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On April 8, 2008 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida the Tennessee Lady Vols won their second consecutive NCAA Women’s Division I Championship defeating the Stanford Cardinals. Tennessee reached the finals with a last second shot against LSU while Stanford won easily against the favorite UConn team.
The first Women’s tournament was played in 1982. In that tournament Louisiana Tech was the winner over Cheyney State. The team from Tennessee lead by Pat Summitt lost to Louisiana Tech in the semi-final game. Pat Summitt coached her first game at Tennessee in 1974 and has led a Tennessee team into every tournament. The 2008 game was their 13 championship game.
In the 27 year history of the tournament the only teams to have won more than one championship are; Louisiana Tech, Southern Cal and Stanford each with 2, UConn with 5 and Tennessee with a total of 8.
Louisiana State University (LSU) has appeared in each of the last five final fours. During that time they have advanced to the final set of games under four different coaches. They also have been unable to reach the championship game in any of those years.
From 1982, the first year of the tournament, until 1985, 32 teams played for the championship. The field was expanded to 40 for the 1986-1988 tournaments. There were 48 teams in 1989-1993 expanding to its current 64 teams format in 1994.
Seven times a lower-seeded team has won the championship, including three straight times from 2004 through 2006.
Originally posted on 6ThingsToConsider.com.
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Now we are down to 8 teams and with my predictions I was right 2/3 of the games. I missed thinking that Duke and Pittsburgh would win, but instead Texas A&M and Stanford reach the Elite Eight.
I still cane be right though with my final four picks since I didn’t have any of these reaching the Final Four.
To recap I think that Maryland, LSU, Tennessee and Rutgers makes the Final Four.
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The first two sets of games are over, and with very few exceptions the ’sweet 16′ is as expected. Now with the second weekend of games, we’ll see who’s going to step forward, have a good series of games and wind up as the Final 4 to go after the National Champion.
The Schedule for Saturday is:
New Orleans Regional:
Louisville against North Carolina
Oklahoma against LSU
Spokane Regional:
Vanderbilt against Maryland
Pittsburgh against Stanford
And on Sunday:
Oklahoma Regional:
Duke against Texas A&M
Notre Dame against Tennessee
Greensboro Regional:
Old Dominion against Connecticut
George Washington against Rutgers
And now for my prediction of the games.
Carolina will beat Louisville and will play LSU, who wins against Oklahoma. LSU will win a close game against Carolina in the regional final.
Maryland will defeat Vanderbilt and will also reach the final four when they play Pittsburgh.
Duke will beat Texas A&M and will play Tennessee, who wins against Norte Dame. Tennessee will win against Duke in the regional final.
UConn will defeat Old Dominion, but they will not reach the final four. They will lose for their second game to Rutgers. Rutgers gets to the regional final easily.
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I just watched the selection show and to put it mildly I’m a bit surprised and confused.
It just doesn’t make sense that UConn may have to play Rutgers to get to the final four. But it may even be stranger that Carolina may have to play LSU on what can almost be considered their home floor.
If I would have to make a guess I would think that Maryland has the easiest path to the Final Four, and that’s even with them having to play Stanford, the team many think should have held the last top spot.
But let’s take a guess on the Final Four without really looking at the brackets. I’d take Rutgers, LSU, Maryland and Tennessee as the four with Maryland and Tennessee in the Finals.
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(20) Oklahoma State 107 – Central Arkansas 36
(18) Ohio State 86 – Nebraska 74
(11) Baylor 81 – St. Johns 58
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(17) Notre Dame 67 – IUPOI 44
(14) Duke 92 – Bucknell 49
(12) California 74 – Kansas 41
(2) Connecticut 85 – San Diego State 53
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(19) Texas 62 – (22) Arizona State 51
(15) DePaul 102 – Northwestern 64
George Washington 66 – (10) Texas A&M 65 (In OT)
(9) Oklahoma 121 – Central Arkansas 48
(4) Maryland 71 – James Madison 65
(3) UNC 93 – Western Kentucky 60
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(20) Oklahoma State 77 – North Texas 55
(18) Ohio State 84 – Youngstown State 50
(16) Auburn 80 – Sam Houston 36
(11) Baylor 69 – Texas A&M CC 42
(8) LSU 63 – Miami 52
(1) Tennessee 82 – UCAL 70
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TCU 97 – (20) Oklahoma State 63
(14) Duke 95 – Utah Valley State 61
(5) Stanford 73 – New Mexico 54
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(16) Auburn 61 – SFA 49
(15) DePaul 90 – Northern Illinois 58
(13) West Virginia 84 – Oakland 65
(7) Georgia 102 – Mercer 45
(3) UNC 82 – Coastal Carolina 58
(2) Connecticut 97 – South Carolina 39
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