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Message: [QUOTE="HuskylnSC, post: 2567981, member: 7953"] Bill Russell once said "Basketball is a contact sport, football is a collision sport." It sure looked like a collision sport last night. In all my life, I do not remember ever playing in a game with such intentional violent collisions. In the street we used to play defense calls the foul. Which meant that you could do what you want. Many games ended in fights or scrums. Last night I saw more violent intentional body slams and elbows thrown than I can remember. Fighting for position under the hoop is one thing, but last night it was taken to an art form. They were very focused on denying Z position so much so that a player would go about two steps above her and back in hard with an all out elbow the chest to get her to move. And in Megan's tussle for the ball, the UCF player seemed to run her over like a running back. It looked like the UCF bench jumped up expected a fight, but MW was cool (or stunned) and didn't retaliate. There were fouls on almost every UConn shot, specially under the hoop. I saw officials give UConn the ball even when it was off the UConn player and I believe it was a makeup for missing the fouls committed. Watching I was thinking that a more capable team the UCF could play this style and beat UConn. I would be very concerned is Mizz was in our region. [/QUOTE]