21-22 Opponents

[Vowelguy]

With the 87 OT topics that have proliferated on the board, I can't find the last discussion of UConn opponents this year (+ dates where known already).

Heres what Ive pieced together:

• 20 conference games
• Arkansas (11/14)
• @Atlantis (11/20-22)
  • Minnesota
  • USF/Syracuse
  • SoCar/Oregon/Oklahoma/Buffalo
• @ GaTech (12/9)
• Louisville (12/19) @ Mohegan
• @South Carolina (TBD)
• @Oregon (TBD)
• Notre Dame (TBD)
• Tenn (TBD)
• other?

 

[jdubct]

With the 87 OT topics that have proliferated on the board, I can't find the last discussion of UConn opponents this year (+ dates where known already).

Heres what Ive pieced together:

• 20 conference games
• Arkansas (11/14)
• @Atlantis (11/20-22)
  • Minnesota
  • USF/Syracuse
  • SoCar/Oregon/Oklahoma/Buffalo
• @ GaTech (12/9)
• Louisville (12/19) @ Mohegan
• @South Carolina (TBD)
• @Oregon (TBD)
• Notre Dame (TBD)
• Tenn (TBD)
• other?

Great job. I had all these listed too. Don't know of any others.

 

[MSGRET]

With the 87 OT topics that have proliferated on the board, I can't find the last discussion of UConn opponents this year (+ dates where known already).

Heres what Ive pieced together:

• 20 conference games
• Arkansas (11/14)
• @Atlantis (11/20-22)
  • Minnesota
  • USF/Syracuse
  • SoCar/Oregon/Oklahoma/Buffalo
• @ GaTech (12/9)
• Louisville (12/19) @ Mohegan
• @South Carolina (TBD)
• @Oregon (TBD)
• Notre Dame (TBD)
• Tenn (TBD)
• other?

Great post, I believe that Geno is trying to get a game at home before the Arkansas game.

 

[Geew1992]

With the 87 OT topics that have proliferated on the board, I can't find the last discussion of UConn opponents this year (+ dates where known already).

Heres what Ive pieced together:

• 20 conference games
• Arkansas (11/14)
• @Atlantis (11/20-22)
  • Minnesota
  • USF/Syracuse
  • SoCar/Oregon/Oklahoma/Buffalo
• @ GaTech (12/9)
• Louisville (12/19) @ Mohegan
• @South Carolina (TBD)
• @Oregon (TBD)
• Notre Dame (TBD)
• Tenn (TBD)
• other?

Ahh.......... so you're assuming UConn makes it past Minnesota

 

[Vowelguy]

Ahh.......... so you're assuming UConn makes it past Minnesota

I believe all teams are guaranteed 3 games, win or lose.

 

[fireford]

I wonder what the chances of last year's Baylor game from the regular season that never happened ever gets re-scheduled. I know they're a team in transition with a new coach and have lost players to graduation and transfers but would still rather Uconn play them than a cupcake either this season or sometime in the near future.

 

[MSGRET]

I wonder what the chances of last year's Baylor game from the regular season that never happened ever gets re-scheduled. I know they're a team in transition with a new coach and have lost players to graduation and transfers but would still rather Uconn play them than a cupcake either this season or sometime in the near future.

I would rather play Kim and LSU instead.

 

[fireford]

I would rather play Kim and LSU instead.

Agree from a competitive standpoint but wonder if there was some kind of agreement to make the Baylor game up. Plus I'm not sure if Kim will be an option anytime soon as she may want to wait until her deck is fully stacked before she plays us and that may take a couple of years.

 

[Zanzman]

I would rather play Kim and LSU instead.

This year they would be a cupcake

 

[MSGRET]

This year they would be a cupcake

So would Baylor.

 

[Zanzman]

Baylor still has talent

 

[Vowelguy]

This year they would be a cupcake

Kim has already made inroads in upgrading talent, adding Ursin, Gusters and dumping some dead weight. Not top 10 of course, but should be the #25-40 range this year.

 

[huskeynut]

With or without Baylor a very very good schedule.

Chatter will be interesting as the season progresses. November can't come soon enough.

 

[CocoHusky]

I believe all teams are guaranteed 3 games, win or lose.

Curiosity question: Since UCONN is scheduled to play Oregon later in the year wouldn't the matchups for the Atlantis tournament have to adjusted so as to avoid UCONN having to face Oregon in that tournament? I believe there is an NCAA rule or practice that you cannot play the same non-conference opponent more than once in a regular season and you cannot play a same conference school in these tournament settings. For example the 2018 Paradise Jam UCONN had to avoid playing USF or did things just work out that way?

 

[Millenial23]

What do the text colors mean?

 

[Vowelguy]

I believe there is an NCAA rule or practice that you cannot play the same non-conference opponent more than once in a regular season and

Not aware of any such rule. UConn used to play Tenn 2x a year.

 

[Inthepaint]

So would Baylor.

This year they would be a cupcake

I'm almost ready to put all 20 of the Big East games in the "W" column. Plus the Big east tournament games.
Although Marquette should be able to hold my interest for 2-3 quarters.
BUT... let us not count our chickens until they hatch.
We got jumped by the Razorbacks because scoring 87 points a game is fine until the other team scores 90.
Took some real heroics to pull out the SC game. At home.
Our Huskies were going down the tubes against Baylor in the NCAA until Dee Dee Richards went down. (Still feel bad for her)
Of course, catching a break like that doesn't mean anything if you can't capitalize on it, which the young UCONN team managed to do.
And,of course, after we showed all that moxie against the Lady Bears, taking care of the 5th seeded Wildcats was just a stepping stone to the Final Game, where we are flat out forbidden to lose.
I still can't bring myself to re-watch that AZ game, even though I've done so with every other game in 2020-2021. Who needs the tsouris?
My point is, with the amount of talent and level of play in the CURRENT WBB scene, nothing should ever be taken for granted.
No doubt we have the talent to go all the way this coming season. Between everybody a year older, stronger, wiser and , hopefully, hungrier...not to mention Azzi, Dorka, Amari, Caroline,
We SHOULD open at # 1 or 2 (Stanford, the defending champs are not going to just go away) but there's still the target on every Huskie's back. The lack of a NC since 2016 doesn't necessarily reflect a loss of "The Right Stuff" in Stoors, but MAYBE the fact that everybody else is getting better at this business.
If we are going to bring the NCAA trophy back to Connecticut, Geno, CD, Jamelle, Morgan and the whole roster are going to have to push themselves and each other from the opening tip off until the final buzzer in April. Nobody should be considered a "cupcake" until we walk away with the win.
Sorry, didn't mean to preach.

 

[Blakeon18]

There was a discussion about the possibility of UConn playing the same team twice in one year several months ago.
The initial take was that it would be against the rules. After a while someone posted that it was indeed OK to do that....with the NCAA allowing it in this case. That seemed to be validated by a Boneyarder who gave the impression that he/she had researched the topic.

So...I 'think' the event is now regarded as quarters/semis/finals....and we face the team who advances or not...as in the NCAA tourney....no matter who they are. I hope that is the case...I do not mind throwing our newcomers into the deep end of the pool early...the better to swim in April.

 

[CocoHusky]

Not aware of any such rule. UConn used to play Tenn 2x a year.

Surprisingly this (UCONN playing TN 2X in regular season) has only happen twice that I can find 99-00 and 00-01. It may seen like a lot more because those two teams were always meeting up in the NCAA tournament and it was usually in the championship game 4X. I also was not able to find where UCONN played any other non-conference team twice during the same regular season besides TN. I also did some quick checking among current or former prominent WBB teams (Duke, ND, Stanford, SC) and could not find where any of those team had played the same opponent 2X during the same regular season. If this is not an NCAA rule it sure is a common practice.

There was a discussion about the possibility of UConn playing the same team twice in one year several months ago.
The initial take was that it would be against the rules. After a while someone posted that it was indeed OK to do that....with the NCAA allowing it in this case. That seemed to be validated by a Boneyarder who gave the impression that he/she had researched the topic.

So...I 'think' the event is now regarded as quarters/semis/finals....and we face the team who advances or not...as in the NCAA tourney....no matter who they are. I hope that is the case...I do not mind throwing our newcomers into the deep end of the pool early...the better to swim in April.

My own very quick research is consistent with what that BY found. The NCAA last tweaked scheduling in April 2020 right about the time the world was coming to grips with COVID. I remember this because one of the new rules that was put in place is that a team CANNOT attend the same tournament even in two consecutive seasons. A team can also only attend two tournament events per season.

 

[MSGRET]

I believe that the rule is a team can't schedule another non conference team twice in the same season. A team could play a team twice in a season if they happen to meet in a tournament where there's two separate brackets and they meet in the the final game where the bracket winners play for the championship. UConn could end up playing either SC or Oregon for the championship or God forbid in the 3rd place game if they happen to lose their 2nd game. I don't see them losing to Minnesota in their first game.

 

[Bald Husky]

I don't relish the idea of playing a team in a tournament if they are already scheduled. These are high profile teams and the luster and excitement of playing Oregon or SC would be less the second around. The even scarier scenario is there is a good chance we would be playing SC in the NCAA tournament, so could you imagine playing them 3 times in one year, and not one of those games was at home?

 

[fireford]

I don't relish the idea of playing a team in a tournament if they are already scheduled. These are high profile teams and the luster and excitement of playing Oregon or SC would be less the second around. The even scarier scenario is there is a good chance we would be playing SC in the NCAA tournament, so could you imagine playing them 3 times in one year, and not one of those games was at home?

The luster and excitement could be there in the rematch for Uconn (and its fans) if they (gulp) lose the first time around and are hungry for revenge. Especially if it's one of those coulda, shoulda, woulda games that it was felt should have been won. On the flip side if SC loses and feels the same way (should have won) and Uconn (and its fans) feel like the win was dismissed as a fluke (similar to commentators saying last year "SC should have won that game") and have to go into hostile SC (assuming fans will be allowed) and prove otherwise.
If it's 1-1 after two regular season games and they meet again in the tournament the rubber match would be highly anticipated. They would have a really good scouting reports on each other along with a lot of "bad blood" as familiarity breeds contempt.

 

[baggerbob]

I'm almost ready to put all 20 of the Big East games in the "W" column. Plus the Big east tournament games.
Although Marquette should be able to hold my interest for 2-3 quarters.
BUT... let us not count our chickens until they hatch.
We got jumped by the Razorbacks because scoring 87 points a game is fine until the other team scores 90.
Took some real heroics to pull out the SC game. At home.
Our Huskies were going down the tubes against Baylor in the NCAA until Dee Dee Richards went down. (Still feel bad for her)
Of course, catching a break like that doesn't mean anything if you can't capitalize on it, which the young UCONN team managed to do.
And,of course, after we showed all that moxie against the Lady Bears, taking care of the 5th seeded Wildcats was just a stepping stone to the Final Game, where we are flat out forbidden to lose.
I still can't bring myself to re-watch that AZ game, even though I've done so with every other game in 2020-2021. Who needs the tsouris?
My point is, with the amount of talent and level of play in the CURRENT WBB scene, nothing should ever be taken for granted.
No doubt we have the talent to go all the way this coming season. Between everybody a year older, stronger, wiser and , hopefully, hungrier...not to mention Azzi, Dorka, Amari, Caroline,
We SHOULD open at # 1 or 2 (Stanford, the defending champs are not going to just go away) but there's still the target on every Huskie's back. The lack of a NC since 2016 doesn't necessarily reflect a loss of "The Right Stuff" in Stoors, but MAYBE the fact that everybody else is getting better at this business.
If we are going to bring the NCAA trophy back to Connecticut, Geno, CD, Jamelle, Morgan and the whole roster are going to have to push themselves and each other from the opening tip off until the final buzzer in April. Nobody should be considered a "cupcake" until we walk away with the win.
Sorry, didn't mean to preach.

Can you imagine if Ezi had come to Uconn, rather then turn pro at home? This would have been her senior year.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Can you imagine if Ezi had come to Uconn, rather then turn pro at home? This would have been her senior year.

I don't think that there was ever a chance that Ezi would have been a four year player at UConn.

She wanted to be a pro as soon as possible. If she had come to UConn it would only have been
for a year or two until she was eligible to join the W. I think it was for the best, both for her and
for UConn, that she turned pro in Australia.

 

[BostonBay]

Hopefully, Stanford will get on the schedule.. Not sure why it was stopped, but having Geno vs Tara matchups would be good theater, and both teams look to be Top 5 for the foreseeable future - so good basketball.

 

[MooseJaw]

I don't relish the idea of playing a team in a tournament if they are already scheduled. These are high profile teams and the luster and excitement of playing Oregon or SC would be less the second around. The even scarier scenario is there is a good chance we would be playing SC in the NCAA tournament, so could you imagine playing them 3 times in one year, and not one of those games was at home?

I agree with the basic premise, but have no second thoughts on our fans being even more excited with even more luster the second or even the third time around. Having followed many of your post I believe you too would be just as or more excited also. Maybe a little more apprehensive, which adds more excitement.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Surprisingly this (UCONN playing TN 2X in regular season) has only happen twice that I can find 99-00 and 00-01. It may seen like a lot more because those two teams were always meeting up in the NCAA tournament and it was usually in the championship game 4X. I also was not able to find where UCONN played any other non-conference team twice during the same regular season besides TN. I also did some quick checking among current or former prominent WBB teams (Duke, ND, Stanford, SC) and could not find where any of those team had played the same opponent 2X during the same regular season. If this is not an NCAA rule it sure is a common practice.

My own very quick research is consistent with what that BY found. The NCAA last tweaked scheduling in April 2020 right about the time the world was coming to grips with COVID. I remember this because one of the new rules that was put in place is that a team CANNOT attend the same tournament even in two consecutive seasons. A team can also only attend two tournament events per season.

The rule about multiple seasons in the same tournament isn't new, at least it always applied to the previously called "exempt" tourneys such as the destination tourneys in the Caribbean / Mexico and also the pre-season WNIT. I don't know if it applied to something in the USA like Las Vegas. There also was always a limit on the number of (exempt) tournaments a season. Those were tourneys where, among other things, you could play 3 games and have them only count as "2". I do remember a relatively recent change in how tourneys are counted (I don't remember the details) but the principles noted are not new.

I do believe you can schedule a team twice, but why would you? I agree with the other poster who noted that this may most often happen as a result of tournaments.

 

[hoophuskee]

Can you imagine if Ezi had come to Uconn, rather then turn pro at home? This would have been her senior year.

You want to "really" imagine?????

1-- Imagine if Elena Delle Donne came to UCONN and stayed.
2-- Imagine if De'Janae Boykin came to UCONN and stayed. In that Miss Sate game just needed maybe one more rebound- one more inside play. Just a bit more inside athleticism to get that game.
3-- Imagine if Azura Stevens stayed in 2018-2019?
4-- Imagine if Charli Collier came to UCONN and stayed.

5***** Now imagine all this and the wonderful articles we'd have been reading for 10+ years how bad UCONN is for WCBB.
And all this stuff about how the rest of WCBB "caught up to UCONN" would only be relvant maybe the past year or 2-- maybe. While they have caught up now due to players being allowed to transfer and stay an additional year meaning more teams have more good, experienced players- but excluding this recent circumstance --
the rest of WCBB got very, very lucky due to the above.

 

[D J B]

Surprisingly this (UCONN playing TN 2X in regular season) has only happen twice that I can find 99-00 and 00-01. It may seen like a lot more because those two teams were always meeting up in the NCAA tournament and it was usually in the championship game 4X. I also was not able to find where UCONN played any other non-conference team twice during the same regular season besides TN. I also did some quick checking among current or former prominent WBB teams (Duke, ND, Stanford, SC) and could not find where any of those team had played the same opponent 2X during the same regular season. If this is not an NCAA rule it sure is a common practice.

My own very quick research is consistent with what that BY found. The NCAA last tweaked scheduling in April 2020 right about the time the world was coming to grips with COVID. I remember this because one of the new rules that was put in place is that a team CANNOT attend the same tournament even in two consecutive seasons. A team can also only attend two tournament events per season.

Thanks for your efforts. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who can get curious over a small tidbit of information and turn it into a full lunch menu. Good stuff.

 

[Plebe]

I believe there is an NCAA rule or practice that you cannot play the same non-conference opponent more than once in a regular season and you cannot play a same conference school in these tournament settings.

I don't think the bold part is true. UConn and Tennessee played twice for a couple regular seasons. Back in the day, for quite a few years Tennessee used to play Louisiana Tech twice each regular season.