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Message: [QUOTE="Jmsdawg, post: 4212202, member: 9243"] maybe I did not express my thoughts well, I was not saying SC was a better team than UConn this year or last year, I was trying to say SC provides more game time for her talented bench players than UConn does. Some coaches stress playing time for a group of players because they feel team chemistry is enhanced if a limited number of players get most of the game time, I agree player to player chemistry is enhanced by actual game time but player development suffers for any player not included in the game group. The lack of playing time is certainly a reason for very talented players transferring thus affecting the performance of future teams. Lack of game ready reserves is especially critical with illness or injuries. From the games that I have watched it appears to me SC really makes an effort to provide game time for it reserves, some times it is difficult to know which of SC players are starters and which are reserves because the reserves see playing time during critical close games. As for the top team this year, from what I have seen, I believe SC and Stanford are most likely to be N.C. [/QUOTE]