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Message: [QUOTE="hookshot, post: 4145415, member: 4756"] Stanford lost because SC is both very aggressive and very good while Stanford is very finesse, very good, but not as aggressive. Aggressive typically wins in a toss up game because the Refs don't call everything. The team that is offensively aggressive (i.e. taking the ball to the basket) gets the calls. That is what Uconn needs to do more - Westbrook could do but mostly doesn't. The team with the sizeable lead need to get a good possession (i.e. no turnover, good shot whenever it presents itself but no particular hurry). Stanford didn't achieve that. Most of the turnovers weren't on uncalled fouls but SC's aggressiveness in slapping the ball out of hands while Stanford was focusing on the inside pass. The only way a team as far behind as SC can overcome a lead of that size is to make the game play faster and that is what they did by amping up their aggressiveness [/QUOTE]