Lady Wolverines Game Thread
Right? This is elite, let’s fucking go! Also horseshit this game before is heading to OT.
March 28th, 2022 at 11:19 PM ^
Louisville as a city can fall in a fucking hole. God the game was right there.
March 28th, 2022 at 11:28 PM ^
Great season, really done in by turnovers and inability to handle routine press break in this game. But just a tremendous season for the lady wolverines. Retire 00. Put a banner in the rafters in honor of Illinois keeping us from it. Go Blue
March 28th, 2022 at 11:45 PM ^
They fought incredibly hard and had a great season. Leila is going to be great.
Just none of our guards could handle the ball pressure tonight.
Next year feels like they should go heavy pick and roll with Phelia and Brown and hopefully younger bigs make a Kiser like leap?
Is it tougher for a non-blue blood to break through and make the Final Four / win a title in women's basketball than it is in men's basketball?
I'll be the first to admit that I don't pay as much attention to the women's side as I do the men's, but it seems like some of the usual suspects, especially UConn, make the women's Final Four every single year or at least every other year. Stanford seems to always be in that group as well, South Carolina, Notre Dame, etc.
Is there just not a lot of parity in women's basketball? Even in men's basketball, the the big time bluebloods could go several years between Final Four appearances. I think this is Duke's first Final Four since the 2014-15 season, for instance.
Womens bball is more equal these days since it’s not a walk in the park for UCONN anymore, but yeah the field is heavily slanted towards them and like 3 other schools.
March 29th, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
UConn has been in the Final Four 14 years in a row. Stanford has been there a billion times.
You can break through but it takes a long build up usually. Kinda what KBA is doing. Basically going through an overachieve -> improve recruiting -> overachieve cycle. Consistently are going a round further than they were supposed to and recruiting has gotten better.
Need to break into top 25 recruits or find more Naz's (#58 in her class) randomly. Because the teams left are just more athletic than us at a bunch of positions and it's obvious just watching them. Winning three times against those teams is possible but it's SO hard.