Recent content by Alydar

A team that is thinking about an undefeated season in Oct, is not focused on the present and to go undefeated a team needs focus. Any golfer will attest that a great front nine that has you dreaming of the course record often leads to tears in the lounge after 18.

Your 1st sentence says it all. She was a first year player coming off an achilles tear. She deserves a degree of patience. Her work in the FF is the important thing to focus on. Betts couldn't move Jana. Height is not what separates centers and power forwards. It's size/strength. There's a...

Massey over-weights the last 10 games. Past season games remain in the database but to a much lesser degree. I studied Massey's explanation of their algorithm years ago. As the season goes on the data base of results grows and it's reliability increases.

Everything you say is true. In spite of that, once Jan 1 comes around, Massey has been especially good at predicting final scores and MOV's, despite injuries and fouls.

You may be right about the seed but not because of metrics. UConn was No 1 in NET rating from January on. NET measures the quality of wins AND losses and it is the NCAA's primary metric measurement. Up until last season every NET No 1 team has been a 1 seed. Last season the NCAA chose to seed...

The committee made it plain last season that in seeding the top 16 teams the key stat would be Tier 1 record. They use the entire season, not how a team is playing in February. As long as this is the system then UConn will never be a lock for a one seed unless they go undefeated. And UConn...

Hank South works for 247 Sports and from his posts he covers the SEC and Texas specifically. His daughters went to Texas. I thought Vukosa's father gave a great answer. Most recruits and their families are polite to their hosts, who treat them like honored guests. She wants a title? How's 2...

not for long. Boston and NY would dominate the NY/Boston media market. It's an old problem, of young women and their desire to work in Hartford. The income potential in NY and Boston is immense compared to CT and the cultural activity is two universes. At some point the owner of the team would...

The W has already said that Boston will be a site in the future and then we will have the same problem the Whalers had and they will relocate. I also don't like tax dollars going to subsidize the center of downtown Hartford.

The two best players on the team are not extroverts, (at least from my POV) but they managed to lead the team in the final game and that will do more for the confidence of the rest than anything they might say.

Juju just showed why she wouldn't fit at UConn, for all her talent. She would take the shot even if she was triple-teamed and Fudd was alone behind the arc.

Euro style involves a lot of ball movement and I expect that playing without the ball won't be as strange to her as it is to "shoot first" US elite players who dominate the ball. My ceiling for her is very high.

I've been ignoring the "song" threads for years. That ability disappeared a week or 2 ago and now it's back, at a different place.

I am seeing more and more freshmen across the country coming into college playing at an elite level from day one. If it was a mens team, more than a couple of UConn's players would have moved to the pros after a season or two. And now UConn can plug gaps with transfers.

Back then the NIT was a much better tournament. It was filled with most of the top B1G, SEC & ACC teams. And the bulk of the tournament was at MSG. Like now, the NCAA pandered to the power conferences and didn't want their tournament to diminish the conferences. Not much has changed.