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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4956095, member: 199"] I think a good place to start with Geno and large rosters of talented players is his National Team work. He consistently had a starting five, and a second six, and an emergency player for fatigue, injury, or foul issues. And you can also look back to the 2000 and 2001 Uconn teams with really strong benches, where the start/second-string minute distributions were usually in the avg range of 24/16. With three freshmen and a sophomore coming being in practice for the first time, and 4 addition players coming off injuries a lot will depend on their health/development/availability. That is 53% of the roster by itself. Add in two players who had minimal minutes this year and you are up to 67% of the roster that are really 'unkown.' Two of the remaining five are sophomores who received 'spotty' minutes, while the other 3 - Paige, KK, and Ash are the only actually 'known' members of next years roster. I think those three will be very hard to displace from the starting lineup though I expect their minutes will be reduced. Ice has the inside track on the fourth starter position, but she has to show marked improvement this off season to hold off both returning wounded and incoming freshmen. And the fifth position is probably Jana's to lose because she is the only post on the roster - if she can't claim that position, I would not be surprised if Geno went with twin PFs of Ice and Strong trading off inside/outside on both ends of the floor. [/QUOTE]

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