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Buck still waiting
UConn freshman Heather Buck will be examined on Saturday to see how she is recovering from her bout with mononucleosis. The three-time New Haven Register State Girls' Basketball Most Valuable Player during her remarkable run at Stonington High is definitely out for Sunday's game against Oklahoma. An announcement on her timetable to return to practice and then play in games should be coming on Sunday.
Speaking of Sunday, both UConn coach Geno Auriemma and Oklahoma's Sherri Coale believes the game will not be decided by who wins the showdown between All-American post players Courtney Paris and Tina Charles but by the supporting casts. I would have to agree. Top-ranked UConn is averaging 92 points per game and 75.5 of those points come from players not named Tina Charles. Paris accounts for 15 of the fourth-ranked Sooners' 81 points per game.
Proving it is indeed a small world, one of the teams in attendance at Gampel Pavilion for Friday's practice certainly caught my eye. The girls' basketball team Hudson Memorial High out of Hudson, N.H. sat behind one of the baskets. Why is that noteworthy? Well, I attended Hudson Memorial from 1975-79. Last year the Alvirne High School girls' hoop team, also from Hudson, also took in a UConn practice. I graduated from Alvirne in 1983 and found it pretty ironic to see two of my old schools in attendance at Gampel. Now if I attended junior high and high school in Connecticut it would be no big deal but to see Memorial and Alvirne represented at UConn struck a funny bone both this year and last.
Speaking of Sunday, both UConn coach Geno Auriemma and Oklahoma's Sherri Coale believes the game will not be decided by who wins the showdown between All-American post players Courtney Paris and Tina Charles but by the supporting casts. I would have to agree. Top-ranked UConn is averaging 92 points per game and 75.5 of those points come from players not named Tina Charles. Paris accounts for 15 of the fourth-ranked Sooners' 81 points per game.
Proving it is indeed a small world, one of the teams in attendance at Gampel Pavilion for Friday's practice certainly caught my eye. The girls' basketball team Hudson Memorial High out of Hudson, N.H. sat behind one of the baskets. Why is that noteworthy? Well, I attended Hudson Memorial from 1975-79. Last year the Alvirne High School girls' hoop team, also from Hudson, also took in a UConn practice. I graduated from Alvirne in 1983 and found it pretty ironic to see two of my old schools in attendance at Gampel. Now if I attended junior high and high school in Connecticut it would be no big deal but to see Memorial and Alvirne represented at UConn struck a funny bone both this year and last.
posted by Jim Fuller at
4:31 PM
1 Comments:
Geno and Sherri are right the game will be decided by Kalana, Caroline, Tiffany, Rene, Meghan, "T", Kaili, and Tina.
Mr. Fuller, you are correct touting you high school--one must alway remember their roots.
You and John from the Courant work well together. But the Courant only call EDD --YKW (You Know Who) since she is NOT a member of the UConn team. We can once again call her EDD when she rejoins the team next summer.
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