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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 4088242, member: 1220"] While most of the reasons given in this thread certainly played a part, I think what you mention in your post was a major factor. Not only was the team not as good as their fans, the media and even the team thought, but they underestimated Arizona. As was mentioned by some posters the UConn offense was a problem that manisfested it self early in the season, but which playing against weak competition appeared to have corrected itself. I also remember the posters on this only considering certain teams as any sort of threat to UConn in their bracket. Once those teams were eliminated and the got by Baylor, they were focusing on the next game against either SC or Stanford. Don't deny it. That was the focus of the fans on this site as well as the team. When you combine the belief your best game is not required to win that creates a problem if you are playing a team that actually requires your best effort. Fans of most teams generally focus on certain areas to explain losses. They will say if we only did better in this area etc. we would have own. What they never seem to consider is that the other team might have not been playing their best as well. Those that know Arizona knew that they did not play their best game against UConn either. They were actually just a better team at that point in time, who had just begun to play much bettter ball at the end of the year. How well they played against Stanford showed that. When you have to play teams that are closer to you talent level, your wiggle room for not playing your best and still winning disappears. There are just more teams in WCBB capable of knocking off the top teams than ever before. Even for this coming season the odds are that not all the top three will make it into the final four. There are enough teams that are capable of beating any of them if they should give a less than stallar performance. The days of assuming are over. It brings back the assumption that many posters on this site made that they were the forth best team in the country the previous year because they were only beaten by only three teams that season. It is a shame they tournament was canceled because it might have served as a necessary eye opener as to how many other really good team existed right behind those top three. Instead it waited for Arizona this last season. [/QUOTE]

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