No Spam today. UCONN - Nova

[meyers7]

Although the game may be as pleasant as eating spam.


Teams UCONN Villanova
Scoring/Opp 82.8/46.7 59.6/50.0
FG%/3pt 49.3%/36.8% 40%/30.6%
Def FG% 30.3%/30.4% 34.5%/28.5%
Reb 42.8/+11.3 35.9/-0.9
Assists 21.3 15.8
T/O 14.3/+6.9 11.4/+2.4
Steals/Blks 11.7/5.5 7.6/4.1

Starters
Laura Sweeney - (6-2 F SR) 13.2 ppg / 6.9 rpg / 2.5 spg / 1.9 bpg
Rachel Roberts - (5-9 G SR) 11.3 ppg / 41% 3 pt
Lauren Burford – (6-0 F SO) 6.3 ppg / 39% 3 pt
Taylor Holeman – (6-1 F SO) 4.1 ppg /4.0 rpg /
Jesse Carey – (5-10 G SR) 1.5 ppg /

Bench
Caroline Coyer - (5-11 G FR) 7.2 ppg / 3.1 rpg / 24 % 3 pt
Devon Kane – (5-9 G JR) 6.4 ppg / 25% 3 pt
Emily Leer (6-2 F SO) – 4.5 ppg /
Megan Pearson (6-0 F SR) – 4.5 ppg / 3.5 rpg

Wins -Temple 55-44, Syracuse 64-59
Losses – Minnesota 60-75, Delaware 45-59, Providence 60-65 (ot)

Nova has a good record, 16-3. Ranked #25 (USA Today) until the new poll comes out. Not a bad SOS #39. Nova uses a lot of players. 8 players avg at least 20 minutes. Not a lot of height, all decent size. 5-9 to 6-2. (No shorties on the dance flo). However, they are not a good rebounding team. Should be able to keep them to a lot of 1 and done. Not a lot of Offensive rebounds which means they probably don’t crash the OFF boards but rather get back on defense. Which with their propensity to NOT turn the ball over, means UCONN isn’t going to get many fast break points. Gonna have to run our half court offense. We might be able to make up for it by hitting the OFF boards ourselves and getting second chance points.

As always when we play Nova, will have to play defense for a good 30 seconds every Nova possession. Will be, as always, a slow methodical half court game. Of course they shoot lots of 3’s (470 so far this year, UCONN has taken 457). UCONN will have to guard the perimeter. Even the bigs.

Don’t expect a high scoring game. Nova shouldn’t get out of the 40’s. UCONN should be able to get to the 60’s, but not much higher. 64-46.

 

[Wonkster]

Although the game may be as pleasant as eating spam.

It depends upon your point of view, as well as experience. There are still Russians alive who fondly remember the SPAM supplied them in plenitude by the United States during World War II. In a country where nearly everything was in short supply due to the world-class incompetence and inefficiency of the Communist system, to Russians of the time SPAM seemed like manna from heaven.

 

[meyers7]

It depends upon your point of view, as well as experience. There are still Russians alive who fondly remember the SPAM supplied them in plenitude by the United States during World War II. In a country where nearly everything was in short supply due to the world-class incompetence and inefficiency of the Communist system, to Russians of the time SPAM seemed like manna from heaven.

If I get to the point where spam seems like manna from heaven (e.g. zombie apocalypse, etc), I'll go ahead and shoot myself. (in the head, just to be safe )

 

[pinotbear]

Man, I don't wanta see Spam falling from the sky: those cans would hurt!

 

[nan linds]

I like Spam, especially the Hot and Spicy variety.

 

[ThisJustIn]

Did the US send Spam to the Brits? 'cause their world class incompetence and inefficiency led to short supplies during and after the war. Hmmm.... Perhaps that's where Monty P got their inspiration!

 

[ChicagoGG]

Did the US send Spam to the Brits? 'cause their world class incompetence and inefficiency led to short supplies during and after the war. Hmmm.... Perhaps that's where Monty P got their inspiration!

We went to England in 1970 for my brother's wedding to a wonderful British lass (who is still my sister-in-law 43 years later). We were invited to her parents house for dinner and the main course was.....SPAM. I had never had SPAM, but ate it politely. After dinner her mother told me that everyone in England thought Americans loved SPAM and were so kind to have sent it to them during the war.

This was my only SPAM (food) experience until we went boating with friends in the San Juan Islands in the PCNW, where all the pizzerias offered a variation of Hawaiian pizza..with SPAM, not ham, and pineapple.

 

[Zorro]

I'll have spam, eggs, sausage, bacon, spam and toast. That's not got MUCH spam in it! And much better than rat tart!