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Message: [QUOTE="cferraro04, post: 4695146, member: 267"] Caitlin Clark is a great basketball player...and she is a joy to watch. Giving credit where credit is due...she figured out in her junior year how to get others involved and she made other players better. However, that being said...when it comes down to picking the POY a lot will have to do with the type of season the team from which the POY candidates hail from. There is a lot of excitement around the Huskies this year... They have a boat load of returning players, They have Paige back, everyone for the most part is healthy. There is a lot to be excited about with regards to UConn's new players... I believe we are going to see the "Paige and Azzi show" all year long...with a supporting cast of incredible players many who will be playing in the WNBA. Aubrey Griffin will be a beast; Aaliyah Edwards if you can believe it will probable be better; Nika Muhl didn't have the kind of year she had last year to disappear with the re-emergence of Paige; Ines Bettencourt...doesn't strike me as the kind of kid who is content to just ride the bench...she wants minutes...she is a great back-up point guard who with all the talent on this team may just end up getting some quality minutes when the score gets run up as I expect it to. Caroline Ducharme...if healthy is poised to have a great come-back season. Ice Brady, Ayanna Patterson, Jana El-Alfy, Amari DeBerry; KK Arnold; Ashlyn Shade, Qadence Samuels. With all this fire power it is going to be difficult to keep this team out of the 90s. If Paige stays healthy and Caitlin stays healthy there is no reason to believe that Paige won't be as good or even possibly better than her freshman run...if so, it would take an even better year for Caitlin than she had last year and Iowa would also need to go deep into the NCAA Tournament. I believe that Paige will be the best player on the best team (no disrespect meant to LSU and South Carolina)...and we all know what that means. [B] Then we have the comparative stats:[/B] Paige only played 29 games in her freshman year and 17 in Sophomore year for a total of 46 games...yet~~~her college career stats are: FG Attempted - 617 FG Made - 327 FG Percentage - .530 3 PT Attempted - 189 3 PT Made - 82 3 PT Percentage - 434 FT Attempted - 112 FT Made - 93 FT Percentage - .830 [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Paige averages 13.41 shots per game and takes 4.1 three pointers per game[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] Caitlin, of course, has had the benefit of staying healthy and playing all three years and she was able to get 100 games under her belt..her college career stats are: FG Attempted - 1912 FG Made - 890 FG Percentage - .470 3 PT Attempted - 920 3 PT Made - 347 3 PT Percentage - .380 FT Attempted - 688 FT Made - 590 FT Percentage - .860 [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Caitlin averages 19.12 shots per game and takes 9.2 three pointers per game[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]

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