UCONN 88 - 64 Looking back at the Ducks record this year it appears that they seldom scored above the 70s and lost in the high 50's and 60's. Since I don't know their opponents, scores don't help much, but highest win I could find against the Ducks was 99, and most scores 80's or less.
I liked this team's spunk and spark a lot and while I expect we will roll over them I hope for good things from them in the future. Liked the coach, too.
Good post.
The Ducks' highest score in the last 11 games is . . . 77 . . . against Maryland. So, I don't expect them to exceed (much less greatly exceed), say, 65 points against UConn.
UConn, on the other hand, has scored no
less than 63 points over the past 11 games. (And that was the Tulane debacle.) Throw that game out, and UConn has scored
less than 80 points once in the last 10 games.
These figures can't tell the whole story. We know the Ducks play a more deliberately tempoed game. So we can expect scores of those games to be low. Of course, UConn would regularly have scores in the high 90s and 100s if it didn't pull its starters at the beginning of the 4th quarter or earlier. That's no slight. We have a limited bench. And at times, it has struggled to score in (sorry) garbage time. Look back over the season, and you'll see a pretty consistent trend of low scoring by UConn in the 4th quarter.
I'm looking forward to a great game. And I won't be surprised if the Ducks hang tough. Who knows? Sabrina Ionescu (who you
have to love) may have the game of her young, soon-to-be storied career.
But then, so could Lou.
or Kia.
or Crystal.
or Saniya.
Meanwhile, Phees and Gabby will take care of business as usual. (And, to quote Tom Wilkerson in
Michael Clayton, "You don't need me to tell you what that means!")
