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Message: [QUOTE="BostonCanuck, post: 2675528, member: 6931"] This game went south on the Huskies very quickly in the latter half of the forth quarter. Lou picks up her forth foul at 4:55, right before the media timeout. Z is already on the floor. Geno elects to keep Lou in the game, rather than sending in Crystal. At this point, Kia and Gabby both have three fouls. Pheesa makes a layup and one. Huskies are up five. But then on two consecutive possessions, a ND player drives right past Lou for the uncontested layup. It's a one point game. Geno correctly calls the timeout, and apparently decides to coach Lou through it instead of taking her out of the game. The teams go back and forth. Unfortunately, UConn doesn't execute particularly well, except for the last-second steal and score by Nurse to force overtime. (And for those who believe that Kia traveled, the refs have consistently not made that call on the breakaway to the rim throughout women's Division I for at least the last couple of seasons.) In overtime, The refs ring up the Huskies for three more defensive fouls! Arike makes a layup after driving right by Gabby, who now has four. Z misses a turn-around jumper from about five feet, then at the other end fails to defend Shephard, who cuts down low for another easy layup. So when Geno does put Crystal into the game, it's Z who heads to the bench instead of Lou. Nurse hits a clutch three, and Crystal makes two big jumpers during overtime. But Arike makes an even bigger shot. Gabby delivers an unbelievable inbound pass that travels three-quarters the length of the court and into the hands of Lou. But Lou has less than a second... she shanks the layup off the back iron, and the Huskies have run out of time. Pretty hard to fault Geno, given the unfortunate sequence of events that occurred so rapidly, so late. But from the time that Lou picks up her forth until the the end of overtime, a 10-minute span, she never leaves the game, nor does she go on to get another point, but does get one assist. Also during that span, the Huskies settle almost exclusively for outside jumpers, make eight of their 17 shots, and turn the ball over three times. Meanwhile, ND gets to the hoop four times for easy layups, due to Lou and Gabby being in foul trouble, and a missed defensive assignment by Z. [/QUOTE]

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