I do not know if it has been mentioned yet but for all the talk of the tale of two halves, the 1st half Huskies outscored the 2nd half huskies 45 to 44. Yes, I know there is more to it than points, but I thought it was an interesting stat.
More than that. ECU scored 22 in the first half and 16 in the 2nd half.
I will readily acknowledge that we put our walk ons in the game at just under the 4 minute mark, BUT it's not like they were out there all alone.
I went back and watched the game and Geno was flat out wrong at halftime. It was not even close to the worst 30 minutes of basketball played by a UCONN WCBB team in his 30 years. But being the master of hyperbole as well as motivation, I'm sure he told the kids that. Heck, Lobo was the worst post player in America for her 4 then it was Wolters, then it was Swin, then it was Tina etc etc. I get he was trying to make a point but there were some terrific things that happened in the first half...
Twice ECU had a shot clock violation. There was some terrific on ball defense being played and UCONN racked up a bunch of steals. Sometimes the offense looked really good. BUT, there were at least a pair of 3 minute stretches where it looked like a pickup game and the UCONN players behaved like they'd never seen each other before. And give credit to ECU, especially in the last 4 minutes of the half. Their energy and intensity were both really good.
Also it is interesting that the game thread vs. top 10 Duke has less posts than the thread vs. ECU...