From Joe Perez at Sports Charcuterie, a Q&A with Sue Bird when she was in CT for the Stanford/UConn game

Q: How do big regular season games like this one figure in the realm of a season?

A: I think it’s no secret that a lot of the games you play at Connecticut you win by a lot; that’s the nature of the beast. Those big midseason matchups are huge. Some of us were talking about it. You lose a game in the WNBA and it’s on to the next game. You lose a game overseas, your still upset, but there’s the next one. In college, you were devastated and distraught for days, weeks; you knew it in practice, you heard about it. There’s a lot of build up for the game, but if you lost, it was huge.