The morning of her team's season-ending loss to Texas A&M, Baylor's Kim Mulkey sounded more like a prophet than one of the nation's best women's basketball coaches when she wondered aloud if her freshmen and in particular freshman point guard Odyssey Sims would play like a freshman. Well she did and Baylor's dream of returning to the Final Four ended against a team the Lady Bears had beaten three times during the regular season.

With a freshman point guard of his own in Bria Hartley, here is UConn coach Geno Auriemma's take on the anxiety of having freshmen in key roles in the NCAA tournament.

"For sure, I think any coach that's relying on freshmen and doesn't feel that way is probably not being honest," Auriemma said. "I come to practice every day and I just watch Bria and Stefanie (Dolson) and see what their body language is, how they're feeling, emotionally where are they. No matter how much you try to prepare them for it and work on certain things and talk to them or what their teammates say to them, when the opening tip goes up at 9:30-something tomorrow night, you're going to have two kids out there that are going to be a little bit jittery. If they're not, then we're not going to win. So part of that is going to be normal and encouraged. But whether or not it stays throughout the game, you always worry about that. You always worry about that."