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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 2808039, member: 1609"] My God do you like to tell a partial story typical UConn fan with expectations exceeding reality Cliff carried a very young Huskie team averaging 20ppg an 7.5 rpg It was a young team He and Phil and junior Tate Freshman ,Smith average 9 a game They still won 18 games Playing a tough OCS schedule That included Purdue (L)and Virginia (W) UMass (W) and wins against Pepperdine ,Yale,Harvard, Hartford,Fairfield,and Air Force Going 6-10 in the brutal Big East the most wins in 5 years Losing 3 times to NCAA finalist Seton Hall twice to top 10 Georgetown Beating 4 ranked Cuse ,St John’s,BC,Pitt ,and Villanova and losing in the third round of the NIT In 1989-90 The returned everyone except Cliff and Phil Tate was the senior leader Smith blossomed as a sophomore Sellers Depriest Gwynn Williams Cyrulyk But the two freshman additions that made that team the best UConn defensive team ever Scott Burrell and Nadev Henefeld That was not a great team except for defense and a pressing style we’v never seen the likes of again . [/QUOTE]