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  1. pj

    More motivation Danny ...

    Mystery teams, All-Americans and other national predictions for 2023-24 The first top 25 team to exit the NCAA tournament Medcalf: I'll pick UConn. Why? Recent champs have had rough outings the year after their title runs (or two years later, in Virginia's case, since we didn't have a 2020...
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    Path Forward for UConn

    It has been a frustrating last decade-plus for UConn in conference realignment. Our market (Connecticut plus chunks of New York and New England) is large, our athletic success outstanding, and the brand is prominent compared to many P5 programs. If football were settled in a strong conference...
  3. pj

    CV nearing the top of the UConn career 3 point list

    CV's 5 3's today got him up to 260 career 3 pointers made, which ties Shabazz Napier. He had previously passed all the 3-year players on this list (Ben, Rip, and Ray). Not sure who is left for him to pass. Anyone know where to find the career list online?
  4. pj

    NCAA Hoops - Week of 2/24-3/1

    Don't look now, but Mick Cronin is moving toward the top of the Pac-12. Won 5 straight and 1/2 game back of Bobby Hurley.
  5. pj

    Kofi annotated scouting video

    Really like the scouting videos Connor Williamson has posted on Youtube, they're well annotated and show lowlights as well as highlights. I posted this in the Kuminga thread but since it's on Kofi it might as well be its own thread. Here's his video on Kofi:
  6. pj

    Positives from the Tulsa Game

    Yes, it's a loss, and the W/L is what matters most. Yet, we can see progress in both coaching and playing. A few items: - Overall performance: Entering the game, Tulsa was a heavy favorite. Pregame they were about #90 in kenpom. We had been in the 80s before Gilbert went down and were...
  7. pj

    OT: Congrats UConn women's field hockey

    National champions after two exciting games against UNC and Maryland.
  8. pj

    Kobe on the Warriors Offense

    This is the kind of offense KO could teach, if he can bring back his team-first, hard-work, ten-toes-in, hard-nosed mindset with JC-level conditioning:
  9. pj

    OT-(Pat Riley)After disappointing year, is it time for head of the program to step down?

    Not KO. Pat Riley of the Miami Heat: Pat Riley's final challenge Riley has some of the same player/recruit relationship issues we've heard from critics of KO, e.g. insufficient communication: Dwyane Wade appears on Yahoo's popular basketball podcast. For the first time, he says a driving...
  10. pj

    The New Recruiting Paradigm

    I really like where Ollie seems to be heading with recruiting and his roster building strategy. Traditionally, in college basketball, the 13 scholarships go to 5 guards, 3 wings, and 5 big men. The guards are split into 2 point guards, 2 shooting guards, and a versatile combo guard. The wings...
  11. pj

    Tremont Waters

    Back to Tremont Waters, he's discussed in this article: The gentrification of college hoops. Turns out he's played high school basketball for 8 years, due to starting in 6th grade and repeating both 6th and 12th grades. I'm glad we're getting MAL.
  12. pj

    Love Ollie

    From http://www.nhregister.com/sports/20170108/amida-brimah-uconn-stand-tall-in-dominant-win-over-ucf: You can't read the Boneyard, it'll get you down - too many fair weather fans are not in the team's corner. Hami Diallo ain't showing up. But the team can build its character and perform. And...
  13. pj

    I'd like to thank

    Vance Jackson and Rodney Purvis for committing to join the UConn men's basketball team for the spring semester. We were really short-handed on the perimeter so these two new arrivals are really going to help us finish strong!
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    Improving Draftability of Top Prospects: Calipari and Ollie

    John Calipari is the best recruiter every to coach a college basketball program. He has an amazing, amazing track record of bringing top talent to Kentucky. But what is his record of developing talent? Has he improved his recruits NBA prospects? And how would Kevin Ollie compare on the same...
  15. pj

    Hami - Come to UConn!

    A young man has to follow his heart and go to the college he thinks best for him. But this old man thinks Hami may be getting bad advice leading him toward a colossal mistake. When I hire, the last thing I want to see is someone who tries to evade accountability and evaluation. If I were an NBA...
  16. pj

    Isn't It Remarkable ...

    That Ollie was able to improve from one of the worst coaches in DI to a better coach than Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim in less than one week? Kudos to the man!
  17. pj

    No Time for Fair Weather Fans ...

    Like @OkaForPrez, I'm 10 toes in. Ollie will right this ship. Like it or not, on the way to greatness you have to be tested and you have to respond to adversity. The experience of fixing this team and this year will make Ollie a better coach and his players better players. One of the obvious...
  18. pj

    If Lesser P5 Leagues Want to Match Revenue with the B10 and SEC ...

    ... there is only one solution for the B12 and ACC. Existing leagues would make for profitless networks, like the Pac network only even weaker. They have to dissolve and re-form with a high value league (state flagships with good markets + marquee sports schools) and a low value league (flotsam...
  19. pj

    Non-Key Discussion

    This is a thread for discussion about BC, Syracuse, Rutgers, and btstimpy.
  20. pj

    Still hope ...

    to compete for a national championship this year. The team has moved into the top 10 of kenpom.com's defensive ratings, and that's without Amida. The incessant fouling of the early season has gone away. Continue to pick up the defensive intensity and get the big shotblocker back, and this could...
  21. pj

    Scheduling as an Indication of Interest

    In this article (http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/million-dollars-baby-cost-of-big-ten-opponents-keeps-rising-060414) posted in another thread was the passage: Of the Big Ten's 39 nonconference home games in 2014, only six feature a team from another power-five conference -- and all six...
  22. pj

    Most promising development this season ...

    Daniel Hamilton played well at power forward in the second half against ECU, and said post-game that he liked playing power forward. With DHam at the 4 we've got 3 solid players (Brimah/Facey/DHam) for the big man rotation, and it frees up time for Purvis/Calhoun/TSam at the 2 wing spots. If...
  23. pj

    UConn's Message to Diaco

    Great Christmas video by UConn, linked by Fishy on the CR board: Three coaches put national championship trophies on the mantel. The funny part - Bob Diaco tries to wrap a football present, fails. So true! So glad the administration scripted this and is putting the pressure on, in a...
  24. pj

    Enjoy the year! This season is going to be fun!

    I was going to post this as a reply in Husky Dad's thread but decided it deserved a thread of its own. College basketball is fun to root for because: - You get to watch players develop before your eyes. They come in as freshman having never played at this level, get exposed, but they work and...
  25. pj

    OT: New Revelations in the UNC scandal

    Syllabi from the courses: http://www.sportspickle.com/2014/10/10-easiest-classes-north-carolina-athletes
  26. pj

    New UNC player revelations

    Former UNC defensive lineman Tydreke Powell says that Butch Davis told football players if you care about academics you should have gone to Harvard, that Roy Williams is a snake, that "If you ain't got a class with a basketball player, you better go find one. If you got one with them, you know...
  27. pj

    Keys to the Season

    Keys to the season, I think: 1) Can the forwards play defense on par with Niels and Deandre last year? 2) Will we get enough rebounds and turnovers to ignite the running game? 3) Can Daniel Hamilton deliver Jeremy Lamb-quality outside shooting to open up the paint for Boat and Purvis? 4) Will...
  28. pj

    Game Theory of Realignment

    Realignment to date has been entirely about capturing TV revenue, and TV partners have therefore had tremendous influence -- almost a controlling interest -- on realignment. There have been only two networks, ESPN and Fox, active in college athletics, and the paucity of TV competitors increases...
  29. pj

    We Don't Chase Victories, Victories Chase Us

    Victory flirts with those who make once-a-week passes at her, but she gives herself to those who aim for excellence in everything they do. If we pursue excellence faithfully, Victory will pursue us. The Boneyard is populated by drunken Friday night closing time gropers, who put their all into...
  30. pj

    UNC history prof on the scandal

    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/unc-professor-blasts-university-and-its-athletic-heroes-in-defense-of-rashad-mccants-164401647.html "I'm struck by the profiles of those attacking Rashad McCants," Smith wrote in his email to me. "On the one hand, you have old-timers spouting off about their...
  31. pj

    The Realignment Landscape from a UConn Perspective

    I've written these things in bits and pieces in a variety of threads, I thought I'd bring everything I believe together in one place. Decision metrics of the major conferences and their TV partners in regard to UConn: ACC & ESPN • ACC has sold everything to ESPN • ESPN – richest content...
  32. pj

    Ollie makes character a priority

    http://zagsblog.com/uconn/ollie-will-huddle-with-daniels-boatright-on-future-plans-coach-recruiting-in-jersey-off-ncaa-championship/#more-114072 “It’s great to see UConn back on top and I know a lot of kids saw us play,” Ollie said. “Being in Texas and beating Kentucky, beating the Michigan...
  33. pj

    Who Roots for Whom

    Based on this: - Only the SEC states root for SEC teams. Although our UVa and UNC friends say that fans in their states would prefer the SEC to the B1G, their residents are rooting for B1G rather than SEC basketball. - UConn wins the seven northeastern states with a population of 35 million...
  34. pj

    Football Losses a Health Threat

    It seems that fans eat more junk food after their team loses, and heart attack deaths go up. http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/37140/title/Football-Losses-Tied-to-Junk-Food/ I'm hoping for an unusually low incidence of heart attacks this year in Connecticut.
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