Game Thread: #6 Tennessee at #4 Stanford; 10 p.m. ET
by Jessica Lantz on Dec 20, 2011 7:04 PM EST
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Who: #4 Stanford hosts #6 Tennessee in this week's second marquee game
What: Though this is a stellar matchup between Hall of Fame coaches, the game is not nationally televised. That is insanely disappointing to me, but alas. I've heard that there are various parts of the country that have the game on Comcast, CSN or Fox, locally. If you get to take in the game, please feel free to join in the conversation as the Lady Vols try to snap the Cardinal's 67-game home winning streak.
Where: Maples Pavilion | Palo Alto, Calif. | 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT | check local listings | live audio (from Tennessee)
Links: Stanford game notes | Tennessee game notes
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So yeah, that live audio doesn't work.
And in other notes – we have a men’s game on at exactly the same time, so there’s no local TV or anything either.
Or not.
UT’s website had the wrong time listed earlier in the week. Oy, what a day.
by David Hooper on Dec 20, 2011 7:13 PM EST up reply actions
I do hope the audio is from UT local radio.
Mickey’s an adorable homer. And a curmudgeon.
by David Hooper on Dec 20, 2011 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
On one hand, Stanford winning would clearly be more beneficial for my Bears.
On the other hand, I hate Stanford and Tennessee/Pat Summit winning is a much nicer outcome.
On the other, other hand, VanDerveer and company are almost too nice to hate.
On the other, other, other hand, Stanford losing would make me feel slightly more confident about Cal’s chances.
I’m leaning towards the GO VOLS side of things
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dang!
you have lots of hands, octopus style!! lol
by Jessica Lantz on Dec 20, 2011 7:36 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Ooh. "via Android app", not "via mobile".
All fancy, that.
by David Hooper on Dec 20, 2011 7:39 PM EST up reply actions
My thoughts...
I think Tennessee might have too much athleticism for Stanford’s guards. The guards in Hartford during the UConn game looked like they were in quicksand.
Stanford’s saving grace could be that this might be the worse Tennessee rebounding team of all time. Stanford will kill this team inside. Speed kills though. Stanford needs to keep this game half court because like UConn, Tennessee doesn’t have a half court offense.
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by Holly C. Tanneyhill on Dec 20, 2011 8:08 PM EST reply actions
I'll root for Tennessee because I think Coach Summitt deserves one more championship season where the Lady Vols kicks everyone's tails.
Either way, I hope this is a good game.
In the meantime watching the Caps and Wizards games simultaneously and may pop in after this game begins since I’m doing 10 things at once.
Lindy La Roque
with some kind of new-fangled major. “Science, Technology and <didn’t catch the third area>”
Pac 12
Doesn’t sound right. These conferences need to take the numbers out of their names with all the switching that goes on.
Simmons impressing the play-by-play announcer with
her ability to go full speed and yet pull up and “calm herself in the air”. Mary Murphy agrees saying “incredible body control”.
For the first time this year,
Tennessee trails at the half.
Tara spreads the credit around and says “Ya know we are just playin”.
OMG. After her fourth ACL tear and 5th surgery,
USC’s Jackie Gemelos is declaring she won’t let it end this way and will come back and shock the world.
Oh, reading further she is saying she is hoping for
a WNBA career. Her college career is over. She played 57 games for USC.
I think it's time for her to face the facts.
It’s not normal to have that many ACLs. Something is different about the way her body is constructed. Sad, but she should hang them up so she can have a better chance of walking pain free in later life.
I love Nneka
have I mentioned that lately? omg.
by Jessica Lantz on Dec 20, 2011 11:03 PM EST via Android app reply actions
This is a score from another game
California with 48, Dartmouth with 18 and this is with 15 minutes left in the game…..
That is like a pee wee score……..
You’ll notice that as a Cal fan, I’ve abandoned that game to watch Stanford/Tennessee, because the Cal/Dartmouth game was over the minute it tipped.
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I don't blame you.
any team that can’t score 20 in 5/8 of a game really shouldn’t even be a D-I team period.
"Glory Johnson is going to play physical...
and throw some elbows. Everyone knows it." — Announcers during game
So why doesn’t anyone do anything about it? Like coaches or the refs?
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by Holly C. Tanneyhill on Dec 20, 2011 11:20 PM EST reply actions
I have to admit I liked Geno Auriemma's quote regarding physical play when he was
announcing a WNBA game this year. Physical play that most people think is inevitable in the modern game:
“It’s the refs fault. If they start calling it, they’ll stop doing it.”.
Woooo, Gennifer Brandon love from the CSN broadcast! Can’t wait to watch her go head-to-head with the Ogwumikiis
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I really like her game!!
by Jessica Lantz on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
What is there to even say about this game other than
Nneka? This is absurd.
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Nneka says she likes
the off-season workouts Tara gave them. She’s ready for 40 minutes.
Susan Borchardt on camera. Apparently has a job “back at the farm”. Has 5 month old twins and another child. Mary Murphy names two and struggles to name her third child.
I feel like Stanford should be concerned by their defense,
but when you can drop 90-100 points on Tennessee, who needs defense?
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Tenn is not know for their defense or rebounding this season...
I wouldn’t put much stock in.
They are shooting great though. These are the guards that I thought would show up in Hartford. Not sure which game is the anomaly. But their guards still don’t like pressure.
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by Holly C. Tanneyhill on Dec 20, 2011 11:48 PM EST up reply actions
Wow...
Massengale is in this game for no reason. Kind of pointless to risk very injury to her.
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by Holly C. Tanneyhill on Dec 20, 2011 11:46 PM EST reply actions
Tennessee has not allowed a 100 points in 24 years
since Auburn did it in 1987. Stanford now has 94 with a little over a minute left.
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