By the skin of our teeth ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. First three UConn scores by the different front court players - Alex & Mullins with threes and Tarris for a deuce.
2. We hit a 10 point advantage @ 12:30
3. Our lead ballooned to 24-6 two minutes later. This was starting to look like a blowout. But It's the tourney and the guy on the other bench is no slouch, so yeah, I don't think very many of us thought that 18 point lead was going to last.
4. Reed gets a breather and our lead starts to evaporate quickly. Reed is right back off the bench.
5. Lead down to 10 with a couple minutes and a tic left in the half.
6. Really bothered me that we couldn't get a shot off on our last possession of the half. Waiting until 6 seconds were left before trying to set something up was bad planning, and in the end, it predictably led to lousy execution. Karaban had the ball and was open for a 3, but tried to drive instead, and turned it over.
7. The halftime stats were worrisome to me. Aside from getting killed on the boards at both ends, we were relying on long jumpers too much for my taste.
8. Felt like we needed to open the 2nd half with a decent run -- something like 12 to 3 would do the trick.
9. Yeah, but that didn't happen, More like the opposite. Lead gets down to 1 pretty quickly.
10. Mullins stops the bleeding, then Tarris adds a deuce. Back to 6.
11. By the midway point in the half, I was wondering if Alex left his 3 point stroke in the locker room at the half.
12. MS took a brief 1 point lead, but that may have woken us up.
13. Among other good signs, Alex found his stroke from deep midway through the half.
14. Lead back to 7 @5:10
15. And it's down to 3 again at 4:05
16. So does a nail biting ending make the win more enjoyable? or less? I know that from my POV I'd rather we had kept that big lead from mid-first half.
17. Facing Duke tomorrow. I'll take any win we can get, but I'm kind of hoping for a 77-74 victory, just for old times sake.