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[QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2525412, member: 6911"]
BY'er's need to take off their rose-colored glasses.  Coach Geno has been saying for some time (he even read the riot act to the bench players during the European tour) that the bench is not cutting it.  Not a single bench player got into the game last night, and Auriemma said, once again, that the team can't make it through the rest of the season without contributions from the bench.  He made it clear to Kara Lawson in his post-game interview that over the next couple of weeks he has to get the bench players to contribute.  So it's difficult to understand why contributors on this site continue to pretend that the "big, big problem" is no problem at all.

Notre Dame and Texas have demonstrated that UConn will not waltz its way to the national championship.  UConn is undersized compared with some other top teams, and it doesn't have a credible bench.  We lost to a team last year that had two dominant post players.  We almost lost to a team last night with several bigs.  And going forward, we'll be challenged again.

I've been a UConn fan long enough to remember that we don't always prance to national championships.  Lack of bench and lack of size (it's just Z) mean that a championship is not a done deal.
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