Carnac
That venerable sage from the west
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I have to disagree, I think Geno is/was keenly aware of the UCONN scoring record. Napheesa was on a roll @ USF to the tune of 39 points and could have made a run at the record. Napheesa was pull with 39 points. Lou was on a roll had already broken a UCONN record and she was pulled at 40 points. Too coincidental IMO. KLS scored 5 more points after the lead had reached 50 points. The lead was also 60 points when KLS was pulled (93 to 33). Gabby, Napheesa, KLS & Kia all came out of the game at the same time-10:00 mark of the 4th Q. My guess is that Geno doesn't want Sophomores breaking all time UCONN records and have to live with that for 2 more years.
We know Geno does not keep track of how close a player may be to breaking a record, but someone on his bench does. Sometimes a media person, or a stat person from UConn sitting at the media table will alert the assistants, who then pass it on to Geno. I wonder if this were the championship game with STANFORD, and Lou was 7 points away from breaking the record with 12 minutes left to go in the game, would he pull her under those circumstances?