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Before the start of the season, I imagined that this would be one of the greatest UCONN teams of all time. Three (or four) former national high school players of the year. Four players measuring 6'5". (Remembering the days when this board was moaning that we had no height). Return of nearly the entire team from a Final Four performance. A transfer player who had been first-team Big 10. And last year's National Player of the Year (as a freshman, which was unprecedented).
But the Fates were not to have it. Repeated injuries, COVID shutdowns, and the toppling of our hero, Paige. All of this sounded like the gods in Greek mythology taking their revenge. And yet, today, it seems that the gods may have come around to our side. The beast may have been wounded, but it is becoming fierce again. Homer, in the Iliad, put it very aptly:
A shepherd wounds a lion as he leaps a pen's wall.
But far from being weakened, the lion
Gains in strength, and the unprotected flock
Is little more than a pile of bloody fleece
Before the angered lion leaps out again.
Here's to the angered lion as tournament time approaches, and pity for the unprotected flock.
But the Fates were not to have it. Repeated injuries, COVID shutdowns, and the toppling of our hero, Paige. All of this sounded like the gods in Greek mythology taking their revenge. And yet, today, it seems that the gods may have come around to our side. The beast may have been wounded, but it is becoming fierce again. Homer, in the Iliad, put it very aptly:
A shepherd wounds a lion as he leaps a pen's wall.
But far from being weakened, the lion
Gains in strength, and the unprotected flock
Is little more than a pile of bloody fleece
Before the angered lion leaps out again.
Here's to the angered lion as tournament time approaches, and pity for the unprotected flock.
