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Message: [QUOTE="Littlemin, post: 4286894, member: 10363"] Good point but those other teams had smaller players willing to mix it up and battle SC; Uconn did not. One, I repeat one, defensive rebound between Edwards and Ono in 61 minutes of play is just utterly ridiculous; Bueckers got 6 by herself in 39, and Muhl and Westbrook combined for 6 in 35 minutes. SC got more offensive rebounds than Uconn got defensive which is rare to say the least in a game between 2 teams seemingly relatively equal in talent. I don’t generally deal with “what ifs”, if you win, you win, if you lose you lose, but It took a tremendous performance by Bueckers completely taking over against NC State to win that game and one could argue uncharacteristically poor shooting cost Stanford that game so Uconn could have easily list either of those games; obviously they did not, but maybe Uconn was going into the NC game with a little “fools gold” mind set they could compete with SC because the reality is they could not. And excuses of being sick and playing hurt don’t cut it for me, if you play, you play; if it affects your performance to the point of being the game deciding difference maker, a player should not be on the court. Old school………. [/QUOTE]