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Revenge match on Sunday. Good time for Azzi to show South Carolina what they missed in the first meeting 4 months ago.
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hoopsfan22 said:
It's pretty common at this point in the season. Tara's team just lost a tough game. There wasn't going to be many pleasantries.































































































































































































































































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I thought Tara's coldness was strange too. She made a b-line for the locker room. Playesurprised rs were still out congratulating our team, but she zoomed out. Really odd uconn behavior from a realshe expected tobwin ly classy coach...



I think the issue is that Stanford was sure they were going to win this game – perhaps even win it easily. They could not btotally agreeelieve they were losing, and every time they got close and UConn pushed back, their disbelief grew. I read somewhere that at practice this week they were planning which dance to dance when they won. I love overconfidence like that. While I could do without the stress of these close ones .... damn I love it.

Go Huskies!
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Hayven said:
As Geno once said, “this is a function of women’s basketball. Sometimes we act like girls, like we’re supposed to go to dinner every night. We’re supposed to play each other. Try to beat each other’s brains in…try to win a national championship. And compete like hell. And then get together after and have a bottle of wine.”
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The players had no problems congratulating each other. Maybe it's easier at 20 than at 68.
 
LwrcasefaN said:
I thought CW should have cut towards the ball...not away towards the corner.
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Absolutely true. That's what the %s would say and it would have been a great offensive play. But we didn't need a great offensive play right then; that's the point. Nice to win and have learning experiences at the same time.

One of the benefits of playing hard and building a margin all game is to allow you to make some errors and still win in the end. UConn earned the margin they had. Also they didn't let the errors cascade out of control as I've seen teams who have won games do and let it slip away. I'm happy with the overall team play and, as I've said many times before: I like the trajectory.

Hey, pollyanna here. Play the same game, but Azzi trends back towards normal, the turnovers trend back towards normal, and this team is toe-to-toe with SC buzzer-to-buzzer.
 
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jaydee602 said:
Until that disastrous pass to Christyna & the in bounds fiasco, I thought Evina was player of the game. Three big 3 pointers, 6 rebounds, & 12 points off the bench were so valuable!
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Good points about Evina... I'll just note that, as a commentator later said, that late pass to Christyn was intended to hit her as she cut to the basket, but she cut off her path and it made Evina's pass look bad.
 
We should have gotten the yips out of our shooting by now, so Sunday night we can shoot lights out!
 
did you see how them players handled it? Matthew 21:16 Psalms 8:2
 
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KMac said:
I thought Tara's coldness was strange too. She made a b-line for the locker room. Players were still out congratulating our team, but she zoomed out. Really odd behavior from a really classy coach...
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She just had her heart broken. Hard to keep it together under the circumstances.
 
Liv drove me crazy the first half. She had a nightmare of a game the could have been her last. She stuck with it and fought and played a big role by rebounding and making some shots and free throws down the stretch to turn it around. I’m really proud of her and Williams who also wasn’t doing much the first half and really made her presence known the second half. We be SC for three quarters earlier this year and should have won that game if we just played a normal fourth quarter. I felt that before this game, if we beat Stanford, then we beat SC. We just need our bigs to hold it down. Just don’t let Boston or the other bigs destroy us and if we shoot decently from our guards, we will be good. I think we need to watch their other bigs closely because they hustle for rebounds and put backs when Boston doesn’t come through. We have played well against Boston in the past also, but she has stepped up her game. I really think we win number 12.
 
For every UCONN fan upset because we should have won by a larger margin without the turnovers, there is a Stanford fan lamenting all of those missed open shots. That team is lethal from outside, but they missed 43 shots and were 4 for 23 from 3 point range.
 
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Why in the world was Paige inboumding to AE and not vice versa? Ir worked out but geez!!
 
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jaydee602 said:
That team is lethal from outside, but they missed 43 shots and were 4 for 23 from 3 point range.
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I wish people would stop saying how great an outside shooting team Stanford is. They came into the game at .355, 24th in the country. Very good but not great.
 
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