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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5338076, member: 13453"] I think there is a significant argument that can be made that Nika’s and Paige’s freshman year was a very potential championship year (see Net Rating in [URL='https://herhoopstats.com/stats/ncaa/team/uconn-huskies-womens-basketball-stats-11e8e149-cbe7-6342-af82-12df17ae4e1e/']attached[/URL] / pic). [LIST] [*]The team also beat (eventual champion) South Carolina that year in OT on 2/8/2021 with Nika in the starting lineup. [/LIST] It was not as if Nika [I]stumbled[/I] into her starting job. Geno [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/connecticut/women/2021-starters.html']experimented[/URL] with starting lineups. Nika’s starting lineup was the longest (and without a loss) and probably would have been the final starting lineup. The [URL='https://www.uconnwbbweekly.com/p/how-nika-muhl-escaped-the-doghouse-to-become-a-uconn-legend']chronology[/URL] was: “Nika tears game” on 1/19, benching in TN game, and then replacing Aubrey as a starter two games later (after the loss to AK). Imagining “What If” for the AZ game is not simply extrapolating from the actual game played. The Nika team that would have played against AZ would have played much differently ([URL='https://www.courant.com/2021/03/31/nika-muhls-status-for-the-final-four-is-uncertain-why-geno-auriemma-thinks-the-uconn-womens-basketball-team-needs-her-back/']per Geno[/URL]) from the one that did.[ATTACH type="full" size="1170x1147"]111778[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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