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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4998827, member: 3535"] South Carolina has been very lucky that their number 1 rival -- UCCONN-- has been hurt. Not saying UCONN would have been better over the past 4 years just that South Carolia was lucky that their top rival was unable to go at them with the same injury-free team that SCar enjoyed. This has little to do with how SCar plays and coaches but rather UCONN being injured. In page's frosh year - UCONN beat SCar. And it was 1 player that beat them- similar to 2 years later 1 player beat SCar. And frankly, UCONN lost Walker - but it had nothing to with minutes - it had to do with her as a prior 1st team A/a wanting to go pro before NIL. The next 3 years UCONN's strength was their perimeter play. Scar’s strength was their frontcourt. Our strength was never able to be forced upon them in healthy manner yet SoCar did show when they went against Paige as a frosh and a Clark as a jr- that was a a chink in their armor. We all saw SCarl go down vs Iowa 2 years ago. Thei guards didn't play well. That was their weakness. And our team early in the year beat Iowa (beat Texas, Beat NC State, beat Duke) without Paige and the last 2/3 minutes the game was already decided. So if Iowa gave SCar fits 2 years ago, and then did very well for a half or so. If we are to be fair, do we really think a healthy combo of Paige/Azzi/Carolien playing several years wouldn't have been better than Iowa? Not saying UCONN would have won - but no reason to believe that if UCONN played big minutes to their stars - there is no reason if we're being fair that we wouldn't have been right there with SoCarl. If we were healthy that year who would have expected to let a team like Iowa beat us that year? I just want to say - I’m not saying Scar wouldn't have won. Just that they caught a break that while they had the super low posts- UCONN's super great guards never really played together when healthy going against SoCarl. Even Azzi's frosh year in Nov vs SCarl- she was put on injured list immediately after and Dorka was playing with a massive bandage on her right hand and was just getting integrated. [/QUOTE]

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