Tag: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament

March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Final

6:00 ESPN South Carolina-Mississippi State Well, I must say the urgency has gone out of it. Today we are celebrating a Birthday (not mine) and a friend and I are headed out to Dinner and a Movie. I’ll be back whenever. A UConn loss is rare and memorable because they have an excellent program and …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Semifinals (Round of 4)

7:30 ESPN2 South Carolina-Stanford First of all, South Carolina. Secondly Stanford (whom I’d normally root against because they tolerate Condoleezza Rice) because it sets up the Samuelson sibling matchup. 9:30 ESPN2 UConn-Mississippi State C’mon. What about ‘Go Huskies!’ are we not understanding? UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe. Fight, fight Connecticut, It’s vict’ry, …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 2

7:00 ESPN Oregon-UConn UConn, Have you been reading? Sorry Ducks. 9:00 ESPN South Carolina-FSU No pick, just cannon fodder.

March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 1

12:00 ESPN Notre Dame-Stanford Sibling rivalry. Muffet must go. 7:30 ESPN Baylor-Mississippi State Both Dangerous. Mississippi State is an unknown quantity. Baylor has already lost to UConn.

March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Semifinals (Round of 16)- Day 2

11:30 ESPN Maryland-Oregon Dangerous. You should root for Oregon. 1:30 PM ESPN UConn-UCLA UConn. You know who to root for. 4:00 ESPN South Carolina-Quinnipiac The biggest underdogs in the Tournament, Women or Men. You should root for Quinnipiac. 6:00 ESPN Oregon State-FSU Oregon State because Florida.

March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Semifinals (Round of 16)- Day 1

Women are stealing the show during March Madness, but the NCAA continues to neglect them by Lindsay Gibbs, Think Progress 3/24/2017 When most people think about March Madness, they only think of the behemoth men’s tournament, which generates over $1 billion in advertising revenue alone, more than even the NBA playoffs. When they do think …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Quarterfinals (Round of 32)- Day 2

Look. Baylor are jerks. As bad as you think UConn is they didn’t crush their hapless opponents 4 to 1 just so they could outscore UConn by 3 after the Huskies had already put up their numbers. Nope, Connecticut only crushed their opponents 2 to 1 so they could outscore everyone who played on Day …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Day 2

So this is one of the pieces I owe you from Saturday. UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe. Fight, fight Connecticut, It’s vict’ry, Let’s go. Connecticut UConn Husky, Do it again for the White and Blue So go–go–go Connecticut, Connecticut U. C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-C-U-T Connecticut, Conneticut Husky, Connecticut Husky Connecticut C-O-N-N-U! (Repeat) U-Conn Husky! Time …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Quarterfinals (Round of 32)- Day 1

I won’t kid you, there are some dangerous teams in this group. Thing is, Lady Huskies have beaten every one of them previously this year with the exception of Mississippi State whom they did not play. The things to worry about are injuries, foul trouble, and slow starts (too many of those this year). The …

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March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Day 1

The Broadcast of the Women’s Tournament is organized a little differently. All the games share the one channel, ESPN2 (not even the good one), and you don’t get to see the whole game because they concentrate on the most competitive in a given time slot and merely sample the others. Unless you’re the UConn Huskies. …

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