She will be ok

Sure do agree with you on Aubrey's 29, awesome. Aubrey must be an incredible teammate, such a great disposition. DeBerry, I don't know; to me, she's a victim of everything being too easy in high school, and everyone telling she's All this and All that; she didn't need to learn positioning, foot work and timing. Hell, she has difficulty with a high post handoff. Sorry, I'm not sold on DeBerry.

Yes and that Bueckers girl seemed to have potential!

Nika keeps the UCONN defense going hard when on the court.. as witnessed by the sloppy defense by UCONN in Q4 when she was off the court. Her attitude and toughness is contagious... and she naturally pushes the team into good look fast breaks. Nika got 7 assists that game, drew offensive charges, and added a reliable 5 points. Her job is not to be a volume scorer... but be ENOUGH of a threat to open up the defense to pass to volume scorers. Nika and Aaliyah are the two rocks this season... and they were rookies just a few years ago. That's the kind of progress you want to see in college players.

She is emerging as the best all round player. PERIOD. Needs confidence

You do realize that Caroline is playing hurt, right?

Sadly, I believe you will be right.

I've never been clear about the rules regarding the "restricted zone". My best interpretation is: If the collision occurs outside the arc it's an offensive foul. If the collision occurs inside the arc it's a defensive foul.

@@DyreStraits Roy, we share the same understanding. There is so much inconsistency about "the zone." Ah, inconsistency on the part of the officials. Your explanation is so clear/concise. Refs should have no problem.

If it occurs outside the restricted area, it’s only an offensive foul of the defender has positioning and the offensive player committed the offensive foul.

@@macyrae7351 I sure do agree with you, Macy. Wouldn't it be a wonder if the officials saw it the same way!

Hard to compete with top teams when two NPOY talents are out, Juhasz and Brady, and Muhl are out, and Ducharme is a shell of herself after injury.

I’m hoping that Fudd will be back just because February as for Edwards stop accidentally injuring your own teammates!

100%...I love how she tells Geno she’s fine, meanwhile she looks drunk walking off the court. Dazed and wobbly is not a recipe for success after getting hit in the head

I'm with you there, Germain!

@@lastonestanding3417 Thank you!

Totally 💯 agree

There are only 11 players on the roster.

@@savsav5264 we are both wrong it is in fact 12: Aaliyah Edwards, Paige Bueckers (injured), Nika Mühl , Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Dorka Juhász (injured), Inês Bettencourt, Ice Brady (injured), Caroline Ducharme, Ayanna Patterson, Azzi Fudd (injured), Amari DeBerry and Aubrey Griffin. Still no idea why this 15 was stuck inside my brain. Maybe i was still counting Olivia, Chrystin and Evina. Obviously my bad. Noone knows yet what is going on with Nika, and Lou might have been injured in the end of the game aswell.

She had been having pain in her ankle for a few days and she tweaked it in the game so Geno didn’t want to risk it or cause an even worse injury

Lou rolled her left ankle or something w/5:02 left in the game ...you can see her lift it up.

Nope. In Azzi's case, the big center from ND hit Edwards, knocked her back into Azzi. In Nikka's situation, she was trying to draw a charge got knocked back as Edwards was coming in.

Thank you ~ that’s an important clarification, one that I missed 🙃

Imagine the results of DeBerry attempting to guard, or make any kind of an offensive move against A Boston, or C Brink?

She had an injury and couldn’t shoot for a while so she’s still getting her shot back. She’s playing right now because she has experience and their options are so limited. If other players were healthy and they had options, Geno would be limiting her minutes much more.

@@macyrae7351 I understand, but right now, she looks like she is sleepwalking. I', a big supporter of Caroline and just hate to see what's happening.

Brian, on the replay, at about 57:01 watch how Caroline comes off her low move off the pass from Edwards; look how she moves off at the end of the play, I think I'm seeing some limping. Wonder if her hip is still not right?

@@lastonestanding3417 Quite possibly. She just doesn't seem to move a as fluidly as she did last year.May not fully recovered from either of last years injuries. She's just not the same, imho.

Amari played a good first half, then lost focus the 2nd half to the point of being a big liability. She is in a tough spot... not quite the passer Oliva was... and she gets tunnel vision and seems unable to improvise (as you mentioned). Good points bout Caroline... she was rushing and making bad decisions on both ends of the court. I think Caroline is trying too hard, playing a bit too much outside her control and missing layups. I disagree about Edwards... she has been an absolute ROCK on the roster. Ya, she missed a shot or two.. and a pass or two.. and had a bad foul or two.. but overall she was a big plus contributor on the boards, outlet fast breaks and half court offensive movement. Edwards hit her shots at an acceptable percentage... playing fast and hard yet calm. I don't see the uncharacteristic stuff you are... I see rebounding, in-range shots, good screens and handoffs.. and better control over her fouling choices (less of a reflex foul than previous years). Edwards hit that big 2 pointer after the inbounds with only seconds left on the clock.. and she had some wicked post-up buckets. Geno is giving Edwards big-time critical minutes, because she is performing. The last few minutes of full court pressure... without Lou... with a high-rookie ratio on the court for UCONN, was where the game got the most ugly (turnovers). Princeton never quit, and they schooled UCONN's rookies to the point of being 1 shot away from winning. UCONN coaches didn't have much of a choice to let the rookies figure it out. Good thing Lou, Nika, Aliyah and especially Audrey ran up a nice buffer lead before two of them were injured and couldn't close-out the game. There is a reason Geno doesn't play rookies with small leads... its a very hard way to learn when you can cost the starters the game. Geno paces how he plays rookies... and players that are working through things (deBerry, Ducharme). Yesterday's game, Geno didn't have that option, but the rookies still managed to pull it off. Hard won victories give great instruction.

@@northerniggy8261 Edwards have been a rock. I wasn’t really knocking her. But my problem is that her play has been different this year which has been good because she has been patient and seeing the floor and basically been able to do what she wanted to do. She limited her turnovers. But the last 2 or 3 games she has been going back to that because it’s like she’s trying to force it a bit. I think that everyone feels they have to step up more in someway that they are playing differently than what’s been successful. Honestly I wasn’t really upset with ines play yesterday ofc she was going to have her rookie moments. But she was really the only one that could breakthrough the press when it was needed. I think nerves kicked in. Ayanna has to find a way to be a problem on offense. Defensively she been straight. That’s why geno keeps her in half the time. Honestly Princeton did put the pressure on them but I did feel like they could beat it easily. But no one was thinking. They needed to slow down you don’t have the same personnel out there. They made no adjustments and it wasn’t just the rookies. It was literally the whole team.

If she is struggling with "ball security and figuring out what's happening on the court" I say she pretty much is not a ball player.