I’m pretty sure everyone plays quarters except college men, for some reason.
LSU was just hitting everything in that second quarter. It was ridiculous.
And a shout out to the Kansas Jayhawk women’s team who won their first WNIT!
Women also don’t have 1-and-1 fouls, like the men still do. It is an attempt by the NCAA to get the women’s rules closer to international rules, without making the changes too drastic (they still use the 12-foot-wide free throw lane instead of 16, and three steps is still traveling).
And for those of you wondering why Clark got that technical for nonchalantly tossing the ball back, it wasn’t unsportsmanlike conduct; Iowa had already been given a team warning for delay of game, so when she tossed the ball behind her rather than handing it to an official, that was Iowa’s second delay of game offense, which is an automatic technical.
What is a 1-and-1 foul? The bonus before the bonus+?
Yes. In the Men’s game, the 7th team foul in each half results in the 1-and-1 bonus. If the foul is a non-shooting foul, the player who has been fouled shoots a free throw. If he makes it, he gets another free throw. If he misses, it’s a live ball.
The ‘double bonus’, or bonus+, happens on the 10th team foul of each half. Each foul from that point on results in two free throws.
So does the women’s game just go straight to the Bonus+?
Yes, the 5th foul in each quarter is the double bonus, two free throws.
Woot woot!
We are the champions!
We are the champions!
Go Huskies!!
KittenKat
Class of mumble-mumble (Oksy, Class of '80)
If there is to be expansion, I think 96 teams is the only way to go. I wouldn’t do pods or anything like that. It would be a lot simpler to have an initial round of 64, with the top 32 getting a bye, then reseed it into a 64 team tournament.
I don’t support expansion, but if it has to happen, that would be the best way to avoid punishing the best teams and rewarding the mediocre teams. Although I could be convinced that giving the 32 conference champions a bye for the First 64 would also be fair.
The problem with reseeding it is, you’re not giving the 32 winners that much notice as to where and when their second game would be. You have to wait until all 32 first round games are over, then go through what could be a lengthy seeding process - you still have to take into account restrictions on when teams from the same conference can play each other - so playing the first round Tuesday and Wednesday and then the second round Wednesday and Thursday just won’t work. Playing the first round on Monday and Tuesday has the same problem; the Monday teams have only 24 hours’ notice from the announcement of the bracket.
I am not saying that 96 would not work; it’s reseeding that is the problem. Well, the real problem is keeping the expansion from just being 30 more teams from the Power 5 / 6 / whatever it is in basketball this week, and 2 from the rest.
I was thinking the First 64 would be on a Friday and Saturday. As for the real problem being the ACC team that finished 7th place in the conference and has a sub .500 record getting invited over small conference power who got unlucky in their conference tournament, I agree that would be the big issue. I’m not sure how to prevent that. Maybe a rule that any at large teams that win in the First 64 get seeded from the bottom up for the main tournament would help?
You know, between this and having the 32 conference champions get put directly into the second round, thus creating what is, in effect, 32 Play-In Games (with a further caveat from the NCAA: if you lose a Play-In Game, you cannot hang a tournament banner or claim that you were in the tournament for purposes of consecutive tournament appearance streaks, because we won’t - “Play-In” means you are playing your way into the tournament, which means the loser never got there), this could work.
The main problem I see is with the Men’s Frozen Four. There would be three possibilities:
- Play it on Friday/Sunday, against the Women’s Basketball Final Four. That’s not gonna happen.
- Do what they used to do, and play it the same weekend as the Elite Eight. I assume the reason it was moved to the weekend after the Final Four in the first place was to avoid this.
- Keep it the weekend after the Final Four, but that puts it in mid-April.
If they went to a First 64, it would erase the idea that they are play-in games. With 68 teams a lot of people, including myself, think those extra 4 teams (the extra at-larges) aren’t really deserving. If there were 32 extra teams, and the conference champions all got byes in the first round, the feeling that the extra teams aren’t deserving would likely be a lot less. The more I think about it, at 96 I’d have no problem considering all 96 as having officially made the tournament.
Of course there would have to be some sort of agreement to keep the number of conferences at 32. I don’t know how big a challenge it would be to make that happen.
ETA. And 96 would also be a whole lot better than some sort of system involving additional play in games or pods or some such thing if they raise it to 72,76, or some other such number.