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Message: [QUOTE="Bigpetunia, post: 4451606, member: 1772"] Well said! When he established this mythical "award", the late and very much lamented Kibitzer (who was a master of the English language) took pains to make use of it to distinguish between certain gutsy performances and contributions that were true "star-of-the-game" efforts. Interesting that you would invoke Kelly Paris' name as part of this discussion. She is my all-time favorite Husky player, precisely because, despite being far from the most talented, her efforts, game in and game out, were unparalleled. I remember one game in particular, I think it might have been against Duke, that was quintessentially emblematic of her style of play. In the post-game press conference, Geno was asked about his assessment of her performance. This is not verbatim, but close: "Over the years, we have been fortunate to have several truly legendary players here at Connecticut...but in all those years, no player ever did more to honor the uniform than that kid did tonight!" Badass and star of the game can be, but are not necessarily, synonymous. I'm not going to argue with anyone who wishes to label Aubrey's outstanding performance vs Providence as covering both bases. But I like the concept that Kib seemed to have had in mind. [/QUOTE]