Miami. California and Georgia Tech advance in ACC WBB Tourney
A new ACC Tournament location but predictability in the first round action as #12 seed Miami, #10 seed California and #11 seed Georgia Tech survive to play tomorrow. A "thanks for playing, sorry... you aren't staying" to #13 seed Stanford, #15 seed Wake Forest and #14 seed FSU.
Here's how it went down.
Miami 83 - Stanford 76
Miami and Stanford got the tournament going with an exciting first game that went to overtime before Miami got the win 83-76. The two teams went back and forth in quarter win...with Miami handily winning the first quarter 19-10. The Trees weren't ready to hp on the plane just yet, though and roared back with a second quarter 29-18 ten minutes to take a 39-37 lead at halftime.
Miami must ave gotten a heck of a halftime pep talk, they came out and outscored the west coast school 28-13. It looked like the Canes were going to rollover the Trees but Courtney Ogden and Hailey Swain came roaring back to tke the fourth quarter with a ferocious defensive effort, Stanford holding Miami to just five points while putting up 18. Ogden's layup tied the affair at 70-70 with 19 seconds left in the game and Miami could not get a shot off in their final regulation possession. Miami did not score in the final 6:21 of the quarter.
In the overtime, Miami grabbed the lead and never surrendered it to win 83-76. Miami had three players score 20 points or more in Ra Shay Kyle (25), Gal Raviv (20) and Amarachi Kimpson (20). Stanford got 22 points out of Ogden. Miami advaances to face Notre Dame on Thursday.
California 75 - Wake Forest 52.
Would another "left coast " team bow out after the first day? In game two on Wednesday, the lowest seed in day one participants at #10, California and the highest seed #15 Wake Foret looked like they were playing "first team to 50 wins" . A dearth of ofensive firepower had the score at 11-10 Golden Bears. Samika Walker (yes, Samaki Walker's daughter) led the charge for the Cal squad, one of four in double figures with 17 points and the Bears finally came out of hibernation and controlled the second quarter 21-11 and went into halftime ahead 32-21.
UC ersed ny doubt on which school was going to advance with a blistening third quarter and outscored The Demon Deacons 29-12 to go up 61-32. Wake did manage to win the final quarter, but the game was long over and The Tress weren't leaving (sorry) winning 75-52. They advance to Thursday to go up against Syracuse. Cal sank all 12 free throws they attempted and shot 45% for the game.
Georgia Tech 72 - FSU 60
The Bees jumped out to an early lead over FSU in the third game Wednesday and won going away. This one was 22-16 after the first quarter and Ga. Tech led almost all the way in the thumping of Nole Nation.
GT increased the lead to 10 at the half at 39-29. FSU's 21 turnovers in the contest didn't do them any favors and was plagued by 38% shooting in the contest. FSU did win the third quarter 19-17, and was down by just eight, but could not drive past the Atlanta based Tech.
La'Nya Foster led GT with 18 points and Erica Moon added 17 for the YellowJackets. Sydney Bowles had 16 in defeat for FSU.
With the win, Georgia Tech advances to face #6 seed Virginia Tech Thursday.
The games will be on the ACCN again Thursday, starting at 11 a.m ...with #8 seed Virginia facing #9 seed Clemson. Following that one, Miami and Notre Dame go to battle at appox. 1:30 pm. Next, we'll see seven seed Syracuse facing #10 seed Cal at around 5 p.m and the evening ends with Tech battle..Gobblers vs Bees. tipping around 7:30 p.m.
What will we see tomorrow? The Cavs beat the Tigers by 10 in regular season play, I'd be surprised if Virginia does not advance. Notre Dame is primed and ready to released Hildago on Miami and I see UND moving to day three. Cal vs Syracuse is the toss up game in my reckoning...the Orange won a high scoring 90-87 contest in the regular season. Ending day Three action, is the Tech battle and I'm going with the homestanding GT to pull the upset over the #6 seed Hokies. VT won the regular season matchup, but Georgia Tech is the "home team"...so to speak... and I think the Bees sting the Hokies this time around.
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LAX ROMPS FSU 15-5 AT THE L.L.S.
Louisville was on fire early in this one yesterday and roared out to a 12-2 halftime lead over visiting FSU. The Cards (3-4, 1-3) got their first ACC win of the season in a romp on campus.
The Cards had seven student-ahletes score in the win, led by Maggie McMahon with four goals and Ella Berg with three.
OK, a noon start on a Wednesday isn't exactly going to fill the bleachers at Louisville Lacrosse Stadium and going head-to-head with the first day of the ACC WBB Tournament didn't help either.
Nevertheless, the Cards got a crucial win that just might ensure they make the post season LAX tournament. The contest box score shows the match ran almost four hours..my guess there was there were lightning delays in the area or someone goofed up the stat reporting.
Sorry, we had no one there to report of take photos. With no photographer currently on staff, we'd welcome any fan photos you all want to send us in the future.
pauiie
They were morons for moving the WBB ACC Tournament out of Greensboro. ACC = All Crap Colleges. The GeorgiaTech fan base represents about as well as a blind dog hunting possum.
ReplyDeleteSEC fan.
Agree with the SEC fan. Gas House Arena is a ghost town. At least Greensboro supported the tourney and you had four huge drawns within a hour drive in UNC, NCST, Wake and Duke. BTW, Liz Kitley is a keeper.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they keep Muffet on those broadcasts? Someone explain it to me.
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