. . . Morgan Tuck.
Morgan not only scored a double-double (22 pts./12 rebounds) but kept the scrappy Bulls on their heels with an array of shots from the arc (50% on treys), mid-range and contested lay-ups. When not wreaking havoc on USF, she appeared to be the consistent respected voice in those mini-huddles (e.g., before free throws).
Kib, this was a "
no-brainer"!! Morgan was out there showing off this afternoon. Her performance to today could be characterized as
Morgan being Morgan, and I loved it!!!
If you had had so much as a fleeting thought of giving it to someone else, that act alone would have been just cause to ask you to turn in your credibility card sir.
The return of soreness in her knee (she indicated that it comes and goes and is not fore warned when it does) is of grave concern, and means UConn Nation will have to hold our collective breath
the rest of the season. We all know how much Morgan means to this team. That fact was made obvious Friday night.
Since there's a good possibility that she's going to have to sit out several more games between now and the end of the season, w
e can only hope that it doesn't flare up the last week of the NCAA tournament.
IMHO, I think we'll need her (at full strength, no pain) in games
5&6, more so than in the first four.
Collier, Samuelson and Butler should be ready for tournament play come March, and should be able to cover in her absence if need be. I say that because
no one knows how/if her knee is going to hold up between now and then. That's a circumstance even ol'
Carnac cannot predict.