I was listening on the radio and all they said was it was inbounded to the corner and that’s usually a no-no because it allows the opponent to trap. We had a timeout left so it wasn’t like we were forced to inbound it.

Overtime is not a friend to the underdog.

Hope we didn’t blow out shot with that turnover late in regulation.

Tie game, UCD ball, 17 seconds left.

Game winner, please.

Up 1 after the third quarter. Ended the quarter on a 10-1 run. Scored 25 points that quarter after only scoring 22 in the 1st half.

Going to need some other players to do some scoring. Hall and Turner are 10-19 for 25 points. Rest of team is 4-17 for 10 points.

Not great shooting right now for either team. Combined 2-17 from 3 so far.

Doesn't look pretty based on the stats (36% on FGs and 22 TO's) but a win is a win in the tourney.

Now get a day off before Irvine on Friday.

For sure. Of the lower seeded teams, I'm sure we're the team the top 4 didn't want to play.

After blowing it in the tourney a couple years when we were clearly the best team, plus not having a chance in 2020, we're owed an underdog run.

Last 5 years in the league: 64-10
This year in the league: 7-8

The last 5 years were a hell of a run and hopefully this year is just a blip. Of course we are losing 3 senior starters who are averaging a combined 90 minutes per game this year so some younger players are going to need to step up next year.

Having it in Vegas is a very dumb idea. You're basically giving a middle finger to all the fans. Anaheim was great because it was nearby all the SoCal schools.

Home sites for each round wouldn't work because of too much travel and they like having the games on consecutive days. However, it is relatively common in the smaller conferences to have the #1 seed host the whole tournament.