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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 4588328, member: 9864"] Tonyc, I agree with your assessment, especially that UConn creates a lot of problems for OSU. I think my approach to all of these tournament games is a little bit different from a lot of Boneyard posters. Said differently, I start with "what does the opponent have to do to adjust to the (new) Huskies?" And is it even possible at this stage of the season to make any significant adjustments? After all, Geno has said on numerous past occasions that, at this point in the season, the teams are who they are (my words, not his). So, for tOSU, I ask myself what will Kevin McGuff try to do, knowing that he only has a few days to prepare his team to play against a Huskies team that is significantly different than what they have been for the past three months, and only provides his staff with a handful of games in which to develop a scouting report. At the risk of receiving rebuke for looking past this next game, I think the above dilemma is what awaits Tennessee and South Carolina if we happen to meet up with them. Can you imagine Dawn Staley and Kellie Harper telling their teams, "I need you to forget what you experienced with UConn earlier in the season. Push it out of your brains, completely. Focus instead on what we are now providing you in the scout." The same deliciously intriguing situation now faces the Buckeyes, albeit in a more secondhand manner: "Forget what you may have seen on TV or absorbed about UConn through the media pundits. Ignore what conclusions you have drawn over the course of the season, and concentrate solely on the scout!" UConn is not just a problem because they are back (or are very close) to being a multi-option, experienced team peaking at the right time. They are also a problem because folks throughout the WBB universe have limited data points on which to assess and prepare for the next game. How do players un-learn what their brains are telling them over the course of the past five months? They are not US Marines trained to improvise, adapt and overcome. A pretty big ask of teams at this point. Go Huskies! [/QUOTE]

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