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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3964217, member: 3535"] UCONN has won their titles With a superstar in Lobo and a tremendous cast. With the super Bird along with the Super Sveta and Shea along with a ton of extremely talented low post depth. With Bird/DT and the great Swin and terrific Jones and Tamika. With DT With Maya and Tina (and Renee 1 of those years) With Stewie and her strong class. Other than the 2 DT years all the other teams had a supreme superstar along with supreme All-American talent. In the last 3 years UCONN has had just one A/A and up until this year only one was elite. Sure that doesn't mean they can't win it all but without the excessive talent they have had in their titles years, they are like everyone else that is very, very, very good. And in some cases - especially these last 3 years not better than the team that won it all from start to finish (not just counting the Tourney.). And nearly all those title teams had some trouble (or had an injury help them escape potential trouble) vs other strong teams. That's why we've got to be prepared that more-than-likely next year we're going to have the same. Posters thinking UCONN is going to win every game by double digits and believing without a doubt they are going to win because their talent is just so much head-and-shoulders above the competition - I just don't understand it. Until UCONN got Paige (after Stewie)- they haven't had the "elite" frosh superstar from the start- and the supporting players whether it be low post players or the guards in big games that were not all-americans have struggled. ***Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird did not play well vs Oklahoma. Overall imo it could be said UCONN was outplayed on the perimeter but won the game because of their inside players. If those two as seniors and sophomores can have a bad game, then so could the UCONN guards. *** Stewie in the title game vs ND in 14-15 was a phone rebounder and shot blocker but wound up with 8 points and no assists. UCONN is not winning that game without the great defense from MoJeff and tied KML for leading scorer on offense. And that game vs ND went to the wire. In the last 3 years what UCONN team has had near this combination? And this great team was in a wire-to-wire fight? So we're supposed to assume that next year's team is going to steamroll everyone even though most of our super super teams of the past had some huge struggles? With that said, we can't assume they are going to be much better? In regards to the OP's points, as a fan I'm expecting a couple of games it will come down to a couple of plays. And at the other end of the spectrum, if Azzi is healthy enough and near what we expect, then you are going to see yet again UCONN completely annihilate some very good teams unless the very good teams they play are "senior/ 5th year loaded." [/QUOTE]

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