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I just saw a story on the NBC 11 PM local news which documented a pattern of student applications for admission to UConn spiking in years when either the men or the women win a basketball championship. Last year's MBB championship caused this year's applications to grow from 46,000 to 57,000...

One of the least noticed developments in the Portland Regional is the fact that Caroline was there, on the bench, following every play in both games. That means that she was able to tolerate the cross-country plane flight, and that she is able to tolerate the bright lights and noise of a...

I don't know if it has been made clear that the location of each "First Four" game in the women's NCAA tournament is the same as the location where the winner of that game will play in the First Round (Round of 64) this weekend. For UConn fans, especially those who reside in Connecticut, this...

Don't ask me how, but I just re-watched the full game replay of UConn's road game against Creighton, which was played in Omaha on January 3 of this year. In view of many of the comments made in the postgame thread for the recent game on February 19, both the commentary and the statistics on the...

I was driving home from today's Creighton game and listening to Chris Dailey's postgame interview with Bob Joyce on the radio. She said something that I think is important about what Geno said after Paige's announcement on Friday night. You may recall Geno saying (almost verbatim), "Paige is...

I just finished re-watching last year's game at the XL Center between UConn and South Carolina, which was played on 2/5/2023. It was a very close and near-even game. South Carolina did get a 12-point lead late in the 4th quarter, but UConn closed the margin in the last 2+ minutes, and SC...

My understanding, based on private messaging with @MJL243 and observation of the remaining contents of his YouTube channel, is that only SNY is enforcing its copyright to UConn WBB games, and that there is currently no barrier to the continued posting on YouTube of future games which are...

In my inbox this morning was an email from The Next, a blog of sorts on Women's Basketball. It was an article by a reporter named Em Adler about the lottery draft order, which will be decided later this afternoon. She was dishing about who the four lottery picks would be, and in what order...

Those of you who watched tonight's men's game undoubtedly noticed how ESPN highlighted the presence of Sue Bird in the crowd. At first I wasn't sure that she was rooting for UConn, but eventually her agreeably disappointed facial expressions at the end made it clear that she was. Kansas fans...

... May I suggest that you review Paige's play at the Cayman Islands tournament? It's instructive because for those two games, Paige was in the same situation that Caitlin is in every game -- having to assume the scoring load because of the limited offensive talents of her supporting cast...

I attended the exhibition game this afternoon (11/4), and I noticed that the "arc" under the basket where (generally) no charging foul can be called is still there as a marking on the court, and also that the hash marks denoting the "lower defensive box" are still there. I thought that the arc...

As a resident of the Hartford area, I have now seen twice on TV a commercial which features Amari Deberry playing a one-upsmanship game with a couple of attorneys from a local law firm. For example: Amari: I'm 6-5. Lawyer: I'm 5-6. Amari: I have beautiful hair. Two bald lawyers...

I never expected to be saying this, but after watching one Connecticut Sun game in person and two on TV, the Sun (to my amateur eyes) show every evidence of being a well-coached team at both ends of the floor, thanks in no small part to the UConn duo of Tiffany Hayes and Olivia Nelson-Ododa...

As has been noted here, there was a Connecticut Forum event at the Bushnell Auditorium in downtown Hartford this evening, featuring Geno / Sue Bird / Morgan Tuck. It was all interesting, but one hilarious line from the Q&A session simply has to be told here. It started when the moderator asked...

I looked on YouTube for recent Ohio State games (other than North Carolina) to watch to get a feel for how they played. I found the Big Ten Conference Tournament Final game from a few weeks ago between Iowa and Ohio State. I was mainly interested in watching OSU play against a team that is...

I did slog through the entire Postgame Thread for the South Carolina game. When you get past the referee complaints, there seems to be a consensus that if UConn only lost by 4 points with its current active roster, then it should certainly win when Caroline and Azzi are added to the mix. Geno...

When I re-watched the UConn game after watching it live, there were two plays in particular where I thought that the calls were at least questionable. One of these favored UConn and the other favored Villanova. At 1:42 of the second quarter, Nika made a driving layup (a "finger roll") at the...

The broadcast of last night's Tennessee game (specifically the play where Jillian Hollingshead drove on Aubrey and was initially called for a charge, which was then changed to a block when video showed that Aubrey's heels were in the restricted area) was the first time that I had ever heard the...

Apologies in advance: based on the topic, this post really belongs in the thread on Lou's shooting, but I think these numbers are important and surprising enough to warrant their own thread. We know that Lou is a top-notch 3-point shooter, currently hitting over 51% (43-for-84) for the year...

All of the Boneyard (including myself) agree that turnovers have been the biggest issue in UConn's on-court performance in the last half dozen games or so. There has been a lot of speculation about the causes, but not much data. So I'm offering below a detailed analysis of UConn's turnovers in...

If you haven't yet looked at the teaser for tomorrow night's "Geno Auriemma Show" (clipped in another thread), I suggest that you do it ASAP. It quotes Geno making (as usual) an astute point that may surprise some followers of UConn WBB. He uses Paige (in her "Coach P" role) as a willing foil...

This is not a game thread. I am not commenting on any specific play. -- just overall first impressions of this year's team. Lou is the real thing as a scorer -- 18 points at halftime. And she can drive to the hoop and make contested layups. Her defense appears to be at least adequate...

What Evina contributed on the court to last year's team (beyond her off-court "Mama E" role): Guard skills in a big body for a guard (over 6-0); 3-point shooting skill, especially in spurts; Able to contribute both as a starter and off the bench, as needed; Positional flexibility from 1 to 3...

I've just been reading through a bunch of comments in another thread about how, by December, the two players carrying the team, at least on offense, will be Azzi and Caroline. I guess it's more likely than not that they will be the top scorers, although I would note that Caroline is likely to...

In the winter, I am a UConn WCBB season ticketholder, and in the summer I am a Connecticut Sun season ticketholder, so I feel qualified to comment on this topic. I do not understand why so many WCBB fans, including UConn fans and even some Boneyarders, take a sneering attitude toward the...

There is an article in today's New York Times noting the imminent retirements of Sue and Sylvia Fowles, noting that their career achievements are comparable but that Sue is getting a whole lot more notice. The printed headline is "Two Brilliant Careers, but One Was Out of the Limelight". It's...

ESPN has announced that Napheesa Collier will return to the court this evening against the Dream, just three months after giving birth. Apparently she really wants to play with Sylvia Fowles before she retires at the end of the season. The Lynx are currently out of playoff position but are...

I can't believe that I'm the first Boneyarder to notice, but the Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that the Lynx have waived Crystal along with a few other guards including Layshia Clarendon, and have signed Odyssey Sims. Only two years ago she was WNBA Rookie of the Year.

I'm starting this thread to facilitate discussion of a point that has been made in numerous posts since 10 PM EDT last night. There are many examples of posters making this point, but I have selected this one from @LoboDays' comment in the "Enough About Bad Recruiting" thread: "If UConn wants...

As I write this, there are 316 posts in the "South Carolina Postgame Thread" and 52 more in the "without complaints" variant of that. Is there anyone here with the appetite and time to read all of that? I get the feeling that posters use the postgame thread(s) to vent their own thoughts in...

The Mercer postgame thread is now closed, but one of the early comments made in that thread was that UConn's field goal make percentage of 44.8% (in round numbers, 45%) meant "in polite terms" that the offense needs improvement. Apparently the poster felt that against an overmatched opponent...

This thread is really a reaction to a post in the "DePaul Loses Big" thread. In Post #61 in that thread, a certain poster who is well-known for constant negative commentary expressed the opinion that defense and rebounding are the key to winning national championships (citing Pat Summitt on...

There were a couple of plays in the Tennessee game that caused some discussion of referee's calls over on VolNation. Since they both seem to be more about rules interpretation than judgment calls about what happened on the court, I thought I might pose those questions here. When Evina entered...

I thought I heard Bob Joyce say this in the radio pregame show, but I now see that Alexa Phillipou has confirmed it in her article on the Creighton game in the Courant. Her specific statement was: "SNY also reported that Juhász, who missed her second straight game Wednesday, will not play...

Has anyone noticed what I have during the last two games, since Azzi returned from her foot issue, that she does a lot of small things on the basketball court that have little or nothing to do with shooting? Like stealing the ball from Ms. Morrow after a rebound in the DePaul game, or dribbling...