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4 one seeds and 3 two seeds in the Elite 8.
I saw where Green Bay got smoked by Baylor :0
(03-28-2011 11:40 AM)Robert C Wrote: [ -> ]I saw where Green Bay got smoked by Baylor :0

I thought they did quite well, losing by only 10. A & M beat Georgia by around 40 in the other game.
(03-27-2011 11:03 PM)mjs Wrote: [ -> ]4 one seeds and 3 two seeds in the Elite 8.

I noticed the same thing. #1's and #2's were completely blowing out the #15's and #16's by 35+ while in the men's those #15's and #16's can stay in the game for at least a half.

I think the difference is size. The highly ranked women's teams all have a major size advantage (and there are just simply not that many tall girls period) and it's not quite that much contrast with the men's teams. I mean even SWAC teams have 6'-9" players with size...but in Women's nobody has any good 6'4" plus post players except the top 10 teams in the country and after that it's a huge dropoff.

You see the same thing in high school girls basketball. Lot's of embarrassing blowouts in the girls games and not a whole lot in the boys games.
(03-28-2011 11:49 AM)mjs Wrote: [ -> ]
(03-28-2011 11:40 AM)Robert C Wrote: [ -> ]I saw where Green Bay got smoked by Baylor :0

I thought they did quite well, losing by only 10. A & M beat Georgia by around 40 in the other game.

I agree...I was surprised they stayed within 10 points of Baylor!

I did see where size played a huge factor which I knew it would as Griner burned them for 40.
I saw a piece on TV that compared Griner with other women players. According to the piece, the average woman player is 5'7", which makes Griner more than a foot taller than the average woman player. If you interpolated this over to the men, if a man was that much taller than the average, he'd be over 8 feet tall.
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