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Hope you guys win. Doesn't appear like much of a height problem, all things considered equal; and they only defeated the Washington Huskies on their own court by ten points, that the Lady G defeated earlier in the season. Be a daunting task, to say the least, but don't let your season end in your next game. O.K.
A gris fan being nice and not trolling?WyomingGrizFan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:04 amHope you guys win. Doesn't appear like much of a height problem, all things considered equal; and they only defeated the Washington Huskies on their own court by ten points, that the Lady G defeated earlier in the season. Be a daunting task, to say the least, but don't let your season end in your next game. O.K.
Wish you luck!!!
Dawn Staley has one goal in mind at all times and that's to motivate her own team as much as possible. If that means making them mad that they were "only" the #2 overall seed, so be it. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that's probably a large part of why she's so successful there.
I get that, but quit giving her that platform. It's a bad look for womens basketball in my opinion. The top coaches get no pushback on their silly narratives. The game is better than that but won't grow as much until they push the ideas that other teams can be better and there should be more teams with chances to win.MSU01 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:09 amDawn Staley has one goal in mind at all times and that's to motivate her own team as much as possible. If that means making them mad that they were "only" the #2 overall seed, so be it. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that's probably a large part of why she's so successful there.
MSU allotment tickets are SOLD OUT! This Cats community is something else. Cats coming to Ohio!4Mare wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:39 amTickets went on sale this morning. Ticketmaster said these are the school’s sections.
Ohio State- Section 104
Tennessee- Section 107
South Florida- Section 124
Montana State- Section 121 (across from the visitor bench)
If buying straight from ticketmaster, tickets are $24. Resale prices are pretty steep with some tickets at $300. Lower bowl baseline & corners still available for Friday’s game.
MSU allotment tickets can be bought for $30:
https://montanastate.evenue.net/events/WBAK
The game is growing incredibly quickly right now particularly with kids and younger audiences, which is great to see. I doubt a 12-year old kid in her Caitlin Clark jersey cares too much if Dawn Staley thinks her team should have been the #1 overall seed. You're right though that greater parity and a more even distribution of the top talent is something that needs to continue to improve, as it's always more interesting to have 10 or 20 teams who are good enough to potentially win the championship instead of the same 1 or 2 teams every year like it was during UConn's decades of dominating the sport and accumulating nearly all the best players. Caitlin Clark staying home to play for Iowa, the rise of UCLA and USC out west, and the improvement of the SEC including South Carolina, LSU, Texas, etc. are all definitely good for the sport.tetoncat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:03 pmI get that, but quit giving her that platform. It's a bad look for womens basketball in my opinion. The top coaches get no pushback on their silly narratives. The game is better than that but won't grow as much until they push the ideas that other teams can be better and there should be more teams with chances to win.MSU01 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:09 amDawn Staley has one goal in mind at all times and that's to motivate her own team as much as possible. If that means making them mad that they were "only" the #2 overall seed, so be it. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that's probably a large part of why she's so successful there.
Does someone need to explain to arithmetic-challenged Lindsey that there isn’t anything better than a 1 seed? Here’s to everyone that whines about a #1 seed being beaten by a #16 seed.Colter_Nuanez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:58 amLindsey Gotlieb, the USC coach, was also bitching and moaning about getting a No. 1 seed LOL.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:19 pmNo kidding. They were lucky to get that after losing to UConn last week, who got a #2. The more Staley has won, the more insufferable she has become.
I’ll just say here that it was a big loss to sportsmanship and class when Lisa Bluder retired from Iowa. You do not have to be insufferable to be successful. Our own Tricia Binford is another really great example.tetoncat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:03 pmI get that, but quit giving her that platform. It's a bad look for womens basketball in my opinion. The top coaches get no pushback on their silly narratives. The game is better than that but won't grow as much until they push the ideas that other teams can be better and there should be more teams with chances to win.MSU01 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:09 amDawn Staley has one goal in mind at all times and that's to motivate her own team as much as possible. If that means making them mad that they were "only" the #2 overall seed, so be it. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that's probably a large part of why she's so successful there.
I think the Big Sky as a whole is like this.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:56 pmI’ll just say here that it was a big loss to sportsmanship and class when Lisa Bluder retired from Iowa. You do not have to be insufferable to be successful. Our own Tricia Binford is another really great example.tetoncat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:03 pmI get that, but quit giving her that platform. It's a bad look for womens basketball in my opinion. The top coaches get no pushback on their silly narratives. The game is better than that but won't grow as much until they push the ideas that other teams can be better and there should be more teams with chances to win.MSU01 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:09 amDawn Staley has one goal in mind at all times and that's to motivate her own team as much as possible. If that means making them mad that they were "only" the #2 overall seed, so be it. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her and that's probably a large part of why she's so successful there.
The issue, I believe, is which team has the #1 overall seed among the four #1's. The #1 overall gets to play closer to home, usually. Still no reason to complain as far as I'm concerned, especially since their first two games will be at home anyway. It's a bit of a bigger issue in the men's bracket where no games are played on home courts, by rule.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:50 pmDoes someone need to explain to arithmetic-challenged Lindsey that there isn’t anything better than a 1 seed? Here’s to everyone that whines about a #1 seed being beaten by a #16 seed.Colter_Nuanez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:58 amLindsey Gotlieb, the USC coach, was also bitching and moaning about getting a No. 1 seed LOL.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:19 pmNo kidding. They were lucky to get that after losing to UConn last week, who got a #2. The more Staley has won, the more insufferable she has become.
The main disadvantage for USC this year in being seeded as the fourth #1 is that they got bracketed with the consensus best #2 seeded team in UConn. Geography isn't really an issue this year specifically since all of these teams get to play the first two rounds at home, and it was pretty easy to assign USC and UCLA to the Spokane regional and South Carolina and Texas to the Birmingham regional.84CatGrad wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:53 pmThe issue, I believe, is which team has the #1 overall seed among the four #1's. The #1 overall gets to play closer to home, usually. Still no reason to complain as far as I'm concerned, especially since their first two games will be at home anyway. It's a bit of a bigger issue in the men's bracket where no games are played on home courts, by rule.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:50 pmDoes someone need to explain to arithmetic-challenged Lindsey that there isn’t anything better than a 1 seed? Here’s to everyone that whines about a #1 seed being beaten by a #16 seed.Colter_Nuanez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:58 amLindsey Gotlieb, the USC coach, was also bitching and moaning about getting a No. 1 seed LOL.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:19 pmNo kidding. They were lucky to get that after losing to UConn last week, who got a #2. The more Staley has won, the more insufferable she has become.
That's really nice. Thank you! I hope the griz give wisconsin a good game!WyomingGrizFan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:04 amHope you guys win. Doesn't appear like much of a height problem, all things considered equal; and they only defeated the Washington Huskies on their own court by ten points, that the Lady G defeated earlier in the season. Be a daunting task, to say the least, but don't let your season end in your next game. O.K.
Wish you luck!!!
I can't decide if getting the winner of the 16 seed play in game is a benefit or not. Sure, the 16 seed had to pay two days ago and the 1 seed hasn't played for several days, but then there's the whole "rest vs. rust" issue as well.84CatGrad wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:53 pmThe issue, I believe, is which team has the #1 overall seed among the four #1's. The #1 overall gets to play closer to home, usually. Still no reason to complain as far as I'm concerned, especially since their first two games will be at home anyway. It's a bit of a bigger issue in the men's bracket where no games are played on home courts, by rule.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:50 pmDoes someone need to explain to arithmetic-challenged Lindsey that there isn’t anything better than a 1 seed? Here’s to everyone that whines about a #1 seed being beaten by a #16 seed.Colter_Nuanez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:58 amLindsey Gotlieb, the USC coach, was also bitching and moaning about getting a No. 1 seed LOL.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:19 pmNo kidding. They were lucky to get that after losing to UConn last week, who got a #2. The more Staley has won, the more insufferable she has become.