Game 1 Civil War

Nobody is going to want to play either team in March - both elite & capable of beating any team in the country. 

"Come tourney time both teams are truly one dimensional. OSU with the 3-ball (Kat missing especially hurts) and ucks with the Hebard/Sabrina pick and roll as they have really not much for a consistent supporting cast... especially when it's under pressure and SI is taken away by another quality team."

Let's start with "consistent supporting cast":
Satou Sabally
Maite Corzola

Both of these players have consistently contributed throughout the season and certainly both contributed in the win over the Beavers.

The fact that the pick and roll with Sabrina and Ruthy Hebard works does not make Oregon one-dimensional.  It simply gives Oregon the go-to play they need.

And for anyone that doubts how that attack works, review the game film from this game ... you will find a very intelligent and confident Sabrina MAKING DECISIONS with the ball that a good basketball player should make in the pick and roll:

When the defense "comes to you" then place the bounce pass for the screener to score.
When the defense backs off, stop and hit the 8 - 10 foot jump shot.

When Oregon moves the ball (21 assists on 29 baskets), it means that players are getting open.
There was one sequence where a pass came to Satou from the baseline to her just outside the 3 point line.  Well within her normal shooting range and her defender was off her just a bit.
Sabally immediately passed the ball to Sabrina at the top.
The Sabrina read the defense and quickly passed it back to Satou who shot it in rhythm for a nice 3-pointer.

The reason Oregon is ranked in the top 5 in the country is that they have beaten some really good teams.
AND they have beaten good teams by large margins throughout the season.

Oregon is not an elite program in women's basketball program.
Elite programs have consistently been at the top of their conference and competed consistently well in the NCAA tournament.
That list includes teams like UConn, Baylor, Tennessee, Stanford and Oregon State.

But Oregon is among the best teams in the current season, and deserve they lofty ranking.

Maybe, once in a while even your basic delusional uck fan is right. But it's also true. They have never had another WBB team with only one loss, and ranked so high, this late in the season. 

Certainly relative to Oregon, the Oregon State women's basketball program is elite when measured as a regular conference title contender and performer in the NCAA tournament.

Oregon has about 8 years of catching up to do to be a program measured like OSU.

LOL - Oregon has beaten some very good teams both in conference and out.
Sabrina is NOT carrying the team with her scoring.  She is carrying the team with her play.
As for her fouling out or even getting into foul trouble, you obviously have not watched Oregon play much.
Two items to note ... Oregon as a TEAM does not foul much AND Sabrina has fouled out of one game this season.

Please continue to discount the contribution of a player that hits 5 of 7 3-pointers - it tells me what I need to know about your assessment of how a team plays.
Sabally has led the team in scoring in 7 games this season.
Boley has led the team in scoring at least twice.
Corzola plays a complete game at both ends of the floor.
And ignore 21 assists on 29 made baskets as if the only thing that is happening is a one-player team.

Oregon has played and beaten several teams that will be in the NCAA tournament, including Mississippi State, Oregon State, Stanford, Arizona State, UCLA, Utah, Syracuse, and South Dakota State.  Oregon's only loss was by single digits to another team on their way to the NCAA tourney, Michigan State.
One thing to note about Oregon come time for the NCAA ... if the Ducks continue to win then they are very likely to get a #1 seed.
AND that #1 will probably place them in Portland.
So, hosting 2 games in Eugene and then playing in Portland just MIGHT be an advantage for Oregon against ANY TEAM they play in the NCAA tournament.

Though I do like how you discount the POLLS, you cannot discount the official NCAA tournament seeding that takes into account the entire season to-date.
Oregon is a #1 in that seeding.
Yes, we can ignore the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll per your directive ... thanks for the advice.
Tell me how you perceive the NCAA seeding - should I ignore that?

Wow! My reading and comprehensive skills must also be severely lacking, because no where in Blastingsands post do I read that he specifically stated that anyone posted that there was NO Talent on this team. What I read is that he said " People make it "SOUND" like this team has no talent. This is perfectly compatible with your remark of people posting that there is no inside presence and that the team will have to rely on their 3pt shooting. 

What I read is that he is implying that posters gave up on the team because of their belief that the deficiency in the Post could not be compensated for or mitigated by the " Other Talent " that existed on this team. Ergo his statement " they make it sound like we have no talent on this team". 

Now we all tend to see/read what we want to see/read. I tended to believe that this teams post play would not be so bad that it couldn't be compensated for by the other talent available. In fact I have been more disappointed in the " other talent " than I have in the post play. So perhaps that helped me read it the way I did. Perhaps Blastingsand did not even mean it the way it was written, but that is the way it was written. 

Baseball1111 I like some of your other posts, but your sort of are way off base on this one. Perhaps you are letting your personal history with the poster cloud your perspective into seeing what is not really there? We would all be better off if we looked at posts more objectively.