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Message: [QUOTE="connie, post: 2514514, member: 7882"] I will certainly watch the replay. Based on what I saw with my untutored eyes first time through . . . UCF's starters are very athletic and were really geared up. They played very hard throughout the first half, especially in the first quarter, and on both ends of the floor. Their guards are agile ball-handlers and [I]fast[/I]. They also held the ball for long stretches on most possessions. (You could see their coach occasionally signaling with a "run the clock" gesture.) UCF was also physical (I don't have a problem with that, as long as officiating is fair and nothing is excessive; I took that to be the case, though there were at least a couple obvious no-calls when Lou was fouled.) As a result, UConn had fewer opportunities to score (I think). The score was low, and close (until mid-way through the 3rd Q). There were (again, through the first half) fewer transition points, points off turnovers, etc. All of this gave the appearance of something we have not seen lately. And that alone gave the game a weird "feel" for much of the first 20-25 minutes. Perhaps related but who knows . . . This was also one of those games where a number of shots around the basket weren't falling in. Combine this with a rather off night shooting outside (that's bound to happen), sub-par FT shooting, and you have a perfect storm of conditions poised to result in an upset. Didn't happen, of course, and that speaks volumes about UConn's ability to adjust and grind out a win (albeit, a 36 point win!). [I]That [/I]is perhaps the best thing to come out of this game. Credit UCF. This is as tough a performance against UConn as I've seen since MS last year. Having said all that, even with warts and all, UConn held UCF to its lowest scoring output in any game this season. And 80 is the second most points scored on UCF. [/QUOTE]

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