Quick Reaction

 The latest ESPN Women's Bracketology has Tennessee on the 4 seed line, and Baylor on the 5 seed line.  Both teams are projected to play in the Knoxville subregional.

A few thoughts:

Baylor is better than Tennessee.  Baylor's lone loss to Iowa 57-52.  Tennesse has two losses.  One loss was a 22 point beatdown against UCLA on November 30.

If both teams do face off in the subregional Baylor would beat Tennessee.  Baylor is offensively more efficient.  (46% to 41% shooting from the field, 74% to 67% free throw shooting, 34% to 28% from 3 point range.)

I also thought Notre Dame was better than Ole Miss.  Then they played each other, and Ole Miss won.  

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