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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 4833412, member: 6927"] This hypothesis doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Forget the blowouts for a moment. Harmon played 39 minutes against UConn and 39 minutes against Arizona. I'm trying to imagine how many similar 39-minute games by Harmon would have prepared the team better for a game in which she would play zero minutes. They could have played UConn 12 times and it would not have prepared them better for her absence. On that note, Booker played 40 minutes against UConn and 35 minutes against Arizona. So again, what wore her out was not the minutes played, but having to shoulder the ball-handling and playmaking role against intense defensive pressure, a task that normally Harmon would have expertly handled. So again, the main factor in the fatigue was the loss of Harmon, not the strength of schedule. [/QUOTE]