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No player comes to UConn with the intent of setting the record for the most career minutes in games as a Husky, but you know that if she does get that record she had to have been very good and very durable and on very good teams. To set the career games played mark requires some bad luck, as with potentially Morgan Tuck this year and with record-holder Kalana Greene who played in 157 games over 5 seasons. But to become the minutes record-holder, you need to have been good enough to rack up major minutes as a freshman, establish yourself as a starter for all or most of your career, avoid any injuries that will make you miss games, escape too many quick hooks in blow-outs, and help your team go very deep in tournaments. It also appears to be far better to be a guard to avoid the poundings in the paint, and none of the 7 players who finished their careers with more than 4,000 minutes was a big post player. Only two of the players were from the 1990s, so the longer seasons of recent times are also very helpful.
Many UConn stars have come and gone and run afoul of injuries or a too-short season, but two players successfully navigated the time hazards to finish far ahead of the other Huskies with more than 4600 minutes. At the top unsurprisingly is Maya Moore at 4682 in 154 games, and right behind her in 4 less games is Renee Montgomery with 4605. Following them are Tiff Hayes at 4381, Kelly Faris at 4258, Diana Taurasi (of the bad back and feet) at 4218, Jen Rizzotti at 4133, and Wendy Davis at 4053, who averaged a Husky high 31.9 minutes in 127 games in the early 1990s.
And that is where two UConn senior stalwarts named Bria and Stef come in. Both had some injuries last year that made them miss a game and cut into their minutes in other games, but both could be setting some career minutes records for UConn if everything falls into place.
Bria is currently 6th on the Husky list, just 5 minutes behind DT at 4213. At her career average of 30.5 minutes a game, she would finish 2nd all-time behind Maya at that pace if the Huskies played 15 more games this season. But she would only be 11 minutes behind, so if the average in the remaining games is 31.3, she would finish at the top. However, there is going to be some blow-outs on the way balancing out maybe four big-minute games in the NCAA tourney plus any Louisville games, so the final outcome could be close.
Stef is much further back at 3638, and at her current career pace of 26.2 mpg, she is headed toward a final total of4131 (edit) 4031 playing 15 more games, which would place her 102 minutes behind Jen and 22 behind Wendy in what would then be 9th place. But as noted, no post player has ever gone over the 4,000 mark, so Stef would have accomplished a tremendous feat mixing durability and skill as the Big Mama of the career minutes list. And she's been making every minute count.
Many UConn stars have come and gone and run afoul of injuries or a too-short season, but two players successfully navigated the time hazards to finish far ahead of the other Huskies with more than 4600 minutes. At the top unsurprisingly is Maya Moore at 4682 in 154 games, and right behind her in 4 less games is Renee Montgomery with 4605. Following them are Tiff Hayes at 4381, Kelly Faris at 4258, Diana Taurasi (of the bad back and feet) at 4218, Jen Rizzotti at 4133, and Wendy Davis at 4053, who averaged a Husky high 31.9 minutes in 127 games in the early 1990s.
And that is where two UConn senior stalwarts named Bria and Stef come in. Both had some injuries last year that made them miss a game and cut into their minutes in other games, but both could be setting some career minutes records for UConn if everything falls into place.
Bria is currently 6th on the Husky list, just 5 minutes behind DT at 4213. At her career average of 30.5 minutes a game, she would finish 2nd all-time behind Maya at that pace if the Huskies played 15 more games this season. But she would only be 11 minutes behind, so if the average in the remaining games is 31.3, she would finish at the top. However, there is going to be some blow-outs on the way balancing out maybe four big-minute games in the NCAA tourney plus any Louisville games, so the final outcome could be close.
Stef is much further back at 3638, and at her current career pace of 26.2 mpg, she is headed toward a final total of
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