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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2694471, member: 6620"] Wow, this is impressive. Thanks for doing so. Just going to offer a few thoughts: - While I believe the 2014 ND team was, indeed, one of Muffet's best ever, I've got to give #1 rating to the 2012 Baylor team for the undefeated season, sealing the deal and being so very dominant. The NC game was one of the few games that I felt ND had no chance of winning. Griner was all so good. - Hearing Natalie "Ace" Achonwa scream in pain at the end of the Elite 8 game vs. Baylor was horrible and excruciating for her and painful for all ND fans. While they rebounded well against Maryland in the semi's, they needed Ace to be able to go up against that very strong UConn team. She was not only a fine individual player, but the emotional leader of that team. - After the initial setbacks early in the season, I've come to think the short roster of the 2018 season helped ND. As Kara Lawson noted, the Irish might've only had six or seven players left, but almost all of them are/were McDonald's All-Americans. MM had to play them, whereas in the past she'd take folks out after a mistake or two. As a result, they got a good grip on how to make it work, game in and game out. Tremendous synergy. They all took turns having standout games. It will be be interesting seeing what happens with substitution patterns when the reinforcements arrive next year. - Just wanted to point out that one of the key role players of the 2015 ND team -- Maddie Cable -- is still probably an unprintable word in South Carolina; and, went to be the leader of that 2016 team, which had no right doing as well as it did, save for great team interplay and leadership by Mabrey1 (Michaela) and Cable. - The Texas A&M team was tenacious in guard play Only in retrospect did I see how they could've thrown Skylar Diggins off balance, but I saw it through Mississippi State. Vic Schaefer coordinated that defense for the Aggies when he was Blair's defensive whiz and brought it east to Starkville. Well done Thanks again for this...great prep for jumping into the weekend. [/QUOTE]

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