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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4152629, member: 3535"] In 2016-2017 South Carolina wins title game with 6 players playing 20 minutes or more and 1 player playing 10. (3 others played 2/1/1 as game was already decided.). In 2017-2018 Notre Dame wins title game with 6 players playing 24 minutes or more. In 2018-2019 Baylor wins title game with 6 players playing 17 minutes or more (with 2 players getting 40 and 1 getting 37)). The 7th player got 8 minutes. I wonder how many minutes the 7th player would have gotten if Lauren Cox didn't get hurt? By the way, at the time Cox got hurt, she had played 29 of 29 minutes. In 2020-2021 no doubt Stanford played with a much deeper bench than the others. Six players played 175 minutes in title game (one played 40) and 5 players played 25 (two played a total of 5 while one played 5). Incidentally, Kiana Williams played 40 minutes in 3 consecutive games for Stanford. Overall you see a much tighter bench from the elite teams that win it all. As you and others have said-- you don't need a big bench normally. Though this team has only 1 pg and only 3 guards. Three other guards and an elite perimeter defender are all out. What can we do? :) One thing we can do is not turn on them. :) [/QUOTE]