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UConn by 28. Caitlin gets 22.

Who needs him? What has he done for the program?

If Paige got only four assists in the Big East Championship Game, there is something wrong with the way assists are awarded.

To not be in favor of this is to be absurd. How many college athletes with promising professional aspirations had their career hijacked by an injury or other such setback, and were thus unable to realize their life's financial potential? How much of a "learning institution's" budget is funded...

Marquette is so well-coached they remind me of UConn. Megan Duffy was 44-20 in two years at Miami of Ohio and is now 36-11 at Marquette, 12-3 this season and in second place in the Big East, and 24-8 last year, her first year at Marquette, before that season got tossed down the pandemic...

Crackerjack game! You win some of those, you lose some. I was proud of UConn for coming back time after time - a few times when it seemed for sure the game was lost. Until Evina's three clanked at :00, the game was still up for grabs. I'm sure Geno and Chris will be holding intense defense...

It happened to me too. My post this AM did not include the one letter word for one's self which gets modified to "Chief00".

Saw the UConn Undefeated, 2002 version yesterday. Very entertaining. Already knew Geno, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird had big personalities and sharp senses of humor, but Asjha Jones and Tamika Williams surprised me by being just as funny and charming as the others. Geno had a good...

In my life I've watched John Wooden, Bobby Knight, Adolph Rupp, Mike Krzyzewski, Pat Summitt, John Thompson, Geno Auriemma, and a host of other "great" basketball coaches demonstrate their wares and make their mark. No one compares to Geno (and Chris Dailey), in my mind. Period. End of...

R.I.P. KC. He was a rock. Fabulous defender. Great coach.

I call it a dead heat between Maya, Diana and Stewie. They all won multiple NCAA championships, they all were outstanding on both ends of the court, they all kicked butt in the WNBA.

I've seen two, the 2009 and 1995 shows. These are the best ZOOM entertainment I've seen, of any ilk, during the pandemic. It's a brilliant idea, perfect for the ZOOM medium and a tonic for the mood. Geno does a great job of moderating and providing talking points. I've gotten insights into...

You had to know it was fake noise because, while crowds are often raucous at the beginnings of away games, when UConn establishes itself i.e., pulls away to a 30+ point lead, you can hear a pin drop. Usually.

It was a lot of blah on the offensive end, apart from Olivia. Anna warmed up her shooting eye with the exception of an alarming airball and a few clanks. When her shot is going in, she looks like she could do it all day. Paige least productive scoring game thus far gives me a flashback to the...

I see Aaliyah as potentially the number two star on this team. She has all the tools, the most obvious of which is her aggressive play. Perhaps it is obvious because of its contrast to ONO's sometimes confounding lack of same. Edwards is the rare aggressive big who brings it to Storrs. All the...

This team is one surprise after another: Paige, Aaliyah, and now Autumn! I loved the glimpse we got of Autumn Chassion and hope we get a longer look next time. Aaliyah has to play. Lots. Paige is a stat sheet stuffer. Comparisons to Taurasi and Moore are valid, though she's more of a...

Steph Dolson would have loved them.

I liked everything I saw. Paige was everything she was advertised to be, and more. I was surprised by and loved her aggressive moves to the hoop. It'll take some time for her teammates to learn to anticipate her uncanny passes. Aaliyah Edwards was a surprise - an aggressive big with speed and...

I grew up in a college town in the Midwest, a Democratic isle in a Republican sea. Eighth grade Social Studies (civics), first class after lunch. The Principal connected a live account from Dallas over the public address system a few minutes after class started. A faceless voice, crackling...

FYI, I was one of the few enlisted people who played golf. Quantico had a beautiful course and enlisted could play for free. Weekends there were pretty random pairings. As a result, I played with a LOT of brass. Louis Wilson, who was later Commandant of the Marine Corps from '75 to '79, was the...

I got his autograph in 1963 in the New Orleans airport. I was just a kid. It was suffocatingly hot and he was loading golf clubs and some bags into a car trunk. My family was appalled at my audacity, but he immediately stopped what he was doing, signed, and could not have been more pleasant. He...

USMC, 1970-1972, Quantico, Va., corporal, court reporter, legal clerk and golfer.

R.I.P. I used to marvel how he could nail the pronunciation of foreign words, especially French words, then I read in one of his obituaries that he grew up in Canada in a bilingual household, French and English.

He could act with his eyes. Wonderful, deep voice and handsome, but he had great eyes. And an avid and pretty fair golfer, too. He grew up poor in Edinburgh - his mother cleaned houses and his father worked in a factory. He tried several things as a young man, including competing in the 1953...

Connecticut connection: Willie and Bobby Bonds used to throw a golf tournament every Summer at Western Hills Golf Course in Waterbury. Bobby said he was treated better in Waterbury when he played for a minor league baseball team there than at any other place he played. I played in it a few...

Willie Mays was the best baseball position player I ever saw. He was a fabulous outfielder, had a great throwing arm, was the smartest and the best baserunner of his time, and hit for average with great power. If he hadn't played so many games in Candlestick Park with its blustery, fickle winds...

He was the answer to the trivia question: who was the lead singer for The Crickets after Buddy Holly was killed in a 1959 plane crash? Buddy was a fan of Trini's. Trini was singing in clubs around Texas and Buddy saw him, liked him and introduced him to some of his music industry connections...

Smell the Coffee It's time to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. The season is over. The coronavirus has been allowed to spread like a, well, virus, undetected, for several weeks. No one knows how many people have been infected but estimates are in the millions. Somewhere...

OK by me. At least the games will take place. Maybe.

I haven't read any of the other suggestions, so I apologize if I'm being redundant in suggesting a one-week or a two-week delay. As most people, according to what I read earlier today I don't remember where, develop symptoms within five days, in another week or two if a sizable amount of...

I'll be VERY surprised if either the men's or women's NCAA Championship Tournament takes place this year. Given that the virus seems much less virulent in young people than in the enfeebled elderly, I see a possibility of a crowdless "jamboree" type of tournament which would kill in the ratings...

They're like one of those luxury cars from the 1950s and 1960s with V8 engines that had to be warmed up for a few minutes before you could wind them out. I've been watching Geno do this for 25 years (I became a fan in 1995). They have a slow start, he calls a timeout, offers some opinions, and...

Yeow! Bless her heart. I got a glimpse of her elbow in the replay and it looked compressed, so I considered the possibility. Let's hope there's no tendon or ligament damage. She's a warrior.

Has anyone heard anything definitive about Kyla's elbow injury she incurred near the end of Sunday's game? I can't find anything.