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Centerstream said:
Good game, great at times. I am surprised that Paige only had 4 assists. while watching the game live, I would of guessed 6 or 7 easy.
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I always pay close attention to those. She had 3-4 that resulted in fouls as Cuse denied layups, so no assist but the team gets FTs and Cuse gets foul trouble. CW missed one in transition that she usually makes (EW and AM missed the open 3s she got them, but you can’t count on those going in). And a few hockey assists, finding players in the teeth of the zone where the next pass was a layup.

There was one they didn’t give her on an ONO bucket when she found her in the middle of the zone uncontested and she dribbled into a layup, but ONO paused to gather before making her move so not a mistake so much as a judgment.

So she had a good passing game that maybe didn’t reflect in the stats. The two turnovers were home run passes that didn’t quite connect this time, but the passes were there - EW didn’t pull a tough one in and AG caught it but too far under the basket and couldn’t keep it alive.
 
This to me was very much a team win all of the players did what was needed of them to win the game. We definitely have an inside game with Liv and Aaliyah in the game at the same time. Paige, Evina, and Christyn controlled the pace of the game from the slow walk up against their zone press to fast break them to death off the missed shots. The passing against the zone in the 2nd half was phenomenal. Big G must have been jumping out of his chair at home.
 
Despite not having an outside shot, Aubrey was a lot of fun to watch today. When she first came into the game, I thought she was a little confused and hesitant not knowing where she was supposed to be on the floor, but eventually, things seem to click for her. Great game for AG.

Mir only has one thing on her mind every time she touches the ball, try to score, no matter what, which may be why she is not seeing more playing time.

Other than that, great game by everyone.
 
A real good game for UConn. It started slowly but the team played smart, took their time and performed well in the half court. AE is a beast and Kudus to Liv for a real good game and probably her best game in a UConn uniform against this kind of size.
 
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pvdoggy said:
Despite not having an outside shot, Aubrey was a lot of fun to watch today. When she first came into the game, I thought she was a little confused and hesitant not knowing where she was supposed to be on the floor, but eventually, things seem to click for her. Great game for AG.

Mir only has one thing on her mind every time she touches the ball, try to score, no matter what, which may be why she is not seeing more playing time.

Other than that, great game by everyone.
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I think Mir knew the game was out of reach & wanted to get in the scorebook. She has been an unselfish player in past games.
 
Why did Beth Mowins keeps saying next week's games? There are games this week on Saturday and Sunday. Next week is the Elite Eight and the Final Four.
 
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jaydee602 said:
I think Mir knew the game was out of reach & wanted to get in the scorebook. She has been an unselfish player in past games.
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I was not trying to call Mir selfish, just that she only knows how to play the game one way right now, most of the time.
 
Great team performance, Olivia might have had her best game this year overall. Never put the ball on the floor for no reason. Rebounded and took shots without hesitation. Took no look passes and finished like it was routine. This may have been her corner turning game to the next level.

Great patience and execution on breaking the Cuse zone defense. A testament to how far and how hard the team and staff has worked in such a broken season.
The team as usual plays a team game and really did so again tonight in a ballet fashion.
 
I checked, and unless I overlooked something, this is by far the biggest margin of loss for Syracuse all year. Louisville beat Syracuse twice by 13-point margins. NC State appears to have played Syracuse only once, at Syracuse, and beat the Orange by only 7 points. Syracuse's worst defeat before tonight was to North Carolina, on the road, by 24 points; later, at home, Syracuse won by 12. So the margin is truly impressive, especially considering that Stanford won its game tonight by only 12 or so.

It should be noted that the margin of victory in tonight's game exceeded either the Championship game in 2016 (with Stewie and company) or the 2017 victory in the same round of the NCAA tournament at Storrs. I re-watched the 2017 game last night and it looked like a complete beatdown, despite Syracuse having good players like Brittany Sykes and Alexis Peterson in that game. But tonight was an even bigger margin. (Of course, I don't think this year's Orange team is as good as its 2017 team.)

I was also REALLY impressed by how well the UConn offense ripped apart the Syracuse zone defense once they got the hang of it in the third quarter. Every point UConn scored in that quarter was in the paint, according to the announcers. Considering that Syracuse has played that zone all year against what should have been good ACC competition, whereas UConn was facing it for the first time in this game, that was and is a serious accomplishment.
 
24-30 free throws for 80%.

If that could be kept up it could be a game changer in future close contests.

But not as good as Syracuse, which according to the ESPN box score shot 100%. It was changed later, as was Autumn getting credit for blocking a shot in the play-by-play. To bad I did not save that.
 
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JoePgh said:
I checked, and unless I overlooked something, this is by far the biggest margin of loss for Syracuse all year. Louisville beat Syracuse twice by 13-point margins. NC State appears to have played Syracuse only once, at Syracuse, and beat the Orange by only 7 points. Syracuse's worst defeat before tonight was to North Carolina, on the road, by 24 points; later, at home, Syracuse won by 12. So the margin is truly impressive, especially considering that Stanford won its game tonight by only 12 or so.

It should be noted that the margin of victory in tonight's game exceeded either the Championship game in 2016 (with Stewie and company) or the 2017 victory in the same round of the NCAA tournament at Storrs. I re-watched the 2017 game last night and it looked like a complete beatdown, despite Syracuse having good players like Brittany Sykes and Alexis Peterson in that game. But tonight was an even bigger margin. (Of course, I don't think this year's Orange team is as good as its 2017 team.)

I was also REALLY impressed by how well the UConn offense ripped apart the Syracuse zone defense once they got the hang of it in the third quarter. Every point UConn scored in that quarter was in the paint, according to the announcers. Considering that Syracuse has played that zone all year against what should have been good ACC competition, whereas UConn was facing it for the first time in this game, that was and is a serious accomplishment.
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It was the coaching. :cool:
(at least that is CD's story and she is keeping to it!)

I was actually tracking both games by box score, and Stanford and Uconn were tracking almost identically - slow first quarter and then a dominant second and leading by 15 at the half, and then a short spurt to take it to a 20 point lead at the beginning of the second half. At that moment, the games changed dramatically as Uconn continued a gradual expansion of the lead, whole OkSt suddenly woke up and started to score, and gradually cut into the lead - never got below 10 in the third, and only once did it drop to 9 in the fourth so Stanford was really sweating.
 
UcMiami said:
It was the coaching. :cool:
(at least that is CD's story and she is keeping to it!)

I was actually tracking both games by box score, and Stanford and Uconn were tracking almost identically - slow first quarter and then a dominant second and leading by 15 at the half, and then a short spurt to take it to a 20 point lead at the beginning of the second half. At that moment, the games changed dramatically as Uconn continued a gradual expansion of the lead, whole OkSt suddenly woke up and started to score, and gradually cut into the lead - never got below 10 in the third, and only once did it drop to 9 in the fourth so Stanford was really sweating.
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exactly the same here. How funny the scores are really similar until the 3rd Q.
 
Great game but the one thing I would have liked to see them do was attack the basket after breaking the press.
 
I think ONO has finally grown into herself. She finally has learned how to play in big games. Great game by everyone. Syracuse is a legit team not like the Big East. They gave them their worst loss in a long time. Time for Iowa, then maybe the 2nd best team in the country Baylor. Each game gets harder but that's the way its supposed to be. We'll learn alot about this team the next game.
 
lebronfan23 said:
If Maryland can blowout Iowa twice I’m 100% sure UConn will do it worse because UConn actually plays defense. I expect an easy against Iowa and Clark to be shut down.
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UCONN should dominate in the paint, start one player taller than 6’ and the other taller players are only used sparingly.
 
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