Garbage In, Garbage Out

22 to 21, at halftime, of the Tennessee - North Carolina ball game!

This first half was truly bad basketball. Fast paced, bad basketball. Forced turnovers. Unforced turnovers. Missed lay-ups. Poor decisions.

At one point in the half, the two teams were a combined 2 for 25!

It's hard to defend women's basketball to my cynical colleagues with a first half like that.

North Carolina shot 9 for 32 (28.1%) in the first twenty minutes while Tennessee shot 7 for 29 (24.1%).

47 combined rebounds from all of the launched bricks!

29 combined turnovers.

Fast paced chaos is difficult to watch when it's not executed properly.

UNC's Ivory Latta picked up her third foul which didn't seem to bother the Tar Heels' offense too much until Tennessee's Shannon Bobbitt began to pester Carolina's Alex Miller which disrupted UNC's offense toward the end of the first half.

Candace Parker played only eight minutes in the first half after she picked up her second foul (on a shaky player control foul called on her).

The second half has to be better than those brutal 20 minutes.

My goodness.