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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 5310072, member: 591"] I said it before, I'll say it again - what Pat Summitt said about defense is it wins games. She said rebounds win championships - but again, she's talking about the championship game and I'm not sure it is necessarily true, although winning teams in games most often do out-rebound the losing team. I agree that very few teams with a less than stellar offense have a chance at getting to the Final Four - I followed Rutgers for all of CVS's best years, and my take was always that defense could keep you in a game and give you a fighters chance at beating a better offense. But it takes doing that 6 times in a row to win a natty, and Rutgers only came close once. I think defense is extremely valuable, I always felt - without looking it up - that UConn excelled on both sides. And that's why they have the number of NC's that they do. [/QUOTE]