2024-2025 Women's Basketball

Pablo

Hall of Famer

(11) George Mason vs. (6) Florida State

Upset chance: 18%
First Round: 7:45 p.m. ET Saturday, ESPN2 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Spokane 1)


This one is pure hunch. BPI gives the Seminoles an 82.0% chance to win this matchup, but the Patriots won their past four games by an average of 19.0 points, including a 15-point victory in the Atlantic 10 tournament championship game. The program turnaround under Vanessa Blair-Lewis has been remarkable. The Patriots won three games the season before she arrived. Four years later, they have 27 wins and are in their first NCAA tournament. Slowing down Ta'Niya Latson will be a challenge. This upset will depend on the nation's leading scorer having an off game and George Mason riding its momentum.
 

psyclone

Hall of Famer
Daniel Frank (A10talk and Mason alum) column on women's team playing Florida State:

 

Pablo

Hall of Famer

"After a four-year stint as Head Coach at Colgate, including school-records in overall and conference wins this season, and back-to-back 20-win seasons and WNIT appearance in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the Athens, Georgia native returns to the Smith Center sidelines where she was GW’s top assistant coach for three seasons and spent four years overall from 2017-2021, punctuated by an A-10 Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018."
 

FlPatriot

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GIVING DAY 2023
Was interesting watching the teams break at the half, the Mason women walked to the locker room the Florida State players were lobbying two different refs as they were walking off the floor. I think Vanessa Blair Lewis needs to teach our team something about lobbying.
 
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