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[QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 2246521, member: 35"]
We'll never know for sure but: I think our performance in the championship game was sharpened by our only loss
that year.  We had beaten LadyVol in Knoxville early on but in their return to Gampel later in the season [yikes...2 games a year
for a few seasons!] we lost by one point....maybe 72-71.  I was courtside and it was tremendously exciting.  I recall Shea and Semeka Randall [Boo]
going back and forth in the last minutes...shot for shot.  On the last possession UConn had it on a break and Svet made a pass from around half-court to a streaking Tamika Williams
as she approached the basket...the pass was a bit off and Tamika never got off a good shot.

I would bet the ranch that in the lead-up to the final game in Philly Geno might have mentioned the loss a time or two.
When Shea landed on the floor late in the game in Philly I remember seeing her Mom near/on the floor in that end zone furiously pumping
her fist and showing just where Shea got her fire.
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