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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2757560, member: 5798"] I could be wrong here, but I don't think any team sets a goal of going undefeated at the beginning of the season. There are too many other realistic reachable goals they can set. It's too hard, and really doesn't mean anything if you don't win it all. In the 36 years (1982) the [URL='https://www.ncaa.com/history/basketball-women/d1']NCAA has been in governing women's college sports[/URL], there have been only 9 undefeated women's D-1 basketball teams. UConn owns 6 of those accomplishments (Texas 1986, Tennessee 1998 and Baylor 2012 - the other 3). During the course of the season, you focus on the BIGGEST game on your schedule...........................the next one!!!. You don't look ahead, and you watch out for "trap" games. You do that and let the chips fall where they may. Everyone's goal is to make the field of 64 at the end of the season, then win all 6 games. I fondly remember 2014-2015 season. UConn lost the 2nd game on the schedule to Stanford. I thought at the time it was a "[I]good and timely loss[/I]" (early in the season). They regrouped, refocused and ran the table from there through the championship game in April to win the NC. [B]Everybody was happy.[/B] :D After the season was over, I don't recall anyone being distraught over the loss, wishing the team had gone undefeated. UConn fans were too busy reveling, giving high fives and enjoying their favorite adult beverages to care about that. I'll repeat and endorse what another poster recently said........."[I]I'd be OK with 4-5 losses this year if UConn wins the NC.[/I]" I'll take it a step further. If UConn wins #12 this season, I'll buy the first round. Cheers. ;) [/QUOTE]

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