The seniors played with some poise. Everyone else did not. I thought we would easily break the press, boy I was wrong on that one. very disappointed in the decision making but not the effort.
We had a size advantage that they used to their advantage. It was very disappointing that they seemed to get more points in the paint without playing any bigs. The don't post up at all, just drive to the basket against bigger players and try to draw a foul. They were good at doing that and we never adjusted, continuing to put them on the line.
They carried out their very different game-plan, and our preparation for their press obviously wasn't good enough. Also although we hoped they were back all the way, Azzi and Caroline never really got back to their previous form, although I was hoping maybe Caroline had turned the corner, but not for this game.
On to next year and hope we don't get any bad offseason injury news. Hopefully another year of experience will help for games like this, because today we did not look like an experienced team, a team with good poise, or one that could adjust to game conditions. It was sad to see three major streaks end in this injury plagued year, the near 30 year run without back to back losses, the Elite 8 streak, and the Final Four Streak. Those are all truly amazing and probably won't be approached for a very long time.
