OU's draw and the tournament

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Midwest bracket where Baylor is #1.

It's actually a pretty good draw for us at a 6 seed.

We have a chance to win a couple of least and maybe we face Tennessee and can take them down too!

Face UCLA, likely, in second game, if we win the first.
 
We can hope, however we did not fare too well against UCLA at home in mid-November while we still had Whitney.
 
Also, assuming OU wins their opener, they would face UCLA on a neutral court in Ohio. I agree ... for a No. 6 seed, OU has a good chance to get to OKC.
 
Sooner Suzie said:
Also, assuming OU wins their opener, they would face UCLA on a neutral court in Ohio. I agree ... for a No. 6 seed, OU has a good chance to get to OKC.
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Agreed. Probably the best we could have done. Just gotta go play ball!
 
I don't think we could have asked for a better draw. There's no chance of making the Final Four, but a pretty good chance of making it back to the Oklahoma City Regional. Yes, UCLA smashed us good early in the season, but our posts are much better now than then, and if everything I've been reading is true, excessively physical play will be penalized in the tournament.
 
It wasn't long ago on this forum that I said that the Sooners were just as likely to be a 6-seed as an 8.

The big difference? An 8- or 9-seed is about the worst possible seed for getting through the first and second rounds of the tourney. A 6-seed was the best feasible seed for OU to gain the cohesion and confidence to string wins together in The Dance.

The last dozen OU games were as grueling a struggle as any team faced down the stretch. Despite Charlie Creme's insistence that KU wouldn't get in field, the Jayhawks are in for the same reason that OU got a nice seed. The Big 12 was brutal this year. The nation's top conference had greater depth of quality teams than any other this year.

Especially nice about the berth in Columbus is that it is the only site without a host team in the field. And it could be worse than being placed in the OKC regional, regardless of the names on the jerseys of the top-rated seed.
 
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It wasn't long ago on this forum that I said that the Sooners were just as likely to be a 6-seed as an 8.

The big difference? An 8- or 9-seed is about the worst possible seed for getting through the first and second rounds of the tourney. A 6-seed was the best feasible seed for OU to gain the cohesion and confidence to string wins together in The Dance.

The last dozen OU games were as grueling a struggle as any team faced down the stretch. Despite Charlie Creme's insistence that KU wouldn't get in field, the Jayhawks are in for the same reason that OU got a nice seed. The Big 12 was brutal this year. The nation's top conference had greater depth of quality teams than any other this year.

Especially nice about the berth in Columbus is that it is the only site without a host team in the field. And it could be worse than being placed in the OKC regional, regardless of the names on the jerseys of the top-rated seed.
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The Big 12 was only brutal because it wasn't that good, other than Baylor. I will be surprised if the Big 12 has more than 2 teams in the Sweet Sixteen.
 
Baylor was so good that they made the rest of the league look bad at times. The Big 12 was very deep. You could lose to any team. Did any other conference get 70% of their members in the tournament?
 
But if the seedings hold up, there will only be one Big 12 team in the sweet 16. We're about to find out if we're underrated because we kept beating up on each other.
 
I won't be surprised unless there are fewer than one or more than three. Baylor was unbeatable at full strength by anybody else in the country, which meant that every other Big 12 team was going to be 0-2 in the conference from the start.

In the last three seasons an average of 5 teams have reached the Sweet Sixteen without being seeded to win their subregions. Quite clearly the Big 12 has excellent chances of sending more than one into the second weekend.
 
Well, IMO I-State got screwed and I'll be surprised if they get out of playing Gonzaga on their home court with a win. Is Spokane a permanent spot in the women's tourney? Isn't this the 2nd or 3rd time that the 1st/2nd round AND regional is being held in Spokane in the same tourney??? Ask A&M about playing Gonzaga in Spokane!
 
UCLA has been good all year. Last loss was PAC 12 finals to Stanford a 1 seed 51-49. Taking the sunshine out of it I don't see us beating UCLA if we win the first one.
 
UCLA has been very good all year. Last loss was to Stanford 51-49 in Pac 12 finals. They beat Cal a 2 seed in Semis. Taking the sunshine out I don't see us beating UCLA if we win the first one.
 
tycat947 said:
Well, IMO I-State got screwed and I'll be surprised if they get out of playing Gonzaga on their home court with a win. Is Spokane a permanent spot in the women's tourney? Isn't this the 2nd or 3rd time that the 1st/2nd round AND regional is being held in Spokane in the same tourney??? Ask A&M about playing Gonzaga in Spokane!
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I don't think Gonzaga is quite as tough as they were when A&M lost there. If Poppins, Prins and Christopherson can stay out of foul trouble and they don't go completely cold, they should advance.
 
jerry said:
UCLA has been good all year. Last loss was PAC 12 finals to Stanford a 1 seed 51-49. Taking the sunshine out of it I don't see us beating UCLA if we win the first one.
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jerry said:
UCLA has been very good all year. Last loss was to Stanford 51-49 in Pac 12 finals. They beat Cal a 2 seed in Semis. Taking the sunshine out I don't see us beating UCLA if we win the first one.
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You can say that again.

Even if this happens it will give them a little experience and hopefully help for next year. If we won two games I'd be as happy as anyone.
 
I would love to be wrong, but I think we lose to UCLA again, sadly. Again, I would love to be wrong. I still remember being wrong as I was listening to the Miami tourney game on a flight home a few years ago begging OU to pull off the win :D
 
Everybody seems to be real sure we will win the first game! We need to do that first.
 
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