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[QUOTE="EricLA, post: 5286700, member: 26"]
I still can't get over how well Geno did in the portal this season. Given that we won the NC last season after a drought, it's possible to look at previous transfers in (Evina, Dorka, Lou) and say "didn't quite get enough", but how many NC's might we have won, even only in the Paige era, had the team been healthy?

Bottom line, my take FWIW... without either transfer, we were an 75-80% complete team. You could argue minutia but missing an elite center and a really good back up PG... we certainly could win again, but we wouldn't be favored.

Fast forward, landing Serah, I think that bumped us up to a 90-95% complete team. Add in Kayleigh, and BAM. We are a 100% complete team - as strong and impressive as possible given the players we already had. We got EXACTLY what we needed. AND the talent level of what we got is incredible.

Did we land 6 players? No. But we did not need more than 2 (fact being we ONLY had room for 2). The talent and positional need for each makes UConn a huge winner in the portal given what we lost (Q)...
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