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JRRRJ said:
Bzzzzzzt!

ANY game in a single-elimination tournament -- particularly the NCAA tournament -- is a big game.

Cf. March 1998 -- Stanford vs. Harvard (and others not so spectacularly unexpected).
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For some schools but not at UCONN. As Geno says there is one goal every season the NC and other schools don't understand that fish bowl. The other games are part of the path and must be won but at UCONN a Big Game is taking the court to play for the title the rest is business.
 
JRRRJ said:
Bzzzzzzt!

ANY game in a single-elimination tournament -- particularly the NCAA tournament -- is a big game.

Cf. March 1998 -- Stanford vs. Harvard (and others not so spectacularly unexpected).
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2009- Tennessee vs. Ball State is another one.
 
During any season every team, including UCONN, has more than one big game. To say otherwise is either hyperbole or arrogance. I like fellow UCONN posters who are proud but humble. I think it wears better. I like to exhale after we win a NC. Prior to that "confident but anxious " suits me better.
 
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UConnCat said:
There certainly are questions about SC based on what I saw in SC's S16 loss to UNC last season. Sometimes really good teams lose in the NCAAs (E8 or FF) because they're not mentally/emotionally ready to win a championship. UConn in '01 is a good example of that. UConn had more talent than ND (DT/SB/SC/AJ) but that UConn team was not ready to win a championship and ND was. It was apparent, however, that UConn in 2002 would be the class of the field and they were. I've watched SC's S16 loss to UNC a few times and I think SC has a ways to go. SC didn't lose that game because they were too young or not ready for the moment (though both may have been true); they lost that game because an undersized UNC was able to expose flaws at both ends. SC's floor spacing was not very good which allowed UNC to double SC's bigger posts. SC does not play with the same pace as UConn or ND and it struggled to score in that game. ND put up 100 points on UNC last season (regular season) while SC lost twice to UNC and scored only 58 in the S16 loss. Will Aja Wilson be the difference-maker? We'll see. Wilson has a lot of talent including the ability to put up points, though Dawn needs to find players who can space the floor and give her room to operate in the lane. As for ranking SC vs ND, I'd probably rank ND ahead of SC preseason just because of ND's recent experience in .
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Honestly, we lost in the NCAAT because we didn't have much quality depth and we ran out of gas a little bit towards the end of the season. With all 5 starters back and 4 five star recruits added to the team, that won't be an issue in 2014-15.
 
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cockhrnleghrn said:
Honestly, we lost in the NCAAT because we didn't have much quality depth and we ran out of gas a little bit towards the end of the season. With all 5 starters back and 4 five star recruits added to the team, that won't be an issue in 2014-15.
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IMO that's an excuse. You were down by eight at halftime. You were playing an inexperienced team and they beat you twice.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
Honestly, we lost in the NCAAT because we didn't have much quality depth and we ran out of gas a little bit towards the end of the season. With all 5 starters back and 4 five star recruits added to the team, that won't be an issue in 2014-15.
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It wasn't the lack of depth as much as it was the lack of perimeter shooting. UNC basically clogged the paint and dared everyone not named Tiffany Mitchell to shoot. But that was a problem for the entire season so I didn't expect that much a difference come tourney time. However if SC can improve in that area they should be a contender this season.
 
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