UCONN also misses shots it normally makes vs. the cupcakes, meaning the miss 3's, etc etc. I think UCONN fans need to give some credit to Maryland's defense. This was hardly the blowout that most fans expected (see the guess the score thread). This game was not close because "UCONN had a bad game". It was close because Maryland is a good team.
We played the second half without last year's leading scorer for the Huskies.
KML plays the second half and we win by 30.
Quad contusion.
Maybe. And if Maryland hadn't lost 2 players to injury, maybe they win. My point is that UCONN fans overwhelmingly predicted a 30-40 point win. Maybe it would have happened with KML, maybe not, but it's funny how UCONN "struggles " on offense when we play good teams and people try to chalk it up to "but if we made the shots we usually make, we win by a lot more"...
Difference is when making those pre game predictions people knew the MD guards were missing and did not know that KML would only play 13 minutes.
MD is a solid team and they did a nice job with their defensive spacing - we had very few open look 3's, especially in the 1st half and especially for Kaleena. That said, I don't expect us to shoot 38.3% on FG's very often.
Maybe, maybe not. This was the first top 10 team UCONN played. Bria Hartley was supposedly back to 100%. UCONN won the 2nd half by 2 points. We're not good enough to be a Maryland team who is down 2 starters (and we are down 1 starter) by more than 2 points in the 2nd half? Sorry, but maybe this team is not the steamroller everyone thought it was. Baylor losing to Stanford showed that and this game showed that.
Yeah, good idea. No doubt Baylor will leapfrog UConn in the AP rankings next week due to this devastating 15 point victory over #9 MD.
Stef worked wonderfully hard today but surprisingly, missed a number of chippies and layups. Had her shot been dropping, she would have been phenomenal. Some point blank looks came away emptyhanded. Carolyn Doty missed out on a number of assists because the good passes weren't finished off. I do wish that she would have taken a few of those shots instead because I think she had some good looks that she passed up. Was maybe a little too pass oriented. I think Hartley was pretty out of sync all night long and I guess she's still affected by the layoff for her injury. I do hope she starts making some plays, making some shots. Not a very pretty game, by no means.
I'm not sure we were watching the same game tonight. I saw a really good defensive struggle between a great defensive squad and a good defensive squad. The great defensive squad won by 15 and shot an uncharacteristically low 38.3% from the floor, in no small part due to the very good effort and execution of MD.
Well if this game showed anything it's that the team has a lot to work on. I don't think anyone really doubts that. Some of us are pretty confident that they'll figure it out.
Kelly impacted every facet of this game on a par with one of Maya's masterpieces!
I'm not disappointed at all. Where did you get that from? I'm pointing out that the pie in the sky estimates of a 30-40 point blowout was way overenthusiastic by UCONN fans. People on this board have said for years "Maryland plays no defense". Well they did tonight. And it was a close game.I'm not sure we were watching the same game tonight. I saw a really good defensive struggle between a great defensive squad and a good defensive squad. The great defensive squad won by 15 and shot an uncharacteristically low 38.3% from the floor, in no small part due to the very good effort and execution of MD.
The result was never in doubt IMHO, only the margin of victory - which you're apparently disappointed with.
a/k/a Charlie Horse. Bottom line, the leg goes numb and it sucks. It's no biggie and I was a little surprised she didn't return, but maybe between the recent concussion and Brianna playing so well, Geno just decided to shut her down for the night.