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Message: [QUOTE="wbball novice, post: 3401280, member: 8663"] As I recall, UCF was a tough out for UConn last year, when the Huskies had more experienced, & probably more talented, personnel. They know how to put on pressure and they have enough depth and stamina to keep it up. They had at least 2 nasty traps in the waning minutes of Q4, & could well have caught up. Their coach is pretty good & knows how to get under UConn's skin. This time they were helped, in my opinion, by somewhat erratic refereeing, though as expected UCF's style of play resulted in more fouls on the Knights. Considerably handicapped by Christyn's offensive drought in this one, considering UCF is not a high scoring team. Geno's remarks on his show, recorded before the game, re depending on Christyn's improved scoring seemed unintentionally ironic. Her outside shooting was clearly off, but I missed her penetration & layups, given the nature of UCF's zone defense. Not sure what caused this. CW's FT shooting was somewhat improved. FTs were important because UCF fouls a lot & in general most of the UConn outside shots weren't falling. Fortunately, CD, MW, and Anna were on target; not so with Olivia or Aubrey. Another gritty Q4. Both Liv & Meg carrying 4 fouls but played smart and made key contributions. Liv didn't score big but rebounding was extremely helpful. Team really needed her defense around the basket & she came through. Anna's contributions were improved, though Megan Cuolmo noted that she was still passing if she couldn't get the perfect shot. But this was the second game where Anna Mak made a key shot in Q4, and her scoring overall made up for CW's low production. The traveling TOs -- refs were doing a lot of ticky tack calls, I thought, though some credit to UCF pressure. Not sure, but seemed to me she was playing more minutes though Kyla started as usual. (Maybe in part because Kyla had to sit for a bit because of a whack on the jaw from a UCF player). Switching to Oregon-Stanford now! [/QUOTE]

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