Poll - How Many Regular Season Game will UConn Lose?

[Bigpetunia]

Certainly wasn't me. I think this team goes undefeated this year.

I tend to agree, an outcome that will please most of us, but will cause a collective yawn around the rest of the country. I guess it's anathema to say this here, but although I take a backseat to no one as a Husky fan, better times are coming to WCBB in 2016-17 and beyond. UConn will remain formidable, and will be a part of the Final Four conversation (and will remain so as long as Geno remains active), but lots of other teams are successfully loading up, including your favorite team, Baylor, as well as ND, Tenn, Maryland, Duke, FSU, Louisville, etc. This is a great development and should bring lots of much-needed excitement to the women's game. I hope so, anyway...

 

[UConnCat]

Kiah Stokes hardly played at all against South Carolina and UConn won by 25 points. Although Stokes had a terrific game against ND in South Bend -- a game in which Turner did not play -- Kiah was not much of a factor in the championship game (10 minutes, 4 pts, 2 rebounds and 0 blocks). In other words, I think Stewart and Tuck can somehow manage to hold down the fort in the post until Natalie Butler is ready to go.

The legend of Natalie Butler grows: Starter, better offensive player than Dolson, key to an undefeated season.

 

[Bigpetunia]

Oops...and, of course, SC....no slight intended.

 

[Kibitzer]

Better times are coming to WCBB in 2016-17 and beyond. UConn will remain formidable, and will be a part of the Final Four conversation (and will remain so as long as Geno remains active), but lots of other teams are successfully loading up, including Baylor, ND, Tenn, Maryland, Duke, FSU, Louisville, etc. This is a great development and should bring lots of much-needed excitement to the women's game. I hope so, anyway...

Superb post. Echos what Geno has often said in response to the "UConn is bad for basketball" crowd. He has persistently challenged other schools to emulate UConn and get better.

And they are doing it - at the schools, er, programs you cited. They are aided in some degree by this "rule":

"There are two kinds of quality HS players: those who want to play for UConn and those who want to (go elsewhere and) beat UConn."​

Have we seen some of this recently?

 

[UcMiami]

Let's not forget that Thomas was picking up her stats in the ACC, not the AAC. There is a big difference in the level of competition.

We will not hold it against her - she did seem to do OK when the competition improved!

 

[easttexastrash]

We will not hold it against her - she did seem to do OK when the competition improved!

Williams logged 3 minutes in the championship game against ND and finished with zero points and 1 rebound. In the semi-final game she logged 6 minutes and finished with 3 points and 1 rebound. In the regional final against Dayton Williams had 5 minutes, zero points and zero rebounds. Thomas produced her stats against better teams so their stats are hardly a way to compare the two.

 

[UcMiami]

Williams logged 3 minutes in the championship game against ND and finished with zero points and 1 rebound. In the semi-final game she logged 6 minutes and finished with 3 points and 1 rebound. In the regional final against Dayton Williams had 5 minutes, zero points and zero rebounds. Thomas produced her stats against better teams so their stats are hardly a way to compare the two.

That was a joking reply of mine - we here are sort of sensitive about the AAC strength, so we use humor to ease the pain!

 

[Geno-ista]

Let's not forget that Thomas was picking up her stats in the ACC, not the AAC. There is a big difference in the level of competition.

Great point!

 

[cabbie191]

Wow. Somebody actually voted 5 or more losses!
Either a visitor from another school or someone afraid of bad mojo for predicting good things?

Grateful to Triad for confessing how the four-loss vote came to be.

As to the five-loss vote, may I present an alternative theory?

Perhaps the person sneezed at just the moment he/she was voting and engaged the wrong bubble.

Wait a second - I see there are now two votes for both 4 and 5 losses. I detect a conspiracy. Maybe Geno had the staff cast these ballots as a bit of reverse psychology to juice up the team, and the fan base because we are so dispassionate about this team.

 

[Nuyoika]

Anyone else catch this on ESPNW today?