With their fourth NCAA Final Four appearance in four years the Uconn Lady Huskies have again showed why they are still the team to beat. The overall number one seed destroyed the Duke Blue Devils in the Elite 8 after the game was close early.
When you start to breakdown this team's success two words come to mind and head coach Geno Auriemma are not them. Even though Auriemma has built this program from the ground up, I was thinking more Mya Moore.
Moore who just passed surpassed 3,000 points for her career was also named to her fourth All-American Team, making it the second time in women's college basketball history that has ever happened (Courtney Parris 2006-2010).
She has had to shoulder the load on this team this season with the graduation of Tina Charles and the injury to Caroline Doty to start the seson. Playing much of the season with a minimum of 4-6 freshman and sophomores per night and never did Moore seem to get down on her teammates or chastise them for making a poor play. She was always there to motivate them and lead not only by example but cheering her teammates as was shown on the ESPN broadcast throughout the NCAA tournament. Even when their winning streak of 90 games was snapped back in December at Palo Alto against the Stanford Cardinals. There was no breaking of this champion as they have not lost a game since.
If the Huskies go on to defeat Big East foe the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in their Final Four match up and beat the winner of Stanford/Texas A&M to win their third championship in a row, I won't be the only one wondering is Maya Moore the greatest of all-time.
The ct post has a list of some more of her accomplishments here:
(http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Maya-Moore-by-the-numbers-1317432.php).
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