No. 9 Syracuse women's head basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack went off on the NCAA Tournament selection committee after a 98-45 loss to No. 1 UConn, in Storrs, Conn., saying being seeded in UConn's bracket was 'a personal attack.'
Legette-Jack complained that this was the third straight time her team was bracketed with UConn in the early rounds.
“After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every frickin' year is unacceptable. It's wrong," Legette-Jack told reporters. "If you're on the committee and you've been around for more than a year or two or five to 10, 15 years, you understand what that looks like.
“I have been on those committees to see how it's done, how you can put people on different lines. Put us on a 10 (seed) line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think that we are way better than what we performed today. ... A lot of people talk about rev(enue) share. I just want the young people that's in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in an NCAA Tournament, from where we've come from, but I think that we've earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour radius. That's all I have.”
My take: Uhh ... it's the committees fault we played bad? If coach Legette-Jack's been around this long, she should know that top seeds host the first rounds of the regionals. Syracuse is in the East and will forever be in the East Regional because of travel. Syracuse would have to play UConn eventually. She wants to go farther away to go further ... and then lose to UConn, or South Carolina, or Texas, or UCLA? Syracuse was down 65-12 at halftime. That's how good they are in relation to the one-seeds, who collectively won their eight games in the first two rounds by an average of 43.25 points per game. Try being a higher seed, or figure out a way to be more competitive against the Huskies, but it's a bad look to ask to be seeded lower instead of being better on the court.
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Facing UConn 'personal attack'
No. 9 Syracuse women's head basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack went off on the NCAA Tournament selection committee after a 98-45 loss to No. 1 UConn, in Storrs, Conn., saying being seeded in UConn's bracket was 'a personal attack.'
Legette-Jack complained that this was the third straight time her team was bracketed with UConn in the early rounds.
“After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every frickin' year is unacceptable. It's wrong," Legette-Jack told reporters. "If you're on the committee and you've been around for more than a year or two or five to 10, 15 years, you understand what that looks like.
“I have been on those committees to see how it's done, how you can put people on different lines. Put us on a 10 (seed) line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think that we are way better than what we performed today. ... A lot of people talk about rev(enue) share. I just want the young people that's in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in an NCAA Tournament, from where we've come from, but I think that we've earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour radius. That's all I have.”
My take: Uhh ... it's the committees fault we played bad? If coach Legette-Jack's been around this long, she should know that top seeds host the first rounds of the regionals. Syracuse is in the East and will forever be in the East Regional because of travel. Syracuse would have to play UConn eventually. She wants to go farther away to go further ... and then lose to UConn, or South Carolina, or Texas, or UCLA? Syracuse was down 65-12 at halftime. That's how good they are in relation to the one-seeds, who collectively won their eight games in the first two rounds by an average of 43.25 points per game. Try being a higher seed, or figure out a way to be more competitive against the Huskies, but it's a bad look to ask to be seeded lower instead of being better on the court.
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