WNIT schedule

[CA Mustang]

First Round
Wednesday, March 18
Southern at New Mexico,TBD
Canisius at Syracuse,TBD
Chattanooga at Kentucky,TBD
Thursday, March 19
Portland at Portland St.,TBD
Butler at Duquesne,TBD
SMU at La. Tech,TBD
Dayton at Oakland,TBD
C. Connecticut State at Boston Univ.,TBD
George Wash. at Fla. Gulf Coast,TBD
Coppin St at West Virginia,TBD
Friday, March 20
Harvard at St. John's,TBD
Winthrop at Georgetown,TBD
American at James Madison,TBD
Murray St. at Arkansas L.R.,TBD
Saturday, March 21
UT Arlington at Oklahoma St.,TBD
UC Riverside at Creighton,TBD

[abezontar]

Is La Tech, still the La Tech of old? Are we going to be crushed?

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

I think we can take them.

[Tipoff96]

Can't believe we're not hosting a first-round game and we have to travel to Ruston. LA Tech's RPI is 158 - our's is 85. They fired their coach during the year - the team has gone 8-1 since the firing. Their interim head coach is Theresa Weatherspoon.

[George S. Patton]

If we win, we go to Illinois State in the second round. The brackets are up on that web site.

I just looked at La Tech. They aren't what they were in the Leon Barmore days. They went 20-12 and have some bad losses in there to a couple of Southland Teams. And they lost at Memphis earlier this season.

Just the way women's basketball has changed, I don't think La Tech will ever be the program that it was. Just like the way SFA has slipped.

So this is definitely a game we can win. But the caliber of Division I ball at the WAC and CUSA is not very good, so it could be some wheels off basketball. Clean up the turnovers and hit some free throws and you can win.

We are the only CUSA team in the WNIT.

Sidenote -- When we made our first NCAA tournament appearance in 1994, we played at La. Tech and got blown out.

[CA Mustang]

Is La Tech, still the La Tech of old?

The fact they are in the WNIT would say no!

They finished 20-12 and shared first in the WAC. It looks like they got pounded by every BCS school they played except for Arizona (who they beat). Not the power team of old, but still good.

[Peruna88]

Can't believe we're not hosting a first-round game and we have to travel to Ruston.

They averaged 2,218 for their home games this year. We were probably somewhere around 900. Unfortunately, that's the only number that really matters to the WNIT.



EDIT - we averaged 831. Wish more people would have come out to the games.

[CalallenStang]

Can't believe we're not hosting a first-round game and we have to travel to Ruston. LA Tech's RPI is 158 - our's is 85. They fired their coach during the year - the team has gone 8-1 since the firing. Their interim head coach is Theresa Weatherspoon.

Sounds like Weatherspoon knows what she's doing.

[EastStang]

The WNIT is purely crowd driven. We don't have the fan base at home games that La. Tech does. If we had better home attendance for women's basketball, we'd get some home court dates in the WNIT. I understand why TCU got an at large invite to the dance, but we did beat them, but I guess that wasn't enough to get us an invite. Our RPI was still in the 80's.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

The WNIT scheduling is totally biased to help the bigger schools. All they care about is making money - and the larger schools naturally draw a larger crowd.

It's really shortsighted too, since the WNIT is giving up a chance for some major media market coverage in the name of 500 or so tickets being sold.

[MustangStealth]

The WNIT scheduling is totally biased to help the bigger schools. All they care about is making money - and the larger schools naturally draw a larger crowd.

It's really shortsighted too, since the WNIT is giving up a chance for some major media market coverage in the name of 500 or so tickets being sold.

I seriously doubt they would get more than a blurb in the DMN if we were hosting La Tech instead. The reality is that there is no TV money out there for a secondary women's postseason tourney, so they have to count on ticket sales for revenue.