Some UCONN Basketball Observations

I don't know how you limit a team to five points in the half, so I am very impressed with the Women's Team. The Women's team is actually exceeding my expectations up to this point, especially Kaleena Mosqueda Lewis. I was so impressed with her performance in the Stanford game. She can shoot and score. People need to lower expectations for her though. She is still a freshman and will have natural ups and downs and things to learn. However, she's really really good and can carry the team at times.

I'd like to see a certain UCONN player cut to the rim and stop settling for three's.

The thing that I like best about the women is more depth in the front court. Last year they didn't have that. This year I think they do, or atleast they have more. Heather Buck, although I still haven't seen her play, scored 7 points in the box score vs Fairleigh Dickinson. Kiah Stokes almost had a double-double and you still have Dolson. Although it's early for UCONN it looks like UCONN has a good front court. It's important to have depth for when UCONN faces Baylor and Brittney Griner. I can't wait to watch that.

As for the men, I am concerned about them. In general I think it's really hard to repeat because to some degree I think complacency sets in naturally. By this time last year I knew UCONN had the best team that I had seen since 2006-07 and thought it had a better chance of winning a National Championship than the team that went to the final four in 2008-2009. There was something special about that team last year that I could just sense from watching them. This year I don't have that sense. I can't explain it, but something is just missing right now and I have thought this despite the loss yesterday. As a matter of fact I've been expecting the men to lose at anytime.

I'm thinking that the missing something is Kemba Walker, and I do believe that he can make that big of a difference. I still think UCONN has a very good team and that talent wise they will be one of the top four teams in conference and make the NCAA's. I just don't know how special this team is yet.