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This season is something right out of Aesop's fables or all the other morality tales. No one really gave this team a chance. There was always talk of the post-season ban with no elaboration, which made it look like these were the players at fault.
UConn was never the fashionable pick. From the beginning of the tournament the media promoted a reason to cheer for the other team. First up, St. Joe's. There was that adorable little grandson, (as a grandmother of five myself, he thoroughly charmed me). Why would anybody root against that charming little guy. I don't remember the reasons Nova and Iowa St. were promoted over UConn, but 90% of the pundits picked against us. Then Michigan State and little Lacey. What a story, if I hadn't been a UConn fan, I would have picked State, too.
Onto the final four. FL was the overall #1 seed. Who was going to pick against them. It was a fluke, a fluke I tell you, that UConn won that first game and they would be run out of the stadium. Well, when that didn't quite work out according to plan, then it was KY and all the shiny new horses. They were all pros marking their one year a college. (Admittedly they had about 50lbs on us at every position). It wasn't supposed to be close.
During all that, the team stayed humble, worked hard for each other and their school, and damned if they didn't just win it all.
Good job, gentleman.
UConn was never the fashionable pick. From the beginning of the tournament the media promoted a reason to cheer for the other team. First up, St. Joe's. There was that adorable little grandson, (as a grandmother of five myself, he thoroughly charmed me). Why would anybody root against that charming little guy. I don't remember the reasons Nova and Iowa St. were promoted over UConn, but 90% of the pundits picked against us. Then Michigan State and little Lacey. What a story, if I hadn't been a UConn fan, I would have picked State, too.
Onto the final four. FL was the overall #1 seed. Who was going to pick against them. It was a fluke, a fluke I tell you, that UConn won that first game and they would be run out of the stadium. Well, when that didn't quite work out according to plan, then it was KY and all the shiny new horses. They were all pros marking their one year a college. (Admittedly they had about 50lbs on us at every position). It wasn't supposed to be close.
During all that, the team stayed humble, worked hard for each other and their school, and damned if they didn't just win it all.
Good job, gentleman.
