“I think when you play a Division II team you would expect every player that you have would completely dominate every player that they have,’’ Auriemma said. “Otherwise, we recruited the wrong players. So you really can’t come to a lot of conclusions based on that. What I look at is Michala doing things in practice against much better competition that she didn’t do last year that would allow her to be successful in games against teams other than Assumption. And little by little she is more so than last year. Again, what that translates to we’ll find out. But the early part of our schedule … I know we have Stanford on the third game (Nov. 21). But the early part of our schedule is going to give us an opportunity to kind of build slowly, except for the Stanford game. And maybe that’s going to be a huge confidence builder for some of our post players.’’
i liked that quote a lot. not unexpected and we still have question marks, but i'm assuming Heather, Kiah and Michala are all working hard in practice and have worked hard over the summer to get stronger, faster, more polished, whatever - to be able to earn minutes in the post in meaningful games.
