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Since we only watch UConn games, we tend to miss what other Big East teams are doing. Here is an alternate perspective:

from today's Daily Campus

"She was gutsy. She wanted it, too. She wanted me to call that play," Barnes Arico said about Smith, who was just 3-for-22 from long range entering Saturday. "She's had a tremendous year, and I think a lot of people don't realize it because she does so much on the defensive end. But tonight she wanted the ball at the end of the game. She asked for the ball and she made the big play."
In addition to her 11 points and the game-winner, Smith helped shut down the red-hot Tiffany Hayes, forcing the senior guard into an eight-point, seven-turnover performance.
"I think if she's not Defensive Player of the Year in our conference, it would be criminal," Barnes Arico said. "She has just locked up every single best player, every guard she's played this year. She's really made it her mission, and she's done a tremendous job at it. And I think she showed that tonight."
 

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Ask her how she did against against Diggins and Novosel.
I would think that it's pretty difficult for one person to guard both of them.

Novosel was 6-17 15 pts, not exactly stellar.
 
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If Ms Barnes-Arico is going to start publicly touting her player for the award, then the UConn PR machine is going to have to counter.
 
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