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  1. Balker

    Jay Williams as a color commentator

    Most of the Indiana fans in my section were totally fine. There were also a handful of Texas fans, also nice. There were probably 8 total Indiana fans in the section though that were just absolutely awful. Screaming "Indiana" during the national anthem. Screaming at Donovan "you suck...
  2. Balker

    Jay Williams as a color commentator

    FWIW the lower bowls were heavily IU fans. There were very few Texas or Louisville fans. A lot of lower sections, including mine, were 80% IU. The upper sections were more UConn. Tomorrows tickets will be cheap…
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    That location opened sometime around 2015. Madison opened a bit before that. The Clinton one was around since the early 90s. Grand in Guilford is pretty unreliable, in general, I think the Grand name comes with more hype than it deserves these days. On the Guilford topic, shoutout to...
  4. Balker

    UConn Secret Scrimmage

    If we can't beat VA in a secret scrimmage, we have to be asking if Hurley is the right guy for the job.
  5. Balker

    Game Day

    For context, Bama beat a Spanish Select team last summer: https://www.si.com/college/alabama/bamacentral/live-updates-alabama-vs-spanish-select-team There isn't a ton of info out there that I can find on the select teams and their rosters. Might be a matter of translating the term "spanish...
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    Transfer Portal - August 2023

    I wouldn't be surprised to see us take the a center that is comfortable with a bench role. But I don't see need for much else.
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    It’s crazy how much New Haven style has spread in the last five to ten years. Totally random coincidences, the last two places I traveled both had New Haven style pizzerias. First I saw a place a few weeks ago in Palo Alto that was fully New Haven Style. And now I’m in Ireland if all places, and...
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    This thread will outlast all of us
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    I'll take the bait... a couple owns a 12 seat restaurant that makes really good pizza, with really good ingredients. They work the restaurant themselves every day they are open. They rotate their menu 8 times a year and roll out a creative special pizza every single week. Do you not like...
  10. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    It’s the 4th best pizzeria in the town of Guilford. It’s just ok. Bufalina Carpanzano’s (partly because they also make surprisingly good fresh pasta) Grand Rocco’s
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    Opposing players who have gone for 50 against UConn?

    T This is pretty wild, completely makes stuff up. We didn't even play Notre Dame that year! For a minute I thought this would be a gold mine for obscure basketball stats.
  12. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    I never thought I'd live to see the day that Pepe's serves up a Buffalo Chicken pizza and tries to pass it off as fancy. Also 100% agreed, the pizza thread needs @8893
  13. Balker

    The offense is the problem

    The storyline the metrics tell is not an offensive problem that’s driving our losses. Shots fall sometimes, sometimes they don’t. We will occasionally lose a game where the other team plays well and our threes don’t fall, that’s not completely avoidable for any team. A consistent theme in our...
  14. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    Gargano Pasta in Old Saybrook is launching pizza starting today. If there other food is any indication, I'd be surprised if this wasn't a new entrant in the "best pizza in CT" category. Menu here: Gargano Pasta and Italian Market - Order Online - Delivery - Old Saybrook This has been a cool...
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    Used to be a place in Madison, Village Pizza, that cut it into squares. They had a fire that forced them to close, bringing Grand Apizza to town eventually and sparing the children of Madison from Greek pizza squares at birthday parties from then on.
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    “Unbelievable”

    This isn’t a stopped play official warning, it was just the ref speaking to Hurley during the play while Miller was doing the same thing with the same ref on the other side of the court and there was no discussion. It happened around 2 minutes into the game. And yeah, my bad I added the...
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    “Unbelievable”

    The “we weren’t aggressive enough to get foul calls” folks should rewatch the game. Xavier did plenty of things to warrant foul calls that were getting whistled the other side. First few minutes alone: Xavier multiple players 3 second violations to try to prevent lob play no call Nunge push...
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    247Sports projects Bama #4, UConn #5

    I get what we’re trying to say when we say this, but it’s nonsense. Rankings matter a lot in college basketball. UConn being number one (not just top ten) is huge for ticket sales, reputation, recruiting, seeding perception… the reason we aren’t ranked number one right now is because we’re still...
  19. Balker

    Clearly our best lineup is:

    It's a small sample size, but Hawkins, Jackson, Karaban, and Hawkins, Jackson, Sanago are the best 3 man lineups in the country that have played 10 possessions.
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    OT: Favorite Restaurant in CT

    I haven’t been back to Quattro’s since Amarone’s opened. I think we might just have different tastes! I’m almost only eating pasta, I suppose that could make a big difference. But I will go back to Quattro’s soon now just to be sure.
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    Annual What Are You Handing Out for Halloween Thread

    We put up a mean haunted house, too. I find it diverting when you have a lot of kids flowing through to have fun with it.
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    OT: Favorite Restaurant in CT

    I've only been to Grano Arso twice, but both times it was amazing for me. But maybe I'll change my mind! I didn't really think about the cost since I expensed it both times :D I do think there's something about living right next to something that makes it slowly seem less special. Bufalina is...
  23. Balker

    OT: Favorite Restaurant in CT

    I eat as much Italian, pizza, French food and pastries as I can find, so I’ll weigh in (no pun intended)… Lots of great Italian on here, agreed on L’Orcio being one of the best. But I think Grano Arso in Chester might be better. A bit off the beaten path, but worth a trip. Pizza, I’m taking...
  24. Balker

    KenPom Pre-season conference rankings

    He does do this, the Big East finished 4th last year. Has been 3-6 every year since the conference split up with one exception being a 2nd place finish in 2015.
  25. Balker

    Saturday games

    As a parent of younger kids I'm a big fan of the 12 PM Saturday games. Great games to bring the kids and be home well before bed time.
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    Annual What Are You Handing Out for Halloween Thread

    That’s exactly it, they’ve consolidated into walkable neighborhoods more than they did in the past. We went through 600 pieces including 200 full size before 7:30. Just turned the lights off and went into hiding. Have to draw the line somewhere.
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    OT Avelo Air/Tweed New Haven Airport

    To be fair, I haven't. But with 3 kids under 7, I am pretty particular about where I will or won't sit on the plane, so I don't like to take my chances. On the relative pricing, every time I've flown Avelo it was HVN-MCO, and I was comparing to BDL-MCO on JetBlue, which is a pretty...
  28. Balker

    2022-23 KenPom Rankings

    Sort of... KenPom's pre-season rankings factor into where you finish. The pre-season data eventually is pulled out completely from the modeling, but the reality is by the time that data is removed it's already had a massive influence on how every team is perceived for the entire season, who...
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    OT Avelo Air/Tweed New Haven Airport

    they are right on the website but if you don’t put them in when searching for flights they don’t show these rates.
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    OT Avelo Air/Tweed New Haven Airport

    You need to make sure you're using the Avelo discount codes for sure, which is the only airline I'm aware of where that's the case. But even if you do, once you account for choosing a reasonable seat and bags the cost is similar to JetBlue. No different from other value airlines. It's cheap if...
  31. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    It was discussed a little bit a few dozen pages back, haven't tried it out myself. Westville is a bit of a hike for me most of the time.
  32. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    Naples does run a solid pizza truck! They are also one of the main food options at Stony Creek Brewery if you're ever there. Their restaurant in a strip mall in Guilford I cannot say the same for. It's fine, but nothing special.
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    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    I was looking at the top 50 in the US list
  34. Balker

    OT: Best Pizza in CT

    I've eaten at many of the places on this list, I wouldn't knock any of them. San Mateo (27) is a personal favorite. And we all know these lists are always arbitrary more than not..... But it's ridiculous to not have anything from New Haven (or CT/RI at all) on any top pizza list. It's either...
  35. Balker

    OT: Pac-12 basketball attendance numbers are bad.

    Full data is easy to see here: College Basketball Attendance Report (2021-22)
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