Friday, March 19, 2021

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Coach Dailey - “They practiced last night like a Connecticut team getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament.”

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I'm going to leave the regions up all week with the match ups and time and station.  

When I have time, I'll add links that take about different games.

Then I will post results starting Sunday and of course more detail on the UConn games.

MERCADO REGION

1 NC State vs 16 North Carolina A&T Sunday 4:00 ET ESPN
8 South Florida vs 9 Washington State Sunday 9:30 ET ESPN2

5 Gonzaga vs 12 Belmont Monday 4:00 ET ESPN2 
4 Indiana vs 13 VCU Monday 2:00 ET ESPNU

6 Rutgers vs 11 BYU Monday Noon ESPNU
3 Arizona vs 14 Stony Brook Monday 2:00 ESPN2

7 Iowa State vs 10 Michigan State Monday 6:00 ET ESPN
2 Texas A&M vs 15 Troy Monday 6:00 ET ESPN2

HEMISFAIR REGION

1 South Carolina vs 16 Mercer Sunday 6:00 ET ESPN
8 Oregon State vs 9 Florida State Sunday 7:30 ET ESPN2

5 Georgia Tech vs 12 Stephen F. Austin Sunday 4:30 ET ESPNU
4 West Virginia vs 13 Lehigh Sunday 8:00 ET ESPNU

2 Maryland vs 15 Mount St. Mary's Monday 4:00 ET ESPN
7 Alabama vs 10 North Carolina Monday Noon ET ESPN

6  Texas vs 11 Bradley Monday 8:00 ET ESPN  
3 UCLA vs 14 Wyoming Monday 10:00 ET ESPN 

ALAMO REGION

1 Stanford vs 16 Utah Valley Sunday 10:00 ET ESPN
8 Oklahoma State  vs 9 Wake Forest Sunday 1:00 ET ESPN2

5 Missouri State vs 12 UC Davis Monday 7:30 ET ESPNU
4 Arkansas vs 13 Wright State Monday 2:00 ET ESPN

2 Louisville vs 15 Marist Monday 8:00 ET ESPN
7 Northwestern vs 10 UCF Monday 4:00 ET ESPNU 

6 Oregon vs 11 South Dakota Monday 10:00 ET ESPN2
3 Georgia vs 14 Drexel Monday Noon ET ESPN2

RIVER WALK REGION

1 UConn vs 16 High Point Sunday ET 8:00 ESPN
8 Syracuse vs 9 South Dakota State Sunday 5:30 ESPN2

5 Iowa vs 12 Central Michigan Sunday Noon ET ESPN
4 Kentucky vs 13 Idaho State Sunday 2:00 ET ESPN

2 Baylor vs 15 Jackson State Sunday 4:00 ABC
7 Virginia Tech  vs 10 Marquette Sunday Noon ESPNU

6 Michigan vs 11 Florida Gulf Coast Sunday 3:00 ESPN2
3 Tennessee vs 14 Middle Tennessee Sunday 2:00 ABC 

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The Hoop Hall Awards is open for voting. It's a position by position ballot. 

Paige Bueckers is on the list for the Nancy Leiberman Point Guard award. 
Olivia Nelson-Ododa is on the list for the Lisa Leslie Center award.

I believe you can vote once a day per email address. 

Here is the link.  

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By David in Naples

 
UConn is in the River Walk Region for the NCAA tournament. Before the Huskies can meet Baylor or Tennessee, they have to win 3 games.

1. The first of those would be against 22-6 High Point University.
2. Then they would play the winner of Syracuse (14-8) vs South Dakota State (21-3). 
3. Assuming the Huskies win those 2, they would play Iowa (18-9) or Central Michigan (18-8) or Kentucky (17-8) or Idaho (22-3).

The other 7 teams in UConn's initial bracket have a combined record of 132-45. That seems like a lot of losses. Syracuse is 14-8..? Iowa, Central Michigan and Kentucky all have 8 or 9 losses. Even Tennessee is 16-7. Also in their bracket is Middle Tenn. at 17-7, Virginia Tech at 14-9 and Michigan at 14-5. 

Is it me or did a whole lot of teams have a whole lot of losses.... and still make the Big Dance?  Just more weirdness in a weird year..?

Go Huskies..!!

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By Phil

DOES EXPERIENCE MATTER?

Many basketball players find that the transition from high school to college is a bigger jump than they realized, even though they’ve all been told that it will be a big jump. Another transition is going to the NCAA tournament. New players have the whole season to get used to the faster speed of the college game, but few are totally ready for the increased media hype of the NCAA tournament, coupled with the “lose – and – go – home” pressure. It helps if you’ve been there before.

In a typical year, a team returning to the tournament has sophomores, juniors and seniors, and maybe a few grad transfers all of whom have experience with the tournament, and only a handful of freshmen who are experiencing this for the first time.

This is not a typical year. The tournament was canceled last year, so that means only juniors and seniors have NCAA experience, while both the freshman and sophomore classes will be there for the first time. (It is actually a little more complicated than this when it comes to transfers who may have transferred from a school that made the tournament or maybe from one who did not. My numbers reflect this.)  

I looked at the top eight teams, to see how much experience each team has. I looked at the current roster size and determined which of the players on the roster have previously competed in the NCAA tournament.

Ignoring transfers, and this year’s special situation where some high school players have become eligible, one might guess that if all class sizes were equal, half the players would be juniors and seniors. If you then factor in the common situation where a larger than average class works its way through the years, and becomes stronger as juniors and seniors, you might guess that top teams might have a little higher likelihood of larger than average junior or senior classes, so you might guess that the proportion of juniors and seniors would tend to be a little more than 50%.

Interestingly, only one of the teams in the top eight has more than 50% of the roster with NCAA experience. Texas A&M is also an interesting roster because of the large number of transfers. More than half the players came to TAMU from other schools: Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota, Midland College, Notre Dame, Colorado state, Louisville, and Rutgers.

Every other one of the top eight teams has fewer than half the roster with NCAA experience, ranging from six players at Baylor down to only three at UConn. How much of a factor will this lack of experience be in this tournament?

Roster size

NCAA Experience

Proportion

Texas A&M

15

8

53%

Baylor

13

6

46%

South Carolina

11

5

45%

Stanford

14

6

43%

Maryland

11

4

36%

Louisville

12

4

33%

NC State

13

4

31%

UConn

12

3

25%



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