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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2905364, member: 1131"] Thanks for posting this. With the exception of Marina Mabrey (who I think will be in the actual starting lineup when the season starts), the other bench players that you have named look pretty much like UConn's bench players -- some but not all of them were fairly highly rated as high school players (though not in the Top 10 in their class, as far as I know), and none of them have any real minutes in college against serious competition. When Notre Dame plays any Top 25 team, I would be surprised if any of them get into the game before the 4th quarter, and against Top 5 teams such as UConn, I doubt that they will get more than 10 minutes out of the 200 that are played. Against real competition, the ND starters will all play 35+ minutes, just like the UConn starters. In last year's final four, I don't recall ND playing more than six players against either UConn or Mississippi State. It would be interesting, though probably not very entertaining, to see a game between UConn's bench and ND's bench, with no starters for either team allowed to play. I don't see any clear reason to think that ND would win, much less win easily. Assuming that Marina Mabrey doesn't play in that game, who on ND's bench is going to dominate against the UConn bench? By the way, I thought the UConn bench players were rather effective on defense against Vanguard, though not on offense. I suspect the same would be true of ND's bench. [/QUOTE]