Women's NCAA Tournament

[Da Coach]

The Women's NCAA Tournament starts today with 16 first round games in San Antonio, Austin, and San Marco Texas.
Schedule & results for Sunday, 3/21- https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210321

The Bradley women are among the 32 teams that play in 16 games on Monday, 3/22. Their game drew a nice prime-time slot.
#11 seed Bradley plays #6 seed Texas play at 7:00 pm in San Marcos, Texas at the Strahan Arena on the campus of Texas State University.
Schedule & results for Monday, 3/22- https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210322

The Bradley-Texas game will be on ESPN2.
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2021/...ith-texas.aspx
https://twitter.com/BradleyWBB/statu...27716326895620

64 team bracket-

https://twitter.com/ncaawbb/status/1371610733880954886/photo/1

[Da Coach]

2021 Women's NCAA Tournament results from Sunday, 3/21-
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210321

Today's games (Monday, 3/22)- #11 Bradley vs. #6 Texas is at 7:00 pm in San Marcos, TX. The game is on ESPN2..
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210322
Missouri State will play UC Davis at 6:30 pm in San Antonio. That game is on ESPNU.


The 2021 32-team Women's NIT, which included 3 MVC teams, got underway Friday (3/19) with all 32 teams in action-
The tournament was held in 4 Regional sites- Charlotte, NC, Fort Worth, TX, Rockford, IL, and Collierville, TN.
The 4 regional winners will play the semifinal and Final games in Collierville, TN, at the My Town Movers Fieldhouse on the campus of Collierville High School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_W...ion_Tournament

Here were Friday's results-
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210319

UNI beat Dayton 70-56 to advance in the championship bracket.
Drake got clobbered by Milwaukee 84-46 (Morton's Brandi Bisping was the game's leading scoer with 19), and Illinois State lost to Tulane 75-67. Drake and ISU dropped into the consolation bracket with their losses.

Saturday, 3/20, all 32 teams played again. There were 8 games in both the championship Bracket, and the consolation bracket. Results-
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210320

UNI stayed alive in the championship bracket with a 64-63 win over Creighton. And in the consolation bracket, Drake bounced back with a 100-91 win over DePaul, and ISU also rebounded with a 68-62 win over Samford.

There were no games Sunday, 3/21, but today, Monday, 3/22, the quarterfinal games in both brackets are being played.
UNI still alive in the championship bracket, and Drake & ISU both alive in the consolation bracket.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210322


And the 2021 WBI is now completed. It included 8 teams, and all teams were guaranteed 3 games in 3 days.
All games were played at the William Exum Center on the campus of Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY.
This year's WBI got underway Friday, 3/19, and was completed yesterday, Sunday, 3/21.
Loyola, the only MVC team in the WBI, lost their first round game Friday, 49-45 to Stetson, and dropped into the consolation bracket.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210319

Loyola also lost their semifinal game in the consolation bracket 56-51 to Manhattan to drop to 0-2 in the tournament.-
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210320

But Loyola bounced back Sunday, 3/21. to beat Abilene Christian 74-55 to finish in 7th place with a 1-2 record.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-.../date/20210321

[Da Coach]

The Bradley women fell behind by 21 points in the 2nd quarter, then slowly fought back and played better. They are currently down 11, 59-48 near the end of the 3rd quarter. Lasha Petree has 28 points for BU. Go Braves! (game on ESPN2)
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-...meId=401311227

[Big Mike]

Congrats to the Braves for making the dance. Petree should be 1st team all American next season....soo good and gives her all. The 4th foul on her has me worried though.

[Big Mike]

5 minutes in the 4th and Texas gets 1st foul call? Little bit of a homer on the fouls IMO.....hang in there Braves!

[Da Coach]

The Braves couldn't get any closer than 11 in the 2nd half, then they seemed to run out of gas as Texas pulled back out to a 21 point lead and held on for the 81-62 win over Bradley. Lasha Petree finished with 33 points, and Gabi Haack had 16.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-...meId=401311227

Missouri State won, beating UC Davis 70-51 to advance to the 2nd round. They will play #13 seed Wright State who was an upset winner over #4 seed Arkansas.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-...meId=401311215

[bigjimmy]

In their 1st NCAA tournament appearance the Braves played their hearts out but Texas was allowed to out physical BU and took advantage of it winning 81-62. Both teams started slow and appeared a little nervous then Texas scored the 1st 6 points. BU scored their 1st NCAA points on a Lasha Petree jumper with 6:15 left in the 1st quarter then they scored the next 5 tp get their only lead of the game at 7-6 with 4:11 left. Texas then scored the last 13 points of the quarter to go up 19-7 and a couple of trends developed. The refs allowed Texas to be overly aggressive on defense and it really disrupted BU's offense and the Longhorns kept getting offensive rebounds and putbacks. Bradley just could never get the lead under 10 the rest of the game as the lead went back and forth between 12 and 20. Bradley tried a different defense on Texas All American 6' 5" center Charli Collier by face guarding her the whole game, mostly with Emily Marsh. It did limit her shots but it did open up things for other players getting easy baskets. Petree and senior Gabi Haack got it going on offense in the 2nd quarter and BU scored 23 in the quarter but Texas scored 25 and led 44-30 at the half. Petree and Haack scored all but 2 of BU's 21 3rd quarter points but just couldn't get any closer as Texas led 65-51 after 3. Petree picked up her 4th foul, 2 of the 4 were not fouls, with 1:29 to go in the 3rd quarter and didn't come back in until 7:28 was left in the game. BU scored the 1st 2 of the quarter but that was as close as they could get. Petree was pretty darn awesome in this game as she scored a season high 33 points on 10-24 shooting, 3-8 from 3, and 10-11 from the FT line. She was also credited with 5 blocks and as much as she handled the ball she only had 2 turnovers. One of the best performances I've seen from any BU player in awhile. Haack ended her senior year as the #2 scorer of all time as she had 16 points on 6-14 shooting. She also had a team high 8 rebounds and 4 assists and just 1 turnover. I hope she comes back. Overall BU shot 21-53, Petree and Haack combined for 16-38, the rest of the team shot 5-15. Petree was 10-11 from the FT line, the rest of team was 5-11. BU got outrebounded 44-35 with Texas having 22 offensive and 22 defensive boards. Collier scored 23 points on 8-11 shooting and had 15 rebounds. Texas shot 27-69 overall, 7-20 from 3, and were 20-26 from the FT line. Very proud of the women's effort and I hope it's just a spring board into next season.

[egib52]

5 minutes in the 4th and Texas gets 1st foul call? Little bit of a homer on the fouls IMO.....hang in there Braves!

In watching this game and parts of others, the officiating on the women's side makes the MVC refs look like the cream of the crop.

[egib52]

Collier was allowed to do whatever she wanted. There was one rebound where she grabbed Marsh by the shoulders and threw her out of the way to get a rebound. Then a BU player was standing near her and got called for a foul.

[Jim]

Tremendous effort by Lasha Petree! Does she have a younger brother?

[Da Coach]

Tremendous effort by Lasha Petree! Does she have a younger brother?

Yes, she does. Here is a video from a few years ago. From the date, I'd guess he's an 8th grader now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crxn4K-TICY

[Da Coach]

Women's tournament updates-
With Bradley eliminated from the Women's NCAA Tournament, we can root for Missouri State to keep winning. They advanced to the round of 32 with a 70-51 win Monday over UC Davis. #5 seed MSU will play #13 seed Wright State on Wednesday.-

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401311215

The Women's NIT completed their 4 Regionals, and UNI won the Rockford Regional last night (Monday, 3/22) with a 58-50 win over St. Louis.
Drake finished the Regional round 2-1 to finish their season with a win in the consolation bracket.-

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/98/date/20210322

UNI advances to the WNIT Final Four along with Delaware, Rice, and Ole Miss. The semifinals will be Friday, 3/26, UNI vs. Ole Miss, and the Championship is Sunday, 3/28-

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/98/date/20210326

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Women%27s_National_Invitation_Tournament

The Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) is completed (see post #2 above), and was won by Cleveland State. Loyola finished 1-2 and in 7th place-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Women%27s_Basketball_Invitational

[molar50]

Collier is a great player, but she is protected by the refs as she is constantly fouling players. She really doesn't need to be overly aggressive. The Bradley women showed incredible restraint in not retaliating.

[Jim]

Yes, she does. Here is a video from a few years ago. From the date, I'd guess he's an 8th grader now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crxn4K-TICY

That was just wishful thinking on my part! You are a wealth of information Coach!

[Da Coach]

2nd round Women's NCAA games today (Tuesday, 3/23)-

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/scoreboard