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My hope and expectation is: Diarra/Nowell Ball/Hausen McNeely/Stewart Karaban/Stewart/Abraham Reed/Johnson "How can you have Ball starting, but Stewart on the bench?!" Relax, Stewart will still play 25 mpg. And Ball just doesn't have that much competition at that guard spot, and I doubt Nowell...

That's too bad, he's a great teammate but realistically this is the right move to get playing time at a level close to this. He was still behind several guys at his position, even considering uncertainty with Karaban, etc. I do wonder if this indicates any writing on the wall about McNeely.

I mean, he's not a "point guard" in the sense that he's not a guy who's going to stand at the top of the key for 20 seconds and then try to take his man off the dribble. But the NBA has evolved well beyond the Allen Iverson days, thank God.

Jeez, couldn't even capitalize UConn right? /s

He was a 1-and-done with the maturity and selflessness of a 5th year senior. It's really hard to overstate how valuable that was, beyond his box-score contributions.

The last couple of years have made the "who's the best 1/2 year player in program history" debate much more challenging. Castle became everything we needed him to be -- a more than adequate replacement for Andre Jackson, a willing defender, a willing complementary piece who nevertheless brought...

I agree that we've defied the odds. But it's fair to wonder if there will come a point after which we'll say we should have seen the writing on the wall and that the next set of changes will be too much to overcome.

I definitely see some Sanogo, even some Andre Drummond, in his game. The question is how his skillset translates to a motion/screening offense.

Getting light-years off topic, but I made this point in another thread weeks ago: People complain that we've gotten easy paths through the Tournament in our last few runs -- our region fell apart in 2004, faced 8 seeds for the championship in 2011 and 2014, faced 5 seeds in the Final Four in...

This is begging for the Vince McMahon gif/meme

Words mean things, guys.

I think this is reading too much into it. From all accounts Castle is light-years ahead of Bouknight from a maturity standpoint. I think Hurley is saying that he should have been more blunt with Bouknight about what it takes to succeed in the NBA, and should do that with Castle, just from an...

I also really enjoyed in the Illinois game the play where Cam had the ball at the top of the key with like 3 seconds on the shot clock, signaled to Clingan, then fired a pass to Clingan on the block for a give and go lay-up as the shot clock expired. That was emblematic of the trust and calm...

There's only 1 returnee!

I'd bet a thousand dollars at even odds he's going to Arkansas. Squid did the same thing when he left Memphis for Kentucky, right? He already said he has no team and has to build the roster from scratch. Well there you go.

No better evidence that Facebook is now exclusively the province of "get off my lawn" Boomers.

Marquette or possibly Creighton.

I'm having a hard time identifying a favorite, but one recent one comes to mind, during our 30-0 run against Illinois, when Newton fired a nearly no-look pass to a streaking Karaban perfectly at the rim, who caught it and dunked while getting fouled. This was the play that produced the meme shot...

There is danger in looking at a guy's recruiting ranking when evaluating transfers (how many people on this board talked themselves into thinking Terry Larrier would be a stud based on his top 50 ranking while ignoring the fact that he was terrible at VCU), but Michigan was a trainwreck and we...

I think Hurley recognizes that we're not going to be in as stark of a "win now" mode as we were this past year, knowing that Newton, Spencer, Castle, and Clingan were going to be here only one more year. Maybe he envisions part of Diarra's role as being a mentor and a bridge to the next...

It adds opportunity. Sometimes when you lose a lot of players, you know you're going to suck the next year and it takes a lot of excitement out of the next 6 months. Not so anymore.

Great question. Given that Calhoun built the program from very meager beginnings, Hurley would have to significantly surpass JC's on-court accomplishments. He would need 4 championships just to get in the conversation and probably stay here for another 20 years. If he gets like 500 wins, 8-9...

Incredible career and a major, major recruiting hit for a guy who came in ranked around #50, with some people saying he might not be able to play against top competition. He will represent the program well at the next level.

Good news is you can get a UConn #32 jersey that does double-duty.

Yes. And flailed around for years before hiring Roy Williams.

"Don't you have any t-shirts that aren't sports championships?" In the last 30 years my teams have 11 women's basketball championships, 6 men's basketball championships, 4 World Series, and 2 Super Bowls -- doesn't leave a lot of room in the wardrobe!

Is Newton the best 2-year player we've ever had? (Yes, I know coming in as a senior instead of as a freshman makes a difference, but still.)

All right, so sounds like he could play the 3 alongside Karaban and/or Stewart, with the 3 of them, plus Abraham, taking up the 80 minutes at the 3/4.

I'm not reading 300 posts, but is it fair to say this guy is like a Karaban clone/successor?

Yeah, this is an interesting an astute point. Florida and Duke could return their whole core and make another run at it. Not surprising they went back-to-back. But also not surprising they fell off the map once that core achieved their objectives and road off into the sunset. There was no...

The worst thing for Kentucky fans is how utterly small-time they look, and they know it. When JC abruptly retired and got KO as his nepotism hire, it made us look small time, as if we were afraid of a national search resulting in this sort of outcome, i.e. getting lukewarm interest and...

I said this during the game -- I was happy to concede 40 Braden Smith pull-up jumpers around the foul line because it's a terrible shot and I wasn't spooked if he made a few.

Also their color is red, not blue. Bam, disqualified. (Also nobody cares about Indiana and their last coaching hires have been seriously underwhelming, which is a further mark against them.)

Well, whatever St. John's may say, MSG knows who their biggest draw is in the college basketball world.

Pretty meaningless before draft and portal stuff shake out.