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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2249310, member: 1526"] Not true at all. Great players miss clutch free throws all the time. UConn's own Donyell Marshall would have won the Florida game in the 1994 Sweet 16 if he made two free throws in OT, and he was an excellent F/T shooter. It happens. We win that game and would have likely walked to the Final Four vs BC, a team we'd owned for several years...hadn't lost a game to them since 1988. I believe Donyell holds the second highest single season ppg average in UConn history for that season, at around 25 per game. Players get fatigued late in games, particularly in OT. We had a short bench and our starters had to play major minutes vs Miss. St. We also had to overcome a significant first half deficit, which takes a lot out of the players on the floor. It's no surprise that players who normally are virtually automatic at the line miss them under the circumstances UConn faced in the Miss. St. game. There were also extremely few regular season games when we absolutely had to make some FTs near the end of games, so the situation was one we hadn't experienced. Our lack of depth which caused some level of fatigue was likely the reason for those clutch free throw misses. [/QUOTE]