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UConn kept it closer than they had any right to. The only guard they had was a player that was all set to go to community college until Geno got desperate after Paige’s injury and offered a scholarship. I’m not surprised at all of the turnovers with the lack of ball handlers available to play. Gotta admit that their mid major transfer is a baller. She’s really good and has a beautiful stroke. He chose well with that one.

If they were at full strength (including Paige and Brady), they would have been scary good. Lucky us then!
 
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djtee said:
Ducharme poor play late in the game really hurt UConn after they cut it to two. Geno waited too long in the 4th to pull her. She also had 7 turnovers.
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Ducharme was killing MD when she’d cut to the basket and post up a smaller player. Once MD caught on and sent a double team at her as soon as she made her move, that pretty much shut her down.
 
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lvocd said:
If y'all don't see me ever again I have taken a very bad turn healthwise, and perhaps even died. I say that because I'm pretty sure I'm either having a stroke or a brain aneurysm. I say THAT because I just flipped on the Maryland-Connecticut game, and when I saw that the injury depleted CT was only down by 2 in the fourth quarter, I actually, for a moment, found myself rooting for CT.

I have thoroughly enjoyed "knowing" all of you. I'm going to go lie down on my bed now to make it easier for the professionals to deal with me.
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Hey I get you were trying to be funny, but don’t put things out in the world like that. There’s power in your thoughts and tongue. I actually like you so I’d rather you stick around for a while! 😩 but then again…..you were really rooting for UCONN?!?! 😒🤨😡😂
 
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lvocd said:
If y'all don't see me ever again I have taken a very bad turn healthwise, and perhaps even died. I say that because I'm pretty sure I'm either having a stroke or a brain aneurysm. I say THAT because I just flipped on the Maryland-Connecticut game, and when I saw that the injury depleted CT was only down by 2 in the fourth quarter, I actually, for a moment, found myself rooting for CT.

I have thoroughly enjoyed "knowing" all of you. I'm going to go lie down on my bed now to make it easier for the professionals to deal with me.
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Prayers lifted.....
 
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SC played Liberty today, so there was always going to be room for extended minutes by the bench. But Dawn continued a strategy she has been trying lately, namely she starts 5 (Boston, Cooke, Saxton, Beal and Fletcher). But when she subs, she sends in the second unit of 5 (likely next seasons starters) in Feagin, Watkins, Cardoso, Hall and Johnson with Cooper mixing in there a bunch. She plays Amihere with both the starting unit and the second unit.

Doing this, she gets the starters around 22 minutes per game and the second unit players around 18 minutes. Once the conference games start, I expect the starters (except Saxton and Fletcher) to get 25+ minutes per game, but that second unit and Amihere will all still get 10-12 minutes + each. She is building massive depth and they are all AA’s…..

Fulwiley, Kitts and Johnson coming in next year will play a bunch right away also. Feagin and Watkins next season with starter minutes have a chance to be All SEC, they are that good, Hall as well.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Ducharme was killing MD when she’d cut to the basket and post up a smaller player. Once MD caught on and sent a double team at her as soon as she made her move, that pretty much shut her down.
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You are correct she hurting MD. But ended up hurting her team at the end with foolish turnovers and wild looking shots.
 
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Florida at Miami game was an exciting one. It went back and forth into an overtime, and Florida won 76 to 73. This may catapult them into the top 25. We need as many SEC teams in the Top 25 as possible so we can rebuild our resume when we go on a roll in conference play. That said, Florida is still has 3 lightening fast guards that will create matchup problems for us. I still have nightmares of last year's game.
 
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Uconn is wounded right now, and it’s a bad wound with the loss of Paige, Azzi, Jorka and Muhl to name the majority of injured players right now.

This is when you really see what an exceptional coach GA is, he is like a maestro conducting his short handed team. When he has all players available and they are killing everyone nobody mentions what a great coach he is. But times like this you really see it. That man can out coach almost anyone in WBB, and I don’t think it’s close tbh. He will keep the ship afloat for the time being, and get some players back, then he will do what he always does, get his team to a final four.

This from a guy who is no Uconn fan, but respects the coaching GA does.
 
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Rooster1 said:
Uconn is wounded right now, and it’s a bad wound with the loss of Paige, Azzi, Jorka and Muhl to name the majority of injured players right now.

This is when you really see what an exceptional coach GA is, he is like a maestro conducting his short handed team. When he has all players available and they are killing everyone nobody mentions what a great coach he is. But times like this you really see it. That man can out coach almost anyone in WBB, and I don’t think it’s close tbh. He will keep the ship afloat for the time being, and get some players back, then he will do what he always does, get his team to a final four.

This from a guy who is no Uconn fan, but respects the coaching GA does.
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No big fan of his, but saw on fB that his mother died on Thursday, so he's really got his hands full this week??
 
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Brender Frese has tamed her homer officials even better than Dawn Staley? I thought this was funny! Happened in the second half when UConn was trying to come back. Two of their players slammed into each other, but didn't touch any Maryland players. No problem because it's still a UConn foul say the officials? The official initially called the foul on #44, but she was sitting on the bench? Then they corrected their homer call for #34 who was on the court and who knocked #42 on her butttt? There's more than one way to stop a comeback....
 
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Winston Smith said:
They whistled Ducharme for a back court violation late in the game, but she had another one during the first half that the zebras missed?
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The look on Geno face half way thru the 4th he knew he waited to long to pull her. The back breaker in that 4th qt. Was when she tried posting up a MD player and had her shot sent back.
 
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If Fudd and the other injured players, not already out for the season, come back, they will more than likely make the final four again. SC, Stanford, UCONN and ?
 
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mike099 said:
If Fudd and the other injured players, not already out for the season, come back, they will more than likely make the final four again. SC, Stanford, UCONN and ?
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If a clear favorite emerges from the ACC, I'd pick whoever that team is. Or same scenario in the Big 10. So someone from NCState, ND, OSU and IU in all likelihood.
 
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Just think
Winston Smith said:
The NCAA doesn't give any specific information on the NET calculations other than their usual bs? They claim that strength of schedule is considered, but if that's the case; then it's not considered strongly enough?
Division I Women’s Basketball NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) FAQs.
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Just think TENNESSEE is number 26 with a 6-5 record and third SEC TEAM what in the world are all the other teams doing there schedules have to be really bad for us to be Third in SEC
 
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