The AU women had a fabulous regular season record and won the SEC championship. Kudos for a great accomplishment. However, the NCAA is where dreams are made and the Lady Tigers could only get past round one. This tells me that the Tigers are on the right path but are still a ways away from championship style play. Great teams do NOT get crushed in the second round of the NCAA no matter where the game is. Great teams overcome and find a way to win (or at least stay in the game). It was a very good year but we know we must get better.
And who would have thought the men would outlast the women in tourney play.
And who would have thought the men would outlast the women in tourney play.
Yes, along about January 23 you'd have had a hard time getting anyone to bet on that. The women's team was 20-0, 4-0 SEC, and the men were 12-7, 1-3 SEC.
Congrats to Rutgers for their home cooking sure paid off. I don't blame the Auburn women for this loss because the refs took them out early and the Rutgers coach new this, so she implemented a very very aggressive defense knowing the refs were in her pocket at home.
Auburn couldn't breath on a Rutgers player without getting a foul called and a Rutgers player had to bloody a nose to possibly get a foul called on them.
Rutgers 7 (refs, fans, players) versus Auburn's 5 was just too much for Auburn.
Congrats to the NCAA committee for their success in screwing Auburn out of their NCAA tournament hopes!
Congrats to Rutgers for their home cooking sure paid off. I don't blame the Auburn women for this loss because the refs took them out early and the Rutgers coach new this, so she implemented a very very aggressive defense knowing the refs were in her pocket at home.
Auburn couldn't breath on a Rutgers player without getting a foul called and a Rutgers player had to bloody a nose to possibly get a foul called on them.
Rutgers 7 (refs, fans, players) versus Auburn's 5 was just too much for Auburn.
Congrats to the NCAA committee for their success in screwing Auburn out of their NCAA tournament hopes!
I don't recall seeing the refs block any of our shots on the way to shooting 32% in the first half. And I don't recall the refs tipping in Rutgers' shots on their way to shooting 50% in the first half.
If you don't make shots and don't get stops on defense, you're going to lose, no matter where it is and often against lesser opponents. Rutgers isn't much of a lesser opponent, and when you do that against a good team, it gets ugly.
Great season, but we lost a game, straight up, no excuses. We were a mediocre road team all year, scoring 10 fewer points on the road and shooting nearly 10% worse from the field. Both things rared their ugly heads yesterday and we didn't pull it out.
"To me Auburn is not in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is the people who care about Auburn, the people who love Auburn. Wherever they are, that’s Auburn, Auburn is in your heart. You play for it."
I don't recall seeing the refs block any of our shots on the way to shooting 32% in the first half. And I don't recall the refs tipping in Rutgers' shots on their way to shooting 50% in the first half.
If you don't make shots and don't get stops on defense, you're going to lose, no matter where it is and often against lesser opponents. Rutgers isn't much of a lesser opponent, and when you do that against a good team, it gets ugly.
Great season, but we lost a game, straight up, no excuses. We were a mediocre road team all year, scoring 10 fewer points on the road and shooting nearly 10% worse from the field. Both things rared their ugly heads yesterday and we didn't pull it out.
I recall fouls so hard that the shots were taken under the goal were air balls. When Auburn was playing defense any little touch was a foul.
I give no credit to Rutgers for this win as they were wrongfully handed a home court advantage along with ref favoritism when they didn't earn it during the regular season.
The refs weren't that great, especially early on. And Auburn just came out flat, undisciplined, and not ready to play. But it's still an absolute outrage that a SEVEN seed that underperformed in the season was gift wrapped home court advantage in their first 2 games of the tournament. That's UNFREAKINGACCEPTABLE. Maybe the girls can push for a 7 seed next year and a regional game at Auburn, because obviously the committees don't care too much about the teams that did their jobs the entire season.
Something similar happened in the men's bracket. Louisville, the OVERALL #1 seed, was sent out west. North Carolina and Duke were hand picked to stay at home in Carolina to play in front of their raucous fans. What a JOKE. Petino may claim he would rather be away from home, but come on. It's just more Duke/UNC favoritism. They do the same for similar traditional b'ball schools.
The refs weren't that great, especially early on. And Auburn just came out flat, undisciplined, and not ready to play. But it's still an absolute outrage that a SEVEN seed that underperformed in the season was gift wrapped home court advantage in their first 2 games of the tournament. That's UNFREAKINGACCEPTABLE. Maybe the girls can push for a 7 seed next year and a regional game at Auburn, because obviously the committees don't care too much about the teams that did their jobs the entire season.
I completely concur.
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I recall fouls so hard that the shots were taken under the goal were air balls. When Auburn was playing defense any little touch was a foul.
I give no credit to Rutgers for this win as they were wrongfully handed a home court advantage along with ref favoritism when they didn't earn it during the regular season.
There should be no homecourt advantage in the NCAA tournament at all. All teams should play on a nuetral court. The NCAA committee needs to do a better job with team placements but AUBURN cannot use that as a excuse for not showing up.
There should be no homecourt advantage in the NCAA tournament at all. All teams should play on a nuetral court. The NCAA committee needs to do a better job with team placements but AUBURN cannot use that as a excuse for not showing up.
exactly right. i noticed today that #3 Louisville was playing #6 LSU....on LSU's home court in Baton "corn dog" Rouge.
The home court thing is garbage. It's all about coming up with butts in seats for the women's tournament. Until they get down to the Elite Eight or Final Four, they don't really get a "generic sports fan" draw to games.
But it needs to end because it's crap, something the guys that run the Rose Bowl would come up with (kinda how they pick a 9 win Illinois to played USC?).
"To me Auburn is not in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn is the people who care about Auburn, the people who love Auburn. Wherever they are, that’s Auburn, Auburn is in your heart. You play for it."
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