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I suspected something like that might be coming. I figured that's why Kara was working with Doris and Dave this year; I couldn't see any other reason to bring her out of the studio where I think we'd all agree she was a favorite, and put her into a three-man team when all the other teams were...

And if you take their "We're #1 until someone beats us" logic to it's natural conclusion, then since Mississippi State made it to the championship game and beat Connecticut head-to-head, the Bulldogs start the season at #2 next year, ahead of Connecticut,...and Stanford is #4. I don't know...

Eventually this thread will probably degenerate to that point and get locked, but there is a back story to this - Geno had been asked about this late in the season and gave pretty much the same answer as in this article from a little earlier in year: New Question for a Frequent Champion...

Never pay attention to LaChina; she's not a journalist so much as sports "chatterer" (?). She's also the one who used to refer to Jewell Lloyd as "the real NPOY". She has always had issues with UConn. I pretty much lost respect for Mechelle Voepel after her "Nice acting job by Katie Lou...

For Buzzyboy, down south "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural, and "mom'n'em" is your whole family. And for Statefan, if you ever come up north, "Youse" is singular, and "youse guys" is plural. See how simple that is. Just be wary down South, any time someone appends "Bless his...

I think in a way that it has been invaluable for her to come off the bench, nominally for Saniya. That’s done a couple of things. First, if she had any notions (as so many of us did) that with Moriah graduating, and coming in as the best point guard in her class, that she might be a starter...

What about Soviet Jewelry?

Totally brain cramping tonight...there was a pretty good basketball game on... A few other things, Frontier has been mirroring American on a lot of routes, they do fly between Dallas and Phoenix but I think they only go in the evening which won't do you any good. You'll have something else to...

Sorry, Homer Simpson moment...forgot completely about those guys and I have friends that work there. As a bonus LUV (actually, DAL) is much closer so if that works it's probably better. Dallas and Phoenix are hubs for both airlines. I tend to be a little DFW- centric. (btw DFW stands for...

I'm trying to not be arrogant when I say this - for UConn fans it's a rare opportunity, for everyone else it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. If you can make it work, you should do it. Actually, both Dallas and Phoenix are AA hubs....about a dozen flights a day. It won't necessarily be...

Well played, Nan. Also, it's always been the standard practice here; for example, Connecticut's own Brittany Hunter was listed on all four of the following UConn Women's Basketball Media Guides:during her tenure here as a full team member. I couldn't find an archived Duke Media Guide for her...

"That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered #10 seed you ever set eyes on!" Reality check: Connecticut is in a bracket where the #2 seed didn't even make it to the Sweet 16 (granted, injury, but still...) and the #3 seed didn't make it out of the Sweet 16, both beaten by a #10 seed that...

Emily Lattella: What's all this fuss I keep hearing about violins on television? Why don't parents want their kids to see violins on television? I thought the Leonardo Bernstein concerts were just lovely, now, if they only show violins on television after ten o'clock at night, the little babies...

Depends on whether they're vegetarians, or just don't eat meat. A lot of people who give up meat still eat lots of rice, potatoes, bread, butter, carbs, stuff like that. Been there, done that., still doing that. My significant other is more of a "vegetable vegetarian" so while I get excited...

You rarely ever see an overweight vegetarian. Something to think about....

"Bad" isn't the word that comes to mind. Pat Summitt and her program established these records. Different era or not, they are the primary benchmark by which we measure the success and mastery of the Connecticut program. And as those records continue to be surpassed (demolished?) Connecticut...

While I am as suspicious as anyone about Staley's reporting of Coates injuriy, no Connecticut fan should ever doubt the severity of a knee injury based simply on what we see on television. Some of our young whippersnappers should remember that Palmer Alaska's own Jessica Moore actually...

I liked Negandhi. I think the problem is that while we look at the NCAA women's tourney as a big deal, career-wise there are more important gigs at ESPN and I think the hosts have been grabbing them as they can. There's probably a little more impetus these days to get something like Kevin's...

Drinking the Orange Kool Aid? Of course it didn’t say anything “specifically”. This is from the Syracuse Propaganda – sorry, “Sports Information” department. How did you think they would spin it? Seriously? Because in the national press they took a beating, so a little downplaying and...

Sometime during the season some analyst opined (5¢ word of the day) that Brenda had purposely scheduled this way because she had so many new players and it was a chance to break them in without getting challenged too hard or rattled, etc.. Whereas Geno broke our freshmen in against Baylor. And...

Well, maybe not quite so recent… Anyway, here's a little filler while we're waiting for the dance to begin. There have been many important moments in UConn history, but in more recent times I think the most important moment was the span from the last TV timeout to the half in the 2013...

Weatherman are like guys in bars. You're lucky if you get half of what they promised....

I just posted this point in another thread, but the Drake - Northern Iowa seeding isn't as strange as it looks and you can't assume that the committee ranked Northern Iowa significantly below Drake - key word, "significantly". This is what Charlie Creme wrote last night: Drake and Northern...

As an occasional visitor to Waterloo I was rooting for the mighty Panthers of Northern Iowa. One thing that may have helped them was the fact that they lost the conference tournament to Drake in overtime. In fact they only had three conference losses, all to Drake, two in overtime, and no...

on ESPNU

Doesn't matter. You can't change your conference schedule. Maryland chose their out-of-conference schedule and now they're reaping the rewards. And besides, don't forget that the Big 10 was ranked behind the ACC in RPI this year. Maryland's relatively weak in-conference schedule and a...

But it is garbage. Since all we know so far is the projected hosting schools, there's no way that he can divine the motives of the Committee when we haven't even seen the results of their work yet. It is just something that he made up with absolutely no basis in fact. As far as putting...

It's a good call. Katie Lou's game may be more balanced overall, but that's as much a reflection of the system that each woman plays under as well as the nature of their teams. And it isn't like Udub is wallowing in mediocrity while one player is jacking up the majority of the teams shots in...

She did. This is from last year and she turned him down because her foot was in a cast. I don't know though. Seeing those eggs, and knowing what we now know about her cooking skills, it might be a good idea for her to reconsider....

True that. But given that I wasn't born in 1939, I've still seen "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind". I'm betting most of us have. You never know....

Apparently she's never seen "Witness"....

Great show...Hopefully we're all good on Napheesa now. And yeah, given what was to happen the next night against USF, HBO got a little gem when Geno gave that post game speech after UCF... Geno speaks and the team makes it so... On the technical side, one interesting point is that while some...

Nope. In the first season Louisville was in the AAC and got to the fourth round of the NCAA tournament. That year USF went to the NIT but the next two years they went to the NCAA tournaments and won their first round games, so there have always been two AAC teams up to this point (and...

Then she "must understand the emotion and the moment" and realize what she did could (and did) cost her team. Far too often in sports, and in life, we use "emotion" and "heat of the moment" as an excuse for bad behavior. At some point we all have to earn that no matter how upset we are, there...