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[Falconboy]

If I hear ESPN short change us one more time, I think I might drive to West Layfatte and kick Dave Barnett's ass. I'm so sick and tired of hearing how UCLA has the better athletes and they are clearly a superior team to BG. I think Women's basketball is a helluva lot more politics then Mens basketball.

Now lets go BG kick some bruin ass!

they have the better athletes, theres no doubting that, but they are not a superior team than us...thats just bull sh*t

What would define superior for you then. I guess I would say that they are definitly superior than us in many ways and not so superior than us at all in others. I think thats a fairly accurate way to describe it.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

If I hear ESPN short change us one more time, I think I might drive to West Layfatte and kick Dave Barnett's ass. I'm so sick and tired of hearing how UCLA has the better athletes and they are clearly a superior team to BG. I think Women's basketball is a helluva lot more politics then Mens basketball.

Now lets go BG kick some bruin ass!

they have the better athletes, theres no doubting that, but they are not a superior team than us...thats just bull sh*t

What would define superior for you then. I guess I would say that they are definitly superior than us in many ways and not so superior than us at all in others. I think thats a fairly accurate way to describe it.

In my book, superior means vastly better. They are not that much better than us. They are more individually talented, but we are just as good of a team as UCLA. They just outshot us yesterday.

[goofyeuph]

At best those were to evenly matched teams that played on Sunday. If, and that's a really big if, IF UCLA is such a "vastly superior team" they didn't show it yesterday. They must have sent their practice squad out east for the first couple round until the "real" competion starts later in the tourney.

[HoustonFalcon]

UCLA was not that superior to us at all. The difference in the game was a tough stretch in the first half where they made their shots, and we didn't. Plain and simple. They made the extra pass to get the open shot, and they hit it. A superior team doesn't let an inferior team get back into the game. I would love for us to play them again, because there is no doubt in mind that we can beat them. Inferior athletes don't create as many turnovers and steals as we did Sunday. They might have had a couple of athletes that were better than us, but it wasn't their whole team. That is crap. Don't shortchange our girls by saying that we can't compete with a team like UCLA and have a chance to win. I'm not buying that one at all. I've seen teams beat better athletes, and I know that our girls can do the same. Do I think that we could have been a final four team, no, I don't think so. But I wouldn't put UCLA in that category either. I may be wrong, but I didn't see that Sunday from them. They will have a game where they aren't hitting those shots, and they will lose. They played a great game on Sunday, and they deserved to win, but they can't shoot that way all tournament long.

[Falconboy]

UCLA was not that superior to us at all. The difference in the game was a tough stretch in the first half where they made their shots, and we didn't. Plain and simple. They made the extra pass to get the open shot, and they hit it. A superior team doesn't let an inferior team get back into the game. I would love for us to play them again, because there is no doubt in mind that we can beat them. Inferior athletes don't create as many turnovers and steals as we did Sunday. They might have had a couple of athletes that were better than us, but it wasn't their whole team. That is crap. Don't shortchange our girls by saying that we can't compete with a team like UCLA and have a chance to win. I'm not buying that one at all. I've seen teams beat better athletes, and I know that our girls can do the same. Do I think that we could have been a final four team, no, I don't think so. But I wouldn't put UCLA in that category either. I may be wrong, but I didn't see that Sunday from them. They will have a game where they aren't hitting those shots, and they will lose. They played a great game on Sunday, and they deserved to win, but they can't shoot that way all tournament long.

I would infer that we are all unjustly tying athletism and talent together too much maybe. Yeah we have beaten teams that are more athletic that us on an individual player level many times , like EMU for example I would say is a more "athletic" team than us but the line between their "talent" and our is very blurred. I would say that we are definitly are a more talented "team". I guess what I'm saying is that when we have to go up against not not only better athletes than us but even better raw physical talent as well , thats were we run into trouble and our weakness in that area really shows up like in a game with UCLA. Our weakness in that area doeson't show up vs a team like EMU cuz their don't play well as a team like we do and there arn't better than us talent wise, but UCLA is. Having said that , we still had a very good showing them if you want to throw out the bad shooting from 3 and the FT line which I will.

You may find one girl on an EMU team or a Kent St. that could play on a power conference squad but you don't see 3,4 and 5 of em. Thats UCLA , UK and like teams. Also having better talented athletes or physical talent doesn't always equate to not turning the ball over at all , thats the coach how well their coach has worked on them on certain things. We do a better job of this than 99% of the teams we face and we were also better than ucla in that category too. But thanks to either our nervousness and/or UCLA's quicker , athletic team they negated our offensive opportunites off of any TO's we forced by getting back quickly and getting excellent position for blocks or forcing us into harder layups angles and the like. This all is not a slam on our ladies , its a true fact as I see it that doesns't make our girls a bad or inferior in the team sense.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

You may find one girl on an EMU team or a Kent St. that could play on a power conference squad but you don't see 3,4 and 5 of em. Thats UCLA , UK and like teams.

Ummmm, I'm pretty sure everybody on UK's and UCLA's roster could play for a power conference team. Since that's what they're currently doing.


You aren't wrong though. UCLA is more talented than we are. I think our team play evens that out though and the teams as a whole are about at the same level. Like has been said, if UCLA would've shot the ball against us like they did against Purdue, we win by double digits.