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All three of our women's sports teams seem to have 800 lb gorillas in their way.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:38 am
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:38 am
Which of these behemoths are we most likely to overcome to get to the promised land? OU in softball looks to be the most beatable, but our team is not at the level of gymnastics or WBB. But dammit, when we are really good, there always seems to be someone better.
Gym - OU
WBB - USCe
Softball - OU
Gym - OU
WBB - USCe
Softball - OU
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Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:39 am to Slippy
Don't have to be better than them every day, just the one day 
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:44 am to Slippy
just hope that another team gets hot and beats any of them
kind of like what Iowa did to USCe last year
kind of like what Iowa did to USCe last year
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:46 am to Slippy
We led USCe in WBB the whole game until Reese fouled out well into the 4th quarter.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:47 am to zadams_318
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Don't have to be better than them every day, just the one day
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:47 am to Slippy
The only sport out of the three that I would say there's not much of a chance is gymnastics, just because of the way that scoring works in that sport. Oklahoma would have to absolutely shite the bed in the championships to lose. Softball and basketball are much more volatile. A bad shooting night or a star player gets in foul trouble early in basketball or a pitcher has an off night in softball and the results can change drastically. Just get there and give yourself a shot and see what happens
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:53 am to Slippy
If it’s not in gymnastics this year, idk if it’ll ever happen. LSU has by far the most talented roster in the country.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:58 am to Aforem7
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Oklahoma would have to absolutely shite the bed in the championships to lose.
What I have learned over the last few years of watching LSU come up just short of winning a national title in gymnastics is that “Oklahoma performs pretty good routines flawlessly while LSU performs phenomenal routines pretty good.” And the judges reward the less challenging routines that are performed excellently over the very challenging routines that are performed with a few faults.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:03 am to Slippy
South Carolina had 1 bad game last year. Thats all it takes!
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:05 am to Choupique19
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What I have learned over the last few years of watching LSU come up just short of winning a national title in gymnastics is that “Oklahoma performs pretty good routines flawlessly while LSU performs phenomenal routines pretty good.” And the judges reward the less challenging routines that are performed excellently over the very challenging routines that are performed with a few faults.
That's the biggest difference between elite/Olympic gymnastics and collegiate gymnastics. College gymnastics rewards perfection while elite and olympic rewards more challenging routines, hence the different scoring methods. Oklahoma has taken advantage of this by perfecting more simple routines where there are very little opportunities for deductions. I'm also no gymnastics expert so if someone knows better why Oklahoma routinely scores so high, pls share
This post was edited on 3/1/24 at 9:08 am
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:08 am to Aforem7
And it’s a method that clearly works for them. Meanwhile LSU does some of the hardest routines in the country and it really doesn’t matter. Other teams have caught on to working the scoring code like OU. Jay Clark may be more hardheaded than Les Miles.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:11 am to Slippy
Oklahoma softball is as dominant post-Covid as UConn was in basketball a decade or so ago and they just keep one upping themselves. They’ve won 67 straight games currently which is pretty damn unbelievable in a sport like softball. I know that’s not possible in baseball at least.
2021 56-4 national champion
2022 59-3 national champion
2023 61-1 national champion
2024 14-0 ranked #1; 67-game win streak
2021 56-4 national champion
2022 59-3 national champion
2023 61-1 national champion
2024 14-0 ranked #1; 67-game win streak
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:18 am to Slippy
As Coach O'shay once said, " Even if those Sooners or Gamecocks are better than you guys, even if they beat you 99 times out of 100, that still leaves, one time!"
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:29 am to Aforem7
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The only sport out of the three that I would say there's not much of a chance is gymnastics, just because of the way that scoring works in that sport. Oklahoma would have to absolutely shite the bed in the championships to lose. Softball and basketball are much more volatile. A bad shooting night or a star player gets in foul trouble early in basketball or a pitcher has an off night in softball and the results can change drastically. Just get there and give yourself a shot and see what happens
That speaks volumes about the judging in the sport, because the LSU team is absolutely stacked this year. If it's not this year, I honestly don't know when it will be.
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South Carolina had 1 bad game last year. Thats all it takes!
Hypothetically are stupid, but I don't think that they would have beaten LSU in the championship game last year. They were on fire from outside the arc and they would have done the same against USC.
This post was edited on 3/1/24 at 9:32 am
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:43 am to Slippy
But do they have chainsaw vagines
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:46 am to Aforem7
The only sport out of the three that I would say there's not much of a chance is gymnastics, just because of the way that scoring works in that sport. Oklahoma would have to absolutely shite the bed in the championships to lose.
that's not true. The season scores a cumulative. Once they this nationals, it all resets. All it take is 2 of 6 in one event to struggle. I don't think that will happen.
that's not true. The season scores a cumulative. Once they this nationals, it all resets. All it take is 2 of 6 in one event to struggle. I don't think that will happen.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:59 am to ArcticTiger
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South Carolina had 1 bad game last year. Thats all it takes!
It only takes a marginally fair officiated game and a team with some hot outside shooting to take out South Carolina.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 10:15 am to Back to Scat
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that's not true. The season scores a cumulative. Once they this nationals, it all resets. All it take is 2 of 6 in one event to struggle. I don't think that will happen.
You disagreed with me, then agreed with me. Never said it was cumulative, my point is that with the gymnastics scoring system perception plays a big part in the scoring. Its the same reason that home scoring is typically inflated. The reality is that if you get a team like Oklahoma who is routinely scoring 198.35+ and gymnasts who are averaging 9.9+ on nearly every event, the judges are going to be biased towards giving them a higher score than a gymnast who is averaging a 9.85. This means that it would take Oklahoma making major mistakes to knock them off, which again, because of the design of their routines, is very unlikely to happen.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 10:51 am to Slippy
Have to beat the best to be the best.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:33 pm to Aforem7
Oklahoma would have to absolutely shite the bed
This is what you said... All I said.. Is instead of 1 bad routine.. they have 2 on the beam, or miss 2 sticks.. etc... They are great,, When Mc Martry fell off the floor... Done...All of this is a lot closer than you might think.
This is what you said... All I said.. Is instead of 1 bad routine.. they have 2 on the beam, or miss 2 sticks.. etc... They are great,, When Mc Martry fell off the floor... Done...All of this is a lot closer than you might think.
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