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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4050763, member: 1131"] You still haven't responded to the question that I posed earlier, and that others have posed in similar discussions on The Boneyard: If getting to 12 or 13 consecutive Final Fours, including all of those since the Stewie class graduated, is a failure, then what WCBB coach has been successful since 2016? Is there some other coach that has a better record in those years? Or are you saying that all 300+ WCBB coaches have failed in that time period, including Schaeffer / McGraw / Adia Barnes -- who got victories over UConn in one or two of those four years but failed to make the Final Four in other years? That is also true of Vandeveer at Stanford, who won the NC last year but did not make the Final Four in other years. I will admit that I don't follow Arizona on a regular basis and in fact never saw them play except in the two Final Four games last season, but I did watch the UConn - Arizona game again recently, and I did not get an impression of unusual physicality in that game -- certainly not in comparison to the UConn - Baylor game in the Elite Eight. Statistically, looking at the box score of the AZ game, UConn got 6 offensive rebounds to 4 for AZ -- which is usually a rough indication of who is being more physical in the paint. AZ did get 2 more total rebounds than UConn (36 vs. 34), but of course UConn missed more shots (and took more shots) than AZ. In fact, UConn had the same number of total made field goals as AZ, and AZ had only two more 3-point makes. The real difference was at the free throw line, where AZ was 22-for-31 and UConn was 14-for-20. To me, that does not paint a picture of UConn being physically pushed around and dominated by the Wildcats, as was suggested in BostonBay's post to which I was responding. [/QUOTE]

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