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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2663400, member: 5798"] It's surprising what people can do when they are "motivated, or are extra motivated. Two things UConn will have going for them if they can get to the championship game: 1. Geno has never lost a championship game...........ever!! 2. THAT loss to MS state will be mentioned at least once by Geno in their pre-game meeting just before they take the floor. He will remind them of what happened, and that they are not invincible, they can lose just like they lost a year ago. No one has to go into detail or bring up certain plays. Except the freshmen, everyone else was there and had to endure that loss. They vividly remember the details and the shock and angst of losing and how they felt. [I]“I don’t think we expect anything as far as, ‘We’re just going to get here,’[/I]” senior forward Gabby Williams, the most outstanding player of the Albany Region, said of returning to the Final Four. [I]“We look at the game ahead of us. We’re not entitled to anything. We have to earn it.”[/I] Take nothing for granted. He'll ask them to think back to what/how they felt after the game. A scenario they (nor the coaches) DO NOT want to repeat. The players must understand they can take nothing for granted going into these last two games. They [U]MUST[/U] play like the champions the are EVERY play!!! NO PLAYS OFF!!! If you're tired, so are the opposing players, play through it. You've got the entire summer to rest. Somebody's going to be in tears after the game. It was UConn's turn last year. This year, it's somebody else's turn. As UConn’s works toward trying to play great in Columbus, the usual March discussion about whether the Huskies’ dominance is good for women’s basketball continues to play out nationally. “[I]They're absolutely great for women's basketball,”[/I] Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “[I]When [URL='http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/college-sports/alabama-crimson-tide-ORSPT000016136-topic.html']Alabama[/URL] [football] goes to play for a national championship, are you asking them if they're bad for the game because they beat the crap out of somebody 66-30 starting off the year? They sweep through the SEC, beating the tar out of everybody. … Should [Auriemma] just lose to make all of you happy or what? They've done a remarkable job. Give credit where credit is due".[/I] “[I]It's not bad for the game. Nobody was saying when John Wooden was winning 10 in a row that UCLA was bad for the men's game. … If anybody thinks they're bad for the game, stop watching the gym. Go try to watch a paddle board game or something, go watch checkers, because if you can't appreciate it, then, please don't even cover it.”[/I] [/QUOTE]

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