Lady Griz just about to nail down hosting tournament

[GrizBBIsKing]

Lady Griz 90, ISU 72.


Good chance Lady Griz and Bengals meet up in second round of tournament. I betting ISU will win their first game in tournament, and they are positioned in the 4th seed spot.

Mandy and Sonya score 36 points, 18 a piece. Mandy had 11 assists. Sonya shot 7 - 10, 1 - 3 3pt line, 3 - 4 from freethrow line (poor for her).
Mandy shot 5 - 11 from field, 2 - 5 3 pt line, 6 - 6 from freethrow line.

Britney Lohman also had a very good game scoring 16 points, and 6 rebounds.

Lady Griz shot 89.5% from the line, 17 - 19.

ISU, a team that lives and dies from the 3 point line, was 3 - 21 from downtown.

Both Doma and Lightfoot held below their averages.

Lady Griz just need to beat N. Colorado and Sac State to win the regular season and host. Odds of that are VERY VERY VERY good.

Of course, if they beat NAU, the rest of the games until tournament are meaningless. I would rather beat NAU and get it over with.

Side note: kind of bummed that Davidson lost last night. Davidson spent a lot of time in the top 50 in RPI, but last nights loss lowered them to the mid-50's. That means, Lady Griz have not beaten a team in the top 50 of RPI this year. Rest of Davidson's schedule is kind of weak, so may have to rely on their opponents success to bring Davidson back to top 50. Anyway, RPI is certainly not the biggest factor in seeding anyway. Lady Griz win out, could be the best seeding ever. But, that win against a top 50 team in RPI certainly would help.

 

[G_Beasly]

Congrats to the Lady Griz on another solid win, I wonder, has coach Selvig had a better season than this one so far?

 

[GrizBBIsKing]

Congrats to the Lady Griz on another solid win, I wonder, has coach Selvig had a better season than this one so far?

28 - 1 in 1987-88. Lost to Stanford in second round of NCAA tournament. Was only a 48 team field, Lady Griz had a first round bye to get to the second round.

There were three years Lady Griz came close to the sweet 16. All three years they got to the second round. Last two were when the NCAA tournament was a 64 team affair: The 1987-88 season, 1991-92 season (lost to USC in a game they should have won, but Cate's shoulder went out for the umteenth time of the year), and 1993-94 lost lost to Stanford that was right down to the wire. I think it was only a 3 point loss.

Lady Griz was ranked 17th in the nation at one point in 1994. I still consider the 1993-94 team as the best one. Didn't rely on any one player like this years team (Mandy), or the 1991-92 team (Cate). 19987-88 team could be ranked up there, but women's basketball back then just wasn't as strong then as it is now. Of Course, Women's basketball is stronger now than in 1994.

Next year's Lady Griz team will be better and will have the chance to be the best ever. I am almost 100% sure that there won't be nearly as much reliance on Mandy next year. Sonya, Clossen, Britney, Dana, and the rest of the girls will be so much better. I look so much for next year, but this year isn't over. I think this year's seeding could be high enough to give Lady Griz a legitimate chance to get to the second round.

But, this team could be the best team ever, but women's basketball has grown quite bit since the 1987-88 season. Already mentioned that the NCAA tournament field grown from 48 to 64, but more schools added women's basketball since then, and/or put a lot more effort into improving the quality of the teams.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

The NCAA Tournament Format over the years has left me confused at times, especially when it comes to remembering which year had how many teams invited, how many seeded teams etc. that I have to check histories a lot of times just to refresh my memory or to understand what was going on in the first place.

For instance, prior to 1996 there were only supposedly the eight top teams ranked & seeded, for the 32, 40 & 48 team format, then 16 out of the 64, first conducted in 1994.

Essentially 'GrizBBIsKing' is correct, in saying that the LG had a first round bye back in the 1987-88 season, in which they finished with a 28 - 2 record, their best to date, record-wise. They must have been one of the eight to receive such recognition in a field, supposedly, of 40 teams as 48 is listed as invites from 1989 till 1994 when 64 teams were involved. Or something like that.

As I recall, wasn't it like a two overtime game resulting in a 74 - 72 loss?... with Stanford's guard combination of Jennifer Azzi and Sonja Henning, a freshman at the time I believe, playing an almost peerless game with only about eight turnovers?...other players like Jill Yanke, Kate Steding & Trisha Stevens being part of their front court. The LG had a pretty good chance until they missed the front end of a one-and-one twice over in the overtime periods.