Embrace it! We earned the 8, now go make the most of it.
NCAA Tournament "at large" candidate University of Richmond Women
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Extremely, extremely well deserved and appropriate 8 seed. I wonder how close they were to getting a 7.... presumably if we won the conference tourney?
The reward, of course, as everyone is mentioning, is to get shipped to LA to line-up to play the #1 overall seed. Seems a bit underhanded in a multitude of ways. I don't know.
On a personal note, I was able to see women's tennis play in Vegas a couple days ago .... and I guess.... am now going to LA for a couple days. Congrats ladies... and good luck. Time to shock the world.
The reward, of course, as everyone is mentioning, is to get shipped to LA to line-up to play the #1 overall seed. Seems a bit underhanded in a multitude of ways. I don't know.
On a personal note, I was able to see women's tennis play in Vegas a couple days ago .... and I guess.... am now going to LA for a couple days. Congrats ladies... and good luck. Time to shock the world.
Lady Spiders got deserved respect. As I’ve been trying to tell anyone all week who had us near the bubble…we weren’t close to it at all & weren’t.
LA nice trip for the team. And if u get that first W u get a high profile matchup. Our red sweaters may have to stay up late tho.
LA nice trip for the team. And if u get that first W u get a high profile matchup. Our red sweaters may have to stay up late tho.
Right off the bat during show too. Boom. But man that video feed must have been on a massive delay at our viewing party. Nothing. They did get a later reaction shot of us tho.
Tarrant and team went thru GaTech and Indiana to get to sweet 16. GT is going to get tired of the Spiders.
I've had some time to think about this.... and I got this dead wrong. Of course, we want to see them advance as far as possible and make a Sweet 16, but they actually deserve no less than the ultimate spotlight this year. 100% agree with you GKiller. They handle their business.... and they get to play the #1 overall seed in the country at Pauley Pavillion. They deserve nothing less than that.
Very true. I suspect we know and respect UCLA and they know little about us. Gotta jump GT so we can get a shot.
Is anybody here planning to go to the game? I’ve been waiting for the Spiders to come to LA for a decade. I’m not missing this chance.
Only weird people and presidential children used to go there.
Although Matt Henry, Odom’s top asst did & he seems normal. I think when Sidwell started focusing more on basketball that it got better.
Richmond men played out there at UCLA not too long b4 that must have just missed.
Enjoy. Recommend going to the official open ncaa practice/shoot around. I assume the women have that too.
Roussell gets it & hit on on all the key things as expected.
Sounds like everyone associated w team genuinely very excited to go to LA. And why not. Who wouldn’t. Adds juice. I replied to SF when he wasn’t a big fan of such a potential trip. Said I didn’t mind it great trip for team. & besides Raleigh not sure it matters for fans. We get good night time slots too. 7:30 Friday is our game.
Yeah it’s a business trip we need to win 1st game but honestly we have a few girls on team we can market LA. We should. Play it up.
We wear white that’s something too as Coach mentioned. Means nothing at tip but right now it’s cool. The “at large” really has some cachet too. That’s another reason I was keen on locking up bid early rather than student17’s lose late in reg season model.
Btw student17 check out what Roussel said re: scheduling. top 50 top 50 games more more. Meanwhile u want to avoid top50ish for the men. He would be same way if coaching men.
Go Spiders. Beat LA.
This was during my senior year of highschool, before I had been admitted so was not yet following the Spiders.
I’m definitely planning on getting there early, I’m really looking forward to it.
Out of respect for this team and their accomplishments, I’m going to try and keep my MBB talk limited on this thread but re: scheduling. My whole point is that you schedule for the team you have. Our women’s team was good enough to win those games so I’m all for scheduling 10 Q1s/Q2s for them. I understand your point in another thread is that scheduling hard is the only way you can get an at-large. I partially agree with that. Scheduling well + winning those games = at large chances.
You may ask, how do you know you will win the games if you don’t play them? You can’t 100% but you base it off historical data. Same way you don’t know 100% if a team anticipated to be Q1 at the beginning of the season, will be. When was the last time our men’s team had stellar chances of an at-large after our OOC? We hardly ever capitalize on our OOC chances, often losing to teams we shouldn’t or not winning enough games against good competition. It’s like wanting to ski down the double black diamond mountain, before you can comfortably ski down the lower level mountains. Same with basketball, let’s first actually see if this team can consistently perform to the schedule they’ve been given before ramping up the difficulty. Rather than starting off with all Q4s, I felt a good starting point is 1-2 Q1s, 2-3 Q2s. I think that’s more than reasonable based off our lack of OOC success in the past. If we get to the point like our women’s team who actually wins these games a decent amount and then goes on to have a great regular season then sure, let’s schedule all Q1 games in OOC for MBB.
You may ask, how do you know you will win the games if you don’t play them? You can’t 100% but you base it off historical data. Same way you don’t know 100% if a team anticipated to be Q1 at the beginning of the season, will be. When was the last time our men’s team had stellar chances of an at-large after our OOC? We hardly ever capitalize on our OOC chances, often losing to teams we shouldn’t or not winning enough games against good competition. It’s like wanting to ski down the double black diamond mountain, before you can comfortably ski down the lower level mountains. Same with basketball, let’s first actually see if this team can consistently perform to the schedule they’ve been given before ramping up the difficulty. Rather than starting off with all Q4s, I felt a good starting point is 1-2 Q1s, 2-3 Q2s. I think that’s more than reasonable based off our lack of OOC success in the past. If we get to the point like our women’s team who actually wins these games a decent amount and then goes on to have a great regular season then sure, let’s schedule all Q1 games in OOC for MBB.
Women got screwed with the seeding and location. BUT - one argument could be, win the A10 tourney, and maybe we don't get this game. Only good news is Georgia Tech has to make the trip out west as well. So both will be dealing with the travel and time zones. Could have been really bad had we matched up with a Cal or Utah. And then getting by first round - getting overall 1 seed. Again - maybe if we won the A10 tourney - we move up to a 7 seed, which again matches you up with a 2 seed anyways.
Key here is - win 1 game. Not sure our women have ever won an NCAA game? So take that first step, win a game and build on that.
Key here is - win 1 game. Not sure our women have ever won an NCAA game? So take that first step, win a game and build on that.
It's way too hard to schedule for the team you think you have. You have to get every good game you can and build momentum. It's really contingent on having some kind of consistency of success because we are not able to get games now bc we are an anchor and our coaches are not well connected. VCU, St Mary's, SDSU get games bc they will help your ncaa resume and have been winners.
