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I meant to say THE chip. 🤣

For sure they will be the favorite and are good from 3s but I don't think they've been battle tested much this year. Even with a similar roster to last year, recency and feeling the heat matters. Every team has at least 1 bad night in the tournament. I wish we could play them in the Final 4 to catch them before some tough games but even if we do play them in the finals, Our physicality and ball pressure will catch them off guard for a half. Azzi and Ziebell are an incredible 3 pt shooters but I trust Jordan and Rory to chase and challenge them all game. Plus we hedge/show every time off picks so they won't get a lot of wide open looks. The only real bad matchup is Strong. She will get hers and more but the key to beating UConn is shutting down Azzi and everyone else which is possible with our team. UConn being undefeated adds an additional element of pressure on them as well. Of course we'll still have to beat Kentucky and UCLA again, but things just seem aligned to give us a real chance this year with having home crowds until the Final Four and I'll take us against anyone on a neutral court.

The women start their journey to a chip tomorrow but I really do believe this is the year for Vic and the women. They are battle tested and everyone is playing well right now. The team has a lot of versatility to matchup well against all kinds of teams which bodes well in the tournament. We have the easiest draw of the #1 seeds and we're playing in Austin and Dallas. Plus, we've pretty much beaten every contender except UConn and no team does well against the Texas pressure defense the first time they play Texas. UConn hasn't felt heat like our defense brings every game. So many things lined up this year, it's just up to the women to stay focused every game.

Good day for Moore and Hill. Hill's got a real chance now for the 1st round running 4.52.

The stories and narratives of this Olympics has probably made it one of my favorites of all time. The hockey teams winning in dramatic fashion, Shiffrin finally getting that monkey off her back, Meyers Taylor finally getting the gold in bobsled, Jordan Stolz just starting his Olympic legacy, and Alysa friggin' Liu (and the other women figure skaters) showing us all that you can succeed in sports being a vessel of pure joy and sportsmanship. Milano Cortina A++++.

We did just barely enough to get the W. Oldacre really needs to work on the drop step layup. She missed too many today. The girls look like they're running on fumes, but that could be Tennessee's crazy pace. Maddie, Lee, and Crump have been in a slump the last 2 games. Need to get their strokes back. Hopefully in the next couple games Vic can give Rory, Maddie, and Lee some rest.

She didn't play well in the minutes she played but Vic only gave a hint by referring to vets that didn't play hard. What you do know is it wasn't Booker, Preston, Crump, Sidberry, Oldacre, or Cunningham given they played most of the 2nd half. So that leaves Rory, Lee, Carlton, and Judd as potentially the players he's referring to.

We’ll be fine in Knoxville. Different team and a different matchup. Blakes and Galvan may be the best backcourt duo in the nation.

I love it too but this team had been fighting hard outside of couple games this year. There’s a toll that’s taken by this time of year when you only played 7 players for an extended period early in the season. Our focus wasn’t good but Rory looked tired tonight and you put her on the best player in the nation. Players missed too many bunnies on offense but the scout was bad with the defensive matchups. Not adjusting that quick enough allowed them to balloon a huge lead. When a team is shooting 75% on you, you gotta make an adjustment which we didn’t. Vandy did to us what we usually do to teams so kudos to them. We’ll be more ready next time like you saw against LSU.

Scout did a poor job defensively. Rory matching up on Blakes was bad and Lee bit on every move Galvan gave her. We stayed in that match up for most of the first half which led to 60%+ shooting for them. Even switching Lee on Blakes and Rory on Galvan would have made much more sense. Bri and Maddie held them more in check in the 2nd half. This felt like the LSU loss where I thought the scouting and gameplan was bad as well. The heart comment Vic made was clearly at Carlton, Lee, and Rory tonight. Rory and Carlton looked tired tonight and Lee was trying but failing defending Galvan. It’s a shame because Lee had her 3pt stroke tonight and we needed it late in the game but because of how it went defensively, she didn’t play at all in the 4th.

She had a bad matchup and she didn't look like she had the normal Rory energy tonight. It's been a long 2 weeks of tough games so it might have caught up to her given how much she put into the other games. She'll be back with vengeance if we face them again.

She wasn't guarding Galvan outside of a few switches. It was Lee getting juked by her and Blakes owning Rory. Just weird we matched up like that.

I'm disappointed in that performance. I don't think Vic and the coaching staff did a good job preparing the team for the game. We made some adjustments at half to spread it out and go inside to success but starting the game we had bad matchups on defense. Putting Rory on Blakes and Lee on Galvan didn't make sense to be me and they took advantage. It would have been better to put Lee on Blakes and Rory on Galvan give then the size and quickness matching up much better. We stayed that way much longer than we should. Later Preston and Maddie guarding the 2 stars with Sidberry playing PF was better in the second half but the damage had already been done. Also the refs were vastly favoring Vandy. They had 3x the FT we had which was ridiculous. Blakes and Galvan are special players but we didn't play like Texas today. We never really recovered from their first punch out of the gate. The attention to detail on defense and the focus on offense was not there at all in the 1st half. Way too many open shots and missed bunnies which is very unlike us. Rory looked tired today. It's been a tough schedule the last 2 weeks so just chalk it up to a bad game. We can beat them in a rematch on a neutral site.

Great win! We didn't get sped up this time around and Booker got going way earlier. Rory was a beast on defense tonight. She was determined and super focused. Matching her up with Williams was a key to winning this game. With Crump back, we can win some of these games Jordan Lee goes invisible. Lee better watch out because if she keeps struggling, Crump is going to take her starting spot. Imagine if Lee and Crump were both hitting shots. We'd be pretty unstoppable. Sidberry played really well in the 2nd half. She needs to move head of Judd on the depth chart.

Jeff you've pretty much summarized how the team has consistently played in the SEC schedule and what we should expect the rest of the year. It's matchup dependent to an extent but this team lives and dies by Swain shooting efficiently and Mark not having an off night. Matas will be in foul trouble (minus a bad game plan by the opponent not to attack him) every game and Pope will be invisible 50% of the time. We just got to hope that these hot nights by Pope or Heide pop up at the right times. That said, we look like we're tournament bound which is more than I could say a month ago which speaks to the job Miller has been doing of late.

Crump ultimately will replace Booker when she leaves and flourish but she'll start for Carlton when we play small ball and sub for Booker/Lee. The only other way for her is to beat Jordan Lee out of her spot and I don't see that happening.

Those 2 look like they have potential but Bjorn is better and there's no way Vic is going 13 deep. I think he'll go 9 max and he favors experience most of the time. The talent is immense though. A good problem to have.

There's been so many TV shows to date. Top 50 for me. Michael J Fox is a Top 15 sitcom lead though for me.

The scoring options next year are going to be incredible in the starting lineup and off the bench. Can you imagine: Starting 5 Booker Lee Carlton Preston Bjorn Bench Crump Crittendon Cunningham Spaight And that's not including any transfers. Everyone of these women can score efficiently and will put crazy pressure on the opponent's defense. You add Vic's defense and that's a championship looking team if I've seen one.

Most interested in seeing if Lee can get back on track. She’s been slumping the last few games now and we will not contend for a chip without her playing well with confidence. Also, I want to see Crump get integrated more into the offense off the bench.

CJ any news on offensive analyst hirings? I feel Sark could still use a few more eyes and data to help him game plan and understand our team better at times.

What I loved - Recruiting/Portal coverage, Tony Hills/Marcus Myers analysis, Watch with us, Lunch with Coach, Tailgates, guests from opponent's media, CJ's growth as a reporter and critic, Matt's added production What could improve or I could do without - Some redundancy in the shows (might be purposeful but just repetitive for folks that watch all the content), Grades shows Overall A+ as usual.

I disagree that he's not athletic, but yes there will be more athletic defenders that will give him problems. His issue is he's strong but he doesn't know how to use that strength with good footwork. His footwork is awful right now. That's why he travels so much when he throws his shoulder into the chest of the defender. If he just worked on mastering a strong drop step, he would be so much more dangerous. Same goes for defense. His footwork is just awful and always puts him in a bad position which usually results in a foul. He's still got a lot of development to undergo.

The Kentucky guy had a couple blocks on him but there were a number of times he had the guy pinned down or had the jump hook and just missed some easy shots. You have convert on those or draw a foul when you have the position which he did neither.

Once again defending the pick and roll killed us. We probably had 15+ fouls that results from trying to defend the PnR with Matas/Traore and Pope/Wilcher. Simeon Wilcher's +/- has got to be awful this season. He's a liability on defense and hasn't scored much for this team. I get Heide was sick but playing Wilcher a lot of minutes is not a recipe for success. Matas has to capitalize on some of those bunnies he missed in the 2nd half. That was the difference in the game. Swain was great but Pope was gun shy all night.