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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4880943, member: 3535"] You know when Stewie first came aboard, there were a lot of posters on here that didn't want Stewi playing inside in fear the opposing teams would bang her too much. The infatuation with size remains extremely over-exaggerated. UCONN built it's team around two potential "generational guards", and their next highest recruits were Ducharme and Patterson. - Well they all have bene significantly hurt. If size was the end-all-be-all then can anyone explain what happened South Carolina vs a not very athletic Iowa? And why the next team they played in the title game - their top inside player was 6'3? If height is some important why do these recent examples get dismissed? Bottom-line is - that 0215 team - you forgot to mention -- Stokes was never replaced by Collier because they weren't in the same classes. If you really want to mention Stokes senior year, then you also have to look at other players on the team named Moriah Jefferson and Kaleena Mosqueda Lewis It appears you are glossing over them. That 2015 team had 4 first team all-American caliber players on it. That team's success was much more than just "size." Instead, in UCONNs title years, many of those years they had multiple 1st team All-Americans. It didn't matter big or small. Other than DT's run, they had always lots of a/a's. Got this just in time. [/QUOTE]