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    Most annoying people in sports

    Jeff Van Gundy, hands down
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    KLS's and Kia's True Shooting Percentage

    If by "regression analysis", you mean "average" then yeah, sure.
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    WBCA Awards -Wade and AA Team Presser

    I'm a (relatively) newly-wed, and when my wife and I were inviting people to our wedding, we learned that the logic of "How can we not invite person X, if we invited person Y?" quickly led to inviting everyone you've ever met. Having said that, I'd be fine with them changing the standard here...
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    What about the Mojo?

    UConn Huskies 2018 Tournament Central
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    Ezi Magbegor signs w/ WNBL club for three years

    Lol. If she did, more power to her.
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    What about the Mojo?

    From the UConn website:
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    Ezi Magbegor signs w/ WNBL club for three years

    It is quite simply wrong that she wouldn't be a factor as a pro. Defense is obviously her weak point, and she's going to get pushed around a little, but with her length, height, and quickness, she's got a lot of upside. At the same time, she's scoring .71 points per minute while shooting 60%...
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    Fun Fact

    On the Men's side, 1 seeds are now 135-1 against 16 seeds. By my count, the UConn women are 143-1 in their last 144 games.
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    Obama says UCONN wins!

    Lol, you'll notice this all went to hell on the Facebook group
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    Oklahoma: Worst W-L record ever for an at-large team?

    I'm not personally a huge fan of that idea. If you did that, you'd have to cut out the automatic bids for winning your conference tournament, and the added weight of making it to the NCAAs makes a lot of mid-major tournaments a lot of fun to watch. Well worth having a first round where the top...
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    Oklahoma: Worst W-L record ever for an at-large team?

    Cap the algorithm at a 25 pt margin of victory. Problem solved.
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    Azura and the Three

    I haven't been active a ton recently, so I apologize if this defense has already been made, but if there's one thing I hear over and over about the team it's this: Why does Azura keep shooting threes? For starters, we know that it is good for the team for her to shoot the three, because she...
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    Advice for South Carolina Game

    Anyone else going to the game? How early should we get there if we have general admission tickets?
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    Game take aways

    That's empirically not the case. The 2009, 2010, 2014, and 2015 national championship teams only went 6 deep when the rubber met the road.
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    Kyla Irwin

    As pointed out earlier in this thread, Irwin is shooting 27% from 3 right now. Faris shot 31% her sophomore season. As a sophomore, Kelly Faris led her team in minutes played, because of the trust Geno had in her, while Irwin plays 8 mpg, mostly after the outcome of the game has been decided...
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    Your experiences with streaming ESPN

    We pay for 75Mbps, but actually get 25. It was pretty bad on both of our computers, but works great on our Xbox one. Go figure.
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    Taurasi and Taylor to Have First Child

    To be fair, the odds that the kid's a girl are probably higher than the odds that they're good enough to play for UConn.
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    Taurasi and Taylor to Have First Child

    Reports: Mercury's Diana Taurasi, Penny Taylor expecting first child Congratulations to the happy couple! Maybe the talent Geno needs for win 2,000? ;)
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    Term Limits for the Olympic team

    What UConnNick suggested and what you suggested are exactly the same, you just draw the line at different parts of the bell curve. What he posted is a logical extreme of the flawed reasoning that choosing players by chance would somehow lead to teams that were as good as teams where the...
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    Term Limits for the Olympic team

    A) Players are objectively better or worse than each other. If we could do a statistically large sample of games, you could identify the best combination of players. B) Obviously, in a real life case, there's no way to do that. But, as long as the estimation of the selection committee of what...
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    Term Limits for the Olympic team

    One writers seems to think it's a good idea I happen to be of the opinion that taking turns is for rec leagues, and I have a hard time imagining this suggestion being made seriously on the men's side. The best players in the country represent us at the Olympics, period.
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    AP poll 12/4

    You'd think, but that doesn't tend to be how the polls operate.
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    There are some truly dreadful teams in the American...

    See Old Dominion or LaTech for the long term viability of teams in bad conferences. We'll be fine as long as Geno is around, but after that, it could get rough.
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    How does UCONN have depth?

    Yep! We'll see her better than that this year, and probably some repeats of her first few games too, but this was a great step in the right direction.
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    How does UCONN have depth?

    I think it's totally fair to say that outside of the top six, there are depth issues. Those players have played 94 minutes and have scored 6 points (all from Walker) on 2 for 22 shooting. I'm not particularly worried about it, because our starters + Z are out of this world good, and Geno's...
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    Next up... Ezi?

    Honest question: If she's playing for an Australian professional team, how is she NCAA eligible?
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    A Trend I Expect to Continue

    That's what I'm hoping too. It might end up being that those two just play the vast majority of the game in competitive games, and that KLS (maybe Walker?) slide over occasionally. Bearing in mind that this is still one of the deepest teams that we've had in a while, the team is still stronger...
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    A Trend I Expect to Continue

    Dangerfield leads the team with 34 minutes. It's early, but if her play today is indicative (and I'm not talking about the 3 point shooting), we probably lose more when she comes off the floor than when anyone else does. Azura can replace an awful lot of what our other starters can do, my...
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    San Jose St. Coach Not Talking

    There are going to be quite a few teams this year that never figure out how to solve for Z
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    San Jose St. Coach Not Talking

    Can that just be your out of office response for the next few weeks?
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    NCAA approves Shepard ND waiver

    I'm so fine with this. There's no reason athletes shouldn't be able to transfer without penalty, just like any other student.
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    Geno offers to give up pay - Well...at least someone in CT gets it

    At Connecticut State legislator makes $28k a year. I don't begrudge them cushy millage reimbursements.
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    OT: Test #529B

    16. I don't know if it actually is, but Hartsfield Jackson claims it
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