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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 3465994, member: 7511"] I spoke about conference awards last year. While AA and national awards are often influenced by publicity & promotion, conference awards are much more of a collaborative process between conference coaches. It typically starts with a conference call between all the coaches where they can talk about their players and ask questions about other teams players. Some awards are obvious. Megan was going to win AAC POY hands down. Others come down to a coach’s recommendation, or even an understanding between coaches. From UConn’s standpoint, here is my speculation about some of the Huskies: [LIST] [*]Anna was clearly going to be on the all-freshman team, but I doubt that Geno pushed her as the FOY for one reason. As good as Anna has played recently, Geno wants a lot more from her, so he wants her to be challenged, not complacent. [*]Some people have questioned Christyn being 1st team. She could just as easily been replaced by Liv on the 1st team. Here I think Geno wanted to accomplish a couple things. I suspect he pushed Christyn as a reward for her great defensive effort and rebounding all year, as well as the desire for her to enter the Big Dance with a confident mindset. [*]As for Liv, is their any doubt that she is the best post in the AAC? But just as with Anna, Geno sees enormous potential for Liv, so here again he wants her challenged and not complacent. [/LIST] There are certainly other factors involved, but imo, the honors that UConn’s players earned are exactly the honors that Geno thought they deserved. [/QUOTE]

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