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[QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5280556, member: 12088"]
I don't know about the "out-rebound" issue, but the necessity for a dominant super-big seems not to be borne out by this year's team, which out rebounded SC by 4 and won by 23 pts, and out-rebounded UCLA by 5 and won by 34 pts. I think this was the issue [USER=343]@meyers7[/USER] was pointing to.

It's perfectly possible to win a game and lose the rebounding battle, and win the rebounding battle and lose the game -- as in the OU game where we were out-rebounded by 2 but won the game by 23 pts, and the USC game where we were out-rebounded by 11 but won by 14 pts. Anyone who pretends we can't win without a super-big ought to reflect on these results.

Personally, I prefer winning both aspects of a game -- scoring and rebounding, as  in the regular season win over SC, where we out-rebounded them by 19 and won by 29 pts [and 35 of our 48 rebounds came from Sarah and a handful of guards] -- but perhaps we might hear less of the super-big chorus for a while after this season.
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