Big Ten in the Big Dance

[Row6Seat10]

After the first day of games the Big Ten ain't doing so well. Besides the Huskers coming out on the wrong end of things, Minnesota gave up an eleven point lead to DePaul and lost by seven. Northwestern blows a double digit lead to Arkansas and loses by 2. Only Iowa won yesterday of the 4 B1G teams playing and they struggled at that on their home court. Had they not connected on 9 three's it could have been an 0-4 day for the Big Ten.

 

Maryland, Rutgers and Ohio State play today we'll see if they fare any better than what their fellow league teams did yesterday. Maryland and OSU should advance but Rutgers might have a tough go at it.

 

[Row6Seat10]

The conference fared better today. All three teams that played today won and advanced on to the next round.

[Row6Seat10]

Iowa with the home court advantage advances to the sweet 16 today beating the 11 seed Miami FL.

[Row6Seat10]

Although not Big Ten related this Kentucky/Dayton game is off the charts!

[Row6Seat10]

Maryland the only B1G team to advance tonight now plays Duke. OSU gets beat on a buzzer beater by North Carolina and Rutgers gets trounced by UConn.

 

Only two B1G teams left.

[Row6Seat10]

While there are still two B1G teams in the NCAA tourney, I should make mention that Michigan is still alive and will play Missouri tomorrow in the 3rd round of the WNIT in Ann Arbor. Should they win that one they will advance to the quarterfinal round against Southern Miss. 

[Row6Seat10]

Iowa goes home a loser tonight to Baylor 81-66. Michigan defeated Missouri and is still alive in the WNIT, they now go to Southern Miss on Sunday afternoon.

[Bugeaters1]

Iowa goes home a loser tonight to Baylor 81-66. Michigan defeated Missouri and is still alive in the WNIT, they now go to Southern Miss on Sunday afternoon.

[Bugeaters1]

It looked like Doolittle had her nose broken as well.

[whoopdeedoo]

i only watched most of the first half, and let me say, yes, baylor is good------but, geez, iowa defense stinks.

[HB]

But check out this line for Samantha Logic:  13 points, 10 rebounds, 14 assists.  Don't know how many of her assists were on 3s, but even if they were all 2s, she was directly responsible for 41 of the 66 points.  A trouble-double against Baylor is crazy good.

[whoopdeedoo]

no doubt. their offense really came together this year.

[Row6Seat10]

Maryland advances on to the Elite 8 with a ten point win over Duke 65-55. They now face Tennessee in the Elite 8 Monday night.

[Row6Seat10]

Michigan beat Southern Miss 69-60 in the WNIT this afternoon and will face UCLA in Ann Arbor this Wednesday in the WNIT - Final 4.

[Row6Seat10]

Maryland becomes the first Big Ten team since 2005 to make it to the Final 4. They beat Tennessee 58-48 in one of the most sloppiest games of the tournament tonight. For their efforts they get to meet UConn.

[huskerchode]

Hopefully Maryland has a better game against UConn.  They didn't seem to be hitting their shots and were making dumb turnovers.  Finally started to pull it together the latter part of the first half. 

 

Although I will say, UConn didn't look as great as usual in their first half against Dayton.  It was like they were afraid to guard Dayton's 3 point shooters.  Dayton also had a lot of turnovers but were still ahead by 1 at half.  I told my daughter UConn would come out the second half and blow them out of the water.  Their defense was pretty intense the second half.

[KarlHessEatMy....]

It's gunna take a Maryland team to have less than 10 turnovers and shoot 65% for the whole game to possible stay in the game... uconn just has to many shooters and will always score over 75 no matter the game.

[huskerchode]

And when UConn cranks up their defense, it makes it that much harder.  I was really impressed with their adjustment at half in the Dayton game. 

[Row6Seat10]

Michigan bows out of the WNIT semi-finals with a 69-65 loss to UCLA tonight.

[Bugeaters1]

I thought that maybe ucla would be a bad match up for Michigan. Seeing as how Nebraska had a very hard time with ucla.

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[Row6Seat10]

UCLA wins the WNIT tonight over West Virginia 62-60.

[Row6Seat10]

The 2014-15 B1G womens basketball season comes to a close tonight as UConn clobbers Maryland 81-59 in the national semi-finals.

[Cazzie22]

UConn towers over women's college basketball.  Even a very good Maryland team cannot compete.  Brianna Stewart, by far the best player in the country, returns next year.  It will be another coronation.  Mariah Jefferson, Morgan Tuck and the Samuelson girl coming in will give them an unbeatable team.

 

Why do the power conference schools schedule UConn?  If they Huskies only played in their conference they would rarely show up on TV.  That could impact their recruiting.  

 

I don't have any idea how the other schools can catch up to UConn.  

[arliepro]

UConn towers over women's college basketball.  Even a very good Maryland team cannot compete.  Brianna Stewart, by far the best player in the country, returns next year.  It will be another coronation.  Mariah Jefferson, Morgan Tuck and the Samuelson girl coming in will give them an unbeatable team.

 

Why do the power conference schools schedule UConn?  If they Huskies only played in their conference they would rarely show up on TV.  That could impact their recruiting.  

 

I don't have any idea how the other schools can catch up to UConn.  

 

Don't think any other schools will be able to dethrone UConn until Geno Auriemma retires.

[huskerchode]

Things I have noticed with UConn:

 

1.  Everyone on the floor can score consistently.  Everyone.

2.  They play great D.

3.  When they get a lead, they never take their foot off the pedal.

4.  I never see them standing around looking confused or uncertain, even when the game is close (which usually only happens in the first half).

5.  No foul trouble.