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Monday - May 29, 2006

Thoughts on the Austin Regional

After looking things over a bit, I'm thinking we've ended up with a pretty tough regional. North Carolina State and UT-Arlington played some tough competition over the past couple of weeks and did very well. Stanford, not so much. Stanford seemed to be on a bit of a tear over the latter part of April and the beginning of May. But, they've fallen off again a bit over the last couple of weeks and are 2-4 over their last 6 games. Does that mean they'll be on their heals? Or wanting to prove something about how much they deserve the bubble nod they got from the committee? And, let's not forget that they did beat Texas twice early in the year. North Carolina State was the #7 seed going into the ACC Tournament. They battled their way through to the championship game but ended up losing to Clemson (the #1 National seed in the regionals). And, then there's UT-Arlington. The Mavs actually have a losing record. However, they were the #5 seed (of 6 teams) going into the Southland Conference tournament and won it all. They also did beat Texas in Austin early last month. I have to admit that I am getting just a bit nervous about the whole thing. C'mon, Horns!

UPDATE. I keep forgetting to include the link to the official tournament page on the texassports.com site. There. Done.

Posted by Joanna at 4:50 PM