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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 2903064, member: 7548"] [URL="https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-defeats-vanguard-in-first-exhibition-of-the-season-20181104-story.html"]UConn women dominate Vanguard 96-30 in preseason opener[/URL] Quotes “Every exhibition game is the same,” UConn coach [URL='https://www.courant.com/topic/sports/basketball/geno-auriemma-PESPT008432-topic.html']Geno Auriemma[/URL] said. “You’re going to play a team you’re going to beat by a lot so you can’t go by the final score, so you try to go by ‘How did it look? What was the feel of it?’ and those first five, six, seven minutes — considering it was the first time out — a lot of good stuff was happening.” "Of course there’s some things I need to work on, but overall I think I did a pretty good job,” Williams said of her first game in a Husky uniform. Auriemma said Walker and Williams played at around the same level they’ve been practicing at and did what the team needed them to do throughout the game. He’s expecting the pair to contribute more as the season goes on. “I’ve been saying it for two years now, or however long I’ve been saying it, that we’ve got a gap between a certain group that we play and the next group,” Auriemma said. “It’s too early in the season to make any assumptions, but anyone coming off the bench has to feel like they can contribute something because we’re going to need them at some point.” “I think I’m just trying to do more stuff this year,” Samuelson said. “We lost a really big rebounder for us, and I’ve been trying to do it more in practice and just be more of an all-around player for this team.” [/QUOTE]

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