Don’t know that we NEED anyone, so kinda stumped right now.
, barely, coming out of HS. She is from Blythewood. I wonder if she will come back to SC and go down a level, maybe Coastal or Wofford? She could probably start at Clemson next season
Dawn always has a soft spot for local girls but I don’t think she offers a 1 year courtesy scholarship for her.
Looking over Indiana's resume and watching a few of their games, I can understand why the committee made them the last 4 seed. They have a couple of 30 point beatdowns to Iowa and Stanford on the road. Against Illinois, they won by 6 at home and lost by 20 on the road. Illinois is the closest team to an SEC team in the Big Ten; former NC State player Camille Hobby gives them a physical presence down low. Indiana beat Michigan State by 3 at home, in a game which they trailed for the most part. Honestly, I didn't see much separation between the two. I'm glad that, if we face the Spartans, it'll be at home. They can shoot! Caused problems for Holmes by forcing her to defend on the perimeter.
My issue with Indiana is I feel like they are a more refined version of Utah who we struggled to pull away from. They are pretty balanced and play 4 out. If Cardoso and our other bigs can not get burned by the elite footwork by Holmes and avoid getting bogus fouls I like our chances.
You possibly could have overlooked TN in the SEC tourney as a toughest game?
But we did outrebound them 41-34!One thing to remember about the Utah game is one, Indiana has no one that replicates Pilli, as you must have a banger inside to deal with our post players and Pilli is that rare tree stump that could do that and go out. Also our freshman were playing spot minutes back then and now they are intrical parts of our offensive and defensive arsenal. The big issue in that game was that Cardoso and Watkins both got into early foul trouble and we were not even playing Feagin at that time. Remember Utah brough everyone back from their elite 8 game so they were by far the most experienced team. Our uncanny foul trouble in the first quarter reduced our massive rebounding advantage. Our bigs have developed more awareness since then and do not give way to those early fouls as much lately. We were about to walk away with that game when Watkins and Cardoso went out. I now think the development and production of Feagin and Kitts as well as Watkins overall growth on both sides makes that harder to do.
That's true. But they did outrebound us by 5 in the 2nd half. When we dominated the boards in the 1st half, we built a 20+ point lead. Unfortunately, we let up at the end of the 1st half. Hopefully, the coaches and team understand that no lead is safe in the NCAA tournament.You possibly could have overlooked TN in the SEC tourney as a toughest game?
Holmes is no Pili but she is her own problem. While she won't overpower anybody she can finesse her way there. How this game is whistled could make a huge difference and considering everything that happened in last year's final four and what transpired in the SEC championship I expect our team to targeted even more in matchups where we have a sizeable athletic advantage.
"Rare tree stump".......gotta love it. She had her second best game of the year versus us. Interestingly, Pili had her best game against So. Cal, a #1 seed that they beat twice.
LSU and UNC did give us good/tough games, but to be fair, UT gave us our toughest game of the year. TY Kamilla....
She deserves it and will be unleashed next season. rare talent, we are so fortunate to have her. Watch her develop into a top 5 WBB player next season, she has the skills.
By the time they played us they had already lost Kneepkins (sp?), their 2nd leading scorer (17 ppg) and top 3 pt shooter (54%), to season ending injury.
She refused to even visit UT or Ohio State and they were begging. Don’t know how that plays out now
On the boneyard they think Va Tech is one of the teams
I’m honesty not sure Indians makes it past Oklahoma. They are pretty good and beat Texas twice. That’s no small deal there. I think Indiana wins but let’s not feel that happens instead of Oklahoma. That will be a good game.
Sad, considering that during Bowl season over the years, many Hawkeye fans have visited FGF and were most gracious.
We absolutely got the easiest bracket. The teams in the Albany bracket opposite of us are the ones that got hosed. You have to think the networks are happy with that scenario in that we will most probably end up playing either Iowa, LSU or UCLA. All three of those matchups would be a ratings bonanza, especially Iowa or LSU! Hmmm.......could nafarious interests have had a hand in creating the Albany 2 bracket?
Just an fyi, Holmes, even if she was that type of problem, is not at full health. Many have questioned whether she will be ready to play the tournament first couple of rounds. Nevertheless, I like our Inside game agains them as Watkins can guard bigs who float away from the basket, if for some reason Kamilla was having issues with her.
I consider the TN game a special situation since we were playing them for the 3rd time in 3 weeks. Not sure what to take from that game beyond that it's difficult to beat a team 3 times in 3 weeks.
