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Message: [QUOTE="PAHuskeyFan, post: 3399114, member: 7880"] Coached a lot of Youth Baseball over the years, and from time to time I found teams in situations where they believed the "predictions"... in a game that they should win with little trouble everything just seems to go wrong. The ace pitcher can't throw strikes, the best hitters hit the ball right at the defense, and the close calls by umpires all went to the other team. As a coach you try everything you can to keep things from blowing up and to find a way to get just one more run...that's all that matters...the W. Likewise, those same teams always played their best against their toughest competition because they knew it was what it was going to take to get the win. Most of us (except [USER=420]@ochoopsfan[/USER]) predicted UCONN would win this game by 30 or more points because that's what Massey and other odds services predicted. We were over-confident... and the Team was over confident. They didn't do what they have been trained to do, especially with motion on offense. [B]They pulled out a win[/B]. They did enough to pull away in the end and [B]win by 12 points[/B]. It's a W... not an L. :D Geno will use it as another teaching moment, emphasize the need to run the offense to play solid team defense and... watch the bounce back vs UCF. We knew this season was going to be a grind... Stock up on the Rolaids if you need to and sit back and try to enjoy the ride. :rolleyes: :eek: [/QUOTE]