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Message: [QUOTE="MilfordHusky, post: 2164193, member: 366"] I ran across an ESPN.com article on the Women's Final Four in 2010 in San Antonio. Here's part of what Glen Nelson wrote about UConn: [B]The two most competitive high-school girls' basketball games I've ever seen both involved Maya Moore,[/B] when she played for Collins Hill High School of Suwanee, Ga. [B]One included Tina Charles and Christ the King of Middle Village, N.Y., and the other focused on Tiffany Hayes and Winter Haven (Fla.).[/B] Moore takes both of those former foils into battle with her as Connecticut teammates in the NCAA semifinals against Baylor on Sunday. Is it any wonder that the Huskies are on a historic run? Coach Geno Auriemma doesn't just accumulate talent, he lands it with a competitive edge. Certainly, Moore has great balance, athletic fluidity and wingspan. [B]But she is such a cutthroat competitor, we saw her make threes before she really had her shooting mechanics. We also saw her routinely win games with plays at the buzzer [/B]at an age when girls self-question their every motive and rarely dare to put themselves on the line like that. Moore lost in overtime to Charles at the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions, long considered a national-championship maker, then the next year not only righted that one wrong, but did it in [B]one dizzying, six-games-in-11-days, cross-country stretch. She won contests during that stretch in every way imaginable, including a last-second block to seal an overtime victory over Hayes and Winter Haven at the T-Mobile Invitational. The next night, she scored 38 points in the first half against St. Elizabeth of Wilmington, Del., [/B]and ended with 48 after passing up numerous opportunities to post 50. Someplace, I have a DVD of Maya's 48-point game, courtesy of DaddyChoc. St. Elizabeth's featured All-American Khadijah Rushdan and was a top-15 program. Maya put up 38 in 16 minutes: 3-pointer, steal, 3-pointer, steal, layup. St. Elizabeth's couldn't inbound the ball over her. I believe she had 8 points in 10 seconds. [/QUOTE]

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