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We didn’t lose to tOSU because Nika failed to score enough points. We lost because we didn’t get the ball across half court consistently enough, and when we did break the press we missed the open looks that followed. If you ask why that happened, again it wasn’t Nika who fell short. It was that the team was emotionally spent and lacked the resilience to respond to a challenging situation.
Flashback.
After Paige got injured last year, some pre-season pundits ranked UConn as being #11 - #15 in the nation.
Most on the Boneyard didn't want to believe it but it ended up coming true.
The pundits didn't make those predictions based on whether UConn would be emotionally spent or not.
My take on their predictions was that they didn't expect UConn to make it beyond the Elite 8 in the NCAAT.
Maybe those pundits simply made lucky guesses that UConn was going to have a down year.
Louisville with Hailey did make it to the Elite 8 but they got beat by Iowa 97-83.
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