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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3233258, member: 2117"] Disagree with a lot of this. The schedule is on par for a normal schedule. Calling Ohio State or Oklahoma "tough games" is laughable. Tennessee is a total wild card, ND is a wild card with losing everyone, and Cal likely isn't going to be very good. Tough games are Oregon, Baylor, South Caroline and Tennessee/Notre Dame as wild cards. AAC will be awful once again. Starting lineup is not going to be difficult to decipher either, especially when you have ONO, Williams, Walker and Dangerfield as locks. If Westbrook is eligible, she gets the 5th spot. The HS rankings on those players are #5, #1, #1, #3 and #2 from their respective classes. [B]That would be the most stacked starting 5 based on HS ranking in NCAA history.[/B] Chances are it starts out as Irwin if Westbrook is ineligible. The lineup doesn't feature 4 fresh faces either. Walker is an upperclassman who had 14/8 in the Final Four last year and averaged double figures. Williams had 19 in the Final Four vs Notre Dame and was a double figure scorer as a frosh. ONO played extremely well against ND both meetings. The lineup features potentially 1 fresh face if Irwin doesn't start, and it is an All-SEC player in Evina Westbrook. UCONN's starting lineup will be stacked. If anything the pressure is much lower on this squad than it has been the last 3 years. The past 3 seasons you've had: 2017-the 100+ game winning streak and the pressure of going undefeated 2018-preseason #1, everyone expected UCONN to run the table. The pressure caught up to them in the Final Four 2019-KLS/Collier were storied players with their last chance at a title 2020 the pressure is off. UCONN is no longer unbeatable. Them losing a game isn't the biggest story in sports anymore. They're still a goliath but if anything it'll be easier to play without a ton of pressure to win a championship since more eyes will be on Oregon/Baylor. I don't think anyone is too caught up on the Final Four streak either...it's extremely impressive, but I am guessing it isn't something that players are worried about having snapped compared to the long win streaks. This will be the first time in a while that UCONN has to play on the road in regionals though. They wont have homecourt advantage all the way to the Final Four for the first time since 2014. [/QUOTE]

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