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Message: [QUOTE="huskyd, post: 4952903, member: 6488"] A ref's (close) call should never decide the outcome of a game this important. That being said, Paige was correct in saying that the call did not determine the outcome of the game. The game was decided when Aaliyah missed some early bunnies and fts. It was decided when KK threw the ball to no one and/or was stripped by being out of control. It was decided when Ash forgot how to shoot. Only Paige was blameless. W/out her UConn would never have gotten this far. It is not the case that this moment will be forever etched on the minds of the participants, as one writer suggested. This team wasn't supposed to get to this game, probably shouldn't have been there, and likely would have been decimated by SC in the end (as Iowa will be). The Hawkeyes' high water mark has been reached on the slim shoulders of a celestial talent, and the team will fall back into familiar anonymity day after next. Geno will be back, though, and reloaded (especially if Sara S. decides to come to Storrs) and ready for the next campaign. What's sad, in the end, is that so much time, work, effort that went into overcoming great odds to reach the Final Four should be wiped out by some nameless, faceless, ref whose purported blunder impacted so many. Paige is blessed and cursed in (equal?) measure--she'd say blessed. Ditto. [/QUOTE]