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[QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4520405, member: 1673"]
? In recent times Auriemma has not had large rosters, either due to recruiting or injury.

The last large roster was ‘14, when the upperclassmen cohort led by Dolson mixed with the underclassmen cohort led by Stewart.  The rotation was 10 and 9 respectively for the ‘13 and ‘14 years, mixing quite well in the process.

The ‘09 and ‘10 championship teams had players like Gardler and McLaren coming in as the eight, ninth or tenth players in the rotation.

’01 would seem to illustrate your point, a large roster of AA level talent that fell short, and had most of their worst performing games when the roster was largest.  That seems to be an indictment on Auriemma mixing and matching talented large rosters, but the previous year was just as large, with essentially a third team featuring former UCSB star and 6’6” center coming in for mop up as the eleventh or so player.  It also had two former starters and high school AAs, Sauer and Hansmeyer, now accepting their roles in coming off the bench.
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