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Xavier Postgame Thread

Historic night from Allie. Ash and K9 also played their best games of the season imo. They really looked incredibly confident out there.

Great to see those three step up when Azzi was off her game tonight. In post game, Geno said she wasn’t 100% and seemed to imply she has been sick.

Hope everyone can heal up injuries and sicknesses before Sunday!
 
topogigio said:
Quarters 2. 3. 4 were a clinic. Allie was absolutely sensational, and demonstrated why she was 2x Wisconsin player of the year. Strong was her usual - just so consistently good. Heckel did her best impression of Shade, who did her best impression of Heckel. Those two are the horsepower that drove the engine tonight. KK was solid as usual on offense and defense. Some good minutes from Jana, who just misses too many close up. Did anyone notice how Caroline was keeping Jana cool after she was angry for coming out after missing an easy one? Azzi, well, if was an off night, although I think she is pressing and rushing her shots!
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Caroline is a coach one day....
 
Fun night at Gampel, I really liked Aaliyah’s speech before the game and the tributes she received on scoreboard video from Nika and Paige. Classy.

That first quarter was weird but the universe reset itself soon enough. 9 steals by Shade, I loved how UConn was doubling players from behind in the paint and ripping it away before the referee could call a jump ball. Also coming up with all the 50-50 balls on the floor.

I have seen two UConn players make 10 threes in person now, KLS and Allie. They seem to me to have very similar shooting styles, and it is very cool to see a shooter in the zone. Everyone in the arena knew that Allie’s tenth one was going in. Money!
 
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Ash's best all round game. Everywhere !! It's also clear that we need our bigs back.

How can you miss > 50% of layups?
 
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ConnMotors said:
Am not sure what is wrong with Azzi but she better get back on the Home Page. She is slipping and fading. I really want her name of the wall. But her game has to return and it needs to start against Tennessee.
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She’s a human being and not perfect every night. I don’t feel we should expect her to be

Geno said “some stuff” was going through the team - a cold or flu, maybe? Azzi looked not herself last night. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s under the weather
 
Geno tinkering, at one point had 5 guards (KK, Ash, Kayleigh, Azzi and Allie) on the floor with Allie playing the “big”.
 
Scoring record: I believe Nykesha's 46 still stands.
Fun: She got that early in the season against an excellent Stanford team...neutral
court...maybe in Florida...bigtime TV game. It might have been in her soph or junior year.
The crowd had some Stanford fans in it. Nykesha's performance was SO good that they gave her a standing ovation
when Geno pulled her near the end. Great gesture of sportsmanship by those fans.

Vandeveer was ticked. When Nykesha selected UConn over Stanford [and others] the coach declared
that Stanford has gotten 5 Nykesha's in that same class. Their recruiting class that year was great but it came across as a bit of a putdown of Sales ...Geno wasn't pleased. Dropping a ton of points against Stanford and hearing her own fans
giving her an ovation seemed some nice payback.

For quite a while she and Geno had a somewhat frosty relationship...one other factor was Vandeveer not treating
Rebecca Lobo with proper respect when she wasn't pleased with Lobo being on that 1996 Olympic team.
 
todbo said:
And so the bench outscored Xavier.
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pghhuskydoc said:
What a performance by Allie Ziebell!
And the team defense was a tenacious thing of beauty.
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Blakeon18 said:
Scoring record: I believe Nykesha's 46 still stands.
Fun: She got that early in the season against an excellent Stanford team...neutral
court...maybe in Florida...bigtime TV game. It might have been in her soph or junior year.
The crowd had some Stanford fans in it. Nykesha's performance was SO good that they gave her a standing ovation
when Geno pulled her near the end. Great gesture of sportsmanship by those fans.

Vandeveer was ticked. When Nykesha selected UConn over Stanford [and others] the coach declared
that Stanford has gotten 5 Nykesha's in that same class. Their recruiting class that year was great but it came across as a bit of a putdown of Sales ...Geno wasn't pleased. Dropping a ton of points against Stanford and hearing her own fans
giving her an ovation seemed some nice payback.

For quite a while she and Geno had a somewhat frosty relationship...one other factor was Vandeveer not treating
Rebecca Lobo with proper respect when she wasn't pleased with Lobo being on that 1996 Olympic team.
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With regard to class rankings, in case anyone has forgotten, the 2024 Hoopgurlz rankings for current UConn players is not too shabby:
Sarah Strong #1
Allie Ziebell #7 (as I recall she was ranked even higher earlier)
Morgan Cheli #11
Kayleigh Heckel #11

I will reserve comment on Tara.
 
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2 more cents from me.
There is nothing more enjoyable for a casual fan like me to see an athlete having the game of their lives.
To see the smile and joy on Allie's face, her team mates jumping up and down, will be something Allie will never forget.
She will show that game to her children and grandchildren. See , "Mom could shoot the ball".
 
Just a couple of remarks. There was some talk in the off-season about how UConn might have a down year because they lost Paige. If there's any talk this summer about losing Azzi, all we need to do is think back on Allie's game last night.

Ashlynn had herself quite a game last night. The last time I remember a game like that was 2013. UConn was playing Maryland and were down I wanna say about 10 points at halftime. The second half was the Kelly Faris show. She didn't score much, but Maryland couldn't do anything if Kelly was anywhere near the ball. She wound up with something like 10 points 8 rebounds 8 assists and 7 steals, but the big thing was she just wouldn't let the opponent do anything. Ashlynn and to a great extent Kayleigh were that last night.

It looks to me like three different players had the best games of their UConn careers last night.
 
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On Allie's 10th 3, K9 had her armed raised in celebration on Allie's release. Pure UConn moment. Celebrate the success of teammates first.

My favorite part of a fun game to watch.

I thought the announcer's calls on Allie's last 4 makes were terrific.
 
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