Why Adlee Blacklock has 'deja vu' with Texas Tech, Oregon State seasons
Adlee Blacklock knows what its like for her team to be overlooked. She experienced it at Oregon State, and that group went on a March Madness run.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Adlee Blacklock feels like she's seen this before. An overlooked team.
No expectations from outside the locker room. It's not just this year's Texas Tech women's basketball team. The senior guard had an eerily similar experience in her second season at Oregon State.
Picked to finish near the bottom of the Pac-12, the Beavers shocked pundits with a breakout season that ended in the Elite Eight. NCAA Tournament run pending, the Lady Raiders are living out their own underdog story. Texas Tech women's basketball: Complete coverage of the Lady Raiders from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Coaches voted Tech 13th in the preseason Big 12 poll.
The team responded with a turnaround that saw it finish tied for fourth in the conference. The Lady Raiders will see how closely they can duplicate OSU's surprise when they open the NCAA Tournament against Villanova on Friday. "I have a lot of deja vu from this year," Blacklock said.