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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 5128536, member: 6620"] The past is the past, which is one reason why it might be a bit murky: It wasn't UConn "reeling at the time." (Both teams had multiple injuries so let's not point to one team being worse off than another.) [LIST] [*]UConn had won 13 straight games coming into the home game against ND. [*]ND, since New Year's Eve, was 5-3 and had just gotten shellacked by 14 at home by Syracuse. Sonia Citron was barely back from a lower leg injury suffered in the fall. [/LIST] Now, onto this year. [LIST] [*]Paige Bueckers, as I've fully (and always) given credit to, is having a great season shooting: an amazing 62% from the field and 46% from three, while averaging 20.6 ppg. [*]Azzi Fudd is just getting back from a very extended absence, so hopefully that 18% (and 12% from three) will improve. But I'm not sure I'd be calling her a better shooter than these next two players at this moment in the season: [*]Olivia Miles is shooting 56% overall and 54% from three, while scoring 18.6 ppg. You want improvement? Check out OM's outside shooting. [*]Hannah Hidalgo is at 49% overall and 54% from three, while averaging 24.8 ppg. [/LIST] Bueckers plays good defense. Fudd, once again, hasn't been back long enough for me to see how she'll fare against quick guards. Hidalgo basically plays "safety without portfolio" and ND has several very good traditional defenders, most notably Sonia Citron, who will take the other team's leading 1-3 player, so we'll see a rematch of last year's PB-SC match-up. To use the phrase we started this conversation with, containment is key. Once again, I agree that it will be a good game. [/QUOTE]

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