For much of the preseason, Geno Auriemma has talked about needing to replace the 40 points per game that Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson contributed nearly every night for UConn last season.
Year-to-year turnover is part of life in college basketball, something Geno has navigated quite well over the years. While Collier and Samuelson are certainly gigantic losses, UConn doesn’t need to replace the players. It needs to replace the production.
So exactly how much of a void are the Huskies trying to fill? Let’s look at the numbers.
Last year (the 2018-19 season), the two seniors along with Mikayla Coombs, who transferred to Georgia, combined to score 1,450 points — 46 percent of the team’s scoring.