Doggydaddy's Den: Doggy's Doghouse 3/31/2022

GO UCONN!!!!!

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Doggy's UConn/Stanford Pregame Report

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In some really great news, Dorka Juhasz had successful surgery on her left wrist to repair the fracture sustained in the Elite Eight game against North Carolina State. Recovery time is supposed to be four months. That gets her back to UConn basketball activities in August, well before next season's fall practice starts.

Wait....I forgot to mention. She has also announced she will be coming back for her last year of eligibility, hoding true to her commitment to play for UConn two years.

This is such big news for the Huskies, giving them the experience in the post they need. And more good news below!!!

Geno Auriemma says they're going to try to get Dorka Juhász out tomorrow to be with team for #WFinalFour
— Charlotte Carroll (@charlottecrrll) March 31, 2022

Late breaking news! Joe Zone is reporting that UConn is flying out Dorka to be at the game. She will be a great cheerleader on the bench!!!

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Three hour press conference. UConn starts at the 2:40 mark.

Geno, Christyn and Olivia. Watch it, it's awesome!

Most difficult season to coach ever

in his 39 years as Head Coach

Behind the scenes at media day

UConn Practice Day Before Playing Stanford

Azzi Fudd Pregame Zoom

Paige Bueckers Pregame Zoom

Aaliyah Edwards Pregame Zoom

Paige Bueckers talks expectations

"Pistol Chin" series for Paige Bueckers

Final Four Preview- UConn vs Stanford

Tara, Haley Jones weigh in on storied

Stanford-UConn rivalry

In Depth with Lexi Hull

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Geno on the Portal - "I don't care if they leave. Players leave all the time, coaches leave all the time. That's Life. I've never had a really good player leave my programs that left and made it big at a top 10 or top 20 school. That's just not gonna happen. If you can't play for me you can't play for anyone at this level. And you know those 850 players in the portal? 300 won't find a school to go to. And then they realize maybe it's them and not the school. Remember last year? 1000 kids in the portal, 250 didn't find a school. And where they left don't want them back. What ever happened to "figure it the hell out"."

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Follow along and view the Group standings

Doggy's Doghouse and the password is doggydaddy.

Just click on the link.

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1 Seed South Carolina vs 1 Seed Louisville

Friday April 1st 7:00 ESPN

1 Seed Stanford vs 2 Seed UConn

Friday April 1st 9:30 ESPN

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Straight from the Dog

UConn coach Geno Auriemma joins us to talk about his late-game decisions against NC State, making the Final Four 14 straight times, his team's next opponent Stanford, and whether he's thought about retiring any time soon. pic.twitter.com/g64eaC1M8o
— PTI (@PTI) March 30, 2022

Gotta love Geno!!

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Sigh.....again with the Stanford post advantage. In the interview I posted the reporter asked Olivia how they would handle Stanfords BIG advantage in the post with Dorka out. I won't go into the answer but I will go into the question.

Stanford does NOT have an advantage in the post. In fact, I believe UConn still has it, even without Dorka.

Post players are post player, not tall guards. Stanford has TWO post players. Brink at 6'4" and Belibi at 6'1". I really don't count 6'5" Prichtel for two reason. One is that she won't see that many minutes. And two, she plays more on the perimeter than in the post. Against Texas, she took one shot and it was a three pointer.

UConn has two post players, 6'5" Nelson-Ododa and 6'3" Edwards.

So, where is the Stanford advantage? It ain't there!!

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I seem to remember another season when UConn was playing in the semi-final awaiting to play, if they won, the winner of Louisville against a heavily favored No. 1 team with a dominating center. That Louisville team had a spunky guard that led them to the upset.

So, you never know!

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By PHIL

Overtime Facts

There was a thread talking about overtimes in NCAA tournament history for obvious reasons. I shared some facts in that thread, but I thought I’d pull together some facts about overtime games over the years.

• The very first overtime was in the first NCAA tournament in 1982. It came in the regional final with Tennessee defeating Southern California.

• There have been 81 overtime games in the tournament. This is the 40th year so that works out to almost exactly 2 overtime games per tournament on average (obviously excluding the upcoming weekend)

• While teams average 2 per tournament, there were exactly 3 in the four years between 2017 and 2021

• The first multiple overtime game occurred in the second tournament in 1983. It wasn’t a double overtime was a triple overtime, and again included Tennessee defeating Mississippi in the regional semifinal

• 1991 featured another multiple overtime game and again it wasn’t double overtime, it was a triple overtime, with Oklahoma State defeating Michigan State in the second round

• The most overtimes in a tournament game is 4, 1995 when Alabama beat Duke 121 – 120 in the second round

• There finally was a double-overtime game in 2000, with Vanderbilt beating Kansas in the first round.

• There have been overtime games in all but three tournaments – 1989, 2005 and 2016

• The number of overtime games (81) exceeds the number of one point games (78)

• the NCAA keeps track of the largest number of points in overtime. Not surprisingly, first and second place with 40 and 39 points go to the participants in the four OT game. Surprisingly, third-place goes, not to one of the two triple overtime games but UConn with 30 points in the double-overtime game. NC States 26 points ties them for fifth with the participants in the two triple overtime games

• The 56 combined points in overtime by UConn and NC State is the second most in history, behind only the quadruple overtime game, but ahead of the two triple overtime games

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By David in Naples

On Friday, #1 Stanford (32-3) meets #2 UConn (29-5) in the 2nd Final Four semi-final game. Lots of special numbers to review.

#10 - The number of active players the Huskies will have available to play.
#11 - Total National Championships won by UConn. (Stanford, SC and L'Ville have 4 combined)
#12 - The Goal.
#13 - Christyn's number, she leads the team in scoring with 456 points.
#14 - Consecutive Final Four trips by UConn. Dorka's jersey number. The team's inspiration for winning.
#15 - Total number of Final Four appearances by Stanford. (UConn's total is 22)
#16 - The last year UConn won the NC was 2016.
#17 - Christyn's position on all-time scoring list at UConn (1,838 points). Total made threes by Paige this season.

Go Huskies..!!

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