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Paige Wins her First Awards of the Season... Big East Freshman AND Player of the Year

I think a pretty reasonable set of awards. Liv and Edwards both got individual awards so I wouldn't worry about them. And while I love Nika as a starter, I don't think she should be surprised to miss out on the Freshman Team - good competition out there for all the individual spots.

We tend to look at record and discount individual players on teams we smash, but there are a lot of individual stars on bad teams and conference awards are a time to recognize them.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
I would like to congratulate Andra Espinoza-Hunter for making Big East first team. But there are three Seton Hall players, but Edwards doesn't make the ten-person first team? Huh?
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Odd! While they do like to spread such award around but it can be painful for individual players. We know what we got and it's great! Edwards has more incentive, as if she needed it, the before!
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
A nice little cluster of awards. A nice start for our freshman. Nika has to add some offense to her repetoire and she'll be raking in awards too. Starting on UConn's team is about as fine as it gets for a freshman. Rare as ice cubes in the Mohave.

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Uh, here's ice by my home in the Mojave from earlier this winter...
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SLY63 said:
It looks like Seton Hall (3) had more players on the Big East First Team than UConn (2). Interesting
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YEP, and I am sure that it BURNS many "Boneyarders" that AEH made 1st Team Big East over ONO (wonder what Geno has to say about AEH making 1st Team All Big East ??)
 
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pvdoggy said:
Seriously, you are the only one who keeps bring this stuff up.
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Yep. Because it was said by a certain UCONN Coach, that she was not coachable (whether she would not listen to Geno OR Geno got frustrated with AEH, or a "Combination of Both", or if there were other circumstances involved, BOTTOM LINE, it ended up not being successful recruit for UCONN, where as the player ended up being 1st Team All Big East. Just pointing out that GENO is far from being the ALMIGHTY as it relates to getting the best out of a player. Where as the Seton Hall Coach was able to. (despite "Many" [not all] Boneyarders, bashing AEH ever since she left UCONN)
 
GRIFFBIFF20 said:
Yep. Because it was said by a certain UCONN Coach, that she was not coachable (whether she would not listen to Geno OR Geno got frustrated with AEH, or a "Combination of Both", or if there were other circumstances involved, BOTTOM LINE, it ended up not being successful recruit for UCONN, where as the player ended up being 1st Team All Big East. Just pointing out that GENO is far from being the ALMIGHTY as it relates to getting the best out of a player. Where as the Seton Hall Coach was able to. (despite "Many" [not all] Boneyarders, bashing AEH ever since she left UCONN)
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Remembering back to one of the UCONN WBB videos where we met AEH's class... when she was on camera in the lobby of Werth Center (if I recall correctly), she was slumping against a wall, looking very "down"...and unhappy with her choice. She said something about the intensity of the program "being real"...and so on... I could tell then that it was not going to work out very well for her at UCONN. Fast Forward a few years...PERHAPS She has grown, matured, learned what it takes to compete at D1 College level... She is NOT the same person she was when she arrived and struggled at UCONN... Props to her for making herself a better and stronger player.

This is supposed to be a HAPPY Thread...Congratulating the UCONN Coach and Team for the recognition they have received... NOT another AEH discussion! Let's not ruin the positives for our Team. :rolleyes::confused::eek:
 
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GRIFFBIFF20 said:
YEP, and I am sure that it BURNS many "Boneyarders" that AEH made 1st Team Big East over ONO (wonder what Geno has to say about AEH making 1st Team All Big East ??)
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My guess is that he is happy for her. As for your contention that Boneyarders are somehow vindictive and petty enough to resent a former recruit’s success, I’m not seeing it. I think most are happy for her and as for the ONO connection, AEH did not somehow “take” Liv’s spot, she earned it with her play.
 
GRIFFBIFF20 said:
Yep. Because it was said by a certain UCONN Coach, that she was not coachable (whether she would not listen to Geno OR Geno got frustrated with AEH, or a "Combination of Both", or if there were other circumstances involved, BOTTOM LINE, it ended up not being successful recruit for UCONN, where as the player ended up being 1st Team All Big East. Just pointing out that GENO is far from being the ALMIGHTY as it relates to getting the best out of a player. Where as the Seton Hall Coach was able to. (despite "Many" [not all] Boneyarders, bashing AEH ever since she left UCONN)
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She worked her way down to the level of competition where she could star
 
No Evina Westbrook, so sad. Like what Paige said, EW is the MVPof the team, their do-everything person.
 
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I am happy that AEH seems to have matured and don’t wish to disparage any player making the first team. But statistics are overrated. It’s about winning. I’d be happier with a player from DePaul or Marquette with less impressive stats being recognized. In reality UCONN’s starting 5 + AE should be recognized as the best 6 players in the league. Not everyone can be the high scorer. They all contribute to the wins though.
 
j66kicker said:
She worked her way down to the level of competition where she could star
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So the Big East level of competition is "LOW"??? (I guess then UCONN better leave the BIG East for a better more competitive conference. Oh wait, they just re-joined the Big East because they thought that the level of competition in the Big East was better than the American) :confused:
 
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Cuango said:
My guess is that he is happy for her. As for your contention that Boneyarders are somehow vindictive and petty enough to resent a former recruit’s success, I’m not seeing it. I think most are happy for her and as for the ONO connection, AEH did not somehow “take” Liv’s spot, she earned it with her play.
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Go back to 2017 and look at the BASHING that has taken place during that season (when she announced that she was transferring out of UCONN) and subsequent years when she was playing at Mississippi State. I sat back and watched the bashing happen. Now, when she has become successful, those individuals don't want to come on here and say that gee maybe I was wrong about her.
 
GRIFFBIFF20 said:
Yep. Because it was said by a certain UCONN Coach, that she was not coachable (whether she would not listen to Geno OR Geno got frustrated with AEH, or a "Combination of Both", or if there were other circumstances involved, BOTTOM LINE, it ended up not being successful recruit for UCONN, where as the player ended up being 1st Team All Big East. Just pointing out that GENO is far from being the ALMIGHTY as it relates to getting the best out of a player. Where as the Seton Hall Coach was able to. (despite "Many" [not all] Boneyarders, bashing AEH ever since she left UCONN)
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Alternatively, perhaps she simply matured and began listening to her coaches and is now reaping her reward. I’m not sure what you have against Geno, but your bias is showing! This is a fairly common thing with young players who excelled in High School and comes in expecting to be the star in College as well. Clearly, I don’t know exactly what happened to make her leave but I don’t doubt at all that she was afforded every chance to be successful at UConn. Sometimes things just don’t work out. However, in spite of your “stirring the pot” insinuations, I’m betting that the overwhelming majority (including Geno) of UConn fans are happy for her and don’t even associate her spot on the first team with some torturous assumption that she somehow kept Liv off the first team.
 
Cuango said:
Alternatively, perhaps she simply matured and began listening to her coaches and is now reaping her reward. I’m not sure what you have against Geno, but your bias is showing! This is a fairly common thing with young players who excelled in High School and comes in expecting to be the star in College as well. Clearly, I don’t know exactly what happened to make her leave but I don’t doubt at all that she was afforded every chance to be successful at UConn. Sometimes things just don’t work out. However, in spite of your “stirring the pot” insinuations, I’m betting that the overwhelming majority (including Geno) of UConn fans are happy for her and don’t even associate her spot on the first team with some torturous assumption that she somehow kept Liv off the first team.
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I would certainly hope that the BY'res wouldn't assume that !!
 
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GRIFFBIFF20 said:
Go back to 2017 and look at the BASHING that has taken place during that season (when she announced that she was transferring out of UCONN) and subsequent years when she was playing at Mississippi State. I sat back and watched the bashing happen. Now, when she has become successful, those individuals don't want to come on here and say that gee maybe I was wrong about her.
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I wasn’t a basher back then, but I wasn’t a fan. And I don’t think I was the least bit wrong. She "became successful" by migrating to successively less challenging situations, until the water level was lowered to the level she could perform at. She is great Seton Hall material.
 
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j66kicker said:
I wasn’t a basher back then, but I wasn’t a fan. And I don’t think was the least bit wrong. She "became successful" by migrating to successively less challenging situations, until the water level was lowered to the level she could perform at. She is great Seton Hall material.
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So, I guess, based upon your statement, that UCONN Women's Basketball plays in "Low Tide" ??? (essentially saying that UCONN playing in the same league as DePaul, Villanova, Marquette, and Seton Hall is playing at an equally lower water level) ?? Just asking
 
GRIFFBIFF20 said:
So, I guess, based upon your statement, that UCONN Women's Basketball plays in "Low Tide" ??? (essentially saying that UCONN playing in the same league as DePaul, Villanova, Marquette, and Seton Hall is playing at an equally lower water level) ?? Just asking
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This is a UCONN fan discussion page not a AEH fan page. Relax, just looked through the thread no one is resentful or wishing any ill will towards AEH. Rather they’re happy for her...and you’re getting worked up for what? Are you her relative or something lol.
 
mattlow710 said:
SO WHAT ? WE DONT CARE
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"And AEH is a "SELECTED" First Team BIG EAST CONFERENCE Selection" and that's 3 UCONN Recruited Players, who made the First Team ALL BIG EAST CONFERENCE TEAM (and oh, I forgot, one of those players, Geno said (on that tape that 'Magically" disappeared) was un-coachable), so to all of you AEH Bashers, all I have to say is "

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ScottCT said:
@GRIFFBIFF20 I think you would have more fun on a seton hall women's basketball forum.
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Nope !! 2 of "MY OSSINING HS" Girls are UCONN Proud (3X National Champion and WNBA Draftee, Saniya Chong and The Human Sparkplug "AG" Aubrey Griffin). So I continue to root for and follow UCONN Women's Basketball. But, I will continue to support AEH, as I believe that she was done wrong by "THE GOAT" Mr. A, and I am glad she has proved him wrong this season (with being 2nd in the Conference in Scoring Average, 3rd in the Conference in 3 Point Scoring Percentage, and 3rd the Conference in Free Throw Percentage, I would bet, with the UCONN's weakness in a consistent outside scoring threat, outside of Paige, that Geno wished he had made it work with AEH back in 2017.
 
GRIFFBIFF20 said:
So, I guess, based upon your statement, that UCONN Women's Basketball plays in "Low Tide" ??? (essentially saying that UCONN playing in the same league as DePaul, Villanova, Marquette, and Seton Hall is playing at an equally lower water level) ?? Just asking
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Neither UConn's WBB program, nor any other school's WBB program, has anything at all to do with what conference they play in. That's the breaks. UConn has demonstrated they can play with anybody, and have been to 12 straight final fours. Miss State got to a couple, but AEH couldn't cut it there. Seton Hall??

Hopefully Geno will stay away from Ossining in the future...
 
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j66kicker said:
Neither UConn's WBB program, nor any other school's WBB program, has nothing at all to do with what conference they play in. That's the breaks. UConn has demonstrated they can play with anybody, and have been to 12 straight final fours. Miss State got to a couple, but AEH couldn't cut it there. Seton Hall??

Hopefully Geno will stay away from Ossening in the future...
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And with "OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL" (correct spelling by the way), over the past 25 years, is in the Top 10 High Schools in the UNITED STATES with the most Division 1 Recruited Players coming out of their Girls High School Program, I guess you might need to give OHS Head Girls Basketball Coach Dan Ricci a phone call and tell him that his program stinks? Thus I guess you WISHED that Geno didn't recruit Saniya Chong and Aubrey Griffin. (and say 'hypothetically" if Geno ever left for another program, say UCLA, with Shea Ralph taking over and Paige left to play for say, South Carolina, would you say that Paige left because she couldn't cut it at UCONN? Give us a break please.)
 
UcMiami said:
I think a pretty reasonable set of awards. Liv and Edwards both got individual awards so I wouldn't worry about them. And while I love Nika as a starter, I don't think she should be surprised to miss out on the Freshman Team - good competition out there for all the individual spots.

We tend to look at record and discount individual players on teams we smash, but there are a lot of individual stars on bad teams and conference awards are a time to recognize them.
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Now Nika can aim for 3 BE awards next season: First Team, Most Improved Player and Defensive Player of the Year.
 
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