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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4876475, member: 3834"] It’s difficult for me to understand your statement that you expect “Sunday’s game to be essentially even in personnel”? Notwithstanding your detailing of the relative gains and losses of the two respective teams, the real comparison of the two teams is in who they can put on the floor during Sunday’s game. UConn has three seniors, Paige, a star, Aaliyah, a star, and Nika, a solid player who rarely scores more than 12 points. We also have two quite good freshmen and two struggling freshmen. That is essentially our team! We do have two bench players who basically do not contribute at all! It is very likely that barring foul trouble, we will play our starting five the entire game except for a few breathers from our two bench players. SC, on the other hand has eight players that will likely play at least 8-12 minutes. Of those, six range from 6’-6’5”, their guards shoot, 48.5, 45.6, 38.1, 42.1,and 32.1% from three! Two of their big girls shoot 33.3 & 50% from three as well. Their lowest % (32.1) guard will be the best freshman on the floor. Their starting guards are senior and redshirt sophomore, one of which is the top three point shooter in the nation! I suppose your loss/gain list is accurate but imo it has little to do with which team is advantaged/disadvantaged in this game. As I see it, SC has the advantage in numbers, size, home court, and experience! I will concede that one to one, Paige and Aaliyah are likely the two best players on the court. I will also concede that UConn [B]could [/B]win this game. However, [B]all[/B] the advantages except for Paige and (to a slightly lesser degree) Aaliyah, lie with South Carolina! I might add that the Paige/Aaliyah advantages are likely canceled out by the size and numbers advantage enjoyed by SC. It’s clearly to be decided on the floor, we [B]could[/B] win, but a [B]lot[/B] of things have to go our way! [/QUOTE]

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