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Texas Women’s Basketball 2022-2023: Get on board or get out the damn way

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At least he owns it. It wasn’t the NCAA conspiracy with seeding or anything incredibly stupid   

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I supposed I asked for this  

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8 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So she did or did not have surgery?

any medical people to opine on the danger of such a hematoma?

she did not have surgery.  She had some back luck where it could have been drained and she could have been back pretty quickly, but the blood coagulated so it could not be drained and had to naturally be removed by her body.  She was on the slower end of that timeframe, unfortunately.

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1 minute ago, someguy said:

she did not have surgery.  She had some back luck where it could have been drained and she could have been back pretty quickly, but the blood coagulated so it could not be drained and had to naturally be removed by her body.  She was on the slower end of that timeframe, unfortunately.

I’m glad she had a good attitude about it. Vic didn’t rush her and it’s good to have her back for the tournament. Just having her on the court is a huge lift for this team 

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No. 4 seed Texas (26-9, 14-4 Big 12) vs. No. 5 seed Louisville (24-11, 12-6 ACC)
NCAA Tournament Second Round Game 35
Monday, March 20, 2023 – 6:00 p.m. Central
Moody Center – Austin, Texas
TELEVISION: The game will be nationally televised on ESPN. Eric Frede (pxp) and Tamika Catchings (analyst) will call the game.
RADIO: The game will be carried on 105.3 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will call the action.

ESPN:
Texas and Louisville already met once this season, back in a November tournament in the breezy Bahamas. The Cardinals got the better of the Longhorns that day when both were ranked in the Top 10 and penciling in expectations for deep runs in the NCAA Tournament.
After a long season with ups and downs for both, they meet again Monday night on the Longhorns' home court with a lot more at stake: a trip the Sweet 16. And it promises to be one of the most physical games of the tournament.

"Both teams have that aggression in them,” Texas point guard Rori Harmon said. “Its part of their culture, that’s how we both play.””
Fourth-seeded Texas (26-9) has advanced to the Elite Eight each of the past two seasons. Fifth-seeded Louisville (24-11) has reached the Elite Eight or Final Four in each of the last four tournaments.

Louisville players say they know the first meeting between the teams, which the Cardinals won 71-63, is is now mostly meaningless. For starters, the Longhorns were missing Harmon, the Big 12 defensive player of the year and the spark plug for everything they do on both ends of the court.
Harmon missed the first five games of the season with a toe injury and Texas lost three in a row without her. Everything she does for the Longhorns was on full display in their first-round win over East Carolina when she had eight assists in the first half alone.
Texas shooting guard Shaylee Gonzales, a transfer from BYU, handled the point the first time Longhorns and Cardinals met. She's much happier now roaming the wings for open 3-pointers. “We were all new, we had never really played with each other," Gonzales said. "Obviously super glad that she's back because I was super stressed to be thrown into that position.”

Louisville's starting backcourt of Hailey Van Lith and Mykasa Robinson will be challenged by Harmon's elite quickness, but Van Lith seemed to relish the matchup. “Rori changes their team a little bit in the fact she has elite court vision,” Van Lith said. “Wearing her out in the backcourt, full court defense is going to be big for us."
Van Lith took over the fourth quarter in the first round against Drake, scoring 13 points over the final four minutes to rescue the Cardinals from their first opening-round loss since 2006. She and Robinson will have some big bodies to contend with under the basket against Texas. The Longhorns are the biggest team in the Big 12 and throw those bodies at the basket all game.

Even with that size, Texas coach Vic Schaefer said he'll push his post players to be ready for a fight.
“We've got the biggest team in the Big 12, and so even in the NCAA Tournament, we've got to take advantage of that,” Schaefer said. “We cannot be bullied. So I’ve challenged our kids to not let that happen. You’ve got to fight back. You just do.”
“They can turn turnovers into layups in a hurry. Both of us will put a premium on taking care of the ball,” Schaefer said.

Most of Louisville's recent success in the NCAA Tournament has started on the Cardinals' home court. Except for the pandemic tournament of 2021 that was played entirely in Texas, Louisville had hosted the first two rounds in the previous six seasons.

Louisville Schedule:
vs Cincinnati W87-68
vs IUPUI W84-62
@ Belmont W75-70
vs Gonzaga L79-67
vs 3Texas W71-63
vs S Dakota St L65-55
vs Longwood W100-37
vs 4Ohio State L96-77
@ MTSU L 67-49
vs SIUE W 105-32
@ Kentucky W86-72
@ Bellarmine W73-43
@ Pitt W77-53
@ DePaul W81-67
vs Syracuse W86-77
@ Duke L63-56
vs Georgia Tech W63-55
vs Pitt W76-69
@13 Virginia Tech L81-79
@ Florida St W82-75
vs Boston College W73-65
vs 20NC State L63-51
@ Wake Forest L68-57
@ Syracuse W79-67
vs 11North Carolina W62-55
@ Virginia W63-53
vs Clemson W81-69
@ 10Notre Dame L78-76
@ Boston College W62-52
vs Miami W71-57
vs 10Notre Dame L68-65
vs Wake Forest W74-48
vs 10Notre Dame W64-38
vs 8Virginia Tech L75-67

vs12 Drake W83-81
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9 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Ole Miss has an early lead on Stanford. If they pull off the upset I wouldn’t be mad about it 

29-20 at half. OM is +8 in rebounds and have taken 14 more shots than Stanford, plus 12 turnovers already. Woof 

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2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Our regional is wide open now. We have a path to Dallas.

Walz, the team that just upset Stanford, Caitlin Clark or Duke

Quite the path lol

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I had not looked at the women's bracket so I flipped to ESPN to watch sports center. Saw that Stanford was on a run to tie the game and thought, well at least I don't have a rooting interest and then they showed the bracket and it made the end of this game nerve racking.

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Stanford had made the Sweet 16 every year since like 2008. And Tara Vanderveer has twice now been a #1 seed and failed to reach the Sweet 16 (the infamous #16 seed upset and this one) out of the 5 times it’s happened. 

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Tonight will be a challenge, but:

  • We likely won't turn it over 19 times with Rori (8 of those were Shaylee and Morris handling the ball) and should generate more than 16 turnovers forced, considering Rori is back playing
  • We held Louisville to 71 points without our best defensive player, and in November, when Vic's defense hasn't really gelled like it has in March.  Louisville only shot 43% from the field and 36% from three.  
  • Louisville really doesn't have the depth inside that we do - Texas will throw 6'4, 6'4, 6'4 and 6'2 at Louisville inside.  I expect another big game from Jones in the post and Gaston at forward, considering Moore went 7-10 for 21 points.  
  • Jak played 19 minutes, Amina played 10, Faye played 8 and Gaston played 18.  I expect that to look vastly different.  
  • We are playing at home, with the Moody crowd.  Texas only lost 2 games at home all year.  Louisville 9-5 on the road. 
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1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Texas is not locked in to the game right now.

Need to slow down. Trying to turn it into a track meet. The home run pass to Shaylee that got picked off. Holle getting chased down from behind in transition was embarrassing. 

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