There's stupid, and there's this. Have there been years in which Miami should have gotten through and didn't? Yes, the year where Meier had Hof/Mompremier was that year. You gotta win that game on your own home floor. Then again, her best overall team got utterly screwed by being sent to Spokane, to play a low seed on their own home floor, and then having to send your most dynamic scorer home the night before. We can argue that she's had some rough luck in the tournament, but you'd think that eventually she'd break through. By the way, you ever look at Dawn Staley's tournament record BEFORE she came to South Carolina? Let me help you.
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Guess Dawn was garbage considering that she NEVER made it out of the 1st weekend. Amazing that she magically got better once she got to a school that through an AD that was committed and some donors started POURING money into her program and giving her a fighting chance. I can dig through a lot of coaches that have similar career trajectories. You really think Adia Barnes at Arizona is some super coach? Or is it that Arizona, due to location and fanbase gives her unparalleled resources and that allowed her to come in and really start maxing out what that program could be in short order? I get it, our fans just realized that women's college basketball exists, and brought their toxic, irrational bull**** over from football, men's basketball and baseball, but take a seat.
You think it's a mere accident that the same schools win year in and year out? You think it's an accident that you could easily do straight chalk for the women's tournament bracket and win most of the time? It's not an accident that you don't have nationally relevant midmajor programs in women's college basketball, compared to men's where you can always count on multiple programs being relevant outside of the power conferences. The sport has a huge divide between the haves and the have nots. You need to at least TRY to provide the things that the teams you are battling have. Keep this in mind: I can name the number of McDonald's All Americans Miami has signed on one hand and have fingers left over. Katie just signed the best class in PROGRAM HISTORY last winter, it was ranked 12th nationally. Let that settle in, BEST CLASS EVER, it's not even top 10 nationally. In other words, our best class EVER would be a massive downgrade for South Carolina, Tennessee, NC State, Louisville, etc. You expect Miami to beat South Carolina, on their own home floor, with a team that is significantly less talented? The odds of that happening were slim, and Miami didn't play well enough to be in the game late to steal one. They picked a **** of a night to have the worst shooting performance of the season.
As I said before, this year isn't a year in which I was going to be ****ed about losing in the second round, because it was unlikely Miami made it through, due to seeding. I'm more ****ed that the one time Miami had a legit POY candidate in Mompremier, she managed to prolapse coming down the stretch against ASU and that game got away. You probably don't have any idea what I'm talking about and that's the problem. Our fans don't pay attention for years on end and then want to throw stones.