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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2411278, member: 5798"] The bubble is a familiar concept in college sports, that anxious limbo as a team waits to find out whether it made the NCAA tournament. Azurá Stevens lived it when her Duke team missed the postseason in 2016. But she also endured an anxiety peculiar to women's basketball a season earlier, one that affects even teams whose postseason places are assured. "It didn't matter who else we were playing against, [B]we just didn't want to be in UConn's bracket until the championship,"[/B] Stevens recalled. "It was like if you got in their bracket, your shoulders just slumped because eventually you had to play them, and probably you're going to lose." "She's like Kevin Durant. You can play her a lot of different places." [SIZE=3]Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley on UConn's Azurá Stevens[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21356069/is-azura-stevens-best-uconn-husky-all'][Article][/URL] [/QUOTE]