Twice- they spend more time with their hands up, arms spread wide, staring at the official- while we are flying down the other end on a fast break. She is a soft player. She could not play for Uconn- very little heart. ND has and have had some great players, she's not one of them.
but she is a flopper!
Certainly not when it mattered most (in the NC). Loyd was not much of a factor, but McBride played her butt off.
As I recall she made a campus visit but went home without an offer from UCONN.
No way, not even close.
Gee, Meyers, I tend to like and respect your posts a lot, and I know that by even asking the question I'm about to ask I'm speaking treason in the eyes of many Husky fans, but here goes: Isn't this loathing for UT getting a bit outdated? They haven't been serious competition for us in years (hope they will be again...good for the game), Pat's gone, Holly seems pretty agreeable...it's just a different era and a different reality. Hating Notre Dame is, quite justifiably, a perennial thing...their arrogance always earns our disdain. But the new era at Tenn? I dunno...even with all the baggage from the past, with Pat gone (her infirmity even takes all the fun out of hating her!) it just strikes me as another quality opponent these days without any special distinction anymore as a legitimate target for our most venomous impulses. But that's just me.
The team that doesn't get the respect it is due is UConn. I realize that sounds preposterous given that we're continually ranked #1 in the preseason, during the season, and in the post season. How much respect can we be due for crying out loud? The answer is more. However much we get, more is deserved. Don't get me wrong. I don't think respect is being withheld maliciously but out of ignorance. At the moment, nobody knows how much respect we're due. Uconn is in the midst of accomplishing the unimaginable. It will be years before the degree of what Geno and team has done can be understood, appreciated, and placed into perspective. Where do the comparisons truly lie? The Soviet Ice Hockey team? America's America's Cup boats? The Harlem Globetrotters (had the contests been actual competitions)?
Yeah but nothing could irritate them more than UCONN fans dismissing them as irrelevant, which they basically have become. Despising them gives them too much credit.
I think ND would have the better chance to win, but I wouldn't bet on them because then I'd be rooting against my own bet
Well I can't help you there. Sounds like a problem to me.
It's close. At the very least I'm questioning your fanditude.
Outdated? I loathing Hitler outdated? Is loathing Beelzebub outdated? Is loathing the Yankees outdated? I think not!
Stewart is the best college women's basketball player and has been for a long while, possibly even the best of all time. Sure, they would really talk her up because she's at least a once in a generation talent. If the best men's basketball player ever, Michael Jordan were playing in that game, I'm inclined to think you'd hear nothing but Michael stories the entire game. In fact, wasn't that often the case when he was in the NBA playoffs, where all you heard was Michael stories???? If Breanna played for Notre Dame instead, you would have probably heard the same amount of raves. In years past, wasn't there a massive amount of notoriety given Griner during the NCAA's, where she would be talked about incessantly throughout any game she appeared in??? It's a totally natural thing and is based on the level of talent and dominance that a player brings forth.
I think she plays with an attitude of entitlement- and as good of a 3 pt shooter that she is, I don't think she could ever be an important bench player on UConn. I don't think she has whatever Novasel, Mallory, Diggins & McBride had- I'm not just talking about talent- she's a winer and I think she plays soft. Maybe soft was a better word than heart. She is probably a great young lady. The point is, I don't think last year ND had a chance to beat us with her as a key player. ND was a much much better team when she hit those 3's in Gampel. I remember, I was there also.
Tony- everything you said is correct, but if Dawn Staley can't beat or at least go down to the wire with the quality of talent, and veteran talent coming back on this team- I will be shocked. ND is loaded with young talent- I can't wait to watch!
Tennessee tried to kill one of our sports programs because they were so scared of being knocked off the (rocky) top. That kind of BS shall never be forgiven. As if we don't have enough to worry about with the NCAA trying to kill UConn basketball.
