Women's Final Four thread

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned you can put an asterisk on the women's college game. Not having a 10-second violation is just plain stupid.

 

I'm more offended by the ridiculous paint jobs on the women's Final Four court. At least on the men's side, the courts at the past few Final Fours have been uniform and understated (Final Four logo at midcourt, free-throw-shooter's semicircle painted a color that matches the trim around the out-of-bounds line, maybe a stain inside the 3-point arc).

The women's court renders it unwatchable. Every year, it's something ridiculous out of the Oregon School of Court Design. Hate the stained Rocky Mountains on one sideline. Hated the 1950s Indiana lane markings last year in Indy. Hated the giant fucking orange they stained onto 80 percent of the floor in Tampa/St Pete a few years back, as well as the huge guitar that covered the entire playing surface in Cleveland in 2007.

Hate it, hate it, hate it all.

 

The football scorebug and on field-graphic which both have down and distance information are puzzled by this statement.

 

Lino, the women's game lags in popularity so they have to resort to gimmicks. The lack of a 10-second backcourt violation really hurts credibility too.

 

You should feel blessed that you haven't had to watch a junior-college women's mismatch. Watching a 3-25 team (and I've had to watch several 3-25 teams at this juco) play a 25-3 team can be painful because:
1) When the good team presses the hell out of the shitty team, it takes them 17 seconds to get the ball into the front court.
2) Often, because they struggled so much just to get the ball into the front court, the shitty team loses track of the shot clock, so that team hears the shot-clock buzzer go off and then wonders what the hell happened.

My guess is that early on in the history of college women's 5-on-5, the good teams were so far above the shitty teams that the powers that be realized that there could be times where a team would never get the ball into the front court in just 10 seconds. And they used the 30-second shot clock to rationalize the lack of 10-second count. [/crackpot_theory]

 

The women's game had a shot clock before the men's game did in the 1980s.

 

Notre Dame hanging in there, surprisingly.

 

Between the floor and Doris Burke over explaining every sequence this game is very distracting to watch.

 

Griner going for 40-20?

 

Scott Wedman, Otis Birdsong and Phil Ford all approve of the "name below the number" look tonight.

 

Close your eyes and listen to Britteny Griener's voice . It sounds like a man