UcMiami
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Preseason ranking was based on a healthy team. Paige was not playing anywhere close to her potential in the NCAA, Caroline never was able to fully regain her form after her serious concussion, Fudd missed a month of learning, and the offense was never a fully developed flowing unit. Yes, I think they were 'lucky' to get past NC State - any team that goes to overtime to win needs a little luck.What do you mean over-performed? I believe that the Preseason ranking for last year was SoCar, UConn, Stanford and MD. So to me they played up to their potential and didn't over perform. I don't think that they under performed either because with the exception of Dorka, they played the NC with pretty much the Preseason projected lineup.
I guess you forgot to mention that we were lucky to beat Indiana and NC State too.
Stanford was the 'defending' champ and if they had played their A game would have won - Geno himself said in the pregame that Uconn needed a little help from Stanford if they were to win.
My meaning is that I certainly would have expected a healthy Uconn team to compete for the championship, but by March they had been a medical unit all year and while they were playing pretty well, they certainly weren't a number 1 seed. As a 2 seed, the committee and most everyone else did not expect them in the final 4.