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Message: [QUOTE="Bigpetunia, post: 2545198, member: 1772"] I take your point, but I have to say that this Baylor team looks like a different kind of animal than the typical Bears. This is the first team I've seen this season that I actually fear for the Huskies to go up against in the Final Four. The fact is that UConn simply does not match up well against them. Cox has vastly improved, and her inside presence along with the 6'7" Brown, who has developed into quite a physical specimen, is pretty imposing. Now the Australian kid, Wallace, may have had the game of her life against Texas, but she looked tough-as-nails, and she, as well as the remaining supporting cast, provides them with balance I did not previously know they possessed. Here on the Boneyard, we apparently like to mock and denigrate Kim, but she happens to be a great coach, the best evidence of which, insofar as this Baylor team is concerned, is the relentless, stifling defense they play. Unlike UConn, they forced Texas to play the kind of game they wanted to dictate, with results that turned out to be fatal for the Longhorns. UConn has demonstrated that they face big struggles to compete on the boards when they face such imposing "bigs" underneath, and these are as imposing as we generally see in the women's game. Baylor is not unbeatable, but the Huskies will need one of their best offensive nights from the perimeter of the entire season to pull it off. You are certainly correct that we've been impressed with Baylor in the past, only to see them flame out, and this may be yet another such case, but me...well, I was pretty impressed by what I saw! [/QUOTE]

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