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Thursday night is SEC night for women's college basketball. I'd like to tell you that there was some mighty fine basketball played in the five conference games tonight. I'd like to but I can't.

I guess some of the lack of scoring could have to do with the great defense played by these teams. But more likely it's just bad offense. Take a look at the numbers from tonight's games.

I have to give LSU and Mississippi State credit for their high scoring affair. 71-69 is a lot of scoring. Of course, it took two overtimes to get there as it was 53-53 after regulation. FIFTY turnovers combined. And 15th ranked Mississippi State has now lost two consecutive games to lower lever SEC teams in LSU and Vanderbilt. Yes, the same Vanderbilt UConn beat 91-52.

No. 10 Kentucky 62 Florida 56 in the regulation highest scoring game of the evening. Kentucky was 3-22 on three pointers and Florida had 27 turnovers.

No. 6 Tennessee had their lowest scoring game of the season, beating Auburn 54-42. Just an all around blah game. I suppose Tennessee fans will talk about the great defense they play. But it was Auburn. AUBURN.

Thanks to Missouri fouling them on every possession, South Carolina scored 11 points from the foul line the last two minutes propelling them to 60 points. This is the #1 team?

Here are the scores at the end of regulation for the five games.

53-53, 55-52, 54-42, 62-56. And all of these games had ranked teams playing in them.

Best league in the county my ass.

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Fun game tonight with Notre Dame defeating North Carolina 89-79 behind the fantastic game by Super-Freshman Brianna Turner. Turner scored 29 points, grabbed 18 rebounds and slapped away 7 shots.

It was a game of runs, as UNC broke out to an 11 point lead at the 5:27 mark after a 15-4 run. Then Notre Dame went on a 19-5 run to end the half, grabbing a 3 point lead.

The second half was just as crazy with each team going on mini runs, Notre Dame grabbing leads as large as 12 points before UNC would close to 3 points. But behind Turner and Allen (24 points) Notre Dame went on the last run to win by ten. I think they are still the 2nd best team in the country.

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In a loss to Minnesota, Freshman scoring maching, Kelsey Mitchell scored 36 points. Amazing stat is that she took TWENTY three point shots making nine of them.

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Ugly Game Of The Day

I've picked on the SEC enough in this blog. I could have picked the entire conference for their games tonight. But I'll go with another power conference team.

Duke beat Virginia Tech easily tonight and VT had one doozy of an offensive, and I mean offensive game.

They shot 25% from the field, 27% on 3's and managed to score 40 points. Congrats Hokies for winning tonight's UGOTD award!!!

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So, without further ado!!!

Ladies and Gents, DD looks at the news........

Geno's Offense, Defense In Top Form As UConn Women Roll Hartford Courant

5 UConn Women's Lessons Learned: Don't Get Fooled By The Student Section Hartford Courant

UConn’s Nurse shifts into higher gear Carl Adamac Blog

The Geno Auriemma Show: Gabby Williams Carl Adamac Blog

Halftime adjustments serve UConn's Nurse well Jim Fuller Blog

Jen Rizzotti reflects on UConn’s historic win over Tennessee New Haven Register

Upsets in Red

No. 1 South Carolina downs Missouri 60-49; Mitchell has 19 Yahoo News
No. 6 Tennessee Beats Auburn 54-42 Despite Season-Low Points ABC News
No. 7 Notre Dame Women Beat No. 12 North Carolina, 89-79 ABC News
Mincy leads No. 8 Maryland to 71-59 win over No. 24 Rutgers USA Today
Epps Scores 20, No. 10 Kentucky Women Beat Florida ABC News
Lady Tigers Upend No. 15 Mississippi St., 71-69 LSU Sports
No. 16 Duke beats Virginia Tech 65-40 Washington Times
No. 17 Nebraska handles Penn State 73-45 Yahoo
Mississippi Upsets No. 18 Georgia, 55-52 ABC News
No. 20 Florida St women beat Pittsburgh, 58-43 AP via Yahoo
Kelley, No. 23 Minnesota defeat Ohio State 76-72 AP via Yahoo
Peterson leads No. 25 Syracuse over Wake Forest 73-62 AP via Yahoo

NO GAMES THURSDAY NIGHT

Thanks to my friend JohnnyC who sends me these numbers when he can.

Kiandre'a Pound FIU 24 points 12 rebounds

Ashia Jones UT Martin 29 points

Ariel Powers Michigan St. 33 points 11 rebounds

Heidi Schlegel Youngstown St. 25 points 18 rebounds
Rebecca Greenwell Duke 21 points
Brianna Turner Notre Dame 29 points 18 rebounds 7 blocks
Lindsay Allen Notre Dame 24 points 9 assists
Stephanie Mavunga North Carolina 13 points 11 rebounds
Allisha Gray North Carolina 20 points
Dearica Hamby Wake Forrest 28 points 11 rebounds
Alexis Peterson Syracuse 32 points
Shakayla Thomas Florida State 13 points 10 rebounds
Makayla Epps Kentucky 20 points
Erika Ford Georgia 20 points
Shae Kelley Minnesota 29 points 18 rebounds
Mikayla Bailey Minnesota 16 points 12 rebounds
Kelsey Mitchell Ohio State 36 points

Danielle Ballard LSU 24 points 10 rebounds
Sierra Michaelis Missouri 22 points
Laurin Mincy Maryland 24 points

Brionna Jones Maryland 12 points 14 rebounds

Sharnice Brooks UL Monroe 28 points 12 rebounds

Tamara Jones S. Mississippi 35 points

Kim Pierre-Louis UMass 24 points 13 rebounds

Rashida Timbilla UMass 17 rebounds

Vicky McIntyre Oral Roberts 21 points 22 rebounds

Lefty Webster Charlotte 25 points

Brianna Freeman New Mexico St. 25 points 10 rebounds

Shanice Davis New Mexico St. 32 points

Lexi Eaton BYU 32 points

Morgan Bailey BYU 31 points 11 rebounds