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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5177347, member: 12088"] Mogenson is such an interesting player. Over the last three years, her stats against UConn have been up and down. Most of the games have been double digit losses, though one was a 2-point last-second loss. But all but one have been remarkably closely competitive, scrappy games and Mogenson has been one of the keys to that scrappiness, even when she doesn’t score a lot. Jim Flannery coaches an aggressive, ball-hawking defense and they have been very good at it even when they are significantly undersized. In a lot of our games, it seems like they win all the 50-50 balls. Mogenson brings a lot of hustle to the court, and sometimes leads the team in rebounds even though she’s only 5’7”. It’s not that she has great speed, or the rest of the team either, for that matter. But they never seem to stop moving to the ball, and Molly chief among them. There have been only three prior games with Paige in them, and I think she is a very difficult matchup for Creighton. She seems to distort their game plan with her combination of scoring and passing more than most opponents. And yet Molly manages to make a contribution. There’s a lot to like about her game. As you point out, Jensen and Maly tend to be the main scorers. But stats never seem to tell the whole story with a team like this. Flanery’s players find a way to influence the game, and it doesn’t always show up in the stat sheet. [/QUOTE]