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Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 5150696, member: 11108"] The veterans Karaban and Diarra made the big plays at the end along with some help from the freshman McNeeley. 12 to 30 foul shots, why do so many think this is not a huge unfair issue? As in Maui, it is difficult to win when your opponent gets 250% more foul shots before the final deliberate fouls. Our 3 point shooting improvement (45%) was led my Karaban and McNeeley. However, Ball had an off night. The 9 point advantage we had on threes made the difference. We need better defense from the center position and less mistakes. Screen had a double/double and was 9-9 from the foul line. That was the primary reason he was 11 points over his 6 points per game average. We had 8 fouls from our center position. Mahaney played well and we even saw him play with Diarra some, as Chief has been advocating. Still overall his plus/minus was underwater, but it was really other guys making mistakes not him. He had 7 points and as a shooting guard with McNeeley and Karaban out there we could be really hard to defend on the 3 line with Diarra running the show and Reed giving us a post threat. Rebounding and assists advantages, which usually indicate a UConn win, were not significant. But, a very good road win in a tough building. [/QUOTE]