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Oh sure, and next time a UConn player misses a bunny and blames it on being a little fatigued or that a 6'7" player was in her way, I'm just going to cut her down with a "You know there are soldiers walking through mine fields right now, and you are pathetic for missing that jumper." I'm sure it...

The military and war parties terminology are so imbued in our language that we don't even realize where so many of our terms and symbols come from. Sure, those who who have had their lives on the line in actual battle may take a dim view about a lot of the stuff that goes on in sports talk and...

Wait a minute, are you accusing an ESPN crew of doing poorly researched speculation for the purpose of stirring up some controversy? That would be so ESPNish. :eek:

The Bird, BattleBot, and Maria, I'd go court warfare with that back court trio with the expectation of wonderful results. Winning smiles from all.

Um, okay Philly. So if you are saying that WestCoastFan's idle speculation about how a soldier in a deadly situation related to a troubled basketball player's issues with her own tough choices does not serve as a direct demeaning of the BB player's less deadly options, than please spill it. Did...

Man would this place be a total snooze if all we had to do was comment on the marvelous artistry of the Husky program and the dogged attempts of their opponents to somehow beat them. Throw in all that fun media stuff, OT asides, historical anecdotes, stat summaries and notes, player quotes, and...

Well, Stokes' stats in college weren't hugely different from her first year in the WNBA, but the interesting thing is now she has the advanced basketball.reference.com-type stats to show the things that her critics like Doris are clueless about. Yes she had an Offensive Rating was among the top...

Kiah broke the single season record with 147, but her career total at 325 was 71 shy of Lobo's 396.

Okay, not as rip-snortingly funny as Cuse, but here's just a few of the other WCBB teams we can have some fun on as soon as we post some classy pics of their empty arenas in their last games: BYU with pathetic 1,183 fans in 20,900 arena, Utah with measly 805 fans in 15,000 arena, Ohio with poor...

Nah, though I am now from NY and have had a lot of rhubarbs with Orange fans over real stuff. I guess you can roll in the innocousnicity of it all and likely I could be called out for being classless about some UTenn stuff in the past, but maybe I'm just too dense too see why laughing at a group...

It did seem that it was the MD PR that was trumpeting that 10-o record against crap competition, but Brenda did say, "Congratulations to our #Tough Terp award winners from last night." That may not be bragging, but I just have a tough time controlling the giggles about the Tough Terp award.

Um, but are you a basketball player in a high pressure situation with almost certainly many other issues troubling her in the last two years? Whether we do have a dictionary next to us when we are reading posts, most of us do know that you shouldn't throw in in totally unrelated (maybe look up...

Not sure what the point in all this is. Cuse women simply do no pull in many fans, and the Carrier Dome could seat 1 million and that won't change. They averaged 674 in attendance last year, so why kick them about getting a 526 crowd in December for a non-ACC game? Should a team that doesn't...

Tough news. How it affects UConn directly is hard to say since Reimer has never scored much against the Huskies in the three games she's played against them (two of them NCs), but last year she at least pulled down a combined 17 rebounds in the two games as played solid enough D on the front...

Nan, I think the fans of the teams that UConn pounded by an average margin of 45.5 points in January last year might have a few choice things to say to you about your description of the Huskies' struggles. Even if you change the span to ranging from the first game after Christmas through mid...

Hey, that was just a throw-in to the perfect shooting stuff which was the big focus and is still very much alive and kicking, and the TO was really Polly's fault for not having parents like Stewie's that imbued her with a 7 foot wingspan.

Not sure there's an iota of anything new that's worth having much of an argument over. In the summer-fall of 2014 Tuck said she was considering the option of going pro after her senior year but wanted to stay, and then last April she said she was planning to stay. Three months ago she apparently...

Not a huge fan of Sagarin schedule ratings because it does not use a graduated relevancy system and just does a brute number approach, but even the far-better Massey system has the Terps rated at #128 which along with Oregon State at #131 are the only truly ghastly OOCs for Top 10 teams. No top...

The usual fright show. The Huskies realize how much harder they have to work and all the things they need to fix, they get exams cleared out of their brains and get over the Christmas celebration, and then go out to put the clamps on and crush. Horrible stuff for the poor crunched-up victims...

FSU's season's stats kind of paint the picture for them, though last night's numbers are obviously not the usual, but the Seminoles otherwise haven't played the kind of teams that are at the top of the ACC. For those who think ACC play is so grueling though, note that the best schedule-rating...

Yeah, there were a bunch of times last night when an FSU player was extra "active" or just made a nice play to grab the ball from UConn, and it then seemed to inspire just a little extra stuff back from MoJeff and Stewie in return. MoJeff's next to last basket with a little more than 3 1/2...

And one stat that is unusual in a big win, -13 on rebound margin as they got outboarded 37-24. That can happen, and UConn has won NC games with bigger discrepancies, but you will rarely see a team losing the battle of the boards by 13 and winning by 24. Most of the difference was offensive...

So the cable numbers are crashing which will make many P5 payouts begin to wither up in the future, and before any of the real (by then Monopoly-type) money kicks in for Rutgers way in the future, the Knights will have gone through all the stringent facility upgrade requirements, begging to...

She's a Collier, so you have to say she "stoked" herself and the coals of UConn fan hopes very well. Talking about S(s)tokes, Collier's 2 blocks are a nice sign that she is following in a hallowed UConn Swat tradition.

And meant to say that it was the first time against a ranked team since Cal. There have been some lesser teams along the way.

Maybe, but FSU takes fewer 3s than almost all teams, averaging only 12 coming in, and they don't shoot them well enough to make them a good option against UConn. This is the way it will be for a lot of UConn's opponents coming up, and the 3pt % should start dropping way down for them just like...

Another impressive stat, no FSU starter hit double digits in scoring, though the reserve Shakayla Thomas had a nice game with 16 points. The last time UConn stifled the opponent's starters that way was almost two years ago with Cal, though in that game none of the Bears hit double digits.

Must be a new "well rounded player" focus for Stewie to go for, as she's never even had a 4-4-4-4-4 (5x4) be4 tonight, though she has had many 4x4s in various configurations. In any case, maybe a good sign for a 4peat for Stewie and possibly a 5peat for Morgan.

Yep, neither team fouls a whole lot, and though FSU's standard opponents have fouled a real lot, UConn isn't a standard opponent. Kind of guessing though that a combined 5 FTAs for the teams will be the low in a game for both teams this year.

Typical UConn game, and most of those stats are hugely different from a typical FSU game, as UConn just imposes its will. The Huskies have passed the test for the first 8 games, and I'm sure they will do pretty well in the next exams before we all get together again 10 days hence to celebrate...

Try to get into one of those smaller places in the region like Anguilla where BYers might not think to look for you. And remember that tonight's FSU game is here, so you can probably leave from Florida and be okay.

Not by much. Gabby's at 58% this year in the 1st quarter, a pct. that most players would be happy with even if it doesn't quite reach her 61% overall average. Make one more shot in the 1st quarter and she's above her season's average. And why did you exclude Ohio State on Gabby's breakdown...

That just means, "Oh, oh." Head for the border.

Okay, you asked for it. It's the old college setting "Three Ways Clean -- It's Colgate Clean." They just don't make great commercials like this anymore, though I have to admit it's probably from before even my time, maybe early 1950s. Nice clean game between Colgate and UConn anyways.

Badass indeed. Reminds me of the old Warren Zevon tune: Send Lawlors, guns and money The sh-!-t has hit the fan And TLaw is laying some heavy sh-!-t down on at least this UConn fan for awhile now.