The women, who have been ranked in the top 7 the entire second half of the season, have finally learned where they slot into things. Here\u2019s the rundown (Central Time; will update as I get more info):<\/p>\n
March 20\/21 @ TIME: 15 High Point<\/p>\n
March 22\/23 @ TIME: 7 Illinois\/10 Colorado<\/p>\n
March 29\/30 @ TIME (probably playing UConn here)<\/p>\n
April 3 @ TIME: Final Four<\/p>\n
April 5 @ 2:30PM: Championship<\/p>\n
Mikayla Blakes<\/a> enters the tournament the best scorer in the country<\/a>, an entire point-and-a-half clear of second-place Audi Crooks<\/a>, and SEC Player of the Year<\/a> and likely National Player of the Year Runner-Up behind Sarah Strong<\/a> at (in my opinion overrated) UConn<\/a>. Aubrey Galvan<\/a> enters as the SEC Freshman of the Year and likely National Freshman of the Year Runner-Up behind Jazzy Davidson<\/a> of USC<\/a>. The Commodores will be led by SEC Coach of the Year, and likely National Coach of the Year, Shea Ralph<\/a>. The roster lacks a little bit of defense, and we sometimes start games slow, but the core of the team is maybe the strongest in the country. We are largely considered no. 6 in likelihood to cut down the nets, and anything less than our first Final Four since 1993, would really be a disappointment this season.<\/p>\n There are 4 teams that sit above the rest in terms of likelihood to win a title this year, and we\u2019ve beaten one of them (SEC Champion Texas<\/a>) as well as LSU<\/a>, who is currently considered the next most likely team to win it all. After us, it\u2019s a decent drop before you get to the field. As a 2-seed, we won\u2019t have to face a 1-seed until, at the earliest, the Elite Eight.<\/p>\n Looking at the Nashville site, I am not really worried at all about TEAM in the First Round. Turning towards the Second Round, Illinois has been struggling lately. I\u2019ll need to look into Colorado a little more. It gets difficult to predict anything past that, given the sheer number of possible outcomes. I guess for now we just focus on getting out of Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women, who have been ranked in the top 7 the entire second half of the season, have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18920,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-206235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}