They just realesed the women's all-american team and Sylvia Fowles was on the second team, not the first. Hopefully this will be motivation and inspiration for the weekend but wow, they really missed the mark on this one. Do the writers even bother to watch the actual tournament or do they just hear the big names from the "big market" schools?
The reasoning is that Oklahoma's Courtney Paris has had over 60 straight double-doubles. Her stats are better. However, the Big 12 is much much weaker in comparison to the ACC or SEC. OU was the only Big12 school to make it to the sweet 16. ESPN has both Paris and Fowles on their AA list (they only pick 5 players)
Saw that on espn. Davenport is the center on the first team and she is good but no way she belongs on the first team ahead of Fowles. Just shows how little the people who voted on this know. It is the AP after all.
The LSU News bot had Jessica Davenport andParis on the ESPN 1st team with Syl on the 2nd team. That's just stupid. Fowles dominated both of them when they played.
Who's in the Final Four? That's all that really matters, on the court. All American honors are great, but I don't like the AP method, much prefer ESPN just picking the 5 best players.
That is a HUGE surprise. Even the commentators for the game against UConn said she was THE best in all of College Basketball and that, "If she wasn't 1st team All American...." Just as I posted in the Heisman thread, I'd prefer the team win a NC but what's right is right.
For the last two games, the announcers at ESPN have not stopped drooling over Sylvia. They have a very strong bias for LSU in this tournament.
Yes, Sylvia has proven she is much better than Davenport in head to head matchups, she should be on the first team.
