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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4677403, member: 3535"] UCONN would clearly be the prohibitive favorite if they were healthy. The issue entirely is their health and secodnly Caroline Ducharme's potential growth. In a healthy Paige and Azzi, UCONN would have two of the best three players on the floor vs anyone more than likely if they were healthy. And Edwards floor is raised, whether she is "voted" as an A/a or not, because playing with two healthy superstars she will have more freedom/easier looks etc. And as leads expand many teams won't be pounding the ball in the paint as much unless they just give up. Thus raer issues with fouls. Caroline is the wild card. If she shows like she did as a frosh when she took over the team as the #1 scorer UCON is near unbeatable. Plain and simple. No one can match this ceiling firepower if UCONN is healthy. And yet any injuries to the above 4 hurts the team exponentially to a degree depending on which player. And with Nika and Aubrey, UCONN has a tremendous core of 6 players. Any injuries to these 6 will hurt a consistent pace of play which will always be fast. Not "Arkansas Razorbacks fast," but just consistently fast even vs near all (but not every) top opponents. Adn as far as 1 or 2 others off the bench; it’s fine. We all heard how impressive Ice was last year. This year she is going to tun into a pumpkin? And last year Patterson’s Defense was decent. Her issue was that she couldn’t hit layups or sore in in any manner. Well, now 1 year under her belt and two superstars along with the other mentioned above, they won't help her at least be able to hit layups? Only the most negative UCONN posters (and there are quite few on here), and the posters not UConn fans that hate UCONN would look to minimize Ice and Patterson. - Among others. [/QUOTE]

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