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Notable games and goings on:
Game Thoughts:
- UMass-LOL, heh.
- I think the shape up took the edge off of Jalen's game today.
- Just one of those games where both teams were just hot it seems.
- We did what I expected we'd be able to do on offense. Our porous m2m couldn't stay in front of their shooters though.
- Shonn should've been able to beast them all with his size comparitive to their's.
- Disconcerting first 10 minutes for the boys.
- Defense is just lost trying to stay with the movement of their players.
- Missing our anchor today. Things are just too easy inside for UMass. The intimidation factor is missing.
- Sterling looked fantastic in the 1st half. Aggressive and carving up the D. And then disappeared.
- Exam hangover? 8 day layoff lack of sharpness?
- Omar was aggressive and confident. Love it.
- Enoch is lost, lost, lost.
- Rodney was our saving grace today. Timely buckets and he was just a pretty unstoppable offensive force. Love his attitude.
- If this team is going to be any good, they are going to have to get a lot better at fundamental m2m defense. Staying in front of your man and fighting through screens.
- I'm willing to give them a pass today since AB was out and with exams being done and the holiday looming.
Next 5 UConn games:
-Wed. Dec. 23rd vs CCSU 12:30pm
-Tue. Dec. 29th at Texas 9pm
-Sat. Jan. 2nd at Tulane 7:30pm
-Tue. Jan. 5th vs Temple 8pm
-Sat. Jan. 9th vs Memphis 7pm
UConn in the NBA: Kemba w/18 pts, Lamb w/9/4 as the Hornets lost to the Wiz. Shabazz with another DNP, Magic lose. Rudy w/19/9, Caron DNP as Sac-town beat the Raps.
Future UConn opponents: Georgetown lost UNC-Asheville 79-73 (Doing us absolutely no favors), Texas beat Stanford 75-73 (Taylor w/game winner in the final 2 seconds, Mack 7 pts, 3 rbs)
Former UConn opponents: OSU beat #4 UK 74-67 (Was so happy to see the Buckeyes make Kentucky look completely mediocre, Briscoe included: 3 pts on 1-9 fgs, 7 ast, 6 rbs), #6 Maryland beat Princeton 82-61 (Stone w/11/6), Cuse beat Cornell 67-46, UNH beat Dartmouth 76-56 (Lots of Birkenstock-wearers attended that one), Maine lost to Fordham 70-53 (Still no Hardnett, Smith with 2 pts), Michigan beat Youngstown St. 105-46, Furman lost to Dayton 70-50, Gonzaga beat Tennessee 86-79 (Kasongo scoreless in 2 min, Perkins was dogged by foul trouble all game)
Top 25 Action: #1 MSU beat Northeastern 78-58 (Valentine with 17 pts, 5 rbs, 6 ast. Perhaps not dominant, but MSU has definitely looked like the class of the NCAA's so far), #2 KU beat Montana 88-46, #3 Oklahoma beat Creighton 87-74 (Hield with another big game: 33 pts), #5 ISU lost to Northern Iowa 81-79 (I wonder how many teams the MVC gets in this year? UNI has made the most of their big chances, Wichita St. has played a tough schedule and maybe lost too many of them, and there's a couple more who look like they could take the league too, Evansville, SIU. Does the loss of Naz Long spell doom for the Cyclones? Cincy up next), #7 Duke lost to Utah 77-75 (The Refs and Utes themselves both tried their hardest to give this game back to the Blue Devils, thankfully it didn't happen), #8 Virginia beat #12 Villanova 86-75, #9 Purdue lost to #17 Butler 74-68, #10 Xavier beat Auburn 85-61, #11 UNC beat #22 UCLA 89-76 (Ali still out hurt), #13 Arizona beat UNLV 82-70 (Derrick Jones w/12 pts), #14 PC beat Rider 73-65 (Dunn out again), #15 Miami beat Charleston 85-63, #16 Baylor lost to #24 Texas A&M 80-61, #19 Louisville beat Western Kentucky 78-56, #21 GW beat Saint Peter's 87-64
Our AAC Chum(s): #23 Cincy beat VCU 69-63, UCF lost to Detroit 95-89, Houston beat Eastern Illinois 81-65, Temple beat Delaware St. 78-63, Tulane lost to Miss St. 69-59 (Newman 15/4/4), USF lost to UAB 79-68, Tulsa lost to Oregon St. 76-71, ECU lost to James Madison 67-61
P5 Winners: Georgia beat Georgia Tech (Turtle Jackson only played 3 scoreless minutes), =http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400813748]Indiana beat Notre Dame, Northwestern, LSU (Simmons 24/9/7), ASu, Illinois, K St., Texas Tech, Iowa, FSU (XRM with 12 pts), NC St. beat Mizzou (AMA w/13/11), Va Tech (Chris Clarke DNP), BC, Penn St., Cal, Vandy, Florida beat Ok St. (Robinson 13/6), Colorado, Pitt, TCU
P5 Upsets: Washington lost to Oakland 97-83 (Noah Dickerson w/8/9), Arkansas lost to Mercer in OT 69-66, Rutgers lost to Monmouth 73-67, Nebraska lost to Samford 69-58
Other News & Notes: Seton Hall beat Wichita St. in OT (Another one of those losses too many for the Shockers), St. John's lost to NJIT, In American's loss Leon had a season-high in minutes (17) along w/6/2/2
Most Notable: #25 University of Connecticut Huskies VS. University of Massachusetts - Lowell River Hawks
Final Score: 88-79
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Final Score: 88-79
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Game Thoughts:
- UMass-LOL, heh.
- I think the shape up took the edge off of Jalen's game today.
- Just one of those games where both teams were just hot it seems.
- We did what I expected we'd be able to do on offense. Our porous m2m couldn't stay in front of their shooters though.
- Shonn should've been able to beast them all with his size comparitive to their's.
- Disconcerting first 10 minutes for the boys.
- Defense is just lost trying to stay with the movement of their players.
- Missing our anchor today. Things are just too easy inside for UMass. The intimidation factor is missing.
- Sterling looked fantastic in the 1st half. Aggressive and carving up the D. And then disappeared.
- Exam hangover? 8 day layoff lack of sharpness?
- Omar was aggressive and confident. Love it.
- Enoch is lost, lost, lost.
- Rodney was our saving grace today. Timely buckets and he was just a pretty unstoppable offensive force. Love his attitude.
- If this team is going to be any good, they are going to have to get a lot better at fundamental m2m defense. Staying in front of your man and fighting through screens.
- I'm willing to give them a pass today since AB was out and with exams being done and the holiday looming.
Next 5 UConn games:
-Wed. Dec. 23rd vs CCSU 12:30pm
-Tue. Dec. 29th at Texas 9pm
-Sat. Jan. 2nd at Tulane 7:30pm
-Tue. Jan. 5th vs Temple 8pm
-Sat. Jan. 9th vs Memphis 7pm
UConn in the NBA: Kemba w/18 pts, Lamb w/9/4 as the Hornets lost to the Wiz. Shabazz with another DNP, Magic lose. Rudy w/19/9, Caron DNP as Sac-town beat the Raps.
Future UConn opponents: Georgetown lost UNC-Asheville 79-73 (Doing us absolutely no favors), Texas beat Stanford 75-73 (Taylor w/game winner in the final 2 seconds, Mack 7 pts, 3 rbs)
Former UConn opponents: OSU beat #4 UK 74-67 (Was so happy to see the Buckeyes make Kentucky look completely mediocre, Briscoe included: 3 pts on 1-9 fgs, 7 ast, 6 rbs), #6 Maryland beat Princeton 82-61 (Stone w/11/6), Cuse beat Cornell 67-46, UNH beat Dartmouth 76-56 (Lots of Birkenstock-wearers attended that one), Maine lost to Fordham 70-53 (Still no Hardnett, Smith with 2 pts), Michigan beat Youngstown St. 105-46, Furman lost to Dayton 70-50, Gonzaga beat Tennessee 86-79 (Kasongo scoreless in 2 min, Perkins was dogged by foul trouble all game)
Top 25 Action: #1 MSU beat Northeastern 78-58 (Valentine with 17 pts, 5 rbs, 6 ast. Perhaps not dominant, but MSU has definitely looked like the class of the NCAA's so far), #2 KU beat Montana 88-46, #3 Oklahoma beat Creighton 87-74 (Hield with another big game: 33 pts), #5 ISU lost to Northern Iowa 81-79 (I wonder how many teams the MVC gets in this year? UNI has made the most of their big chances, Wichita St. has played a tough schedule and maybe lost too many of them, and there's a couple more who look like they could take the league too, Evansville, SIU. Does the loss of Naz Long spell doom for the Cyclones? Cincy up next), #7 Duke lost to Utah 77-75 (The Refs and Utes themselves both tried their hardest to give this game back to the Blue Devils, thankfully it didn't happen), #8 Virginia beat #12 Villanova 86-75, #9 Purdue lost to #17 Butler 74-68, #10 Xavier beat Auburn 85-61, #11 UNC beat #22 UCLA 89-76 (Ali still out hurt), #13 Arizona beat UNLV 82-70 (Derrick Jones w/12 pts), #14 PC beat Rider 73-65 (Dunn out again), #15 Miami beat Charleston 85-63, #16 Baylor lost to #24 Texas A&M 80-61, #19 Louisville beat Western Kentucky 78-56, #21 GW beat Saint Peter's 87-64
Our AAC Chum(s): #23 Cincy beat VCU 69-63, UCF lost to Detroit 95-89, Houston beat Eastern Illinois 81-65, Temple beat Delaware St. 78-63, Tulane lost to Miss St. 69-59 (Newman 15/4/4), USF lost to UAB 79-68, Tulsa lost to Oregon St. 76-71, ECU lost to James Madison 67-61
P5 Winners: Georgia beat Georgia Tech (Turtle Jackson only played 3 scoreless minutes), =http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400813748]Indiana beat Notre Dame, Northwestern, LSU (Simmons 24/9/7), ASu, Illinois, K St., Texas Tech, Iowa, FSU (XRM with 12 pts), NC St. beat Mizzou (AMA w/13/11), Va Tech (Chris Clarke DNP), BC, Penn St., Cal, Vandy, Florida beat Ok St. (Robinson 13/6), Colorado, Pitt, TCU
P5 Upsets: Washington lost to Oakland 97-83 (Noah Dickerson w/8/9), Arkansas lost to Mercer in OT 69-66, Rutgers lost to Monmouth 73-67, Nebraska lost to Samford 69-58
Other News & Notes: Seton Hall beat Wichita St. in OT (Another one of those losses too many for the Shockers), St. John's lost to NJIT, In American's loss Leon had a season-high in minutes (17) along w/6/2/2
