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Is UCONN's defense REALLY that good?

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I am wondering if there is not more than one kind of pressure working to Connecticut's advantage.

First, there's the physical pressure of having UConn players in your face. The Huskies play very tight defense, and even when an opponent gets open for a moment, almost always someone is going to be closing in on her very quickly. So perhaps other team's players are rushing their open shots just a bit.

Second and tied into the last sentence of the first point, there has to be a lot of psychological pressure on most teams we play. Virtually every announcer, whether they are our SNY homies or the national ones, says at one time or another that most teams are defeated as soon as they see the UConn name on the jersey - they are just that intimidated. I've never really bought into that hype but perhaps there is something to it. If you're nervous playing UConn, you're likely to hurry your shots. Hence, so many bricks.

Plus as others have pointed out, good scouting by the staff leads to letting opponents shoot from areas of the floor that are out of their comfort zones.
In addition to your great post- UC is a powder keg u r always trying to keep the lid on with their patented runs. Most teams never recover from them.
 
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