As you said, AE's toughest test will be against that huge frontcourt of South Carolina..........she's not going to have an easy time of it but must bring a convincing showing to quiet those decision-makers that think she's accumulated those strong stats against mostly average competition........
"Mostly average competition"? UCONN has had the hardest schedule in the country to date. SC to date has had the 26th toughest schedule. UCONN, and Aaliyah, has faced a gauntlet of top 10 teams, substantially under-manned in each and every game. Even the non-top 10 teams (like FSU, Seton Hall, Creighton, Marquette, Duke, and Princeton) was a gauntlet of talented, and probably NCAA, squads.
The ONLY cupcakes on our schedule thus far have been Butler, and Northeastern. I'd argue that PC is a middle of the pack team. Heck, they just beat Creighton.
Just my $.02 but I think it's an unfair comment denigrating AE's YTD numbers, and saying, in so many words, that we will only know whether she's "worthy" if she has an AA-type performance against SC.