19 UConn TOs, 19 Nova ORBs and just 6 pts combined from SN & RB. That's all you need to know.

[DogMania]

It's hard to believe that the game was even as close as it was. If they simply turned one of those 3 things around in their favor they probably would have won. Just not going to happen when do this many things poorly.

If there is one stat that did them in it was all the 2nd chance baskets off of those ORBs.

I still love this team. They never stop playing hard.

 

[Chief00]

Does anyone have a link to a box score? I can't find one in the usual places. When you give up about 20 offensive rebounds you can't blame the refs. Tyler played a great deal of minutes it seemed to me - and produce few rebounds or boxouts.

 

[Fishy]

You can't find a boxscore?

That shows a lack of effort and I'll not be enabling your laziness by providing one.

Olander played 35 minutes and grabbed four rebounds - that's not good, but I can't criticize him. It's not a lack of effort, it's a simple lack of ability. He's just overmatched.

 

[GlastonTim]

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=330470041

 

[Robertelamin]

Does anyone have a link to a box score? I can't find one in the usual places. When you give up about 20 offensive rebounds you can't blame the refs. Tyler played a great deal of minutes it seemed to me - and produce few rebounds or boxouts.

Please tell me what the "usual places" are.

 

[Chief00]

UCONN Huskies.com and The Courant. Also checked CTPost.

 

[Chief00]

You can't find a boxscore?

That shows a lack of effort and I'll not be enabling your laziness by providing one.

Olander played 35 minutes and grabbed four rebounds - that's not good, but I can't criticize him. It's not a lack of effort, it's a simple lack of ability. He's just overmatched.

We had this discussion a few games ago - In general, I agree he is overmatched and have usually refrained from criticizing him. Fishy, at the college level criticism IMO should be reserved for those who have talent, But, you know he seems to lack toughness and guts.....he doesn't bump his man early to prevent his man from getting position in the offensive possession when on defense. There was one play I had a great view of when Tyler could have easily produced a jump ball but did not leverage any weight down on the ball - just tried to produce the jump ball by reaching in .....and then seemed to quit.
Thanks for the boxscore - although after looking at it I wish I hadn't. So one guard (Bazz -4) had as many rebounds as our starting center despite sitting due to foul trouble and another guard/small forward had 50% more rebounds than Tyler (Calhoun 6).

 

[UConn311]

Nnn

 

[freescooter]

The Villanova game was completely predictable, really. this team played over its head against Syracuse. Olander did, Napier was absolutely unstoppable on both sides of the ball, Boatright was great, even Nolan played well but there just isn't a lot of depth there. Saturday they came back to earth, and did it with a crash. Those kind of things happen in athletics. the Syracuse game was an emotional one for many reasons. And UConn played with lots of emotion. But it is very difficult to keep that up. And sometimes it is difficult to just get back to normal...you have a little bit of a hangover of sorts. That is what I saw on Saturday. I've seen this in person and I've experienced it personally. You see it sometimes in the NCAA tournament when a mid-major beats a power team. I'm not that worried that we'll see anything like that performance the rest of the way. Not saying we will win every remaining game, but we'll play better and moreconsistently.

 

[Dann]

every game we play, we need to win the other stats battles to counter rebounding. most of our wins and most games in general this year we have done that. less to's, more steals and blocks and stuff like that. the nova game we didn't do all the little things and without those we can't win.

-we were even on ast.
-nova won steals 11-5.
-3-2 uconn on blocks.
-10 to's for nova, 19 for uconn

thats a net loss for uconn. we usual win this group by 10ish points/posessions/stops. that was our game righ there.

the providence game was ugly earlier in the year, we got beat up on the boards that game also. but look at the other stats.
-20 ast for uconn and 15 for prov
-8 stl for uconn and 5 for prov
-10 blocks for uconn to 1 for prov
-11 to's to 17 for prov

thats a huge net win or a complete counter to the lack of rebounding this team is capable of. then with even out of points/posessions/stops we now can put the game in the hands our our playmakers who are better then just about every other teams in the country accept for a few.

we didn't do the normal little things the nova game. w/e wrights plan was, it worked. ko outcoached Jb, but wright got ko oon saturday.

 

[Waquoit]

Olander played 35 minutes and grabbed four rebounds - that's not good, but I can't criticize him. It's not a lack of effort, it's a simple lack of ability. He's just overmatched.

That's exactly right. OTOH, the guards were not overmatched and anyone who thinks they were playing hard are nuts.

 

[ctchamps]

The Villanova game was completely predictable, really. this team played over its head against Syracuse. Olander did, Napier was absolutely unstoppable on both sides of the ball, Boatright was great, even Nolan played well but there just isn't a lot of depth there. Saturday they came back to earth, and did it with a crash. Those kind of things happen in athletics. the Syracuse game was an emotional one for many reasons. And UConn played with lots of emotion. But it is very difficult to keep that up. And sometimes it is difficult to just get back to normal...you have a little bit of a hangover of sorts. That is what I saw on Saturday. I've seen this in person and I've experienced it personally. You see it sometimes in the NCAA tournament when a mid-major beats a power team. I'm not that worried that we'll see anything like that performance the rest of the way. Not saying we will win every remaining game, but we'll play better and moreconsistently.

Who are you and what did you do with freescooter?

 

[NovaFanInMA]

Does Boatright have the taste of 'Nova in his mouth ? :^)