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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2134678, member: 199"] Nice post, and I actually think the toll on the team was more mental than physical. It is why some of us said it wouldn't be the worst thing to have a loss at the end of the reg. season or in the conference tournament. It would have been a chance to just breathe, pause, and come back stronger. We all say how nice that they are constantly talking about the ones who came before and built Uconn, but that is a burden too - the though of are we doing enough, are we rally playing Uconn basketball (whatever that means.) Just one more burden added to the streak, and streak of NCs, and being undefeated on the season. I actually think they may have ended up this season playing more for the idea of 'UCONN' and not enough for just the joy of playing together as a great team. All those other things that we just brush aside as being a constant for every player that commits to Uconn can cumulatively take a toll. [B][COLOR=#0000b3]And at the FF they were playing in front of a large contingent of those ghosts, there in person, watching and judging and weighing their worth. [/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#0000b3][COLOR=#000000](That last highlighted sentence is not literally true - they were there supporting and encouraging and cheering. But the mind is a strange thing.)[/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]