Bria Smith
I went through, in another thread, a player by player analysis of starters and bench players. L'ville is way deeper and if they get UCONN in trouble, or wear us down (people have commented that Stef in particular has looked winded at times), the game could be closer than we'd like. BUT IMHO L'ville does not match up well vs. UCONN at a single position. UCONN is better at every single one. I think overall L'villes bench is stronger based more on volume than specific skills, but I think UCONN still wins this game handily.
UCONN 85
L'ville 59
I agree totally with your prediction. And as I replied to your bench comments in the other thread, it's games against competitive teams or close games that matter.
I took a closer look.
Oklahoma - Walton, Jude, Deines and Gibbs had double digit minutes off the bench.
LSU - Walton, Jude and Gibbs
Colorado - Dwyer, Walton, Gibbs
Temple - Dwyer, Walton, Gibbs
USF - Slaughter
Rutgers - Slaughter, Jude
Now with Gibbs in the starting lineup, the bench is even weaker.
Their main bench players against Uconn will probably be Jude and Walton. Not sure you will see more than a few minutes each from the other bench players.
Chong and Stokes are the better players.
Sorry DC for putting analysis in your prediction thread. Please don't yell at me.
