The 2016 UConn team was one of the greatest of all time. But the 2017 team was a group of overachievers, with limited experience, no size and no depth. Regardless, Sweet 16 teams don’t lose by 60 pts, or even 21, and Elite 8 teams surely don’t lose by 21 or 38 pts. That Oregon team was on a role. They stunned #2 seed MD in the Sweet 16 game. I reiterate, Bridgeport is a bad place to play UConn.
Are not tickets sent out, reserved, to the teams that have played into there? What is sold out are the non reserved seats. Actually just checked there are many open seats.
Azzi was hurt Caroline didn't play, Nika was also hurt, Dorka also.
Because, maybe doesn't like the balls or stop her from hanging a "We're #1" banner,
Which champions were led by a team with a low post center without a great/good set of ball handlers?
Stanford 2021
Worthy of 4 regionals?
Absolutely.
Actually, I think SC’s formula this season has been remarkably consistent. Play tough defense. Have the guards feed the posts or put up perimeter shots and then crash the boards in waves.
Most of these teams had very good ball handlers.
Just looked this up, Tennessee was #1 overall, not Notre Dame or UCONN in 2001.
True but the criteria established by @Nick Pignatello was "great/good". All the players listed were good. Ty Harris was a freshman as was Christy Tolliver for MD in 2006 and both would go on to have very good careers. My original point is that it was not the guards that propelled or led those teams to those championships. Since 2004 it has almost always been a front court player or players that led the charge to a championship. Chloe Jackson won the FF MOP in 2019 but it would be hard to make the case that led or propelled Baylor to that championship considering she was not even Big 12 first or second. Just don't see a guard led NCAA champion since DT's last season. The closest might be Arike's ND team in 2018 but that team had Jessica Shepard and Jackie Young dropping 32 on UCONN to enable the Arike late game heroics that got her on late night television. The original premise was "guards win championships" -just don't believe that to be true.
I disagree, defense wins championships. I don't know how these guards will do defensively against a caliber offensive team. Stanford with so much depth, Nc st with 3 5th year srs I believe with tons of experience, and we already saw what happened when they played South Carolina.
Pretty sure she said “because ND won the big East REGULAR season.” Some uconners got bent out of shape because technically they tied, but ND was the BE #1 seed because of their win over UConn,
I was at that game and Doris Burke was sitting 3 ft IN front of me. A Duke player dribbled over half court and we all screamed and Doris screamed to and no call. There was also a play the Duke made and I cant remember it right now that we all screamed about and not call and UConn lost. The back court call if called may have changed that game.
I was there too. The over and back was the killer.
No the tourney is all about basketball.
So.... is attendance free?
Did I say it was?
That's been UConn's strategy going back to when Wilson was at South Carolina. Geno said the reason they were successful against South Carolina was they were able to stop the guards passing in to Wilson. Of course back then we had two defensive pests named Mo and Kia.
