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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5230982, member: 488"]
Funny you should use the dentist analogy, because typically it's used in reference to a team that struggles to score and plays at a really slow pace.  Florida couldn't be further from either of those things.

UConn, on the other hand, does want to make this feel like a trip to the dentist for Florida.  And given they play at one of the slowest paces in America, I do give them a shot to pull it off.  Most of the teams in the SEC are wired similarly to the Gators and tried to make it a track meet.  Tennessee is one of the few in that league that plays slow and beat them 64-44 in what was one of the ugliest games I've seen all year.

Yes, Florida did beat the Vols the other two times by a combined 39 points, but I think if you're looking for a blueprint on how to beat them, that might be it.  It won't be 64-44 because UConn doesn't have the defense Tennessee does, but I could see them winning in the sort of way Frank Kaminsky era Wisconsin or Colin Gillespie era Villanova (also slow tempo teams that were better on offense than on defense) used to win where they shorten the game and make a team that's used to winning pretty win ugly.
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