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Message: [QUOTE="bbsamjj, post: 4860307, member: 1738"] A few things: I would argue Hidalgo has several opportunities for a "marquee" win. Yes against UConn, but also against NC State. They also play Louisville twice and Virginia Tech once. Not sure why you're down on Gottlieb's coaching? She brought Cal to a Final 4 and has fairly quickly brought USC back to prominence, but haven't followed her career closely. Measuring conference efficiency rate is a bit misleading given JuJu is playing in arguably one of the toughest conferences in recent memory (with 4 teams at one point in the top 10). The Big East Paige's freshman year (and current year) is not at all close to that level. The B10 Clark's freshmen year was pretty good, sending 7 teams to the NCAA tournament; 4 of them (MD, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana) made it at least to the Sweet 16. Which is all to say, the start of JuJu's Pac12 career has been..tough: @UCLA (NET 7) vs Oregon St (NET 22) vs Oregon (NET 89) vs UCLA (NET 7) @ Utah (NET 5) @ Colorado (NET 17) Whereas Hidalgo has faced: @ SYR (NET 47) @ PITT (NET 179) vs BC (NET 85) vs UNC (NET 28) vs MIA (NET 41) @UVA (NET 68) @WF (NET 154) vs SYR (NET 47) They are both amazing players, who are obviously on very different teams, in very different conferences. But I think it's pretty unequivocal that JuJu has played a tougher conference schedule; so i'm not surprised her numbers have fallen. [/QUOTE]