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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 3115660, member: 1522"] Who gives a they won 33 games by double digits...I think they had one common opponent all year in St. John's. UConn beat them twice, once in a game where the final score was closer than the game actually was and the other UConn blew their doors off. Duke won by a point in overtime vs. the Johnnies. You watched a different game than everyone else if you think Duke lost because they were just missing shots they normally make. We had the bodies and fouls to give to take Brand out of what he wanted to do. You take Brand out of his game and that team isn't nearly the behemoth they looked like. I'll say it again, you need a bucket in end of shot clock/end of game situations and I'm taking Rip and Khalid over everyone. Who are you taking? In all honestly UConn should have won by a larger margin, they dictated play but then had that 5 minute stretch without a fg near the end before Khalid hit a floater. We had the best perimeter defender in the country who could take either Avery or Langdon (Trajan kept them in it with tough threes) out of their game and we had the bodies to take Brand out of his game. They had nobody to deal with Rip and it would be that case every time we play them. Stats are useful but you're way to reliant on them. Case in point that Nova and UConn have the same separation this year in your stat that UConn and Duke did in '99. [/QUOTE]