CTyankee
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My thoughts on the game…
The Knight Arena is beautiful… They are rightly proud of it… It seats about 15,000 I think, but the upper level was covered up for the game… At reduced capacity it probably seats 8,000 or so… There were about 4000 in the stands for the UConn game, apparently the largest crowd they have had for a woman’s game… We had FREE parking on the street less than a block away from the arena. Water at the arena cost $2.
The floor of the arena is a fir forest… To see it properly one has to be on the upper level looking down. On TV I guess it does nothing visually…
There were a small handful of the Husky hardy in attendance… The Ducks above, below and beside us were very gracious hosts… At one point the Duck to my left thanked me for UConn’s whipping of Stanford (no love lost there)… And they were also pleased to score more points against us than Stanford had scored…
Breanna Stewart had a very tough day… Nothing she did went right… I don’t profess to be the doctor with a diagnosis, but it might be a bit of freshmanitis… Better now that later. Don't know what Bria's problems were, but she sat!
The rest of the freshmen and sophomores got a bunch of playing time… Good time for seasoning… Morgan Tuck sported a huge bandage on her right leg probably to protect it. She was a bit rusty but game and played a lot of minutes
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Oregon is beautiful… We drove from Portland to Eugene through the Willamette Valley with mountains on both sides… And today “The Mountain” came out… Mt Hood , that is… If Connecticut in itself can be called a beautiful microcosm; Oregon in itself is a beautiful macrocosm…
The Knight Arena is beautiful… They are rightly proud of it… It seats about 15,000 I think, but the upper level was covered up for the game… At reduced capacity it probably seats 8,000 or so… There were about 4000 in the stands for the UConn game, apparently the largest crowd they have had for a woman’s game… We had FREE parking on the street less than a block away from the arena. Water at the arena cost $2.
The floor of the arena is a fir forest… To see it properly one has to be on the upper level looking down. On TV I guess it does nothing visually…
There were a small handful of the Husky hardy in attendance… The Ducks above, below and beside us were very gracious hosts… At one point the Duck to my left thanked me for UConn’s whipping of Stanford (no love lost there)… And they were also pleased to score more points against us than Stanford had scored…
Breanna Stewart had a very tough day… Nothing she did went right… I don’t profess to be the doctor with a diagnosis, but it might be a bit of freshmanitis… Better now that later. Don't know what Bria's problems were, but she sat!
The rest of the freshmen and sophomores got a bunch of playing time… Good time for seasoning… Morgan Tuck sported a huge bandage on her right leg probably to protect it. She was a bit rusty but game and played a lot of minutes
Oregon is beautiful… We drove from Portland to Eugene through the Willamette Valley with mountains on both sides… And today “The Mountain” came out… Mt Hood , that is… If Connecticut in itself can be called a beautiful microcosm; Oregon in itself is a beautiful macrocosm…
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