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Message: [QUOTE="Rb335, post: 4447470, member: 2685"] Definitely raise some good opinions that I hadn’t contemplated. Pressuring the guards as another way to effectively limit the interior sounds like a good plan as well. Especially in an effort to try to generate fast break offense. Maybe a junk defense approach with spurts of high pressure, then a sagging zone to keep them off balance. Agreed on 3 point shooting, was more referencing the defensive approach to winning. UConn’s ability to hit the 3 will be critical, as interior baskets could be harder to come by. Still think rebounding is huge though. It eliminates a big portion of their offense. Last year SC scored 17 and 22 second chance points in our two meetings. Uconn scored 2 and 5. Puts a lot of pressure on you to be extremely efficient in those scenarios. In the early season game, we were outrebounded 42-25, giving them 17 more fga. But also had more turnovers, less made 3s. Didn’t do ourselves any favors. In the NC game, a we got outrebounded 49-24. Fga weren’t as uneven, but their 26 FTA was part of the story. Again, we didn’t win the TO battle. Sorry for rambling, but as I got further into it, I can’t help but feel like the aspects of both of our posts are very important. Efficient shooting, causing turnovers, and being closer to even in the rebounding battle give you a good shot. [/QUOTE]