How does UConn performance in the regional stack up?

[Suebird10fan]

If you're thinking that Bridgeport had to be one of UConn's most impressive regionals ever, you're right.

The Huskies beat MD and KY by an average of 28 points. How does that compare to past regionals? Really well. Going back to 2001 (that's as far back as I could get using uconnhuskies.com archives) our Avg MoV when we won the regional was 19.9. In 2010, we had a mind boggling 39 point Avg MoV (over Fla St and Iowa St). 2013's 28.0 is next on the list. Next best after that was 21.5 in 2009 (over California and ASU). The justifiably vaunted 2001-02 team had an avg MoV of 18.5 against Penn St and ODU.

Most impressive thing is that it was done against two very good teams--it would be very hard to argue that UConn faced stronger competition in years past. In fact past competition was almost certainly weaker.

As Geno said post-game this team is schizophrenic. When they're not playing well, they lose three times to a very good but not great Notre Dame team. No disrespect to ND. Muffet McGraw is as good a coach as there is in my opinion--hands down coach of the year. ND has risen to the occasion and performed their best in the clutch. They deserved all three wins. But let's face it, we haven't brought our A game against ND. When this team DOES bring its A game, it is, as Geno would say, really, really good.

Let's hope they bring their A game two more times. If they do, they will make Boneyarders very happy.

 

[alexrgct]

Here's how UConn has fared in each of its 14 regionals appearances that led to Final Four berths:

1991- 82-71 over NC State, 60-57 over Clemson, MOV 7.0
1995- 87-56 over Bama, 67-63 over Virginia, MOV 17.5
1996- 72-44 over San Francisco, 67-57 over Vandy, MOV 19.0
2000- 102-80 over Oklahoma, 86-71 over LSU, MOV 18.5
2001- 72-58 over NC State, 67-48 over La Tech, MOV 16.5
2002- 82-64 over Penn State, 85-64 over ODU, MOV 19.5
2003- 70-49 over BC, 73-64 over Purdue, MOV 15.0
2004- 63-55 over UCSB, 66-49 over Penn State. MOV 12.5
2008- 78-63 over ODU, 66-56 over Rutgers, MOV 12.5
2009- 77-53 over Cal, 83-64 over AZ State, MOV 21.5
2010- 74-36 over Iowa State, 90-50 over Florida State, MOV 39.0
2011- 68-63 over Georgetown, 75-40 over Duke, MOV 20.0
2012- 77-59 over Penn State, 80-65 over Kentucky, MOV 16.5
2013- 76-50 over Maryland, 83-53 over Kentucky, MOV 28.0

 

[Suebird10fan]

Thanks!

 

[UcMiami]

Thanks - 2010 was just sick! And I had forgotten about 2011 35 pt MoV against Duke ( sorry Triad)

 

[alexrgct]

Thanks - 2010 was just sick! And I had forgotten about 2011 35 pt MoV against Duke ( sorry Triad)

If that 2010 team had the bench the 2013 team does, the MOV would have been well over 50. For instance, Maya absolutely eviscerated ISU by herself in the first half and basically didn't play the second half. Tina sat quite a bit too. FSU was similar. This Uconn team isn't as good as that one, but it does have a deeper rotation.

Edit: I just looked up the box score for the ISU game again, and "eviscerated" might be too mild a term for what Maya Moore did to the Clones. In 20 minutes, she scored 25 points on 9-15 shooting (including 5-7 from three), grabbed six boards, three assists, and three steals, with no turnovers. "Brought the wrath of God to Iowa State" might be more apt. Against FSU, she again played only 20 minutes, and scored 22 points with 8 boards, 1 assist, 1 block, and one turnover.