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  1. Bigboote

    Freshman Ashlynn Shade peaking at perfect moment

    She's usually still smiling at the end of the game too.
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    HBCU’s and scheduling conundrum

    True -- Howard and Coppin State are both easier to get to for me.
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    The Send-off

    Too bad KK's so shy. :D
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    Some High Praise for Paige

    Geez that IS high praise coming from Dawn Staley. She's not one to idly hand out profuse praise to opposing players, plus she knows a little about being the greatest player to grace the game. I had the good fortune to see a lot of her games when she was in college, and 30 years later I still...
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    Paige and Nika are like fine art

    There is recorded evidence of what happens when the jazz combo isn't entirely together. There's a recording of Thelonius Monk's Well You Needn't in which Monk is cheesed off at the soloist. Monk feeds the soloist chords that are either in the wrong key or the wrong time, and puts all...
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    UConn vs. Syracuse post game - on to the sweet 16!

    WVU outscored Iowa by 12 from the floor but still lost by 10.
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    UConn vs. Syracuse post game - on to the sweet 16!

    Also within a minute of Nika getting called for pushing off, one of the Syracuse players did the same thing -- left arm extended into a UConn player's chest. And it was a foul on UConn.
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    Kibitzer Memorial Badass Award

    We haven't heard it yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that she said "Get #10 out of my face" a la Caitlin Clark. I couldn't pick a winner tonight, but if you hold a gun to my head, I vote for Paige. Or Nika. Or Ashlynn. . .
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    HBCU’s and scheduling conundrum

    One of the things that I respect about Dawn Staley is SCar has been scheduling at least one game against a HBCU for several years. Geno also said that P5 schools should travel to HBCs for games. That's a two-edged sword, as the schools also get a payout for going to the bigger schools. So...
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    Mulkey story coming?

    And the "hatchet job" that he did on Brian Kelly was basically an article about a 40-something Baton Rouge resident and touches on the fact that Kelly makes as much in a day as the average person in the area makes in a year...
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    Kibitzer Memorial Badass Award

    I gotta go with Ashlynn. Sometime in the second hal I just blurted out SHE’S EVERYWHERE!
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    ESPN Announcing Teams for NCAA Tournament

    I also like Eric and Christy T. I happen to think Eric Frede is the best play-by-play announcer in WBB today. I still miss him doing the UConn SNY broadcasts, but am very glad he does lots of games on the ACC Network.
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    Aaliyah is going to the WNBA

    Not a knock-me-over-with-a-feather moment, but I've loved watching her. I'll continue watching her and rooting for her in the WNBA. She may very well be a lottery pick.
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    Geno Practicing For The Big Dance

    I knew a guy who said "If I see less far than others, it's because giants are standing on my shoulders." AFAIK he doesn't know Rebecca.
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    Get well soon momma E

    It has been said that she's not playing in the Athletes Unlimited (? I hope I have that right) season. Dunno the injury, but recovery must be at least several weeks.
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    ESPN Tourney Challenge?

    I'm also surprised that so many picked Iowa. I think there may be a lot of folks who are reasonably new to NCAAW, drawn in by the Caitlin Clark Show. OTOH, bettors are better at picking winners than pundits are, so there may be something to it. I'm obviously not a bettor, as evidenced by my...
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    I do Believe

    TonyC, I like the way you think. Remember Stewie's freshman season, when UConn looked a little discombobulated playing Notre Dame in the Big East tourney. That didn't go well, but Geno said to the team, If you want to win the national championship, listen to me over the next week-plus, and...
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    I do Believe

    Are those the new tournament uniforms? I think there would be a lot of touch fouls with those pom poms. :p
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    Who will Sarah Strong pick?

    5 -- UConn has had some GREAT high-low combos. Gabby led the team in assists twice, and Stef had some very high-assist years. Stewie and Tuck both had over 100 some years.
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    In Today’s Game, Should there Be Automatic Qualifiers?

    I think the autobids should stay. Not only that, I think conference winners shouldn't be in play-in games. They get bids to the tournament, not bids to try to get into the tournament.
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    Paige on Naismith Award list

    I don't normally post comments like this, but I have a hard time taking seriously a COY award that doesn't have Geno in the top TEN this year. What more are they looking for?
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    South Carolina Tournament Opponents

    Dawn strikes me as a coach who's working on general basketball right now and won't be concerned about any particular team till she finds out who they're playing next. That said, I agree with the posters who consider teams they've played 2-3 times already as potentially dangerous.
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    WNBA 2024 season

    Damn, this is gonna be a great set of rookies this year.
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    Inside Mühl’s decision to leave UConn WBB - "best year of my life"

    That's not only what makes a good teammate, but also a good coworker. I'd almost rather work with a shirker than someone who's really good but is always on the lookout for themselves. Although shirkers also bug the hell out of me. Nika will go a long in life, even after basketball. Nah...
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    Marquette - UConn Postgame Thread

    I can’t remember another postseason game in which UConn played so well with at least three freshmen on the court the whole game.
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    Prognosticator's Predictions Tournament Game 3 Georgetown vs UConn

    Uconn 64 Georgetown 0, extending UConn’s defensive scoreless streak to 55 minutes.
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    Aaliyah update

    I rand to be pretty sanguine about these things, but I don’t want to see a player two days removed from a way way broken nose going up against the Hoyas.
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    Typical Fox Sports

    Bush league. If it’s gonna be on a different channel, at least let us know promptly when we can still flip to the pregame.
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    Kibitzer Memorial Badass Award

    Brady. UConn missed Aaliyah for sure, but things coulda gone south quickly. Ice played about 15 minutes more than she has in a couple of years, and I was worried she might get some fatigue fouls late, but she didn’t.
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    Return of the mask

    That's definitely not a hard-and-fast rule. Sue Bird didn't miss any games in the 2018 playoff series against Phoenix, which featured the famous mask game. She said the only reason she didn't go back in after the injury was that they couldn't stop the bleeding.
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    Nika Confirms “Last Ride”

    "Last Ride" happens to be one of my favorite albums of the current century. Sorry, couldn't resist given the thread title.
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    More injuries in WBB (merged)

    Agreed. If I had a teammate asking me to help her stand up, I'd help her up absent any glaring warning signs. Also, Reese was motioning for training/medical help before she ever helped Poa up. If they'd hightailed it over there, the players wouldn't even have had a chance to help her up.
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    South Carolina is beatable

    After the injury to Poa yesterday, it wouldn't surprise me to see LSU come out with a renewed sense of urgency. OTOH, after the way South Carolina played yesterday, it would also not surprise me if Dawn has read her team the riot act and righted the ship. I'm looking forward to this game.
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