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WBB To Host Virtual NCAA Selection Show Party
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The #6/5 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks got a fortuitous seeding for the 2021 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, jumping ahead of higher ranked fellow SEC member Texas A&M to secure the overall 3rd seeding, and thus be one of the four #1 Seeds for the tournament. The #1 seeding was in order:
1: Stanford
2: Connecticut
3: South Carolina
4: North Carolina State.
The Texas A&M Aggies - who defeated the Gamecocks in the final regular-season game to secure the SEC regular-season title - was the 5th overall seeded team in the tournament, thus being the top overall #2 Seed.
The tournament will be played entirely in one setting in San Antonia, Texas, and the brackets are broken down to four (4) quadrants each named after prominent historical landmark sites within the city: the Alamo, the Hemisfair, the Mercado, and the River Walk. The tournament bracket is as follows:
The Gamecocks are the #1 Seed for the Hemisfair Region, in the bottom left corner. The top four seeds in that Regional are USC, #2 Maryland, #3 UCLA, and #4 West Virginia. The Gamecocks (22-4) will open with #16 Seed Mercer (19-6) Sunday at 6:00 PM, and will play the winner between #8 Seed Oregon State (11-7) and #9 Seed Florida State (10-8). Whoever advances from there will face the winner of West Virginia's mini-bracket in the Sweet Sixteen.
Should the Gamecocks advance to the Final Four, they would be matched against the winner of the Alamo Regional, which is headed by the overall #1 Seed Stanford. But high-scoring Maryland and UCLA in front of us, we'll have our own hands full in our own Regional.
1: Stanford
2: Connecticut
3: South Carolina
4: North Carolina State.
The Texas A&M Aggies - who defeated the Gamecocks in the final regular-season game to secure the SEC regular-season title - was the 5th overall seeded team in the tournament, thus being the top overall #2 Seed.
The tournament will be played entirely in one setting in San Antonia, Texas, and the brackets are broken down to four (4) quadrants each named after prominent historical landmark sites within the city: the Alamo, the Hemisfair, the Mercado, and the River Walk. The tournament bracket is as follows:
The Gamecocks are the #1 Seed for the Hemisfair Region, in the bottom left corner. The top four seeds in that Regional are USC, #2 Maryland, #3 UCLA, and #4 West Virginia. The Gamecocks (22-4) will open with #16 Seed Mercer (19-6) Sunday at 6:00 PM, and will play the winner between #8 Seed Oregon State (11-7) and #9 Seed Florida State (10-8). Whoever advances from there will face the winner of West Virginia's mini-bracket in the Sweet Sixteen.
Should the Gamecocks advance to the Final Four, they would be matched against the winner of the Alamo Regional, which is headed by the overall #1 Seed Stanford. But high-scoring Maryland and UCLA in front of us, we'll have our own hands full in our own Regional.
The Hemisfair Regional:
All of the media is focusing in on our potential matchup with Maryland because they have the #1 offense in the nation -- average like 91 points per game. It would not be surprising if they have us marked down as getting upset by them in their brackets...
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Had my reverse Mohawk going for some years now.
Go Cocks!!
Go Cocks!!
The updated bracket, heading into the Sweet Sixteen:
One #1 Seed - North Carolina State - has already fallen, dropping to #4 Seed Indiana yesterday (Saturday).
#1 Seed Connecticut defeated #5 Seed Iowa 92-72, and #1 Seed Baylor defeated #6 Seed Michigan in a tight game 78-75. #1 Seed Stanford takes on #5 Seed Missouri State next, #2 Seed Louisville and #6 Seed Oregon is at 7 PM, and #2 Seed Maryland takes on #6 Seed Texas at 9 pm tonight. The Gamecocks will face the winner of the Maryland-Texas game, on Tuesday.....
On Monday March 29th, Connecticut will meet Baylor in the River Walk Regional Elite Eight, which should be an interesting match-up. Indiana and Arizona will face off in the Mercado Regional Elite Eight, which will not feature either its #1 OR #2 Seed.
Stanford easily defeats Missouri State 89-62, and Louisville defeats Oregon 60-42. On Tuesday March 30, Stanford and Louisville will meet in the Alamo Regional Elite Eight.
Texas perhaps has the upset of the tournament after the NC State upset, as they take down the high-scoring #2 Seed Maryland 64-61 in the late game of the HemisFair Regional Sweet Sixteen. Texas will face #1 Seed South Carolina in the other Elite Eight match-up for that Regional on Tuesday March 30.
And thus another chapter will be added to the Dawn Staley - Vic Schaefer rivalry. Vic's team may be different, but Dawn surely must be quite familiar with Vic's strategies. Of course, Vic is familiar with Dawn's as well.
#1 Seed Connecticut defeated #5 Seed Iowa 92-72, and #1 Seed Baylor defeated #6 Seed Michigan in a tight game 78-75. #1 Seed Stanford takes on #5 Seed Missouri State next, #2 Seed Louisville and #6 Seed Oregon is at 7 PM, and #2 Seed Maryland takes on #6 Seed Texas at 9 pm tonight. The Gamecocks will face the winner of the Maryland-Texas game, on Tuesday.....
On Monday March 29th, Connecticut will meet Baylor in the River Walk Regional Elite Eight, which should be an interesting match-up. Indiana and Arizona will face off in the Mercado Regional Elite Eight, which will not feature either its #1 OR #2 Seed.
Stanford easily defeats Missouri State 89-62, and Louisville defeats Oregon 60-42. On Tuesday March 30, Stanford and Louisville will meet in the Alamo Regional Elite Eight.
Texas perhaps has the upset of the tournament after the NC State upset, as they take down the high-scoring #2 Seed Maryland 64-61 in the late game of the HemisFair Regional Sweet Sixteen. Texas will face #1 Seed South Carolina in the other Elite Eight match-up for that Regional on Tuesday March 30.
And thus another chapter will be added to the Dawn Staley - Vic Schaefer rivalry. Vic's team may be different, but Dawn surely must be quite familiar with Vic's strategies. Of course, Vic is familiar with Dawn's as well.
I was going to post up something similar.
Schaefer has done surprisingly well at Texas in just a year. Same for Nell Fortner at GT after only two years. I thought for sure she was retired after listening to her on the SEC shows for a couple of years. She was pretty feisty on the sidelines this weekend.
I was wondering if the team would still have the Wolfpack in their heads if we had to meet them again; glad they're gone.
It would be sweet if we had to face UConn for the Natty and then beat them for it. We're a tougher team now. It could happen.
The Texas game wasn't really ever in doubt: looks like Dawn just has Vic's number right now, as the Gamecocks jumped on the Longhorns 18-7 in the opening quarter, out-scored Texas in every qtr., and closed it out blanking the Longhorns 10-0 in the final period to win 62-34 and advance to our third ever Final Four. They set some impressive defensive records in so doing. The Final Four was filled out by #1 Seed Connecticut edging #2 Seeded Baylor 69-67, #1 Seed Stanford beat #2 Seed Louisville 78-63, and #3 Seed Arizona bested #4 Seed Indiana 66-53.
That set up the Final Four of South Carolina vs Stanford, and Connecticut vs Arizona. The first game of the day was a heartbreaker for Gamecock Nation - the Gamecocks fought valiantly, and as with the 2015 Final Four against Notre Dame, it came down to the Gamecocks trailing by just 1 point but with the ball in our hands in the closing seconds of the game. And like that 2015 Final Four, we were unable to convert, as Stanford beat us 66-65.
In the later game, everyone had written off Arizona as the fated loser, and Connecticut to be facing the Cardinal in the Championship Game. But the Arizona Wildcats never really were out of control of the game throughout, and defeated the Huskies 69-59.
So the Championship Game would feature two Pac-12 teams for the first time, between Stanford and Arizona. The Wildcats fought valiantly as well, and proved their run was no fluke, but fell short as Stanford wins it's second 1-pt. game in as many games and beat Arizona 54-53 to win the 2021 National Championship.
Next season: stay tuned - The Gamecocks will be back!!!
That set up the Final Four of South Carolina vs Stanford, and Connecticut vs Arizona. The first game of the day was a heartbreaker for Gamecock Nation - the Gamecocks fought valiantly, and as with the 2015 Final Four against Notre Dame, it came down to the Gamecocks trailing by just 1 point but with the ball in our hands in the closing seconds of the game. And like that 2015 Final Four, we were unable to convert, as Stanford beat us 66-65.
In the later game, everyone had written off Arizona as the fated loser, and Connecticut to be facing the Cardinal in the Championship Game. But the Arizona Wildcats never really were out of control of the game throughout, and defeated the Huskies 69-59.
So the Championship Game would feature two Pac-12 teams for the first time, between Stanford and Arizona. The Wildcats fought valiantly as well, and proved their run was no fluke, but fell short as Stanford wins it's second 1-pt. game in as many games and beat Arizona 54-53 to win the 2021 National Championship.
Next season: stay tuned - The Gamecocks will be back!!!
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This year's women's tournament set some new viewership milestones.
https://frontofficesports.com/womens-college-hoops-hits-viewership-milestones/