Alas, as expected, Doty is done for the year: she tore her ACL against Syracuse Saturday. It's the same ACL she tore last year playing soccer.

In the course of one game, high-level women's basketball still seems to me the most exciting spectator event in the world. In the course of a season, it can feel more like a demolition derby-- and that's just for the fans: those of us who never played high-level hoops ourselves can never know how much worse it feels for a player, especially if it's happened to her before.

The last time a UConn starter tore her ACL, Clay had these discouraging words.