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As everyone has already said, incredible effort from Tarris. Also, great game from Alex- which couldn't have gone at a better time and hopefully carries into the UCLA game. Furman came to play and advance, and they deserve credit for continuing to fight all game long. On a final note, how does...

What was most surprising and disappointing about this was the lack of in-game adjustments to counteract St. Johns' strategy to have Ejiofor go one-on-one with Tarris. This was an obvious major strategical move by Pitino, and it looked like Hurley didn't know how to respond. You're right; we...

NOTHING can be taken for granted. We lost to Creighton and Marquette and won a bunch of games to lesser opponents by narrow margins. We are vulnerable. But we also beat ST. JOHN'S, BYU, Florida, Kansas, Texas, and Illinois- and came within 4 points of beating Arizona. Because this team has...

St. John's opened the game with a 10-0 run and closed it with a 13-2 run. Huskies had ZERO field goals over the final 8 minutes. 😳

True, but we needed to have a counter for adjustments St. John's would make for this game. You knew Pitino wasn't going to use the same gameplan he used in Hartford. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter shooters this time. Hurley needed to be able to plan for that and we needed to...

1- Take care of the basketball. 2- Defend with tenaciousness, but be smart. 3- Don't allow St. John's to bait you into committing fouls. 4- Establish Tarris's inside presence early. 5- REBOUND THE BALL.

Considering we only beat them by 2 points and 4 points respectively, and that they're probably playing their best basketball of the season, +13.5 points is too much.

Georgetown is going to come into tomorrow night feeling really confident. The Huskies better be ready with their "A" game.

Only down to #6 is very generous. I just want them to play better and play hungry every single game, one game at a time.

It's easy when we become so formulaic that the offense is predictable. How many times have you heard opposing coaches say pretty much the exact same thing? "UConn is so tough to guard because they run their sets" I think to some extent we've become too predictable and easy to neutralize...

Hurley has many strengths. Self-control is not one of them, though he did show improvement in that area for the majority of the season. Today was evidently too much. Not a proud moment, but life goes on.

I think we could have gotten the ball to Reed. The problem is we kind of stopped trying in the first several minutes of the 2nd half and from then on he was spending too much time far away from the basket trying to set screens which he wasn't really running off of and looking for the ball. The...

I really don't think he was trying to run up the score necessarily. Consider that this UConn team has lacked the ability and/or willingness to put teams away with the fact that St. John's has come back from deficits of at +/- 20 points more than once this season. Hurley has spoken in the past...

If you had told me we'd be 17-18 from the line and +15 on the boards, I'd say it's comfortable win. Unfortunately, none of that could make up for the abysmal shooting from the perimeter. I'm with you, Chief, in that I don't understand the strategy to keeping shooting from the 3pt line when the...