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Message: [QUOTE="Dugway, post: 4994478, member: 13446"] The stacked part of the schedule will be the first third, and then of course the NCAA Tournament. We are seven months away and the team already has injuries that will be sidelining players at the start of the season. Having half of your team out for the entire season is goobstoping and one would expect as very unusual, but then again we’ve experienced it three years running. Having one or two players get seriously injured is likely, it’s very unfortunate but that is basketball, every team in the league has one or two. Then there are the week to week injuries; someone is not available due to jamming their thumb. A rolled ankle is common in this game, an elbow to the face, and certainly a tweaked knee. Then there are illnesses, a bout of COVID runs through the squad. Possible that someone has a personal thing, a bereavement period when they are off to a grandparents funeral. My crystal ball is just not very good. Maybe none of that happens to UConn next season and/or it would only happen during the portion of the season that it is less impactful. However, ….. It seems that if it were a situation where Jana were unavailable, and Ayanna is currently unavailable, this team would be under sized and inexperienced at the post. Is there a backstop available that would sign with UConn? [/QUOTE]