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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4610371, member: 199"] I think it does become the subject of discussion and a distraction from focusing on the basketball itself and the process of preparing for each game. There is as you say the focus on 'not losing'. In a way it becomes the reason so many near upsets become defeats in the last minutes - the underdog suddenly is thinking about how great a win will be and how they must not do anything to lose from such a strong position, and stop playing to win. At Uconn, it has often become a multi-year distraction - that 2003 teams was amassing the longest women's streak in history that reach 70 games in the semi finals, in 2017 the streak was the longest NCAA streak ever at 111 when MissSt came calling. And Maya and co. laid a complete egg at Stanford mid season to end a streak of 90. (A feat they repeated to end a 47 game streak in 2014 which probably helped in the creation of most of that 111 game streak. [/QUOTE]