Filed under: Connecticut, Women's Basketball
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Tuesday's early season showdown between top-ranked Connecticut and No. 2 Baylor may have been staged in November, but it had March-like intensity as well as ongoing implications.Here are a few random musings from what Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma rightly called "a hell of a ballgame."
Auriemma is correct when he said before the season that the Huskies' unbeaten streak -- now at 80 games -- will end this year.
There's simply too much of a drop-off between UConn's best player, senior forward Maya Moore, and the next best player, who has yet to reveal herself, for the Huskies to make up for an off night from Moore.
"They don't have the depth, for one,'' said Baylor coach Kim Mulkey after the Huskies' 65-64 win Tuesday night. "They're much younger. He's like the rest of us now. He's trying to find the right players to play and I don't think he's had to do that in a while. He's got to find the right combinations to help him play."
As it was, the Huskies needed every one of Moore's 30 points, as well as a tactical blunder by Mulkey in the closing seconds, to hold off the Lady Bears, whom they vanquished in last April's national semifinals.
While many believe that Connecticut will keep winning all the way to a late December showdown at Stanford, the streak could actually end as early as Sunday's road game with Georgia Tech.
Source: http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/11/17/early-lessons-from-baylor-uconn-clash/
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