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[temery]

Our men’s team alone has twice as many championships in the last 25 years as the next closest Men’s + Women’s amount

I have won as many division one men's basketball championships has 5500 players this year.

 

[Vowelguy]

Who is the basketball player that was quoted as saying that he and Wilt Chamberlain combined for like 68 points? I think he had one.

i'm sure I'm off on the numbers, but it was a pretty funny quote that sounds an awful lot like us piggybacking women's 12 championships.

On March 29, 1990, Michael Jordan scored a career-high 69 points in a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, and teammate Stacey King quipped, "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points," humorously referencing King's 1 point in the game.

 

[AllHusky]

Who is the basketball player that was quoted as saying that he and Wilt Chamberlain combined for like 68 points? I think he had one.

i'm sure I'm off on the numbers, but it was a pretty funny quote that sounds an awful lot like us piggybacking women's 12 championships.

Those are just the facts, numbers don’t lie. Spit on the Men if you want, they are the best men’s team of the last quarter of a century. Women just in a different universe

 

[Scrutineer]

Our men’s team alone has twice as many championships in the last 25 years as the next closest Men’s + Women’s amount

And six times more than the entire B1G, but they chose Rutgers and Maryland to strengthen something......and I still wonder who thought that was a good move.

On the womens' side we have twelve times more than the entire B1G in the last 30 years. Purdue won once.

 

[temery]

Those are just the facts, numbers don’t lie. Spit on the Men if you want, they are the best men’s team of the last quarter of a century. Women just in a different universe

The best time to pull out a stat like that is after winning.

 

[YukonDolt6]

Put another way, since 1995 there have been 30 NCAA basketball seasons and UConn has won at least one NC in 16 of them.

 

[king conn]

I often wonder how many final 4's and national championships we would have won over the years if the men played the first 4 rounds in the state of Connecticut like the women

Conversely...

 

[Waquoit]

I often wonder how many final 4's and national championships we would have won over the years if the men played the first 4 rounds in the state of Connecticut like the women

Conversely...

The same.

 

[Inyatkin]

Who is the basketball player that was quoted as saying that he and Wilt Chamberlain combined for like 68 points? I think he had one.

i'm sure I'm off on the numbers, but it was a pretty funny quote that sounds an awful lot like us piggybacking women's 12 championships.

Six titles is not exactly just along for the ride

 

[Waquoit]

Six titles is not exactly just along for the ride

Yeah, 6 to 12 isn't exactly 1 to 69.

 

[RuffRuff]

Six titles is not exactly just along for the ride

I’d argue given the playing field the 6 are as impressive as the 12.

 

[housekeys]

Who is the basketball player that was quoted as saying that he and Wilt Chamberlain combined for like 68 points? I think he had one.

i'm sure I'm off on the numbers, but it was a pretty funny quote that sounds an awful lot like us piggybacking women's 12 championships.

Isn't there a Planck's constant or something that is used when doing a women to men comparison?

Or is it a degree of difficulty coefficient of like, say, 2, that gets multiplied. IDK.

 

[housekeys]

The best time to pull out a stat like that is after winning.

Or when getting the evil stare when declaring we are "the basketball Capital of the World", as someone mentioned earlier.

 

[NJHusky]

And, still UConn can't get an invite to a P4 conference. Ridiculous. How's BC doing in the ACC? Rutgers in the B1G? Only UConn owns NYC on most years.

It's nuts, but those schools were added in the days of cable tv viewership....the conf got money for every person that had acc/B1g network.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Who is the basketball player that was quoted as saying that he and Wilt Chamberlain combined for like 68 points? I think he had one.

i'm sure I'm off on the numbers, but it was a pretty funny quote that sounds an awful lot like us piggybacking women's 12 championships.

Of course it’s baseball, but Hank Aaron and his brother held the all-time HR record for a time. Hank had 755 and his brother had like 13 or something. Lol.

 

[Scoe]

Would love to binge watch every tournament run from the 18 championships. I did the math on this if you watched every ncaa tournament game from all the title runs. I figure just say each game is 2 hrs long, it would take 12 hrs to watch each ncaa tourney run. Now 12x18 that's 216 hrs if you wanted to watch all the games, my math is a bit off I figure I round up to 2 hrs.What fanbase have this problem on their hands it's amazing.

 

[businesslawyer]

I’d argue given the playing field the 6 are as impressive as the 12.

I would argue far more impressive. But that's not taking anything away from what Gino has accomplished either.

 

[Waquoit]

Of course it’s baseball, but Hank Aaron and his brother held the all-time HR record for a time. Hank had 755 and his brother had like 13 or something. Lol.

Even better (before the Niekro's and Perry's came along) was the MLB record for wins by brothers, held by the Mathewsons. Christy with 373 and Henry, who was 0-1.

 

[Waquoit]

I would argue far more impressive. But that's not taking anything away from what Gino has accomplished either.

Maybe if he wins 13, the men's board spells his name right.

 

[Alum86]

I've been a fan since birth ('88). My first memory is seeing the women play in '94 and then winning their first championship. How lucky I feel to have seen all of Geno's tenure AND see three different MBB coaches win titles!

Good lord. 1988. You are a baby. The journey to greatness began that year at MSG with King and Gamble. Having to drive there And park (would never do it now) against BC and then OSU.

 

[maple]

Good lord. 1988. You are a baby. The journey to greatness began that year at MSG with King and Gamble. Having to drive there And park (would never do it now) against BC and then OSU.

It is certainly crazy to think about how much it has changed. My mom was telling me how in the 1960s-70s she used to go to UConn games with her uncle who was a season tickets holder. Back at the old field house. He would get there early to watch the women play and it would be a whole audience of like, 20 people.

I wish I was old enough to remember this moment:

 

[Enrique]

One amazing stat:

To date we are the only school where three consecutive head coaches won national championships in men's basketball.

That is just one more reason why the college basketball world dislike UConn. Envy.

 

[Scrutineer]

It is certainly crazy to think about how much it has changed. My mom was telling me how in the 1960s-70s she used to go to UConn games with her uncle who was a season tickets holder. Back at the old field house. He would get there early to watch the women play and it would be a whole audience of like, 20 people.

I wish I was old enough to remember this moment:

Euphoria was the feeling among all of us until two nights later when Tate fumbled the ball out of bounds after almost intercepting it. I won't mention who then beat us with a shot at the buzzer.

This game against Clemson would have been (except for Tate's shot) the most controversial loss in JC's career. He was prone to sit on leads and we had a close to 20 point lead in the second half that kept shrinking and he kept trying to run out the clock.

 

[Scrutineer]

It is certainly crazy to think about how much it has changed. My mom was telling me how in the 1960s-70s she used to go to UConn games with her uncle who was a season tickets holder. Back at the old field house. He would get there early to watch the women play and it would be a whole audience of like, 20 people.

I wish I was old enough to remember this moment:

There were no women's games before 1974 and Geno laughs about how the only people that came to their games were roomates and friends of the players. Maybe your Mom's uncle had mens' tickets during a time when the women played their games before the mens' games so there would be a few people there. That would make sense.

Looking at the womens' history, gives you an even more impressive picture of what Geno has accomplished.
Their first season was 1974-75 and prior to his arrival in 1985 they had one winning season in those eleven years. He was 12-15 in year one and the rest is history on a scale that no one would believe......even if it was made into a movie.

 

[maple]

There were no women's games before 1974 and Geno laughs about how the only people that came to their games were roomates and friends of the players. Maybe your Mom's uncle had mens' tickets during a time when the women played their games before the mens' games so there would be a few people there. That would make sense.

Looking at the womens' history, gives you an even more impressive picture of what Geno has accomplished.
Their first season was 1974-75 and prior to his arrival in 1985 they had one winning season in those eleven years. He was 12-15 in year one and the rest is history on a scale that no one would believe......even if it was made into a movie.

Yes, I believe you're right. IIRC he was a ticket holder for a few decades (died in late '70s) so this would have been the very first few teams.