Lace'em up tight, Stanford. The Montana State Bobcats love to win basketball games and they're coming to Palo Alto looking for a fight. Darian White has a better scoring average than any of our players at 16 ppg and Kola Bad Bear is, as her name implies, a big strong problem. Leia Beattie isn't called "Buckets" for nothing. The days of first round walkovers is gone forever. These Cats won the Big Sky championship last week by beating several good determined teams. They will not go quietly into the night.
It's just as well, because if we get past the Bobcats, on Sunday we play either Kansas or Georgia Tech and both are legit. Both teams have four players averaging double digit scoring. And both have defenses that limit their opponents to average scoring in the 60's. The Ramblin Wrecks have one of the best international players in the country in 6'-4" Lorela Cubaj (pronounced CooBye) who averages a double double and was recently named to the All-ACC First Team and ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
Kansas has a 6'-6" post player and a 6'-3" forward who between them score 20 points a game and pull down 15 rebounds. Then, there's a flock of four guards who average forty points and 15 rebounds per contest. These Jayhawks are dangerous and are to be taken seriously.
Okay . . . enough with the obligatory cautionary respect.
I just read a piece in ESPN by a compendium of pundits brandishing ten completed brackets - eight had the Gamecocks winning the championship, one had Stanford and the other UConn.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of their monumental disrespect!
Let's play Friday and Sunday like the obvious best team in the country - no cruising, no easing up, no letting up - a minimum of fifteen threes per round, a dozen breakaway fast break buckets, and three or four Most Outstanding Players. And lockdown defense. We're on our own court - let's make some noise that can be heard from Waco to Storrs! How about a couple of hundred point outings to get things started!!
We're the defending champs!! Let's play like it!!
COME ON STANFORD - LET'S ROLL!!
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