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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3841318, member: 2117"] She averaged 18 points as a junior and 16 as a senior. Paige as a freshman is averaging 21 per game. The Tennessee regular season I'll give you...but that's the only one in a marquee game where DT simply took over and won the game basically on her own. DT performed well in most of the standout games her final 2 seasons but people don't give her supporting cast enough credit. Players like Strother/Turner/Moore were stepped up in a big way in big games even if they didn't go on to be great pros. They let DT be the star but fulfilled their role at a high level and often brought great play in big games even if they struggled in a go to role as their careers unfolded. Looking at DT's big games you have: 2003 vs. Tennessee-25 points 2003 vs. Duke-21 points 2003 vs. Villanova-15 points 2003 vs. Villanova (Big East)-13 points 2003 vs. Purdue (E8)- 21 points 2003 vs. Texas (F4) -26 points 2003 vs. Tennessee (Championship)- 28 points 2004 vs. Duke- 16 points 2004 vs. Tennessee- 18 points 2004 vs. Penn State- 27 points 2004 vs. Minnesota- 18 points 2004 vs. Tennessee- 17 points I'm not saying Paige is better than DT (although I'm not saying she wont be), but DT never pulled off heroics like Paige did today aside from arguably the regular season Tennessee game. Paige today had 31 points, 5 assists, 6 steals and scored the last 13 points on 5-5 shooting in the last 2 minutes of regulation and OT. She also overcame late game deficits in regulation and in OT. All against the #1 team in the country. I know it's recent, but as time goes on I fully believe people will remember this as perhaps the most impressive singe game clutch performance by any UCONN player ever. I'm not slighting DT, but what Paige did today is unprecedented in UCONN history. [/QUOTE]

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