I tend to disagree - I think ND even without 2 of their starters is the best team UCONN has played this year. Sue S. also needs to teach her team some offense. There were snippets of it, but way too much dribbling around by Romero who would try to make something happen, but more often than not, she turned the ball over.
IMHO one of FSU's biggest problems is that of most teams - lack of team offense. It's mainly why there were so many TO's by FSU. The announcers can mention as often as they like that FSU needs to take better care of the ball, but believe it or not, that involves passing the ball. When you have one player (mainly Romero) dribbling all over the place and pressing into the UCONN defense to probe for weaknesses, sooner or later, other UCONN players will swarm, double team, trap, etc, and cause turnovers.
Sue's team plays decent offense at times, but mostly it's still offense from the last decade. I will say her team plays as hard defense as any team I've seen UCONN play this year. But please - coaches of top teams - go read a book or talk to an expert on how to run some offense that involves passing. It's sad and embarrassing for the game that so few seem to have a clue.
I also wanted to point out that in almost ever quarter, FSU "led" UCONN (except for the 1st quarter). They came out hard in every quarter and battled UCONN tooth and nail. then there would be a 3-4 minute span where UCONN would thoroughly outplay them and outscore them by 6 or 8 and BAM - the lead was padded...