BelgradeBobcat wrote:Washington just beat Oklahoma 108-82 to punch their ticket to the sweet 16. They beat us by a 2 point larger margin. OU beat Gonzaga fairly comfortably-the Sooners are really good. So our Bobcats just ran into a red hot buzz saw of a team on Saturday. Rotten luck on that draw, but they went out in a blaze of glory as far as I'm concerned.
Kelsey Plum had 38 points and 11 assists.
It definitely puts our loss into perspective when the number 6 seed got beat by UW by essentially the same margin as we did. It will be interesting to see how far they go in the tourney. Next up is 2nd seeded Mississippi State, and if they get by them, they'll have to face top seeded Baylor which has been even more dominant than U-Conn through the first two rounds. They beat Texas Southern 119-30 (that's right...an 89 point margin) and Cal 86-46. I've paid more attention than normal to the women's tourney this year with MSU being in it, and it's amazing how much less parity there is, as compared to the men. There's been a bunch of really lopsided scores in the first two rounds. I'll be rooting for U-Dub all the way, as I figure the better they do, the better it makes us look. I think they have a good chance against the other MSU, but I don't think they'll beat Baylor.
Anyway, congrats to our MSU ladies on a very valiant effort on Saturday, and an amazing season overall. Washington is so much bigger than us, that it was virtually impossible to go inside against them, so we didn't have much choice except to bomb away from 3-point land, and has already been mentioned by several others, we would have had to hit at least 50% from three, in order to keep the final score close at all. Even then, we managed to hang around within 10 or so until midway through the 3rd quarter, when they finally started pulling away. I'm hopeful that Binford has established a program that will continue to be a perennial contender in the BSC, and I'm confident that it won't be another 24 years before the next time our women are in The Dance.
Edit: Congrats also to Peyton Ferris for outscoring the all time leading scorer in the history of NCAA women's basketball. What a great way to close out a glorious career, with 33 points in an NCAA tourney game.
Edit #2: I just realized that I misspelled Peyton's last name originally, so I corrected it. My apologies to her.