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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3873966, member: 2117"] I was responding to your statement of playing superior opponents. The only very strong team UCONN faced in the tournament that year was vs. Notre Dame. Stewart had a phenomenal performance but aside from that game, UCONN had a relatively breezy path to the title, playing in front of overmatched teams in front of home crowds and against a Cinderella Louisville team for the title. All of the non-ND games were won by 26+ points. Outside of Baylor, ND, and UCONN, there just weren't a lot of strong teams that year. In the regular season they faced a tougher schedule than this year's squad, but Stewart never carried the team in the regular season like how Paige has. She had much more consistent and reliable teammates than Paige has had. She wasn't a go to player and facilitator like Paige has been. She wasn't nearly as consistent as Paige has been. You mentioned Baylor and ND in another post as a way to bolster Stewart's caliber of opponent. If you bring them up, then I have to point out that Stewart didn't have particularly good showings in the first 2 ND games and barely played against Baylor. She had a good showing in the BE title game but it wasn't a standout performance (16 points, 2 rebounds, 1 block). That year those 3 teams (ND/Baylor/UCONN) were head and shoulders above everyone else in the country. I agree that Baylor/ND would have likely beaten 2021's version of SC/Arkansas/Tennessee, but in 4 of the 5 games vs those top caliber teams, Stewart didn't perform at a particularly high level. The rest of the schedule had a lot of top 10-20 teams on it, but I think SC/Arkansas/Tennessee would hold up well against the rest of UCONN's 2013 schedule. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to argue, but if it's that Stewart proved more as a freshman than Bueckers I disagree with that for the reasons above. [/QUOTE]

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