Recent content by BostonCanuck

Agree with everything except for the intangibles category. UConn's brutal travel schedule and the significantly shorter time between games gives UCLA a net advantage in this category. Still calling it for UConn though by four to six points.

With due respect, Geno absolutely needs to find his voice with the officials about the bad calls and no-calls that systemically plague his team in big games. He should have called it out directly after the officiating debacle that was last seasons national semi-final game, but he chose not to...

I think it mostly stems from the motion or Princeton offence that Geno defaults to as a coach. There also seemed to be occasions tonight where some of our players just did not want the ball in their hands in important moments. That second one was definitely not a problem for Notre Dame.

Exactly. The Huskies looked completely lost on their half-court sets tonight. Countless times they were in a good dribble-drive or outside shooting situation, only to pass it off into something far more disadvantageous. And that's before considering the live ball turnovers that resulted from...

The systemic bias I am referring to is the officials letting other players beat up on her game after game, which led to certain liberties being taken by opponents like the kid who broke her nose. Meanwhile, they never missed an opportunity to call any kind of foul on Edwards. That includes...

Fully agree about the pass to Edwards being the best option at that point, had the offensive foul not been called. Wouldn't have been an easy pass to see being available or to make over all those defenders. But I l believe Paige would have pulled it off and Alliyah would have made the short...

I agree that Paige will be our star player next year. But Sarah should be an effective replacement for Alliyah, and the quicker she can develop the better, because next year is probably going to be UConn's best shot to win it all given the roster they will have. To your next point, what Geno...

I agree with all of this. Perhaps the addition of Sarah Strong will allow for a rebalancing of the offense towards some more "hard to the rim" play that has worked so well for teams like South Carolina and Notre Dame in recent years. I'm certainly not calling for a wholesale abandonment of the...

I didn't expect them to win it all because I don't think they would have beaten South Carolina in the final. But in the semi-final, we had two elite players in Bueckers and Edwards, and very solid supporting players, going up against the 105th ranked defense in women's Division I. And the...

At the time he was winning all those championships, that was of course the most effective style of play. My point is that the women's college game has evolved in the decade or so since then, which requires adjustments that Geno often seems reluctant to make.

It's entirely possible that the play was not executed as drawn up. Unfortunately, we're never going to know. None of the reporters other than Schnell asked about it post-game, probably because all of their focus was on the offensive foul. But Geno really is masterful dealing with the media...

The key for me is whether the head coach will finally make the necessary adjustments to his dated motion offence sufficient to allow a "Strong" forward to dominate in today's game with more physical and talented players. Geno's penchant for "pretty basketball" was again on display with that...

And John Fanta is one of the best play-by-play guys around. It's a joy listening to these two call a game.

Too funny. At first it sounded like they even added a laugh-track at the end there, but I believe it was actually other team-members off camera.

I hope the NCAA finally gets serious about the problem that officiating has become in the women's college game. The appearance of bias, the inconsistency between conferences, the inconsistency between and within games. The problem has been getting worse for years now. It undermines the game...