Womens 2008 Final Four Preview

Well, the women get to play their final four games tonight. First up is the #1 Connecticut Huskies vs the #4 Stanford Cardinals. Maya Moore vs Candice Wiggins, well not really as I doubt that Moore will be guarding Wiggins or vice versa. Still it should be a very good game for oh, until about mid way of the second half, at which point I fully expect the Huskies to steadily increase their lead until the final buzzer.

The second game features the #3 Tennessee Volunteers vs the #6 Louisiana State Tigers. This will be the third game between these two conference rivals and will give one of them double bragging rights as this rivalry will continue to grow. In the past I would say that this is a slam dunk win for the Volunteers because of Pat Summit's ability to out coach her SEC rival, but not this year. This year the other coach is pretty good and I expect him to be up to the task. LSU squeezes out a victory.

March Madness 2007 edition VII

Its for all of the marbles tonight. Will OSU get its revenge and beat Florida and ride off into the night with its first national championship in decades? My money is on Florida, well if I had any money to spare on a bet.

As for the women, it looks like all things are go for another Rocky Top win against Rutgers. See you after the game!

March Madness 2007 edition VI

Well, two games left in both the mens and womens games. Here we go, Florida beats UCLA by 1 thanks to a missed shot by UCLA at the Buzzer. Georgeotown, out works OSU and goes to the finals setting up a big east / SEC for all of the marbles. Oh, yes, Donovan takes the Kentucky job on tuesday.

For the women - Tennessee beats Rutgers for the entire thing. Working on a couple of things, see you later.

Women BB march madness III

Well the women will have two teams in their final 4 decided tonight. Personally, I think that the UCONN-LSU game will be quite good especially since it is a rematch from earlier this year. Here's my picks for this round

2007 Womens NCAA Elite 8 Round

Dallas	Dayton	Fresno	Greensboro
UNC	Tennessee	UCONN	Rutgers *

* - Originally I had Vanderbilt going to the finals.

The Ole Miss - Tennessee game should be interesting, but HOF Summit will rocky top her way to another Final 4.

Women BB march madness II

So, started off 25 and 7 in round one only to go 10 & 6 in round 2. Now, here it is sweet sixteen time for the women and even though I have 7 of the great 8 teams alive, I've already lost a final four team in Vanderbilt. Still, a c+ for the picks so far.

Just because I am in a blogging mood today I will go ahead and post my great 8 picks for the women:

2007 Womens NCAA 3rd Round

Dallas	Dayton	Fresno	Greensboro
UNC	Tennessee	Connecticut	Duke
Purdue	Oklahoma	LSU	Bowling Green*

* - Originally had Vanderbilt
This is chalk so far except for Bowling Green.

Women BB march madness I

Well, here are the womens picks for the first round. Not going to go into a lot of background right now. Will post later hopefully. On to the picks:

2007 NCAA Womens First Round

Dallas	Dayton	Fresno	Greensboro
UNC	Tennesse	UCONN	Duke
GW	Pittsburgh	New Mex.	Temple.
Tx. A & M	Mid Tenn	Baylor	Mich. Stat
Washington	Ohio St	N.C. State	Rutgers
Georgia	Marquette	Xavier	Louisville
Depaul	Oklahoma	LSU	Arizona St.
Purdue	TCU	Florida St..	Bowling Green
Notre Dame	Maryland	Stanford	Vanderbilt

more later sometime today, right now I have to get some sleep.

Creme W BB Projections 1

Charlie Creme has came out with his first projections for the Womens NCAA Basketball tournament. Since his bracketology postings change every time I thought I would reproduce it every time he updates here at Peace Love. That way we can see how they progress.

Dayton

Bracketology 1

Seed	Fresno	Greensboro	Dallas
1	Duke	ACC	Big 12	Maryland
16	NEC	SWAC	A - Sun	MEAC
8	C - USA	Rutgers	MWC	MAC
9	Pittsburgh	Washington	Boston College	Temple
5	Texas A & M	A- 10	DePaul	Michigan St.
12	Western Ky	Hofstra	TCU	Horizon
4	Louisville	Vanderbilt	Stanford	California
13	Southern	MVC	Montana	Big South
6	Marquette	Kentucky	Texas Tech	Florida St.
11	WAC	Sun Belt	CAA	America East
3	Pac-10	Baylor	Purdue	Georgia
14	WCC	Mid-Con	Southland	MAAC
7	NC State	Texas	South Florida	Virginia
10	Indiana	BYU	Kansas St.	Nebraska
2	SEC	Big Ten	LSU	Big East
15	IVY	Big West	OVC	Patriot

Bids By Conference

Conf	Teams	Conf	Teams
ACC	Duke, UNC, NC St., Maryland, Florida ST., Virginia, Boston College	Big East	Connecticut, Rutgers, Louisville, Pittsburgh, South Florida, DePaul, Marquette
Big 12	Texas A & M, Baylor, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Nebraska, Kansas State	SEC	Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, Kentucky, Vanderbilt
Pac 10	Washington, Arizona St., Stanford, California	Big 10	Indiana, Ohio St., Purdue, Michigan St.
Mount. W.	TCU, New Mexico, BYU	Atl. 10	Temple, George Washington
Sun Belt	Middle Tenn. St. Western Ky.	Colonial	Delaware, Hofstra
NEC	Quinnipiac	SWAC	Jackson St.
MVC	Illinois St.	C-USA	Rice
Southern	Chattanooga	WAC	Fresno St.
Mid-Con	Oral Roberts	WCC	Pepperdine
Ivy	Penn	Big West	UC Santa Barbara
A-Sun	Belmont	MEAC	Coppin St.
MAC	Bowling Green	Horizon	UW-Green Bay
Big South	Liberty	Big Sky	Montana
America E.	Hartford	MAAC	Marist
OVC	Samford	Southland	SE Louisiana
Patriot	Army

Last four in Kansas St., W. Kentucky, TCU and Hofstra.
Last four out UCLA, Missouri, Southern Cal., and Notre Dame.

34 of the teams come from six conferences and 21 come from 3.

Great 8 for UConn women

1 minute left in the game, Turner made a two, followed by a Georgia 3, now a Strother foul leads to 2 free throws. Baker makes 1 to go up by 1. Turner missed a tough 3, but rebound and pass to Strother for a 3, Georgia misses a three but rebound and pass to baker in the corner and Georgia up by 1, Time out Uconn 27 secs. left.

Reset shows no time outs for Georgia, 3 for Uconn. UConn needs to work this down for the last shot with the ball in Strothers or Turners (28 points for her tonight) hand for the shot. Its time to ride the seniors.

Uconn offense looks horrible and Turner finally gets the ball and fires up a 3 that goes in the net with 1.8 secs left. Georgia's desperation 3 hits the iron and falls off. What a game!!!!

Go Huskies.

Women UCONN vs Georgia

The eyes of huskyville turn to the womens tournament and the UCONN women are in the midst of a 16 - 2 run that has them trailing Georgia 25-24. Charde Houston (Geno's most inconsistent and hair graying sophmore) just got her 3rd foul and now heads to the bench.

Update 1: UCONN takes a two point lead. The comeback is now complete.

Update 2: Coach Landers of Georgia gets a technical and now Uconn leads by 6.

Update 3: Halftime: Uconn goes on 26-7 run to end the half and now leads 34 to 30.

Update 4: First TV timeout and huskies maintain their 4 point lead. Since halftime husky players have been diving on the floor, double teaming like their dinner is at stake, etc. Lots of activity and it is paying off in maintaining the lead. Only bad news, Houston picked up her 4th foul early.

Update 5: Keep on trading baskets, Uconn got up by 7 at one point but Georgia went on a 7 - 0 run to tie it, then Uconn scored and now back and forth baskets. Uconn is not working its offense very well though.

Update 6: Now Crockett gets her 4th foul, Georgia has a chance to tie up the game again.

Update 7: 1 point game less than 3 minutes left in the game. Houston made a tough shot, then missed a tough shot which led to a Georgia score. 2:00 minutes left, Uconn up by 1 with the ball.

Women Sweet 16 is set

Well the sweet sixteen is now all set with only Ohio St. being the big upset in the second round.

Day 4 of the womens

I think I will stick to my original picks for this round as I see Purdue, Rutgers, Tennessee, Duke, Georgia, UCONN, Ohio St. and Maryland all moving on to the sweet 16. My heart wants me to pick Hartford over Georgia, but coach landers team has all the horses in this race. Look for Hartford to do better than expected though.

Womens day 3 recap

Well as I predicted earlier UNC, Baylor, Michigan St., DePaul, Stanford, Oklahoma, LSU and Utah all won. Not much sleep over the last two days which meant I dozed off watching the games. So I can't really say much about how these teams advanced but the net is alive with recaps. (what are you going to do fire me?)

Womens tournament round 1 and look at todays round 2

Not looking too bad on the tournament picks. Went 25 -7 for the first 2 days, surprises in the first round were TCU (11 seed), New Mexico (11 seed), and Tulsa (12 seed). Another 11 seed to win was Hartford, but not a surprise since I picked them to beat Temple.

Second round starts today look for UNC, Baylor, Michigan St., DePaul, Stanford, Oklahoma, LSU and Utah (had this as a Mid. Tenn. vs Arizona St. game) with Arizona St. winning but I like how Utah is playing. Mini upset in the making 5 over 4 seed.

Womens First Day

Real quickly only missed 3 games out of the first 16 played on Saturday. Vanderbilt, Utah and BYU all beat the teams I had picked. No big upsets among any of those teams.

Womens tournament

Real quickly wanted to post my picks for the women tournament:

My official sheet of intergrity goes like this:

1st round
UNC Duke Ohio St. LSU
Louisville Michigan St. Boston College Washington
UCLA Kentucky Mid. Tenn. St. Tulsa
Purdue USC Arizona St. DePaul
Texax A&M Hartford Florida Florida St.
Rutgers Georgia Baylor Stanford
Old Dominion Virginia Tech St. John's Iowa
Tennessee UCONN Maryland Oklahoma

2nd round
UNC Duke Ohio St. LSU
Purdue Michigan St. Arizona St. DePaul
Rutgers Georgia Baylor Stanford
Tennesse UCONN Maryland Oklahoma


Sweet 16
UNC Michigan St. Ohio St. LSU
Rutgers UCONN Maryland Oklahoma

Great 8
UNC UCONN Baylor Oklahoma

Semi Finals
Oklahoma UNC

Finals
Oklahoma 82 to 76 for the score over UNC