Recent content by UConnPuneet

Do you really trust this team to have a nice and easy walk-in-the-park first game to get the ball rolling like DePaul in 2011?

11 seed could easily be USF too. They and Houston are currently tied, have equally winnable games left (USF vs Tulane, HOU vs ECU), and HOU has the tiebreaker since we're the highest seed either has beaten.

Cincy has to lose 2, UConn has to win 2 to get the 3. Simple as that.

When it's an uneven number of games and one team "could have" tied the other had they had the opportunity, then the team is skipped and they go down to the next team. In other words, 2-0 beats 0-1 but 1-1 doesn't beat 0-1 so we would move down to the next team, SMU. So regardless of how...

If we won out and were tied with any of the other 3 at 12-6, we'd lose to Cincy (worse W-L vs SMU), lose to Memphis (worse W-L vs Cincy), and beat Temple (better W-L vs either SMU or Tulsa). Basically we would need to win out, have Cincy lose two, and Memphis lose one other (besides their 3/5...

Memphis could very easily lose out. I think 5 is still our more likely end result. Which might mean we still get Temple as the 4 (Cincy will probably pass or tie them and Cincy has tiebreaker) but wouldn't get to avoid SMU.

'98 reg season finale. St. John's was playing for a share our BE East division crown (and they would've been the 1 seed). We decided to keep it for ourselves. 87-58. Khalid was awesome. Locked up his ROY award. If Memphis is one of our current rivals, knocking them around in their arena in the...

2003 reg season finale at Conte. 91-54. All things considered (hatred of BC, what they did to us earlier in the year, the margin of victory), this matches the "beatdown" and "rival" aspects of the question better than any other in my opinion. Honorable mention to the 3 poundings we gave Cuse...

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/datadump/MBasketball/2005/MediaCenter/HTML/game02.htm This is the earliest I can remember. FIU gets a dunk at 19:55, JC calls timeout at 19:51. IIRC, he walked halfway onto the court making the TO signal above his head, turned around, sat back down, and may not have...

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Darius Rice, Ryan Gomes, Peyton Siva...

This works out well. When Syracuse loses the early game, fewer of them'll stick around to boo us.

Still, it's an alternate reason to your NBA theory. If Thabeet's not in any immediate plans, then you're definitely onto something.

Don't they have a five-year rule that only Kemba got an exception for?

That and the Harvard win. My favorite is him claiming that Harvard was down two starters, claiming that Kenyatta Smith, who hadn't played this year and started only half their games last year, was a starter. We've been without Enosch Wolf all year so I guess you could say we've been a man down too.