Historic loss for Tennessee women in NCAA opener

[billhill999]

Ball State, seeded 12th in its NCAA debut, beats Tennessee, 71-55. Fifth-seeded Lady Vols, the defending NCAA champions, lose before the Sweet 16 for the first time in the school's history.
Associated Press
March 23, 2009


Tennessee's NCAA women's title defense ended sooner than expected, wrapping up the worst season ever for Pat Summitt's storied program.

Ball State, seeded 12th, stunned the two-time defending national champions, 71-55, Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Bowling Green, Ky., ending one of the more remarkable streaks in college basketball history.

The fifth-seeded Lady Volunteers (22-11) had never before lost on the opening weekend of the tournament, going 42-0 through the years.

It was one of several firsts:

* First defending national champion to lose in a first round. Old Dominion won the title in 1985 and failed to make the tournament the next year.


* First NCAA loss by Tennessee before the Sweet 16.

* First appearance by Ball State (26-8) in the tournament.

"I thought we were tentative, maybe uptight," Summitt said. "But you have to give credit where credit is due and that's to the Ball State basketball team. They had a lot more toughness. They beat us to loose balls. They made shots."

 

[billhill999]

Pat Summit and Tennessee are not the face of women's NCAA basketball anymore.

Geno and UCONN is.

 

[Chenmen]

< do not care

 

[billhill999]

Then why post?

 

[whalewager]

Billhill watches girls basketball.

Haha

 

[knucklecup]

Thanks for the post, billhill.

Interesting.

 

[MRPOOPS]

Whats the line on Rutgers women vs Auburn today?

 

[johnboland]

Some of those girls are really great athletes. Tennessee was always the "North Carolina" of womens basketball so this upset would be like North Carolina mens team being beat by Radford in the first round huh.

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

Pat Summit and Tennessee are not the face of women's NCAA basketball anymore.

Geno and UCONN is.

Absolutely not true at all. Tennessee is still the top dog & face of women's basketball. Connecticut is up there with them but has not taken over from them. They have not even won a title in almost 5 years while Tennessee was the two time defending champions.

 

[billhill999]

Whats the line on Rutgers women vs Auburn today?

RU - 2
Be careful if betting the Scarlett Knights, they are like 2 notches down from a couple of years ago.

Auburn looks like the play here.

 

[SC2009]

um some of you are just ignorant... Tennessee is STILL the face of women's basketball. They won the last TWO national championships. They are playing a team of freshmen and sophomores... this team will be very good in the future. Tennessee lost their star player in the paint at halftime, trailing by 1 at the half. They had a lead when she came out of the game during the first half...

 

[billhill999]

Who is undefeated, and winning at a 31 point pace at this time?
Thank you.

 

[SC2009]

Who is undefeated, and winning at a 31 point pace at this time?
Thank you.

how many natioanl championships do they have in the last two years? 0

Tennessee 2
Connecticut 0!

 

[knucklecup]

Candace Parker.

 

[hogjawl]

Geno is a classless shack of shit..... and if you have followed any of his recruiting tactics you know my statement has merit!

 

[MackDonald]

Womens' basketball uses a "biddy" or "junior" sized ball; that makes their game a different sport with a different standard.

This is one of the best kept secrets in high school and college sports. If they were to use a regulation sized basket ball everyone would see how "klutzy" they really are not to mention upper body strength.

 

[bigtendominator]

Womens' basketball uses a "biddy" or "junior" sized ball; that makes their game a different sport with a different standard.

This is one of the best kept secrets in high school and college sports. If they were to use a regulation sized basket ball everyone would see how "klutzy" they really are not to mention upper body strength.

First of all, who doesn't know they use a smaller size ball?

Second, what is your point. Nobody is forcing you watch or wager on it.

Does your statement have a point?

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

Geno is a classless shack of shit..... and if you have followed any of his recruiting tactics you know my statement has merit!

You are spot on with this. This is the main reason why Pat refuses to play them during the regular season anymore.

 

[MackDonald]

Womens basketball has a differant standard than Mens basketball:

First of all, who doesn't know they use a smaller size ball?

Second, what is your point. Nobody is forcing you watch or wager on it.

Does your statement have a point?

Womens volleyball uses the same size ball as mens volleyball.
Womens golf uses the same size ball as mens golf.
Womens tennis uses the same size ball as mens tennis.
The same standards are in play (for men & women).

Womens basketball uses a (smaller) ball so...
My point is that womens basket has a differant standard (a smaller ball) making it a differant game.

They never mention this point on ESPN or any other network for that matter but they sure try to make the game the equivalant of mens basketball.

No one is forcing me to watch the game .....and I don"t. I don't wager on
the game, even when they offer a line around tournament time.

If you follow womens basket or, perhaps coached a girls teams or had a daughter play the game, I could understand why you are aware of the fact that they use a smaller ball but I can assure you that most followers of the sports are [not] aware of this fact (conduct an honest poll sometime with knowledgeable people who follow sports; you'll be surpised as to how many do [not] know this fact).

If you wager on the game (when they offer a line), good luck to you.

 

[MRPOOPS]

Rutgers women going back to Final Four.

Stringer may beat GENO this year..

Have a feeling...