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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3206494, member: 1220"] She also was not just the best player in the country, but because of her [B]athleticism and arm length she played much taller than 6'4"[/B]. Remember she could dunk with ease in high school. All these factors remain evident in how well she plays defensively in the WNBA. While it is possible for teams to get by with a shorter line up both height and depth-wise. it certainly diminishes the wiggle room a team has during a NCAA playoff run. The Timing factor- which is catching a good team on the day when your starters are not hitting their shots or playing their best will hurt you. Also catching a difficult matchup such as last season playing a team that had a significant size advantage like Baylor also will require the teams A-game to compensate for that matchup liability. These are the type of factors at play that we used to see in the men's NCAA's all the time that produced upsets. Those sort of factors are becoming much more commonplace in WCBB today. Four different teams in the last four years won the WCBB championship. Whereas from 2009 to 2016 Uconn won six times in 8 years. The years preceding those were not much different. The days of one or a few teams totally dominating for so many years seems to be a thing of the past. [/QUOTE]