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Message: [QUOTE="JudgeSCR, post: 2130258, member: 245"] Besides leading the team in scoring, rebounds and blocks, Napheesa comes up big in the biggest games. She does so in such a consistent and quiet way that we don't remember them (and the commentators don't talk about them) like we remember and talk about Katie Lou's Maryland heroics or Gabby dominating South Carolina. However, if you look at the games where UConn has played their toughest competition it is Napheesa who leads the team ... quietly. In the biggest games, the 14 games UConn played against ranked teams and throw in the close (second) Temple game and add the NCAA tournament games (Fla. St., Baylor, Depaul, Texas, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Maryland, USF twice, S. Carolina, Temple, UCLA, Tulane and Oregon) [B]Napheesa has lead the team in scoring in NINE of the 14 "biggest" games.[/B] Dangerfield (Baylor); Kia (DePaul); Katie Lou (Maryland); Sonia (USF) and Gabby (S. Carolina) each lead in scoring in one "big" game. If you look at the rebounding leader in each of those "big" games Napheesa and Gabby split them evenly with seven games each. When you divide the schedule and look at who leads in the toughest games ... it is Napheesa. I know scoring and rebounding are not the only important metrics in determining who wins and why, but still .... [/QUOTE]