A Sea Of Red

The teams have been chosen, the bracket is set, and LU will be playing Villanova in Philly on March 17.

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Was our NIT bid an at large, or does the regular season runner up get an auto bid if the first seed wins the tourney? I was thinkng you only get that if you win the regular season and then lose in the tourney.

olldflame wrote:Was our NIT bid an at large, or does the regular season runner up get an auto bid if the first seed wins the tourney? I was thinkng you only get that if you win the regular season and then lose in the tourney.

I thought the same thing. Villanova has beaten Seton Hall this year while we had the worst home loss in Vines center history to SHU. SHU lead the nation in fewest TOs per game and we are 342 out of 344 teams with the worst TO margin. Should be fun. SHU may still be without their leading scorer for this game, still no word on her status and I think Sadalia Ellis may be back for us..

olldflame wrote:Was our NIT bid an at large, or does the regular season runner up get an auto bid if the first seed wins the tourney? I was thinkng you only get that if you win the regular season and then lose in the tourney.

It was an auto. bid. Since the 1st place team earned the bid to the NCAAs we got the auto. bid to the NIT since we were runners up.

The auto-bid criteria is different for women than men. The women's bracket is also twice the # of teams (64) than the men. To fill the bracket, every conference receives an auto-bid in te from of the highest-finishing team not to make the NCAA tournament.

JK37 wrote:The auto-bid criteria is different for women than men. The women's bracket is also twice the # of teams (64) than the men. To fill the bracket, every conference receives an auto-bid in te from of the highest-finishing team not to make the NCAA tournament.

Thanks. I wasn't aware of the different critería, and was wondering how we got our bid.

Anybody streaming the game? I dropped $9.95 for the game on the Nova broadcast. Cheaper than a drive and hotel in Philly.

Leatherwood played well. Hope we learn to play (perimeter) defense next year. Way too many open shots. I'm looking forward to next year when we have players who can run the floor and get out on the wings to prevent all the open corner 3's.

Big difference between the Big South and Big East: Nova killed us in steals (12), 3-balls (13), and offensive rebounds (15). Final score 67-51, but it was a 5-point game starting the fourth quarter. Thanks to all our seniors who battled for 4 years.

No surprise, it was the turnover differencial that did us in.

Yes, we had 18 turnovers to Nova's 7. And we only out rebounded them by ONE, 34-33. Second chance buckets killed us, too.

They had 25 points on our TOs and 21 second chance points on 15 offensive rebounds. We were outhustled to the ball like at Asheville with their 25 offensive rebounds.

We played better last year in all aspects of the game. Lost to NCAA UNC by 5. This year, not so good. Lost to NIT Nova by 16 My best to all the seniors and here's to hoping next year gets us back in NCAAs though there will be some "rebuilding" after losing 4 starters. Leatherwood looked fairly poised the last couple games without Ellis. That's one position that should be a certainty, the other 4 will be up for grabs.

Interesting article in the local paper about the game: Coach Green admits he used the WRONG defense (2-3 zone) against Villanova, which is why they drained so many 3-balls against us.

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/liber ... d2f3c.html

Some of his personnel decisions, strategies and an obvious lack of using timeouts in critical situations has me scratching my head at times.

Cider Jim wrote:Interesting article in the local paper about the game: Coach Green admits he used the WRONG defense (2-3 zone) against Villanova, which is why they drained so many 3-balls against us.

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/liber ... d2f3c.html

Interesting that Nova coach Harry Peretta jumps to Carey's defense, citing how inconsistent they had been shooting the 3 all year and how Creighton beat them with the same 2-3 zone because they didn't make the shots.

Live by the 3, die by the 3...against Creighton they died by it...and against us WE died by it

olldflame wrote:

Cider Jim wrote:Interesting article in the local paper about the game: Coach Green admits he used the WRONG defense (2-3 zone) against Villanova, which is why they drained so many 3-balls against us.

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/liber ... d2f3c.html

Interesting that Nova coach Harry Peretta jumps to Carey's defense, citing how inconsistent they had been shooting the 3 all year and how Creighton beat them with the same 2-3 zone because they didn't make the shots.

If you have seen Creighton play they are better defensively and probably forced some of those shots. Creighton did the same thing to Seton Hall (who beat us by 37 points at the Vines) and beat them in the semis with their defense. Not all 2-3 zones are alike - we seldom went out on the wings to contest their shots

Chippy wrote:

olldflame wrote:

Cider Jim wrote:Interesting article in the local paper about the game: Coach Green admits he used the WRONG defense (2-3 zone) against Villanova, which is why they drained so many 3-balls against us.

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/liber ... d2f3c.html

Interesting that Nova coach Harry Peretta jumps to Carey's defense, citing how inconsistent they had been shooting the 3 all year and how Creighton beat them with the same 2-3 zone because they didn't make the shots.

If you have seen Creighton play they are better defensively and probably forced some of those shots. Creighton did the same thing to Seton Hall (who beat us by 37 points at the Vines) and beat them in the semis with their defense. Not all 2-3 zones are alike - we seldom went out on the wings to contest their shots

I know someone who coaches a nasty one

Purple Haize wrote:I know someone who coaches a nasty one

I'm not sure an Upward Bound 2-3 zone would stop a Big East school like Villanova.

Cider Jim wrote:

Purple Haize wrote:I know someone who coaches a nasty one

I'm not sure an Upward Bound 2-3 zone would stop a Big East school like Villanova.

Still waiting for that Upward coaching spot to open up

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Mrs. Cider will be there tomorrow in Cville.