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Message: [QUOTE="packwrap, post: 5201419, member: 13341"] The good thing in ncaa '25 is that we don't run into bigger teams that can maul our small ball team until earliest the elite 8. Another positive is that Jana continues to make nice progress and showed against SC that it's not pressure and 18,000 hostile fans that cause her lapses. That means she and 'Final Four Ice' may be able to help vs a Betts or TX in an ncaa tourney game. Still Geno likes and keeps tinkering with the small line ups. In the smaller one with KK, Ash, Paige, Azzi and Sarah, he goes with Paige at 4 and Sarah at 5. Subbing Aubrey for KK gives you Aubrey at 4, Sarah at 5. He has even now started to play Aubrey at center, to prepare for case where Sarah gets in foul trouble. The positive of all these small line ups, is that all our players can shoot and score, forcing tall opponents to come out and guard our shooters. As long as our small frontcourt can defend opposing bigs we are in good shape. This was the case against SC as Kitts, Feagin, Edwards did not dominate vs Paige, Aubrey and Sarah. I even go so far as to say Paige, Aubrey and Sarah will provide better defense vs TX or UCLA than Jana/Ice. They are not tall, but they are quick, mobile and can jump. After SC, Geno has to be licking his chops to play TX. If TX shoots 1-10 from 3, and UConn shoots 9-20 from 3, it will be very hard for TX to win by dominating in the paint. Someone from TX will have to come out of the paint to guard us, or else we just keep bombing away wide open. Plenty of games left to watch these small groups develop. Geno also appears to like the confusion that switching from big to small causes the opponent. He starts the big group, so he definitely plans to use both strategies. [/QUOTE]

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