Not enough in the tank for Clemson women' basketball today in a 14-point loss to No. 1 seed Duke, but Shawn Poppie still believes his team has done enough to earn an NCAA Tournament bid.
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On this women’s conference tournament weekend I gave to throw it back to 365 days ago and the most confounding piece of sports memorabilia I have ever seen:
"You probably don't even know what Dukes of Hazzard is, do you?" -- Kara Lawson, out of context.
Also caught up with Syracuse General Manager Mykala Walker, a Duluth, Ga. native working in a newly created role as part of a bounceback season for the Orange:
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More ACC Tournament from yesterday:
Watched some of the action in the stands with fans, including a few local girls high school basketball coaches who brought their teams, to get their take on the event coming down here:
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That entire first half felt like Hannah Hidalgo was struggling to get to her spots or really get into the flow of the game and then you look up and she's got 14 points, five boards, three steals and a couple assists lol.
For The State: Clemson WBB wore down Virginia at the ACC Tournament, a game Shawn Poppie said they approached as win-and-in for the NCAA Tournament.
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Strongly advocating for a WNBA style reset timeout to hit college basketball. Nothing wrong with advancing the ball but we don't need to stop the game for a minute every time a team wants to inbound from halfcourt in crunch time.
Ah yes, overtime in game one when you're there to cover a later game, the surest sign that it is in fact, March.
The Stanford Tree
TREE
The view from media seating at the ACC women’s basketball tournament with Miami’s mascot, Sebastian the Ibis, in the row in front.
ACC Tournament day one: Ibis blocking my view.
ACC women’s basketball tournament court and arena at the practice the day before it starts.
Really weird! Kinda can’t believe this is even a thing!
It's gonna be Sarah Strong and like, I get it, but I think if I had a WBB NPOY vote I'd go with Mikayla Blakes. There is just....nothing to do with her when she gets downhill.
"I could never have imagined it."
Talked to a few Gwinnett County natives about how unlikely and special a home conference tournament is for a league that has exclusively done this in the Carolinas for almost 50 years:
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On the tournament itself coming to Duluth, some info on the student ticket program, the local high schools the teams will be practicing at and more:
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A newspaper sports cover with multiple stories about the ACC women’s basketball tournament
For my metro Atlanta people (specifically Gwinnett County), a large print section today all about the ACC women’s basketball tournament coming to Duluth, with a couple stories from yours truly. Support your local newspapers!
Breezy win for the Cards tonight, and still a chance at a regular season ACC championship.
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Cards up 36-24 at the half. The 20 Louisville points off 15 Georgia Tech turnovers are pretty much the beginning, middle and end here.
Nice whiplash after covering high school games the last two nights seeing the first shot go up, writing it down and then realizing I do not, in fact, have to stat every possession myself.
McCamish Pavilion during Louisville-Georgia Tech women’s basketball game.
Louisville-Georgia Tech women’s hoops for the AP tonight. Frisky enough start for the Jackets, down 18-13 after a quarter against the 10th-ranked Cards.
Great play by Werenski to find the space there. If there's an actual lesson from roster building it's that you need mobility and some skill on your backend. Felt like Canada was "Makar and six stationary player stoppers" and there you've got a third pairing D jumping into the rush and making a play.
Every American defenseman is more likely to hit a long stretch pass to create something than every Canadian defenseman not named Makar and I think they'll have an easier time finding a chance.
(Also it's really, really stupid we're deciding a gold medal like this lol)
On one hand Canada has all of the speed you could ever want, on the other hand USA has like five puck moving defenseman and that is how you find space and opportunities in what is obstensively a "who can generate and finish an odd man rush?" challenge.
In basketball 3v3 is its own entirely separate event with different rules and strategy, barely even the same sport. Hockey is like "what if we keep this different version of the sport in our pocket but only use it when it absolutely matters the most"
At the risk of being an old man yelling at a cloud 3-on-3 for the gold medal is bruuuuuuuuuuuutal.
Mitch Marner, who I have always said and believed was a very clutch playoff performer while wearing a Leaf.
I, like everyone else, finding out the Olympics use 3-on-3 overtime and am appalled. Why are we using the gimmick intended to end games faster when the stakes are this high! Play actual hockey!
Sacha Washington misses at the buzzer and Georgia pulls off the top-5 upset, 76-74. That's an enormous win for the Dawgs and dall but knocks Vandy out of a chance to win the SEC title now two games back with four to go.
A truly horrendous Vanderbilt possession with a couple clunky screens and no spacing, and Shea Ralph breaks up her own offense by calling another timeout with 3.3 seconds left. That was going nowhere fast.
