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Texas Women's Basketball 2020-2021 "A New Era"

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Shelby is taking this L hard:  

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Shaka is gone, the women are in the Elite 8, baseball just beat OU, OUR PETS HEADS ARE STAYING ATTACHED!!!

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There is NO WAY Aston would have even gotten this team to to the NIT.  Vic has this team in the EE.  COACHING FUCKING MATTERS

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52-40 Baylor to the 4th.
 

Another lesson in futility against Mulkey.  Vic better be hitting the portal for some guards who can score to go along with the 3 All-Americans coming in 

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14 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Honestly we couldn't have asked for a better draw. A mid-major first round matchup thats not a Dakota school, and a UCLA team that we have a height advantage against. If Charli can stay out of foul trouble against UCLA we have a decent shot at a Sweet 16 run

Charlie Creme may have been insistent we were a 7 seed, but Vic said after the Baylor semifinal game that this team is a 6 seed and he was right. 

And his former squad, with all the talent he amassed and left at MSU, didn't make the tournament and is not even a first four replacement team if someone gets knocked out by COVID before the tournament starts.

Coaching matters so much.  We were a projected 9 seed last year with Charli, Joyner, Sutton, Celeste Taylor and Higgs, coached by Aston.  We lost 3 senior starters and improved our team to a 6 seed this year, coached by Vic.  

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Doing a little more digging into the UCLA roster:

  • 6'3 SO Forward Masikewich
  • 6'4 FR Forward Bessoir
  • 6'4 Fr Forward Anstey

That is the extent of their height. 

  • Maikewich hasn't played at all.
  • Bessoir has played in 20 games (2 starts), 20.3 mpg, 40.1% shooter, 31.3% 3 point shooter, 49% FT shooter, 7.5 ppg, 5 rpg, 13 blocks
  • Anstey hasn't played at all. 

Looks like Close usually starts Michaela Onyenwere (SR. 6'0 guard), Charisma Osborne (SO 5'9 guard), Natalie Chou* (R-SR. 6'1 guard), Lauryn Miller (SR 6'1 forward) and Lindsay Corsaro (R-JR. 6'1 guard)

So they are going to likely try to counter Charli Collier with Lauryn Miller, who is giving up 4 inches of height) and Bessoir, who is a freshman.  If we get to UCLA, Vic should start Collier/Ebo because I don't think they can be guarded by UCLA's interior players. At all. \

Teams are similar, offensively - UCLA shoots 40.2% overall and 35.6% from three and 72.8% FT.  Average 71.95 ppg. Win the rebound game 39.6-33.9. 56 blocks.  Texas shoots 40.6% overall and 32.1% from three and 69.9% FT.  Average 69.9 ppg.  Win the rebound game 37.7 - 34.8.  92 blocks.

It's going to come down to Texas not trying to get into a 3 point shooting contest with UCLA (it would be ugly regardless) and feed Ebo and Collier and have them get offensive boards against the smaller and less experienced UCLA frontline. 

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Obviously I'm not that worried about 17-11 Bradley, who only made it because top-seeded Missouri St. opted out of the conf tourney.  The only ranked team they've played all season is Missouri State twice and they lost 56-62 and 62-75.  They played no P5 teams. 

They will struggle with Texas' talent and size.   Their biggest player (6'4 C) only plays 5.3 mpg.  Otherwise, their front court is usually a 6'0 F and a 5'11 F (25.7 and 20 mpg).

I actually, as much as I criticize her, expect Collier to dominate the first 2 rounds.  She actually has 2 inches on the tallest frontcourt players for Maryland too - but they'll shoot us out of the gym.  They shoot 48.9%, 40.8% from three and 79.3% FT.  They average 91 ppg. 

We will likely see Katie Benzan (50% 3PT shooter) who committed to transfer in from Harvard to play for Karen and then backed out and Chloe Bibby, who played for Vic. 

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Also no clue who they will hire. 

They can stay in house and go with Assistant Coach Colton Coale (yay nepotism!) or former Missouri State assistant coach Jackie Stiles, they can stay in the family and in house with Courtney Paris, they can be dicks and try to steal current Texas Associate Head Coach Dionnah Jackson-Durrett, who played at OU from 2001-2005. 

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1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Womens tournament is routinely chalkier than the men’s tournament. It still baffles me that a #16 over a #1 happened on the women’s side before the men’s 

It’s true but not even a 9 over 8 or 10 over 7 which are historically easy picks bc those teams are evenly matched.  (Yet) 

Hopefully no 11 over 6 happens today IYKWIM. 

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