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Message: [QUOTE="RegisteredUconn, post: 1993287, member: 1477"] Not every morsel of every tongue-in-cheekish post is meant to disparage. One of the reasons I follow UConn women's basketball, and the thrust of many of my serious posts, is an interest in excellence over time. It's one thing to achieve the incredible. It's quite another to do that consistently. I've often heard it said it's easier to win a championship that it is to repeat. Repeat championships tend to be an order of magnitude rarer than singular ones. That Bob Beamon never matched his prodigious 1968 Olympic leap takes nothing away from that stupendous accomplishment. I come by my interest honestly. When I was in high school, we had a coach (another sport, not basketball) who lost only 17 times in 18 years. I thought that achievement mind-boggling...until his successor came along. He lost just 6 times in 15 years. Through it's first 50 years, that program lost just 47 times. I have no animus toward the Gamecocks whatsoever. I became an instant fan of Kevin Joyce when I watched 2nd ranked Penn beat 3rd ranked South Carolina in the 1971 NCAA Tournament. My appreciation was cemented when Joyce turned his back on a silver medal in the wake of the 1972 Olympic fiasco. [/QUOTE]