CLEVELAND — None of it added up.
She had the sublime form of Larry Bird but the aim of a villain in a Bond film.
It was not so much that Toledo point guard Mariella Santucci was in a slump that baffled. It was that her shots were so often in the wrong area code.
Between mid-December and the start of March, the heralded freshman from Bologna, Italy, shot 22 percent overall and 9.2 percent (5 of 54) from the arc. A blindfold could only have helped.
IN PICTURES: UT women 72, Buffalo 65
One day, Rockets coach Tricia Cullop and her men’s counterpart, Tod Kowalczyk, watched during practice as she so flawlessly .