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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 5165491, member: 1673"] I do not get to see the games in real time, so I will take your word for now that UConn pressed with intensity throughout the game. Bear in mind again that I did not share the objection of the OP, I claimed Auriemma had a difference in strategy and not in sportsmanship. To that end perhaps you could confirm or refute a few observations. Xavier was the first time they pressed for a full 40 minutes (assuming this happened) this season. Is this correct? UConn did not press opponents for 40 minutes in any of their championship years. Is this correct? They did not even press Syracuse for 40 minutes in the one game in which it was obvious that Auriemma and Moore were settling a score, with Moore scoring 40 and UConn over a hundred. Is that correct? There is not enough of a pattern for me to hazard a guess as to why Auriemma would press 40 minutes for this particular game. However, he would have to press all teams all the time for the rest of the year … and win a championship … for my observations to be wrong. Considering that you revived this thread for the Xavier exception, I am sure you will revive it again if the exception becomes the rule and UConn wins a championship. But if that indeed happens I will not mind being wrong. [/QUOTE]