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[Dove]

I love seeing Geno saying "Someone has to come along and kick our !"

Will it be Muffet?

 

[choochoo]

I love seeing Geno saying "Someone has to come along and kick our !"

Will it be Muffet?

Doubt it! Just saying. ND has played 1 count it one ranked team this season. Uconn has played 4 and won all of them. 3 by double digits.

 

[Schoup]

Doubt it! Just saying. ND has played 1 count it one ranked team this season. Uconn has played 4 and won all of them. 3 by double digits.

That's a huge advantage IMO, not saying it will be decisive. UConn has been tested and considering the young team, it was a good things to do. They have a sense who tends to play big in the big games. Who will bring it in the crucial moments thus far.

 

[Schoup]

One possible vulnerability that had not been tested is a full court pressing team. No experienced PG, and have shown already high ball pressure disrupts the team in half court set. What would happen in sustained full court press.

 

[Sonny44]

I love seeing Geno saying "Someone has to come along and kick our !"

Will it be Muffet?

Yea, he has a lot of people (including his players) fooled by that tiresome comment.

 

[UcMiami]

One possible vulnerability that had not been tested is a full court pressing team. No experienced PG, and have shown already high ball pressure disrupts the team in half court set. What would happen in sustained full court press.

Well DePaul 'always presses' and Uconn dismantled it to the point that Doug had to call off the press, something he almost never does. The starting five plus Dangerfield are all good ball handlers and Lou, Napheesa, and Gabby have the added advantage of some height to see over the pressing players.

 

[VAMike23]

Danger is a 1-woman press breaker from what I've seen; I think other concerns are more pressing re: game planning

 

[Dove]

I haven't seen the Greenies play. What are they real good at?

 

[JordyG]

One possible vulnerability that had not been tested is a full court pressing team. No experienced PG, and have shown already high ball pressure disrupts the team in half court set. What would happen in sustained full court press.

That's what DePaul did.

 

[UcMiami]

Some really fun stats for games involving number 1 and number 2 seeds:
Uconn has played in 22 such games dating back to their first the 1995 game at Gampel involving TN as the #1 ranked team. (Uconn won )
Uconn's overall record in these games is 19 wins and 3 losses - by far the best record - the next best is La Tech at 9-4 (the last of which was into 1997-8 season involving TN)
Playing as the #1 ranked team they are 15-2 - and haven't lost since 2001.
Playing as the #2 ranked team they still hold a 4-1 record.
The last loss was to #1 Baylor in Waco in 2011 - their only loss as the #2 ranked team.
Prior to that you have to go back to 2001 to #2 ND in the FF
And the other loss - #2 TN at Gampel in 1999 - the Boo game I believe.

In Dec. 2013 Uconn played in the 52nd of these games (against #2 Duke - Uconn won 83-61 ) and since then Uconn has played five more of these games and won them all and I don't believe anyone else has played any. If that is correct thEn in history there have been 57 total and the record for the #1 seed is 36 - 21 (so rankings do pretty well.)
But ... if you drop out Uconn's record as a #1 ranked team from those it gets sort of interesting - 36 -21 becomes 21 - 19 or almost a toss up! For all #1 ranked teams without Uconn on their chest playing #2 ranked teams based on this history, they have a 52.5 % chance of winning. And of course Uconn playing as the #2 ranked team based on history has a 80% chance of winning!

As they say in the investment industry: 'Past performance is no guarantee of future results', or 'Buyer beware'

 

[tomcat]

I don't believe the DePaul game says much about what will happen vs. ND. The DePaul press is nothing like what ND can do. And in any case, DePaul was off their game from the git-go. I would be really surprised if UConn has its way with ND the way it did with DePaul.