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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 5177216, member: 1131"] The minutes distribution by both South Carolina and LSU in their game today is instructive. [B]LSU[/B] played 9 players, and two of them (Poa and Sheppard) got 3 and 2 minutes respectively. Their "Big 3" (Morrow, Williams, and Flaujae) got 38, 37, and 33 minutes respectively (Flaujae was in foul trouble early), and Day-Wilson got 34. Kailyn Gilbert (who has received a lot of publicity touting LSU's bench depth) got 15 minutes, shot 1-7 for 2 points and 1 rebound. Her 2 points were LSU's only bench points in the game. [B]South Carolina [/B]played 9 players in the game, but Dauda got only 1 minute and had no stats, so really they played only 8. Sonia Feagin was their only player to log more than 30 minutes (she had 36, reflecting the absence of Watkins). The other starters were all in the mid to high 20's in their minutes. Their top three bench players (Edwards, Fulwiley, and Tessa Johnson) had 14, 8, and 9 minutes respectively. I thought that Edwards (with 14 points on 5-11 shooting and 4 rebounds) and especially Tessa (9 points on 4-9 shooting) were really good -- Tessa seemed like she would fit on the UConn roster more than any other SC player with her intelligent decision making. Interestingly, Feagin and Edwards were the only SC players in double figures for scoring, and no one had more more than 7 rebounds -- unlike 6-1 Morrow of LSU, who had 16 rebounds. Despite SC's victory in the game, LSU dominated the offensive boards by a margin of 28-15, and took 14 more shots than SC. Too bad they only shot 30% compared to SC's none-too-great 37%. [B]Bottom line:[/B] I think UConn's bench is as deep as either of these teams, and I would expect that when UConn plays SC in February, the two team's bench minutes will be similar. Will their scoring and rebounding be similar? That is the question. [/QUOTE]

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