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Message: [QUOTE="FridaFriend, post: 3934713, member: 8582"] In this Forum and before the start of the tournament, many people said that this year a dozen or more teams could make it to the championship game. A team that had not been as highly ranked could get hot and a tough opponent could be unlucky in an early match or could have a bad luck day. Maryland was predicted to beat South Carolina and go to the Final Four and a clearly inferior, but inspired, Texas team defeated them. NC State and Texas A&M, which were highly thought by some, went out early. I know Texas A&M was dismissed as overrated, but just maybe, they were good and the Arizona team that beat them was really really good. Baylor was a better team than UCONN for the regional final until they lost Didi. I don't think the problem is the Big East or lack of a physical post player or poor coaching that lost UCONN their semifinal game. I think that when you have a group of very talented teams, like there were this year, it comes down to luck and who has the great game at the right time. I think UCONN just faced a very good and hot team and, when things started not working, things snowballed until there wasn't time to pick up the pieces. I disagree with the criticism of Olivia. Sometimes shots don't fall. When they stop going in, I think it messes with your head and suddenly nothing works. Another thought that I had at halftime was that this was like the first half of the 2010 championship game, in which a UCONN team, led by Maya Moore and Tina Charles, scored only 12 points against Stanford. I thought the 2021 team would talk about it at the break, fix everything, and come back in the second half to win going away. Unfortunately, we didn't have Tina Charles and Maya Moore and sometimes things just don't work. Instead, the game ended like the 2011 semifinal UCONN had against a 2 seed Notre Dame, with a terrific guard, Skylar Diggins, who had upset Tennessee to get to the Final Four. It ruined the end of Maya's senior year. She scored 36 points trying to close, but UCONN lost by 9. Sometimes a hot team gets in the way, Notre Dame lost the championship game to a 2 seed, Texas A&M, who had defeated Baylor, then Stanford, to get to the championship. [/QUOTE]

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