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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2449852, member: 250"] In practice today. Katie Lou that is. :) [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-katie-lou-samuelson-1202-story.html']UConn's Katie Lou Samuelson Expected To Play Sunday Against Notre Dame[/URL] "She’s only played 1 ½ games and she’s a little bit rusty, but she looked pretty good. She’s expecting to play, I’m expecting her to play. So barring anything unforeseen, that’s the plan.” “Having Lou on the floor kind of changes everything we do,” Auriemma said. “She kind of bridges that gap between our perimeter guys and our inside guys. Right now, we really don’t have anyone else that does that. So when we put her out on the floor, you could see the difference today in practice. [B]Everything was so much cleaner, so much smoother." [/B] “She understands the game probably better than anybody we have. She’s able to stretch the defense better than anybody we have. She probably can create the most mismatches because of who they have to put on her to guard her. And it’s another ball-handler out on the floor that you can always use.” “Getting her back in the lineup, I think, is a big boost to everyone,” Auriemma said. “Emotionally, physically … all those things.” [/QUOTE]