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Message: [QUOTE="Justavisitor, post: 3272671, member: 1442"] LOL...Candace did not play in that first game of the 3 straight games, so yeah, Pat could still beat the UConn way, even without a Candace Parker. That was the game that featured a few freshmen in Anosike, Hornbuckle, and Wiley-Gatewood. Candace was a player in the next 2 games that TN won. In Candace's final year, the match up was all set, but UConn couldn't get past the offense of Stanford and TN went on to win the title against that same Stanford team. When Pat had the players and most importantly, a point guard, she could still beat all comers. The years after Candace (Pat's next 3 years), she never got an elite point guard. That hurt Pat's success much more than any UConn system....that she had previously beaten 3 times in a row. Perhaps it not insane to realize that one of the reason's Pat was so great was that she excelled across the various eras of women's basketball. She knew how to change with the times, while also being consistent with her philosophies. So yeah, Geno had a span where he kept whoopin' Pat, but then Pat got even better and built a team that would beat his teams. [/QUOTE]