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Message: [QUOTE="FridaFriend, post: 4050448, member: 8582"] Someone earlier in this thread referred to the four years of losses in the tournament between the 1995 and the 2000 championships. Those four teams had pretty good personnel: 1996: Eliott, Rizotti, Berube, Wolters, and Sales 1997: Berube, Wolters, Sales, and Ralph 1998: Sales, Ralph, Abrosimova 1999: Abrosimova, Ralph, Cash, Williams, Jones The 1996 and 1997 teams had a dominant center, another point that was mentioned as lacking in more recent UCONN teams. Only the 1996 team made it to the final four and the 1999 team lost in the sweet 16 game. The 1996 and 1997 teams lost to Tennessee in the tournament, who had Chamique Holdsclaw, and no one else did. I don’t know that I would say that the UCONN teams in the 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 tournaments were better than those 1996-1999 teams and yet Geno took the latter all to the Final Four. Perhaps I am wrong and Geno has gotten old and has forgotten how to motivate his teams, but I think we should probably just give credit to Mississippi State, Notre Dame, and Arizona as just being better on those days. I think that saying UCONN wasn’t properly motivated or weren’t trying hard enough unfairly takes away from the accomplishments of the teams that defeated them. [/QUOTE]