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Message: [QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 2050928, member: 35"] Changing the question just a bit: best game that UConn ever lost....at Gampel in the 1999-2000 season....against LadyVol herself. That was one of the years when we played them home/away each season. We had beaten them at T/B earlier and went into the Gampel game undefeated. Tight thruout....back and forth. Down the stretch Shea and Semeka [Boo] Randall hit several shots. Down one with just a few seconds to go Svet had it at half-court on a break and threw it near[under?] the basket to Tamika Williams. Tamika never really got a legit shot off. I think the final was 71-70. Great game....tremendous atmosphere. I am a firm believer that a loss can be of benefit to the losing team....if you have a top notch coaching staff and players eager to learn....which we have always had in spades. Later that year in Philly in the NC game....we routed them....ring #2. Would we have done that if we had won in Gampel? I have no idea...but I suspect that loss and our shortcomings that game were mentioned a time or two by Geno and CD leading up to that championship game. BTW: we have read this year more than a few comparisons between Crystal and Moriah. You might spot some similarities between Crystal and frosh Kennitra Johnson on that Ring #2 team. [/QUOTE]