Bria Slighted?

[VAUConnFan]

Not to be argumentative, but, from Jeff Goldberg's piece on the game;

``It was a play out of Villanova's book,'' Taurasi said after UConn had beaten Oklahoma 82-70 to take the title. ``Thank you, Villanova.''

Oklahoma had stayed within striking range of the Huskies most of the game, and trailed 73-67 with 2:19 remaining after Dales drove in for a layup.

With 1:45 left, UConn called timeout, and coach Geno Auriemma borrowed from his good friend from Philadelphia.

``My feeling was, let's put the ball in D's hands,'' Auriemma said. ``She's got a little bit of a mismatch, we're going to kill some clock, and she's going to get into the lane. And when D gets in the lane, you're either going to have to foul her or she's going to put the ball on the rim. Nobody came to help, so that's what she did. Stole that play from Harry Perretta.''

Taurasi backed Dales down on the left side of the lane, then turned and made the shot, while Dales committed her fifth foul.

Well, someone needs to tell Mr. Goldberg to review the play. What is not disputed, however, is that Ms Dales committed her fifth foul on the play.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Ukari Figgs played for Purdue. Dionnah Jackson was the OK player defending DT on that play.

Ah, thanks. Was thinking about the Purdue situation from old Peck threads, but yep that was Jackson a much-used sub who had to match up on the outside with DT when she went out to get the inbounds pass from Bird.

 

[VAUConnFan]

Yes, technically it was Ukari Figgs that DT backed down to get to Dales-Schuman with UConn up 6 with a little over a minute and a half to go. But Figgs was kind of a nonfactor on the play, being much shorter than DT and kind of like a squashed bug in the Husky's path, and the point of the play was to get to Dales-Schuman who had 4 fouls and was the help player in the paint. As soon as DT got down to D-S about 10 feet in front of the basket, she whirled toward the Sooner to nail the jumper and collect the FT and the DQ of the Sooner star.

So in the future when we refer to the play, we should describe it as the time that DT backed down to Dales-Schuman for the 3 point play in the 2002 NC game.

You've got just about everything right but the name of the Oklahoma defender who was seriously overmatched as mentioned in a previous post. If the plan was to get to Stacey Dales, it was strategy about which I was unaware because Dales was guarding Swin Cash on the play and Cash was having an outstanding game; An MOP game.
Ukari Figgs, BTW, played for Purdue on their national championship squad a few years earlier.

 

[Kibitzer]

Yes, technically it was Ukari Figgs (edit) Dionnah Jackson that DT backed down to get to Dales-Schuman with UConn up 6 with a little over a minute and a half to go. But Figgs Jackson was kind of a nonfactor on the play, being much shorter than DT and kind of like a squashed bug in the Husky's path, and the point of the play was to get to Dales-Schuman who had 4 fouls and was the help player in the paint. As soon as DT got down to D-S about 10 feet in front of the basket, she whirled toward the Sooner to nail the jumper and collect the FT and the DQ of the Sooner star.

So in the future when we refer to the play, we should describe it as the time that DT backed down to Dales-Schuman for the 3 point play in the 2002 NC game.

Ahem.

At that time Stacy was just Dales, then a talented and attractive Canadian player who magically showed up in Oklahoma to give a big boost to youthful Coach Sherri Coale.

Later she became Stacy Dales-Schumann (after marriage), still visually attractive but otherwise a biased and obnoxious TV wcbb analyst, whose employment in thie capacity was mercifully brief.

 

[rocky rococo]

How about Bria's shot from the top of the key against Baylor (her freshman year).

I was a that game, it was the most exciting UConn moment I have had the opportunity to see in person.

To the list I want to add Willnett stretched out on the floor for a rebound.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Later she became Stacy Dales-Schumann (after marriage), still visually attractive but otherwise a biased and obnoxious TV wcbb analyst, whose employment in thie capacity was mercifully brief.

Ah, always get confused about that chronology. So she was just SD in college, then became SDS during her time at ESPN, and then switched back again to just SD after the divorce. Apparently had a brother in the Canadian Football League and a cousin in the NHL, so athletic stock from up north.