It was Connecticut superstar and WNBA great Diana Taurasi who asked the question on everyone's mind three years ago after the NCAA tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her second game back against Georgetown in January, she re-injured it and the program said it would not release a timeline for her return, leaving outsiders curious if she would be back this year. UConn was suddenly without its back-to-back No. 1 recruits.
Within the week, UConn fell on the road to Marquette, 59-52, to lose its first back-to-back games since March 1993. “I feel like our mindset needs to be not worrying about that stuff,” Mühl, who took on starting point guard duty, said after the St. John’s loss on Feb. 21. “Our mindset as players needs to be that we’ve got to go 100% every time and we’re not entitled to win these games. Yeah, we’re low on people [and] we’ve got people getting back, but that hasn’t been an excuse all year. It’s not an excuse now, either.
The Huskies went 6-3 overall as their top offense floundered. Once scoring 82.5 ppg in January, they plummeted to 63.6 in February with more drops in assists, shooting percentage, 3-pointers and half the fast-break points. Auriemma blasted both players and coaching, referencing himself, as “not being what [they] used to be.” He was asked about the Final Four streak reaching 15.
Against Marquette it was 20 minutes with less impressive stats of 4 points and 0-of-4 from 3-point range. In the title win against Villanova, she came off the bench for 32 minutes, 11 points, three 3s on eight attempts and two steals.
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