She did her thing 27 point can't ask for much more than that especially coming back from injury. But that young lady Rivers from NC State was just on fire

Its just a basketball game. It shouldn’t be crushing you😭

@@azeemindawala Yeah but when you’re in a program like UConn your goal is not only to win but to dominate the games. Paige never experienced more than 3 loses (2 before this game) in her career at UConn and considering the fact that she came back from surgery and recovery and still fought through the game to keep up she has every right to be upset the way she was. We’re all disappointed but improvement is yet to come and nc state absolutely deserved to win and we’re thankful they exposed flaws that are fixable.

@@violetforpb yeah i agree, but just don’t take it too seriously. Nothing related to a game should crush no matter if its your favorite player or whatever. There’s a lot more going on in the world to be torn apart over a basketball game. And i care about UCONN winning or losing too bc i literally go to Uconn right now lol

@@azeemindawala good note but I’ve been passionate about basketball or UConn in general for the longest time so it makes sense being bothered by it. Tho I’m not taking it too deep because I have a life outside of the game. I meant crushed as in how much it meant to Paige so feeling a little bit of sympathy is not bad at all, just shows that im human like she is :))

They still lack height, which partially contributes to them "not being aggressive on the boards". They will not fare well against Angel Reese, Aneesah Morrow, Cameron Brink, etc.

Interesting take from a UCONN fan. I have felt the same thing as a SC fan. Geno had competition but not at the level and number of quality teams there are currently. Other teams are recruiting at a very high level and getting players that are as good or better. Traditionally, it seems that he coached up the best of the best players. He's the best ever and doubtful anyone will match him in terms of dominance over time.

Thats been the story since their last championship I wish uconn fans get that in their head but UConn fans think they are sooo entitled the transfer portal and nil have changed the game the top recruits are spreading out Tennessee and UConn ain't the big show anymore

Remember they have a 6'5" player out with a torn Achilles, another 6'2" that is in rehab.

"IF, IF, IF" @@eugenemonty6469

I think Geno was being a diplomat in seeing "There's never a good time for a loss" But I feel like deep down he knows this could be a good thing for the team. Azzi needs to play better... I think she went 1 for 9. I still have to watch the whole game but Caroline didn't do much either. I wonder what happened with Patterson. I would have hoped she could be a player and Ice Brady. But yeah - theres A TON of talent nationwide - Juju Watkins, that rookie at Notre Dame, the Mikaylah williams had 42 points last night... a freshman at S. Carolina balled out last week. It's a marathon though - It's the TEAM That plays best that will be there in late March... Let's see which teams sustain these flashes of incredible play.

You're spot on, Muhl and PB display the epitome of cockiness. It would seem that they would humble themselves by now.

@@go2hvn2008 Muhl and Paige are fine - they really play with heart, and they back up any talk. Cockiness is fine - as long as you put forth your best effort: I dont' care what team you play for... you play your best and give it your all, then you can talk and people can think you are cocky whatever. Other players on the team need to step up - Ice Brady, I don't know about Patterson, I'll have to see the game and see what happened.... Other teams have players steping up like LSU with Mikayla Williams, S. carolinoa has 1st Year Freshman players showing out. etc. Its' time for the Huskies to do that too - Azzi has to play better of course.

Wait, Rivers was at SC??😳

@@rustynail1071 yes, she was on the 2022 national championship team at USC. Transferred to NCSU last season.

South Carolina's loss, NC State's gain.@@edd189

Azzi has never been a factor in big games against good competition

@@anthonytaylor7928 Texas came in last year ranked in the Top 5. Azzi lit them up.

@@mrmojorisin8752 thats ok but what did she do in the tournament?? Since shes been there shes just a good spot up shooter can't play defense

⁠@@mrmojorisin8752Stop. That's literally one game, early in the season, with a team with low expectations. She's a solid player but massively overrated. She doesn't have the mental game, and she has holes in her skill set. They needed her, and she shot 4/13 and 1/7, that's atrocious. Her best thing by far is spot up 3's and she's a career 38% shooter. Compare that to Paige, who shoots 44%, and no ever even talks about her 3 pt shooting. Therein lies the problem, Paige is measurably better than Azzi at Azzi's BEST thing, and not even in Paige's league in anything else....yet you hardly see or hear one without the other in the press. They desperately want her to be what she just isn't. Geno continully props her up and almost never criticizes her ( except playfully kid for being a reluctant superstar) because he knows she's mentally fragile. In the NCAAs as a frosh she shot an anemic 36% from the field and disappeared completely in the finals. Last year, without Paige, she shot 35%, a pathetic 21% from 3, and had 2X as many TOs as assists. She's literally had 4 or 5 games ( out if 42) in 2+ years where she played like something approaching and AA. That's completely flipped. She's played her career like a less-efficient Steve Kerr, not Scottie Pippen...despite the MSM's desire to annoint her as such. Paige doesn't have Robin.

@@mrmojorisin8752 She was lighting up everyone last year until she got hurt, is not just a spot up shooter and plays very good defense. But she was never the same last season after she came back from the injury , seemed to lose confidence in her shot. As far as never being a factor in big games?...She outplayed Caitlin Clark last year in Uconn's comeback win over Iowa.

ayanna patterson. she has everything to be a rebounder. plus she needs a role if she wants playing time

What about Amari DeBerry. She needs more playing time. She is the force in the middle that UCONN needs. I don't understand why Coach Geno doesn't play her!

for sure! She is mad and she'll rise up!

UCONN women's basketball dynasty is over. Get over it, lol!

Paige sucks at defense

​@keevinh.6824 you bugging she played great defense stop what you don't know

She will do a few TikTok dances! Disgraceful, by all!

mika is tough and paige has to lead

He does have his moments, but don't ask Candace Parker about his "classiness".

He answered that, it's easy to defend a motionless offense.

Issue wasn’t defenders. Azzi missed a half dozen utterly uncontested shots, ones she’s 90% on in practice.

@@mrmojorisin8752 that’s Ben Simmons syndrome!

Man stop it this is her second game he barely gave her any minutes to get into the feel of the game Geno b bullshittin sometimes with the rotation he left Aaliyah out there by herself playin 1 on 2 in terms of bigs

I think Brady chose the wrong team to play for.

Spot on friend, you are 100% correct!

PG also had 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 3 turnovers. Funny how you don't mention that.

Aaliyah Edwards needed help in the rebounding department. This was one of those games the whole front court, when the opponent shoots the ball, they immediately box out their (woman) and crash the boards.

There might be ten teams better than UCONN when they have the performance they had today. However, I still don't think there's enough parity yet. By the end of the year it's basically the same teams contending for the title.

@@jeromedanielson4422 Azzi Fudd was shooting tentatively, then deferring to somebody else. Her shots were short a lot of times. When she gets that deer in headlights look, I worry. Qadence Samuels had a better shooting turnout. That’s not good for Fudd.

That’s actually a good thing! This loss will help them as a team later. Nc state had a great team effort! There were 3 ladies that were the catalysts for the win! Obviously Rivers, James(even though she got in foul trouble) and the one that struck Nika Muhl in the face and the referee calls “incidental contact”. Good game by the Wolfpack.

@@marcusb.3038 - unfortunately they didn't play a frame by frame slow motion of the Muhl "incidental contact" play. Muhl did an excellent job accentuating any contact, but the replay - and the refs agreed - seemed to indicate any contact was slight or incidental. Full speed when it happened, it looks like she got popped really hard - incidental, but hard. The replay though seem to suggest any contact was no where near how Muhl reacted. Looking at Muhl over on the bench when the refs were reviewing the play, her demeanor seemed as a player who wasn't really hit or wasn't really hit that hard. That's how I saw it, after first thinking she got clobbered.

SC played 2 top 14 teams in their first games. Sec is always tough. Some of these teams dont play very tough games at all throughout the season.

@@waldolydecker8118 Your implying she was embellishing. That’s ridiculous.

@@mrmojorisin8752 - OK, won't "imply" it, will just say it outright...SHE WAS EMBELLISHING!!. Happy now? lol. Quit whining because they got their butts kicked by an unranked team. Tell Geno to recruit better players; that's the ticket, not whining about was it or was it not embellishing. The media hype is lying to you UCONN fanatics...this is a #10 talent team. Deberry...DeCharme...Fudd..lol, you should be looking to sue somebody.

And it's really unfair that they had to play this game outside the state of Connecticut. How on earth did that occur?

Nothing wrong with that. Better now then later

Lesson learned. Much needed to improve

You must wasn’t watching the game

You sound ridiculous blaming Edwards....Edwards is a pro and will play at the next level. Guard Azzi Fudd, was the #1 ranked overall recruit of her class...Ducharme was # 5 in the same class, both ranked far higher than Edwards. Neither of these players deserved their ranking; neither will play at the next level. Its now comical to think that Fudd was ranked over - Sellers at Maryland, Harmon at Texas, Johnson at SC, Miles at Notre Dame and Rivers at NC State, who torched UCONN in a head-to-head match with Fudd. Imagine UCONN recruiting Fudd over all these better players - same goes for Ducharme, who isn't even good enough as an upperclassman to play more than 14 mins in a game UCONN was trailing most of the second half. Geno had more trust in freshman Samuels, whose play warranted it. Check yourself on Edwards...she is arguably the team's best player...best because when the game is on the line or in danger, Geno calls time out and almost always runs a play to get the ball to Edwards. Fudd, Ducharme, Muhl, and serial absentee DeBerry, aren't going to win UCONN anything. The team will go only as far as Edwards and Bueckers can take it.

Now that UConn has there players they need to get organized. Once that happens we will be fine.

@@jaylewis1993 I actually watched it from tip-off to the buzzer….And, I was on the team that beat UCONN in the NCAA tournament back in 1998 so I know a thing or two about the game we ALL witnessed. I could go on but I’ll leave it there for now.

@@waldolydecker8118 I never blamed Edwards for anything, just noted that her performance lacked intensity and tenacity until the end of the game. The film doesn’t lie. Next, I never addressed the other players’ rankings - If you truly KNOW the politics and B.S. involved in those rankings you would never consider them either because they are a joke (I agree w/you on this point). The proof is in stats and head-to-head competition will always be the litmus test as we saw yesterday. Saniyah Rivers on the other hand, was a force - Yes, she’s awful from behind the arc 😩 BUT she more than makes up for it in virtually every other stat category.

a loss like this will make this team tougher or break em, i'd bet on tougher!

That sounds like wishful thinking in the extreme. LOL

I must admit, I am wishing. @@michaelkeppler6593

@@bobbear4437 How much you wanna bet? UCONN doesn't have 5 current or future All-Americans on their team anymore.

Disagree, at least if she claims to be a great player. The great ones make those around them better, this did not happen yesterday. If anything it looked like the others were standing around waiting for Paige to do something. That is not a winning formula

Did they win? She also had 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 3 turnovers. Funny how you don't mention that.

@@msp5138she had 4 forced steals. Besides, it’s her first “real game” back after 585 days..do you know how much this can change you? She was the best player for uconn DONT deny that.

Lmao

@@msp5138She's a guard, so rebounds are a plus. You failed to mention that her clueless teammates missed 9/11 wide oopen attempts, including 3 layups, off of her passes. If she had NC State's players she would have had 10 assists minimum. You also fail to mention that 3 TOs is normal someone who has to handle it so much, you really conveniently failed to mnetion that 2/3 came in the 2 minutes of total scramble time when no one else was doing anything, and they were on a very dubious charge call( NC State was clearly not set) and on a play at the rim where she got mugged with no call...she should have been shooting 2. You're a brain dead troll, trying to pick on the single player who showed up, and was playing in only her second game in 590 days and is a joke. She was 5X better than her next teammate and she's hust getting started. They sucked, get over it. You need to bring receipts but you cant....your obviously some hater, probably a fan of the low efficiency unconscionable gunning, zero D playing dude at Iowa

Nice that she got her 27, but they lost and lost big. What UConn did not get from PB that they really needed was leadership. She needed to have a DT moment and put the team on her shoulders and fire them up…did not happen. Geno needs to have a good week in practice and make sure each and every player understands their role and is confident in delivering on their role.

the word is "overrated." No UCONN fanatic will admit it because its too embarrassing. They want you to believe that Chrystian Williams, Bueckers, and Fudd were all actually the #1 players coming out of high school. Go back and look at the top 100 players the year each came out...not even close.

@@waldolydecker8118paige deserved that number 1 spot, what are you on

@@andreavillalba8722 - lol, notice you didnt say anything about Williams or Fudd...that speaks volumes. Paige is a solid player and being at UCONN will always get constant hype...but wouldn't rank her over Caitlin Clark or Cordoso at SC in impacting big games. You are confused because the heavily UCONN-biased media gave freshman Beuckers the POY award when it should have gone to SC's Alyiah Boston. I like Paige, but she will unfortunately come up short again this year.

Bueckers was player of the year as a Freshman. Guess that would make you the number one player out of High school@@waldolydecker8118

UCONN didn't rank those players coming out of high school@@waldolydecker8118

They need to re-watch this game and work on their weak spots instead of being overly confident, especially since this is the last year a lot of their best players will be playing before hopefully being drafted for the WNBA.

No, satire, not parody.

That girl aziaha(#10 the lefty) she was phenomenal (even though she got in foul trouble) and of course Rivers was magnificent.

It’s a press conference. He’s not crying. He’s telling it the way it is.

At least the Sweet Sixteen!

Please name a coach who likes to lose?

paige could score 40 if she wanted, she’s just too humble and unselfish

I really get tired of this "Posting On Social Media Crap". You really think that the Girls having a bit of fun affects their Playing. Paige has a big following but knocks down 27 points.

Could not say it better

LSU trying hard 😂😂😂😂

paige doesn’t need lsu.

Lies

Agreed. Azzi couldnt defend at all either. These girls might be to busy taking photos and working on there millions outside of ball. Dunno

Fudd is overated.Facts.

She is a one-trick pony. And when the 3's aren't falling she is a liability.

@@onestgermainbad games don’t mean anything. cc has multiple bad games but still shines regardless. It’s early season, maybe judge her again after April. Azzi was the leading scorer last season and she barely missed. Having Paige return impacted the team, but it’s early to judge.

@@violetforpb Barely missed? What games were you watching?🤣🤣🤣

NC will not make it far as they just got lucky this time around like any team so calm the fuck down.

@@Lady_K2 My post was in reference to the blatant seed manipulation that that took place in the 2022 NCAA tournament, gifting #2 seed UCONN a de facto home game in the regional final against #1 seed NC State.

Amari seems like a great young lady...but she is clueless when she gets in the game. Always looks 2 steps slower in reacting to anything going on around her.

@@mrbuzzman66 LOLOLLLLL What game ... she never gets to play. If what you say is true, why did HAS BEEN Geno recruit her? Please don't respond ... you are now IGNORED.

Leave her alone

Mr Paige Hater is back for 2023 -2024!!

@@kpwaterfield That’s what you got from what I said??? Paige Simps back for 2023-24! You can’t make this up!🤣🤣🤣🤡

You obviously don't know Geno- and/or don't know what you are talking about- he says it like it is- No excuses.

shut up

As he should! Uconn didn’t play well, it’s not untrue to put it out there. He blames his team more than nc state, not a single negative comment was made towards the Wolfpack. putting it out there isn’t “excuses”….it’s reality and all he said was right. Besides, one bad game doesn’t mean ANYTHING

@@violetforpb all last year Geno was making excuses that they had injuries and were missing players. Now those players are back and he still loses. Whats the excuse this time

@@SKeletor99999 obviously there was none considering the fact that the girls weren’t ready. they still haven’t found their rhythm with Paige back. they need work and the first “real game” showed what they needed to improve. regardless, they’re gonna be great once they manage everything out. Plus, one loss means NOTHING. Stop acting like the reigning national champions haven’t lost before they won the title. neither did South Carolina is 2022. Dawn improved her team and so will Geno.