They are also in 8th, about to be 9th place in the weakest P5 conference in America. No one is picking any Big 10 teams to be playing the final weekend this year.
Is Iowa a winning team, yes or no? It was not stipulated National Championship contending team. Also, you think the Big 10 is weaker than the Big 12? Really? REALLY?
My answer was to " Best Freshman....in terms of the actual award NFOY....hard to say how it would go. Points or winning??? Is there an anti-Uconn bias??? If you are the best player ON the best team ( before tourney) its hard to argue someone on a mediocre team is better.
And the worst Defense game of the year
2nd worst defense. The MD - Arkansas game was the worst.
Iowa made 63 and Maryland made 67 shots. That means every 18.5 secs there is one shot.
All big 10 teams, which as a league is highly overrated, so really no great gauge there.
Neither of those teams plays defense. I hope we play Iowa in the big dance so we can put the notion that Clark is anywhere near Bueckers to bed. I doubt Clark hits double digits.
Asking for a friend, who was UConn's defensive stopper who was assigned to Dungee during the Arkansas game?
Best offensive game or worst defensive game?
Spectrum does not carry the Big Ten Network. You have to pay to watch the Big Ten, Pac 12 and ACC.
Of course Clark would score in double digits. She would take a ton of shots and the UConn defense would make her work for those shots but she'd get them and make them. She may shoot less than 50% and she would for sure commit 6-7 turnovers (she has 103 for the season!) but she would not be held to single digits in points. Iowa's defense gives up 82 ppg so UConn would win the game and Paige would have a big game.
What a difference a year makes. Last season I thought Maryland had a good chance of making the Final Four because of how good they were defensively. Opponents both struggled to score and turned the ball over against last year's Terps. This season not so much. Maryland is scoring more this season (from 82 to 93 ppg) but they also give up more points (from 57 to 72 ppg) and are forcing fewer turnovers.
Those players were not the focus of the defense. We played them straight up. In the tournament everything changes. Geno will force someone else to beat us. She will be held to under 10.Asking for a friend, who was UConn's defensive stopper who was assigned to Dungee during the Arkansas game?
edit--looked at Clark's season stats, only 1 game under double digits and only 2 games under 20 points all season. I certainly think UConn would beat Iowa, and I think just as certainly Clark would score in double figures.
UConn has let a few scorers go off this year. Park-Lane from Seton Hall scored 29, Rogers from DePaul scored 20, Burrell from Tennessee had 18 (not a huge game, but certainly didn't hold her under double figures), Dungee and Ramirez from Arkansas had 37 and 22, Correa from St. John's had 33 and Carda from Creighton just scored 24, and countless other players have reached double figures. But sure, go ahead and tell me how one of the nation's leading scorers would get shut down by this UConn defense. The only one of the players I listed above even in the same ball park as Clark is Dungee and look what she did.
Wait, Dungee was not the focus of the defense? Who was UConn focusing on then against Arkansas? Whatever the defensive strategy was, apparently it didn't work very well.
The goal is never to win every regular season game. Everything builds toward the big dance. Geno is the greatest coach of all time. <10