The Missouri game and its aftermath was very unfortunate but overall I thought Dawn handled it as well as one could. I'm sure it affected her emotionally; perhaps she was a bit drained last night.
I saw the Missouri game on TV and it surely was a different atmosphere.
There has been a great deal of defense of Dawn's character (poor thing); somewhat less of her tactics... from Geno to your post above.
I'm not convinced (without evidence) that allegations of the Missouri folks are
completely groundless; I just don't feel they would have complained so publicly and vehemently if nothing had happened. What we saw on TV was hostile enough. Her statement encouraging her fans to act any way they feel like it (not exactly what she said but a reasonable paraphrase) was hardly impressive.
With all the talk of the 2nd quarter beatdown, UConn showed itself to be far superior quite early in the 1st quarter; they just hadn't amassed the large point differential. That by itself might have taken the attendees out of the game (I suppose)
But I remain suspicious of the huge difference in the audience's reactions to events during the two games and can certainly suspect that in the former, there was some over-hyping of the crowd's emotions (creating a mob like atmosphere), while in the last night's, she would dare not try such a trick in front of Geno, especially having been called out, earlier in the week and realizing the problems that she was capable of bringing on herself.
I certainly don't acquaint her passivity with a "drained" individual.
Bah, humbug!
let it ride. Let's get this thing over and get out of here. 
HF21 what you describe is the reason teams are allowed some time outs. Time outs can be used to stop momentum, reset a tone, or simply a free teaching moment in a high pressure situation that cannot be replicated in practice. Dawn left money on the table for absolutely no reason. At that point she had not a reason in the world to save her time outs and every reason to use them even if within a minute of each other. 
