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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 4545554, member: 961"] There's not much to add to everything that other people have said here. The team continues to be, at one and the same time, heroic and disappointing. You have to admire their willingness to get out there and compete game after game. But let's assume they win the next two games. No good deed goes unpunished. They get the Big East tournament, three games in three days, assuming they keep winning (and I don't think that's a safe assumption at all). Then the Big Dance. Right now, UConn is ranked #4. The St. John's game results could drop the team 4 or 5 spots in the rankings. I think that even getting a 2 seed is dicey. The problem is not that they lost the Sr. John's game. The problem is the way they've been trending. All the problems they've had -- bad passes, slippery ball, defensive lapses (Someone tell me: What was Dorka thinking last night?) have stayed with them. And it's not just as the game progresses; they make these mental mistakes in the first quarter as well. The absolute refusal to play the subs more in the easy games has come back to bite them in the anatomy. If (God forbid) someone gets hurt or in foul trouble, throw one of the benchwarmers in and they'll look like jacklighted deer. Anyway, so UConn goes into the NCAA a 2 or 3 seed. All things being equal, it's likely they will get to the Sweet 16. My bet is that's where the season ends. Given how awful the season has been, injury-wise, that may not be a bad result. [/QUOTE]

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