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I couldn’t watch live so I recorded the game. But a family member inadvertently tipped me off that Stanford had won just before I started watching. As that nightmare of a first half proceeded I kept wondering how the heck we were going to come back. Without that knowledge of the win, I probably would have had a coronary by halftime.

I’ve been critical of Prechtel before but wow, what a clutch performance off the bench. 

People always tout our depth but it sure seemed like our starters played a lot of minutes.

It’s back to the bad old days on the FT line. Who’s that old guy in the Bay Area we can hire to coach FT shooting in the off-season? 

Nice to see Lexie getting props from the announcers.

I hope Brink is ok; South Carolina seems to run a lot of its offense through their bigs.

I think of depth slightly differently.  It can be 9-10 players sharing the minutes which we have done before.  BUT, it can also be that you have players coming off the bench who can be your leading scorer for the game.  All four of our primary bench players (Jump, Lacie, Prechtel and Belibi) have the potential to have that impact.  And two of them (Jump and Prechtel) have already done so in this tournament.  

Contrast this with say Arizona.  If Aari McDonald has a really poor shooting half, I don't think anyone is coming off the bench for Arizona and scoring 20 points.  I think Aari just has to keep shooting and if she can't find her shot then Arizona has no chance to win.

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I couldn’t watch live so I recorded the game. But a family member inadvertently tipped me off that Stanford had won just before I started watching. As that nightmare of a first half proceeded I kept wondering how the heck we were going to come back. Without that knowledge of the win, I probably would have had a coronary by halftime.

I’ve been critical of Prechtel before but wow, what a clutch performance off the bench. 

People always tout our depth but it sure seemed like our starters played a lot of minutes.

It’s back to the bad old days on the FT line. Who’s that old guy in the Bay Area we can hire to coach FT shooting in the off-season? 

Nice to see Lexie getting props from the announcers.

I hope Brink is ok; South Carolina seems to run a lot of its offense through their bigs.

I think of depth slightly differently.  It can be 9-10 players sharing the minutes which we have done before.  BUT, it can also be that you have players coming off the bench who can be your leading scorer for the game.  All four of our primary bench players (Jump, Lacie, Prechtel and Belibi) have the potential to have that impact.  And two of them (Jump and Prechtel) have already done so in this tournament.  

Contrast this with say Arizona.  If Aari McDonald has a really poor shooting half, I don't think anyone is coming off the bench for Arizona and scoring 20 points.  I think Aari just has to keep shooting and if she can't find her shot then Arizona has no chance to win.