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Thabeet's impact was truly impossible to measure, as cliche as it was. People would refuse to go inside the paint against him out of fear of him. I remember a game against Notre Dame maybe his sophomore year where their guys were pump faking 4 or 5 times before passing back out if they happened...

Roscoe was really the guy that took a lot of Jamal Coombs-McDaniel's minutes from what I remember. Jamal Coombs-McDaniel wasn't fluid enough as an athlete to be a guard at the college level so he had to carve out the 3/4 hybrid role. Roscoe just happened to be way better defensively and Calhoun leaned on him a lot particularly...

He came into a tough situation- Calhoun was in and out the whole year, Boatright's suspension, Boatright and Napier's alleged rift, the guy he was effectively replacing (Oriakhi) was upset at the coaching staff. He still showed some pretty good flashes, I remember the first 5-6 minutes of the...

Raftery's "uh-oh" is subtle but one of my favorite UConn calls.

I think NCAA violations are a thing of the past. The impermissible benefits stuff will be basically gone, and if you think the NCAA has something on you otherwise, just refuse to cooperate until they go away.

Definitely rooting for Florida to lose tonight. Would rather only have to beat them once than twice in 24 hours.

Those Spotrac numbers are misleading, since the G League I believe doesn't publish individual salaries, Spotrac lists every player as being under a Exhibit 10/Minimum contract, but the ~900k to ~1million number would be his salary only if he spent the entire year on the NBA roster, not the...

Florida regional, first game vs Texas Tech. They're not listing seeds so not sure if they're a 2 or a 3.

Bama, Auburn, Coastal, Indiana State, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Miami I'd be pretty happy about. Clemson, LSU, Wake, Florida pretty unhappy, and the other ones somewhere in the middle.

Unfortunately I agree. This year's team outside of the polls looks very similar on paper to last year's team that was a 3. Baseball isn't as stringent as basketball on seeding integrity in the sense that they let geography dictate things more even for non-national seeds (although they've gone...

I'm not sure how much the polls really matter (Notre Dame was ranked 11th going into last year's tournament and ended up being a 2 hosted by a team ranked 24th going into the tournament; Texas State was 14th and ended up in the #2 national seed's regional), but the non-conference SOS should help...

I would agree, but last year's team ending up on the 3 line has me nervous. They were 46-13 entering the tournament, and this year's team will be right around there. I think this year has a better non-conference resume which should help, but there's a worry that the committee just has little...

I seem to remember Facey scoring 20 a few times his senior year once he started getting more solid playing time the 2nd half of the season, but I could be misremembering.

Also, "right here, in this room, we have enough" by Ollie at his press conference after being announced as the interim coach. Those guys he was talking about ended up making up pretty much the entire 2014 NC team.

A big part of the value Adrien had was his energy and demeanor that helped fuel those teams his Junior and Senior year. I remember whenever UConn had a Big East road game Adrien would swing his elbows out after his first rebound to set the tone early.

On ESPN's 'Squeeze Play' they ask the commentators which 2-0 team should be on upset alert and they both immediately answer UConn. Let's prove 'em wrong.

Penders also to my knowledge has never had a guy throw ~100 pitches in a regional start then pitch again in the same regional. He'll lean on his bullpen guys heavily but if he wanted to get more out of Peterson or Gallagher he would've pulled them early like he did with Nappo in 2011. Someone...

Oriakhi was definitely a McDonald’s All-American.

Penders has gone away from it more this year, but he still likes to go sac bunt a decent amount, especially if there's a guy at the bottom of the order that doesn't get on base a lot. Aaron Hill and Keith Krueger(and Michael Woodworth even though he was a good hitter) were called on to sac bunt...

Embiid and Curry aren't even in the same universe defensively, and Embiid's had a hell of a year himself offensively on a team that's had a great year. If Golden State leaps to the five seed or something and Curry keeps this up then maybe he'd been in the conversation but at this point he's at...

He's 6'9, a career 38% three point shooter, and he doesn't count against the scholarship cap. If you can't see how that's helpful to a team, especially given the way basketball is played in 2021, then I don't know what to tell you.

Kispert can thank Joe Harris for his draft stock.

If he was still at Stony Brook, sure. Not when he's at Rutgers.

Exactly, a number of his teammates were behind the ball, and with his height a shot inside the arc in that scenario wass likely going to have a high degree of difficulty too.

DeAndre Daniels basically defined the word inconsistent. One of the best difficult-shot makers UConn’s ever had but he had off games regularly. Same thing with Boat for stretches that year.

If we're going to make any sort of run in the tournament we're going to need at least a couple 'Polley games' where he hits 3+ threes.

Georgia was a 14 in ‘08 I think.

FWIW, Georgetown is #76 in NET, if they win tonight that would give us another quad 1 win.

Fanta posted another photo on Twitter of the same shot with a slightly different angle, it’s definitely Bouk.

The committee has been pretty consistent that they value good wins, probably above anything else. Right now we only have 3 quad 1 wins and only one win over a tournament team. It’s not crazy for that to mean we’re an 8 or 9 seed right now. Tonight’s game is huge. Nova getting knocked out before...

Very good result for us for our path for winning the conference tournament, but I really want to get off the 7-10 lines, and I’m worried some combination of DePaul-Creighton-Seton Hall/St. John’s might not be enough to do it. T-Rank’s team cast would have us as a 7 in that scenario if we played...

Guarded by Wanamaker with 10 seconds to go...Coombs-McDaniel on the screen...Walker with 7...Got a mismatch!...Walker on McGhee with 4...Kemba Walker...Stepback...Walker...Cardiac Kemba does it again!!! UConn wins at the buzzer!!!

Daniel Hamilton was one of the most unique players ever at UConn. Never very efficient from the floor but I loved watching him play.

He is what he is at this point, his game isn't going to change. He's a (very) poor man's college version of Channing Frye. I would like to see us run some more action for Bouk opposite of Polley when he's running off screens, or even the bigs after screening for Polley because teams have been...