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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 2525975, member: 26"] You make fair points BUT, the expectations were so high this year. People (from Stewie to Rebecca to Kara to other hoops experts)were quoted (numerous times in different ways) that "you better get UCONN this year (2016-2017) because next year they will be unbeatable". Fans as well bought into the hype. Heck, we were a hair-width away from making the NC game without Azura, and any of the improvements from the players. Fast forward to this year - we got down big to both ND and Texas. I don't know if any reasonable fan expected that we'd "struggle" they way we apparently have this season. I expect us to handle SC, but L'ville looks like it will be a huge test for us. I honestly never thought we'd struggle the way we did to beat ND and Texas. And I totally agree - it was a tremendous environment. But the team is simply not living up to the expectations most of us had for them this year. Perhaps it's due to the steps back Gabby and Napheesa seem to have taken. Perhaps our expectations were just too high. But this really was a season UCONN fans expected the team to roll thru the entire schedule. Perhaps Geno did not, but most fans did. Now we are seeing that the reality is different from what was expected, and the reactions are a result of that... :) [/QUOTE]