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Message: [QUOTE="OfanMan, post: 2513145, member: 6616"] RockyMt, I wholeheartedly feel this statistic is worthy of notice and celebration. Thanks. Then again, I’m a sucker for any statistical demonstration of UConn sustained greatness. If I may, while we're on this topic, one statistic that I wasn’t aware of and haven’t seen noted here really surprised me at the end of Mike Anthony’s piece in the Courant today. [URL="http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-advance-20180108-story.html"]UConn Women Ride Strong Defensive Efforts Into Tuesday's Game Vs. UCF[/URL] [B][I]“Only one UConn opponent in the past 510 games has shot 50 percent or better — Notre Dame, at 51.9 percent, in a national semifinal victory over the Huskies in 2011.”[/I][/B] Could that possibly be true? Not one team has shot 50% against UConn since ND on April 3rd, 2011? That’s (I think) 245 games ago. Which means the 510 games he writes of goes back another 265 straight games to a 70-73 loss against Boston College on March 8, 2004. Almost 14 years! I haven’t studied 510 box scores so I’ll just say I trust him on this but it seems an astounding record of defensive prowess and consistency. Since I started following the Huskies they’ve averaged over 50% shooting for the [U]entire season[/U] every year except the first (for me -2012-13 – 49.6%), so I just assumed that at least one team would make half their shots against us perhaps one game a season. Definitely not one time every 14 seasons. I’ve only been following UConn for 6 years so am I just too much of a newbie in thinking that: 1 – this is an amazing defensive statistic even for UConn - and 2 – This is an amazing record of sustained defensive consistency that should be better known? Every team talks about playing good defense being key. I think that allowing 1 good shooting performance in 14 years shows that UConn walks the talk like no other team. Oh, and I’m more than fine that the coaches and players are focused on always improving play, and leaving obsession with numbers to people like me. [/QUOTE]

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