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Message: [QUOTE="domerduck, post: 3528074, member: 10178"] This analysis is pretty disingenuous. First of all the 8 games you picked are actually over 4 seasons since the April 2011 loss was at the Final 4 in a season which ND was 1-3 against UConn. Secondly to not count games when ND had "several great players" during a period when UConn has had some of the greatest women's bball players ever (which is why UConn has 38 wins against ND) is ridiculous. In fact that 2011 Final 4 game was the only game Maya Moore ever lost to ND as she was 7-1 against ND, should we not count those? Then there was this pretty good UConn player Breanna Stewart who won her last 6 games against ND, should we not include those? The obvious facts are that UConn has been historically superior than ND over the years, but still Muffet and ND had earned the most wins against Geno and UConn than any other team and coach. The series didn't even start until 1996, the year after Lobo & UConn won their 1st championship, ND came into the Big East that year and proceeded to lose their 1st 11 games until Ruth Riley & Niele Ivey's senior year where they split their 4 games, the year ND won their 1st National championship. After their graduation, UConn proceeded to win 16 of the next 18, then we have the last 19 which have been almost split (UConn 10, ND 9). We shouldn't exclude any games because one team had "several great players". The interesting thing to me is to realize Niele Ivey's record against UConn as a player (2-7) and as an assistant coach at ND (9-17) is 11-24 overall, which is a better % than Muffet's and more wins than Pat (who by the way only lost 13 against Geno). Maybe she can improve on that now that she is head coach. You never know. So far Pat's successors are 0-1, but Kellie Harper was 4-2 as a player against UConn. [/QUOTE]

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