Recent content by Ricker

Dead silence on the board about this game. Hopefully the team takes this game more seriously than the fans here.

This is what I hoped for from Mullins. Reibe is contributing far beyond what I ever envisioned for this year. I am thrilled with his play and with Reed out it has been rock solid and clutch. Posting this next point without completely reading the thread, but I haven't seen the mention that I...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/preview-no-5-uconn-men-s-basketball-vs-no-13-illinois-nov-28-12-30-p-m-fox/ar-AA1RdO13?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=f244a93a5c3840f5e2892ed1db61bd1a&ei=56 Very good write up. Ignore the factual error that Demary had the 5th triple double in uconn 'history'...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/why-uconn-s-offense-is-so-hard-to-guard-and-how-illinois-can-counter/ar-AA1Rb0M8?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=571fb3d95baf4c2fb959b6305e29f580&ei=8 Good article from Illinois point of view

1. Not kicking the fg to go up 6 says that as coaches you don't trust your defense any more than the fans do. The only hope of winning was to make it a 2 score game. I call bullsh... if they try to spin it as showing confidence in the offense. 2. Go up 10 and 3 plays later a 49 yd run up the...

You figure it reduces our chances somehow? If they prepare in the last 24 hrs for Reed but we don't play him, that gives us a real advantage? Is that a real theory? BYU was at a disadvantaged themselves by declaring their player out before nearly gametime and lost, so I guess you're right.

So much for informative day before press conferences.

1. A good resume win but I don't feel we won as much as survived. 2. We made a number of important free throws down the stretch by several guys 3. I learned we can easily lose a 20 point lead fast, so now I will have angst all season no matter what our lead is. . 4. I thought Demary did a...

Losing these out of conference games is one thing, but getting smashed is fast sinking the strength of our schedule and putting huge weight on our very tough games. Xavier and Creighton didn't look like any threat to be good. Both teams were very slow it seemed to me, both in reactions and...

Looking at his early 3 game results doesn't show what I saw vs Australia and Canada in the FIBA. Versus Australia he was 12-15 from the line and vs Canada 12-13. In addition to going to the line, he drew reach in fouls defending him which were non-shooting. Those games in combination with how...

Our issue with BYU will be Dybantsa fouling out our whole front line and the game never getting into a flow because of it. If the refs forget their whistles we are in good shape. Watching a number of games, there are a bevy of guards out there that are driving to the rim with speed. I have...

I'm stunned at the comments regarding Reibe. I thought a couple of his rebounds were really strong statement boards. All the centers he has played so far have been forced to take fade away 12ft jump shots rather than try and score at the rim. They have hit a bunch but nobody is going to stop...

Dallas needs to get in field goal range. We rush 3 and predictably get burned. Denver key point rush 3 and get burned. Bears 3rd and 10 inside their own 20 with under 6 minutes rush 3 again. Get burned again. When we were up 10 points in the 4th quarter, everybody in the world knew we had...

Bama deep 3s and aggressive drives would be a tough matchup for us. I think we match up better against Florida.

I think it was 72 to 0 before the basket. Bethesda only had 4 healthy players and a fifth that was not feeling well and took herself out at times leaving 4 on 5. I think the final was 102 to 13 but I didn't recheck.