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Best UCONN player without a Championship?

Honorable mention to Lou Lopez and Dorka Juhasz, who both made major contributions to our depleted lineups. Dorka's injury just before the 2022 Finals may have cost that Championship. Lou was hampered by injuries at the end of her season.
 
Aluminny69 said:
Honorable mention to Lou Lopez and Dorka Juhasz, who both made major contributions to our depleted lineups. Dorka's injury just before the 2022 Finals may have cost that Championship. Lou was hampered by injuries at the end of her season.
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Lou and Dorka (much like Evina and Kaitlyn, et al.) are great examples of how Geno and company have used the transfer portal to find hard-working, high-character young women to complement and enhance the player core we already have. And I believe they all left UConn as better players (and perhaps better people, though I can't really speak to that since they all seem to have been pretty irreproachable to begin with).

I'm so happy Kaitlyn gets to leave UConn with a national championship. I hope players like Lou, Dorka, and Evina realize how their hard work laid the foundation for future championships.
 
Four year players

1. Aaliyah Edwards
2. Kerry Bascom
3. Crystal Dangerfield
4. Megan Walker
5. Olivia Nelson-Ododa

Honorable mention- Nika Muhl, Christyn Williams, Ketia Swanier, Mel Thomas

Transfers

1. Azura Stevens
2. Rita Williams
3. Dorka Juhasz
4. Lou Lopez-Senechal
5. Evina Westbrook

Besides Aaliyah and Kerry, I think the 5 transfers who didn't get one were more worthy of one than the rest of the other four year players. Thankfully, the list isn't too long!

Winning in 2018 and 2022 would have removed Aaliyah, Crystal, Megan, Olivia, Nika, Christyn, Azura, Dorka, and Evina from the list.
 
Megan Walker was just a 3 year player as she entered the WNBA draft after her junior season. I think that was a bad decision, she should have had one more year to be pro-ready and would get to play a year with Evina, the # 2 player behind her in the 2017 recruiting class.

I think Rita Williams was not really a transfer, if I remember correctly she was placed a year on a Junior College for academic issue before getting back to the school.

That was the same with Gillian Goring (2002 recruiting class who missed academic requirerement for a single point), though she never got back to UCONN, she sat out 2002-03, then was a JuCo AA but her recruiting had been let go for the year missed, so she signed to North Carolina.
 
RitzLuce1 said:
Four year players

1. Aaliyah Edwards
2. Kerry Bascom
3. Crystal Dangerfield
4. Megan Walker
5. Olivia Nelson-Ododa

Honorable mention- Nika Muhl, Christyn Williams, Ketia Swanier, Mel Thomas

Transfers

1. Azura Stevens
2. Rita Williams
3. Dorka Juhasz
4. Lou Lopez-Senechal
5. Evina Westbrook

Besides Aaliyah and Kerry, I think the 5 transfers who didn't get one were more worthy of one than the rest of the other four year players. Thankfully, the list isn't too long!

Winning in 2018 and 2022 would have removed Aaliyah, Crystal, Megan, Olivia, Nika, Christyn, Azura, Dorka, and Evina from the list.
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Walker was not a 4 year player ... as noted by several posters above.
 
Huskies990411 said:
Bascom and as much as I love Edwards it’s not even close.
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People have either forgotten how good Bascom was or they never saw her play. She was tough as nails and did pretty much everything. If people don't know what Auriemma thinks of Bascom, watch his comments starting at about 24:15 of this interview with her and Nykesha Sales. She was the first main rock of his program.

 
It is surprising that this thread has persisted for as long as it has without a correction from one of its many esteemed historians. Each March CD and Geno repeat the same message to its team and its fans: UConn’s goals for each season are the same. Win the regular season conference title, win the conference championship tournament, and win the ncaa tournament championship. Multiple posters have listed Kerry Bascom as having not won a championship, but she lead her team (as a sophomore I think) in winning the Big East championship at Walsh Arena in 1989 (Meg repeats this story often). The answer to the OP is was likely a classmate of cliff Robinson.
 
Scoe said:
Charde Houston has gotta be up there and Azura Steven’s ( does have a championship in the transfer year).
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Not sure what you mean by above in bold. Stevens transferred in 2016-17 (had to sit out) and played in 2017-18. Both those teams did not win the national championship.
 
As far as raw talent is concerned Charde Houston was pretty darn good. Too bad she didn’t realize her potential in college.
 
BobbyJ said:
People have either forgotten how good Bascom was or they never saw her play. She was tough as nails and did pretty much everything. If people don't know what Auriemma thinks of Bascom, watch his comments starting at about 24:15 of this interview with her and Nykesha Sales. She was the first main rock of his program.

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It had been some years since I'd seen this, and it was well worth a re-watch. Thanks for posting it.

Amazing to hear Geno tell how they somewhat accidentally discovered, at the end of Bascom's freshman year, that she was a great 3-point shooter. Then as a sophomore she shot 46% from 3 and averaged 23 ppg.

Surely she's the only UConn player to average 20+ points in 3 different seasons?
 
On the other side of the equation; I'm happy to see that Kaitlyn, Sarah, Morgan and Allie are on the short list of players that have only won a championship in their time at UConn. Here's to keeping the latter three on that list for the next three years, in the process adding more players to that list.
 
Jaml said:
On the other side of the equation; I'm happy to see that Kaitlyn, Sarah, Morgan and Allie are on the short list of players that have only won a championship in their time at UConn. Here's to keeping the latter three on that list for the next three years, in the process adding more players to that list.
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As the originator of this thread, I see this post leading to a new question. How many players (apart from these four) won a title in their ONLY year at UCONN? Hmm. Are there ANY?
 
vballcoach said:
As the originator of this thread, I see this post leading to a new question. How many players (apart from these four) won a title in their ONLY year at UCONN? Hmm. Are there ANY?
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Coach, I believe there is only one other prior to this past year: Jessica McCormack in 2008-9, the only year she was on the team. She didn't play in any games due to having to sit out the season as a transfer. After the season she left to go back to New Zealand.

Here are the other players who finished their time at UConn with only championships:
Mo Jefferson (4-0)
Breanna Stewart (4-0)
Morgan Tuck (4-0)
Briana Pulido (3-0 - walked on as a sophomore)
Courtney Ekmark (2-0 - left for Arizona State prior to junior year)

FWIW, there are also eleven players who finished their UConn careers with three championships: Diana Taurasi (3-1), Maria Conlon (3-1), Morgan Valley (3-1), Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (3-1), Kiah Stokes (3-1), Saniya Chong (3-1), Tierney Lawlor (3-1), Ashley Valley (3-1), Stacy Marron (3-1), Jessica Moore (3-2) and Ashley Battle (3-2). All but Ashley Valley and Stacey Marron went to four Final Fours. Moore and Battle took a redshirt their first year.
 
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