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South Carolina with a couple of their best players on the road in foul trouble and playing almost none of the first half in front of 9000 opposing fans, brought mental toughness and lock down defense which led to their championship last year would not suggest that Stanford handed them anything. The took that win.
Agreed, I don't see how anyone watched that game and thought Stanford handed the game away. Stanford basically did everything they needed to win the game.
Stanford had it taken from them...they didn't hand it to them. That's what gets me about people who want to say things like that. You are making it what it wasn't.
I guess all those years of hearing “UConn just got lucky again” prepared Husky fans to be really good at this now that somebody else is on top.
I watched that game. Stanford had the game won except for 2 costly turnovers late in regulation. They were outscored by 10 in the 4th quarter. That last ten minutes they played scared and not to lose. They couldn't put SC away. SC never quit or gave up. Kudos to them. To me that just means that Stanford (IMO) does not deserve to be #2. I won't mention the weak schedule they've played thus far. They've played only 1 ranked team thus far, and lost that one. What have they done to keep their #2 ranking? They have zero quality win thus far in 9 games.
One comment from a UConn fan and you dump on the rest of us? Come on mannnnn! Oh and no one ever said UConn got lucky. They did say they have talent and are well coached, but luck? When and where?
Stanford originally had 3 ranked teams on their schedule. but Tennessee isn't ranked now. Only other ranked team they will play before conference play starts is Creighton.
It will also be interesting to see if Uconn's front line can stay with either Stanford or SC, who both can play as aggressive as they want because they have posts for days. Will foul trouble be an issue for Uconn. All great questions
All Uconn's bigs needs to do is limit post touches and just hang in there. Their guards will do the rest of the heavy lifting because as we've seen so far in the season, SC and Stanford haven't been the strongest in their guard play. UCLA came very close to beating SC yesterday with their guard play even though they were heavily undersized. The UCLA guards made a few questionable decisions, especially driving into the lane every time Cardoso was there waiting to block their shots. That and a few freshman mistakes cost them the game. I think Uconn has a good shot against SC, and the fact that they will be playing at home helps.
From what Ive seen this season SC misses Henderson. Both teams are different this season. UConns shooters vs SC height. Gonna be a great game.Well hopefully we'll see South Carolina and Connecticut get another chance to play for it all this season, since now Connecticut finally has a true point guard which obviously held them back last season....... (ha ha)
The thing is, as with last year, people try to poke holes in South Carolina's team as they continue to win, against a non-cupcake schedule, I might add. Last year this time, South Carolina won games like this and Henderson was out for about a month with injury, so the reliance that they have issues because she is not there is subjective at most. South Carolina has really good pgs who are new to playing with the other four starters and are learning each game how to fit in with them, ala Fletcher much better second half against UCLA and Stanford. South Carolina always gets better as the season moves along, as they did last year. Go back to your threads and people were making the same assertions of South Carolina's weaknesses and how, when they play Uconn the second time around, Uconn would be this much better but somehow South Carolina would stay the same. Well, we all know how that played out. I think South Carolina will look forward to that game as Dawn will keep them with that chip on their shoulder as the speculation of their abilities grow.
I have to agree with you we do how it turned out however we will never know how it might have changed if UConn was heathy. I’m sure you would agree if Paige was 100 percent and Azzi wasn’t sick and Dorka didn’t break her wrist Amari was healthy it may have been different ending
SC deserved that win. They got it together in the 4th quarter with really good defense. Now, Rice certainly helped them out a bit at the end, but I think SC wins anyway.
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Why have Texas and Tennessee struggled? Lyndsey D'Arcangelo explains in her 12 Questions column.
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Lotta ifs.
