It is starting to piss me off how often they let earlier games overrun Oregon games. I don't get espnews. Funny how other more famous teams get a pre game show.

Not good

Well, tough loss, but consider the location and the competition.

Graves and crew are bringing women's CBB back.

South Carolina lost in Austin. An excellent and well-coached Longhorns team is odds-on to win it all.

But UCLA may be Bruin-up another idea.

Leading up to today, the 16 teams playing their opener at home all won.

Today, so far, 7 of the 8 teams (including Texas) won at home. The 8th game is underway - UW at TCU. 8 more women's home games will be played tomorrow.

These 7 games today did not involve powderpuffs. But, Texas thumping Oregon was not even the high margin which included home court wins of 54, 42, 29, 23. Until there is more parity among the women's teams, and the games are played on neutral courts, I can't get too excited about a blow out loss.

Unless you’re the one doing the thumping, the women’s tourney doesn’t work very well until the elite 8 imo. The men’s tourney just had a 1 seed lose on opening weekend…simply never happens with the women’s tournament.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by JabbaNoBargain

4 hours ago, JabbaNoBargain said:

Unless you’re the one doing the thumping

True, don’t recall any complaints when Sabrina & Co. were whitewashing their way through the first two rounds in Eugene.

Kelly Graves note: it’s always troubled me the way Kelly could not keep nor succeed with the amazing recruits the Sabrina years opened to him. It was like watching the stock market of the 1920’s hit 1929.

Then I read his remarks following the loss to Texas where he said, “For us, we were kind of a homegrown team in terms of, we had players that had smaller roles last year, and they moved into bigger roles. We didn’t just go out and pay and plug and play kids, and I’m proud of that. . . .”

Like that market of the 20’s, the post-Sabrina years were just a little too much, and a little too fast, but it’s now beginning to feel like he’s finally getting his feet on the ground, and on his own terms: homegrown, and built from within. Like it.