USC Trojans Coach Lindsay Gottlieb Disrespected By NCAA Tournament Bracket

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00:00Obviously, pretty muted reaction, it seemed like, from the group, and Juju and Kenny were

00:06both kind of saying you sort of expected this. I guess what did you think when you

00:09see them just kind of mutedly respond? I mean, look, it's unbelievable to have a

00:15thousand people in here. It's not lost on us at all that we've earned a one seed

00:20for the second year in a row. I think there's so much gratitude to be playing

00:24at home, excitement for what we're gonna do, but I can't speak for them, for me.

00:29I never thought I'd be a one seed and feel disrespected, but I thought the

00:32committee, I just, I thought there would be very little chance we would be the

00:36number four overall, number one, and so, you know, we've got a big game here on

00:40Saturday against UNCG, and we'll handle it accordingly, but you tell me if you

00:46think that bracket that we got should have been the one that it was. I can't

00:49speak for the players. I think they're excited to play, but this was not on my

00:53bingo card to be a little bit, you know, frustrated after being a one seed, and

00:58it's not, you know, an arrogance of any kind. I think there's a lot of really

01:02good teams, and you got to play the first game in front of you and earn your way

01:05from there, and that's what we'll do, but sometimes I don't understand people who

01:10make decisions in women's basketball and why they do what they do, and certainly

01:13with this committee, I would love to ask some questions. I mean, I could go down, I

01:17mean, I go down, just none of it makes sense to me of how UCLA's number one

01:21overall, as they should be, and we beat them twice, so then South Carolina's

01:27number two, but then how does Texas become number three, and we become number

01:29four? I just needed someone to explain it, or Maryland got the four seed over, let's

01:33say, Ole Miss and the Big Ten SEC thing, and so it just, it just, it doesn't make

01:37sense to me, but that being said, we're super excited to be playing at home. We

01:41have some really good teams coming here to Galen. That'll be exciting, and every

01:46game, you got to take one game at a time, but if there's a little extra motivation

01:49for a team that's already a one seed, we're gonna have it.

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