In general there are some statistics on a per minute basis that don't change much over a player's college career. They usually involve more natural physical skills or instincts, like rebounding, blocked shots, and steals. The ones that involve more decision making and experience, however often show substantial improvement, particularly between the freshmen and sophomore years.
Players adjust to opponents that have more size, speed, basketball skills, and leaping ability than they were used to in HS. They have to relearn what is a foul, good pass or good shot against the higher level of competition. Mistakes are reduced, lowering fouls, turnovers, and bad shots.
This year Paige, Aaliyah and Nika are in that category of sophs we hope to see significant improvement from. In Paige's case, her numbers were so good at so many categories that it is hard to see big improvement, but some overall is likely. I think expectations for a bigger jump from Nika and Aaliyah are more realistic. Both players showed us some strong positive traits, but also had categories were they could show major improvement.
Even during her freshmen year Nika learned to reduce her fouls compared to early in the season, and started nailing more three pointers. I know she can both increase her rate of assists and reduce turnovers this year, perhaps learning to penetrate more but staying under control. She has the ability to create many more assists with penetration, but has to do so without having too many turnovers.
Aaliyah while having marvelous numbers in some categories was also foul prone, a category she can improve, and her assist to turnover numbers compared to most Uconn bigs was pretty weak, and I'm sure that ratio will improve as well.
