Correction - it’s a milestone according to YOU, not to Bueckers. A bigger milestone for her are probably a Big East Championship and an NCAA title. Not everyone thinks a triple double is as big of achievement as other goals they are chasing.
That might also be a $$$$ incentive in their contract. Kick in a bonus or something.
Your discussion regarding Kelly Faris is most apt for this thread. For those of you that don’t remember, Kelly had a quadruple double when she was in high school. I have to go back and check, but I’m pretty sure that another Indiana high school player had a quintuple double just a few days ago.
That was the notorious Nykesha Sales incident in 1998, from which Geno learned an embarrassing lesson.
And Paige -- being Paige -- probably gets more of a kick watching her benchwarming teammates getting their minutes in.
I don't think so. I think he was happy that he did it. And would have done it again. I think his only regret was the crap Sales got for it. But that was everyone else's problem. Not Sales, Bascom's or UCONN's.
He started a game with Nykesha sales making a basket to set, at that time , a UConn scoring record.
And that game was against Villanova. Harry Peretta was the head coach and he was all for it. Nykesha had torn her Achilles tendon and her season was over.
That lesson looms a lot less important now that several players have eclipsed that mark. It would be different if it was still the UConn scoring record.
Do they have a decent backup PG?
And for you younger folks who may not remember - Geno 1st checked with Bascolm to see if she was ok with what he planned to do. Then, after Sales’ basket, he let a Villanova player get a layup. No harm, no foul!
He’d do it again though in similar circumstances.
And, it was not just Paige that came out of the game; it was a hockey line change. Every single starter came out together with about 2-min left in the Third. UConn up by 38-pts at the time, 80-42, and on a big run.
Paige injured her knee with about a minute and a half remaining in a game that was already won. She was gassed at the end of the game and I believe that caused the misstep that led to the injury. So yes, injuries can happen at any time, but exhaustion makes the odds worst. We will never see Paige in the final minutes of a game that is already won, and that is a good thing.
An NC is worth a whole bunch of triple doubles, in my opinion. Talk about milestones...
All the crap was from outside the university. None of their business as it was a UConn record, not an NCAA record. It's pretty hard to break any records at UConn, as star players don't usually play a lot in the fourth if they are way ahead. There is a reason why there are not UConn players near the top of NCAA scoring records. This was an unusual circumstance, and I thought it was pretty great that Geno, Harry, and of course, Kerry signed off on it.
It's not just about getting hurt. It's also about rest. Down the stretch the starters will play more and more minutes. When they can rest, the staff should give them every opportunity to do it. Also Geno rarely leaves the starters in when it's a blow out as a courtesy to the opponent. And, it gives the bench an opportunity to get valuable minutes which can also come in handy come March if the starters get in foul trouble. There's a lot of positives to taking them all out, not just Paige. If the bench is really struggling to maintain then he still has the option of putting one or two starters back in to calm the young bench players.
Yep, I did a lot of trail running, with exposed roots, knobs, and rocks. I'd take a spill probably a couple of times a year. It was never in the first couple of miles, almost always after 5 or so and heat and fatigue began to set in.
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