NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Game Night Open Comment Thread: Georgia Lady Dogs v. Stanford Cardinal

And I, too, remember the debacle of the 1978 Bluebonnet Bowl…and remember a skinner receiver for Stanford named Ken Margerum who killed us in the 2nd half.

I hate Margerum and have dedicated myself to butter ever since…

By the way, we won a baseball game. Happy Days!

these other sport comment threads are the perfect way to beat the no-football-blues.

Beat the Fighting Beemers!

(My uncle used to work at Stanford. After visiting him a few times, I decided that should be their mascot.)

Can someone explain the Butler Bulldogs? Their coach looks like he’s about 29, they don’t look particularly athletic in a few positions…but here they are, going to the Final Four (in their hometown of Indianapolis, no less.)

I guess a good coach with a “team” concept can do alright. Anyway, great underdog story going on.

Make us proud tonight!

“Butler’s in Indiana and managed to recruit the great-grandsons of the guys depicted in Hoosiers.” I’d also point out that their 15 man roster has 1 freshman. Experience usually goes a long way come tournament time. Cornell for example had 9 seniors on this year’s squad.

is going down in a Big Blue Ball of Flame.

… or else I would have pulled a tankertoad and claimed that it would take nothing short of a bus accident on the way to the arena to stop the Cardinal from beating the Lady Dogs tonight. And now, with the score 30-12, I feel vindicated.

Andy Landers has done wonders at Georgia, and I actually attended more women’s basketball games when I was a student at Georgia than men’s games (hey, it was a question of watching a final four program… or Ron Jirsa). On this night, though, Stanford is like Southern Cal and Georgia is like Vanderbilt… or, at least, South Carolina.

Rantavious Wooten had a big day and Mettenberger completed 70% of his passes!

Oh, there’s a basketball game tonight?

. . . but this does not appear to be going well.

Free throws:
Georgia: 2 of 4 (50.0%)
Stanford: 5 of 5 (100.0%)

2-pt. field goals:
Georgia: 6 of 31 (19.4%)
Stanford: 15 of 34 (44.1%)

3-pt. field goals:
Georgia: 1 of 9 (11.1%)
Stanford: 2 of 7 (28.6%)

Dang.

… but the coaching matchup most undoubtedly is. Tara Vanderveer is just as much of a coaching legend as Andy Landers. All great coaches have “down cycles,” and Vanderveer’s was most certainly during Georgia’s most recent “glory years” in the mid-90’s.

Coach Landers is in the “down cycle” now, but seeing these two coaches on the same floor is kind of like having Pat Summitt on the same floor with Coach Landers, or Jody Conradt from Texas… a legendary coaching matchup.

We’re not going to stop. We’re gonna fight. We’re going to get back in this thing. We’re going to fight. We’re going to do the things we said we were going to do (points to board). We haven’t done ‘em yet. We haven’t done ‘em. We’re going to start with our guards. Our guards are going to pick it up. You’re either going to pick it up, or I’m going to yank your tail out. I want some pressure on their guards. Let’s go!

Very nice. Too bad it seems like the girls weren’t listening.

. . . on the earliest I am allowed to post an instantaneous ill-informed roundball wrapup? Do I have to wait ’til the game officially ends?

I agree with Mark Richt on the “no smiles until the clock shows all zeroes” rule, but surely we can frown prematurely?

I was just debating with myself: does the fact that I’m having a hard time flipping the channel back from “Superbad” make me a bad fan. I mean, I know it doesn’t make me an Irish R&B singer, awesome as that would be. But does it make me a bad fan?

that by “Superbad” I mean the movie starring Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, not the women’s basketball game, a Diamond Dogs game, or the Gym Dogs. Because here lately watching something “superbad” could mean any number of sporting events in Bulldog Nation.

all grade A multitaskers unless it’s actually football season…

I’m redoing a bedroom into the guest room and just checking in periodically.

. . . is available here.