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  1. VAHuskyFan

    Three of Sixteen!

    Big East Tournament Record (2023-24): 15-3
  2. VAHuskyFan

    Northwestern Post Game Thread

    Seriously, how great was that first half?
  3. VAHuskyFan

    Tournament (Non-UConn) Thread - 1st Round

    If Timberlake is a little more coordinated and does not completely lose his own balance and slam into the court, that foul may not have been called. (Then again, it’s Kansas.)
  4. VAHuskyFan

    UVA making the committee proud

    In UVA’s case it would be the TBAAY metric (they’ve been ass all year).
  5. VAHuskyFan

    UVA making the committee proud

    Quad One Games: St. John’s (4-10, 29% win rate) Ave. Score: 76-77 (1 point loss) UVA (2-7, 22% win rate) Ave Score: 52-69 (17 point loss) LOL. Has there ever been an at-large team with a worse Q1 loss margin?
  6. VAHuskyFan

    UVA making the committee proud

    UVA’s resume was atrocious. They played a total of 3 teams in the Top 25 of NET all season. All double-digit losses for UVA. 2-7 in Quad 1. And they lost those 7 games by an average of 21 points! On the plus side of the ledger there’s. . . nothing. Not a single win against a team that finished...
  7. VAHuskyFan

    Why The Selection Committee is a Joke

    Last year the Big East refs seemed to understand this, and made sure we “shared” our non-conference success with the other Big East schools. So let’s be careful what we wish for.
  8. VAHuskyFan

    Why The Selection Committee is a Joke

    The simple answer is that the Committee got lazy and didn’t adjust anything based on conference tournaments. Kenpom is just a data point. Would you prefer NET? Here’s Top-10 NET teams by region: East: 4 / South: 2 / Midwest: 2 / West: 2 You mentioned resume-based. Fine. Here’s Top-10 BPI...
  9. VAHuskyFan

    Why The Selection Committee is a Joke

    Wins against Top-5 Kenpom teams needed to reach Final Four (to chalk): UConn(1) = 2 Houston(1) = 0 Purdue(1) = 0 UNC(1) = 0 Iowa State(2) = 2 Arizona(2) = 0 Tennessee(2) = 1 Marquette(2) = 1 Illinois(3) = 2 Creighton(3) = 1 Baylor(3) = 0 Kentucky(3) = 1 Auburn(4) = 2 Duke(4) = 1 Alabama(4) =...
  10. VAHuskyFan

    Way Off Topic: Surge Pricing

    People hate price discrimination and surge pricing, but like discounts and deals. Same thing to an economist - all depends on how you frame it. That’s why stores have “sales” and not “randomly-pay-30%-more weekends.” Not very smart on the part of Wendy’s.
  11. VAHuskyFan

    Week of 1/29 Other games

    You’re going to root for Duke over a team we played and beat? Two issues with this: 1. UNC is a team we played and beat. 2. It’s Duke!
  12. VAHuskyFan

    Down Goes 1 & 2

    Purdue’s resume is significantly better than ours right now. They have wins over NET #2,5,6,9,17. Our best wins are #10 UNC and #35 St. John’s. They’re #2 SOS in both BPI and Kenpom. We’re #48/#134(!). It’s not really a close call. So the extent 1000% better means “absolutely” better, I think...
  13. VAHuskyFan

    Chief’s Briefs - SH / Big East Refs Edition

    Seton Hall limited our freedom of movement on offense with aggressive physical guarding. Our response was to further limit our own movement by standing around. We played right into Seton Hall’s hands. As for refs, some crews will call a bunch of fouls on SH’s style of defense. Others won’t. You...
  14. VAHuskyFan

    The "Discuss our seeding and path to the Final Four" Thread

    I’m with you 100%. My point is the NCAA has all these (frankly dumb) supposedly objective bracket “principles” to try to make what they are doing seem objective — but then if you look at the output, it’s obvious that they are moving teams up and down all over the place because they feel like it...
  15. VAHuskyFan

    The "Discuss our seeding and path to the Final Four" Thread

    Why is this an important principle? Hilarious that the committee has these intricate principles designed to make the process look objective — and then every year the Committee Chair gets on TV and spouts nonsense about how they actually made their decisions. This year it was dinging Kansas bc...
  16. VAHuskyFan

    Marquette Post Game Thread

    That is the worst shooting game we are going to see from Hawkins. 1-8 from three. And if he was shooting a little better tonight it would have been 0-8 bc he doesn’t get the bank on the first shot (which was off by a country mile). You gotta pull for him to just move on and put it behind him.
  17. VAHuskyFan

    Marquette Post Game Thread

    We didn’t see him down stretch bc we got into single bonus and he’s a 50% FT shooter.
  18. VAHuskyFan

    Home Game

    Creighton is #6 in the country in home attendance at 16.6k per game. They outdraw a handful of NBA teams. Not something you’d see if the fanbase was just alumni. They basically won either the regular season or tournament every year in the MVC. Tougher competition in the Big East of course...
  19. VAHuskyFan

    Big East Final

    If UConn is in the final, rival fansbases will want to sell their tickets. But even more UConn fans will want to buy those tickets, so the price will go up (happened when UConn made the Regional Finals at MSG in 2014). Of course if you buy now and UConn doesn’t make the final, the price will...
  20. VAHuskyFan

    St. John's / Marquette Game Thread

    God I love the Big East tournament.
  21. VAHuskyFan

    OOC Scheduling Next Year

    We should host Yale every year as long as they continue to be top-half in the Ivy. If we wanted to game the NET a bit we could even play a “neutral” site game against them in Bridgeport or Mohegan Sun occasionally. We’d have to work out the financials with the venue - not sure if it’s...
  22. VAHuskyFan

    Up to #5 on KenPom

    What SOS number is that? Is that for rest-of-season games? Our season SOS is 30s to low 40s, which is perfectly respectable.
  23. VAHuskyFan

    It's not coaching

    It’s definitely on the coaches that we had the ball up 1 with 50 seconds left and did not play for 2–for-1 possessions. We just ran the clock down under 30 and gave Seton Hall the last possession to win. Woof.
  24. VAHuskyFan

    AP Poll-Week 10

    Seven straight weeks as a Top 10 team is impressive! It’s been a great season so far and great exposure for the UConn brand. The AP poll doesn’t affect seeding, so I’m just going to enjoy the team being Top 10 and not care about whether we’re 4, 5, or 6. And given that Hurley likes to...
  25. VAHuskyFan

    One win to go.

    The coaching staff has shown impressive flexibility in their approach. Yesterday, against a team they thought we were clearly better than, they played vanilla to limit mistakes. Against BC they blitzed like crazy. Charlton has dialed up a variety of trick plays in games against tougher...
  26. VAHuskyFan

    Professional Clock Management

    FIU’s FG decision was foolish, and a perfect example of coaches seeking to delay the moment of truth vs maximizing their chances to win. At some point, you need to win the game. With a FG down 19, FIU still needs 2 TDs, plus 2 do-or-die conversions (50% each) plus an OT win (50%). That’s just...
  27. VAHuskyFan

    Professional Clock Management

    Agree the failed 2 was not a great decision. But it encouraged FIU to settle for a FG on the 8-yard line down 19, which was an even worse decision. If we kick the extra point, FIU has to go for it on 4th (as they should have anyway) and our lead could have been cut to 13. So maybe Mora...
  28. VAHuskyFan

    Guess how many 3s New Mexico State make today?

    Actually a fair point. Apparently two of NM States misses tonight were by Nate Pryor, a guard who shot 22% from the FT line this season. Which . . . ??? Anyway, Arkansas does deserve credit for fouling him the minute he stepped on the court.
  29. VAHuskyFan

    Guess how many 3s New Mexico State make today?

    We also let them shoot 11-11 from the charity stripe. Clearly bad free throw defense. Credit Arkansas tonight for holding NM St to 6-10 from the line.
  30. VAHuskyFan

    Round Two

    NM State 2-12 from 3 so far…
  31. VAHuskyFan

    OT: Providence -3

    Providence making this look like a 1-16 matchup. Wow.
  32. VAHuskyFan

    77% / 100%

    I agree. We were right there at the end, and if we had avoided one or two mistakes we would have advanced. But every favorite that advanced today made mistakes, turned the ball over, missed a few open layups. And most of them still won comfortably by double digits. The nice thing about being...
  33. VAHuskyFan

    77% / 100%

    We were up one on New Mexico State at the under 12 timeout in the first half. From that point on, New Mexico State shot: 10-13 from three (77%) and 13-13 from the FT line (100%). Those numbers are insane. Nobody shoots that in a game. Nobody shoots that in an empty gym. The best...
  34. VAHuskyFan

    It’s hard to be that unprepared for a game.

    I mean, you pretty much do. That's why New Mexico State is moving on and we're going home.
  35. VAHuskyFan

    Season after lottery pick

    Great analysis.
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