Charlie Creme issues his preseason top-25, which features Texas prominently at #3. The story line would be great if Texas and Stanford matched up in the Final Four. Way-Too-Early Top 25: UConn down, Texas up and South Carolina still on top
Texas should be facing: #4 Tennessee, #6 Connecticut, #7 Louisville, #9 Iowa State (2x), #16 Oklahoma (2x), #19 Baylor (2x), & #24 Princeton during the season if everything goes to form in the Bahamas, in addition to games in the Big 12 Tournament. That's a NCAA tournament ready schedule.
It's laughable Texas isn't #1 in the preseason Big 12 coaches' poll after sweeping the same Iowa State team last year, not twice, but three times in Ames, Austin, and Kansas City, forcing Iowa State into season high turnovers each time. I respect Bill Fennelly, but he to complains about the physical, tough defense Texas plays. I would love to see how the coaches voted, especially Krista Gerlich. Oh well, more comical fodder when Texas wins both the regular season and tournament championship.
Right! And we beat them three times the prior season also, but the "blonde ambition" seems to always get more than their share of credit. Can you say Cheryl Miller Award? That's okay... bulletin board material yet again. Funny that the preseason national poll has us ranked significantly higher than ISU. The Big 12 will definitely be competitive at the top this season. It will be fun to see what Vic can do with a team that HE AND HIS STAFF put together.
Man, Vic's really killing it on season ticket sales. Even the general admission seats are low availability. Far cry from last season: https://texaslonghorns.evenue.net/c...&dataAccId=869&locale=en_US&siteId=ev_tex-ath
I can see why someone would have them higher. Considering the fact that they have to replace less production than UT. And also added an important piece at the center position. Which means better continuity to begin with. But these preseason awards and rankings are meaningless. Go prove it on the court.
After last season's post season awards, Vic talked to the media about how he gets that those players who averaged over 16 points a game (the 2 OU players; the 3 ISU players) are gonna garner the votes as this league is all about offense; those teams who are averaging over 80 points a game are gonna have 2-3 players who average close to 20 points a game. It still irks me that ISU's Lexi Donarski was voted Defensive Player of the Year; none of her defensive stats were anything special compared to Rori and Ayoka Lee.
I was looking at that earlier and was curious on where we are on season ticket sales. Wondering if we sold more than last year. I just really want the moody to be filled or at least look the part. What we have been seeing at the Erwin center these past couple years is sad to see.
Though I agree with your overall point about Vic doing well with ticket sales, having 10,000 fewer seats affects scarcity as well.
The past two years UT played very well when most folks didn't even have them on their radar. Now, that UT has gained recognition and respect, I hope the gals use that as their incentive to show folks that both are well deserved. Final Four/Championship in the very near future!
With the mezzanine being shut down for women's basketball at the FEC for more than a decade, I'm not sure what your point is about there being 10,000 fewer seats. I would think the lower bowl of FEC and the available seats in Moody for the basketball configuration are fairly comparable, it's certainly not a 10,000 seat discrepancy.
The Erwin Center has 16,540 capacity for basketball…..not sure about lower bowl. Moody has 10,000 without curtains opened. So 6,540 less seats. At some point I expect the curtains to be opened for men. Hopefully for women too. If we had a UCONN or other….perhaps.
My point is for women's basketball capacity has not been 16,540 for more than the last decade as they were not opening up the mezzanine. Capacity was the lower bowl.
Sometimes the players brought to pre-season tip-off like the one on October 18 reveals something. Schaefer bringing Holle may be one of those times. In the following meaningless discussion, it’s my fair and biased opinion that Holle will be one of the five starters early in the season. Certainly Gonzalez and Morris have the stats but Holle brings defense, speed and some intangibles. Who really cares….the best will be in at the end. Holle has never received due respect from me and perhaps some others. We’ll see in 3 weeks. It’s a slow Tuesday night and I just had to say something. Go Holle!
Last year, Vic brought Audrey and Joann. I figured he'd bring Rori and Amo this year, so no surprise there. The media is definitely going to want to talk to them, so it makes sense to make your biggest stars available to the press. But its nice we were able to send 3 this year, and Shay is a great rep. for the school and the WBB program. I'm going to be really interested in seeing the content from this years' media days (all will get posted on Youtube). In particular, it will be real interesting seeing the coaches open forum like the one below. I'm pretty sure they won't have Vic sitting next to Gerlich again:
It’ll be sandwiched between the 2005 National Championship game and the 2005 National Championship game.
