Arkansas Post Game Thread

[Topdawg]

Great to be back in the Elite 8. Excellent game tonight. Srifling on defense and tenacious on offense. Loved the assists which made for many layups. If we keep the turnovers down we are going all the way this year!

Congratulations to Arkansas for making it this far. The gap with UConn today was too wide to bridge.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

I mean what can you say? Besides that like 5-possession-in-one stretch, we were pretty much flawless. What an amazing day.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Wow. I’m more relieved than anything that I shouldn’t have to suffer through an entire offseason of Hurley can’t coach threads.

You have too little faith in this board. We could win the championship and some dummies here are still going to be telling us why he can’t coach.

 

[HuskyBaggins]

Through 25 minutes that was the single best performance I've ever seen from UConn in the tourney.

Through 40 it was still top 5. Even with the sloppy second half -- too many turnovers -- it was a truly amazing win.

Indeed. Reminded me of the utter takedown of Alabama in 2004

 

[wingsfan055]

Hurley deserves serious Coach of the Year consideration. Except for the dry stretch in the middle of the Big East games, UConn has been pretty dominant all year. Instead of being dragged down by those close losses, the team has learned from those experiences and is a much more focused and coordinated team on both ends the last 6 weeks. That's mostly on Hurley. They are now a machine! You saw it tonight.

 

[Ports21]

Feels good man

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[HailUConn]

This is just the best basketball in display!

Ball never touch the floor, 2 passes and dunk!

 

[JakeTheDog]

40 more minutes baby!

 

[10TOES]

Very disappointed…. Was hoping to add a close game to our resume! How will our guys learn how to close out a nail bitter?

But seriously this may have been the most worried I have been leading up to a game all season. That lasted for about… 3 possessions. They hit some tough shots to keep it close for the first 10 minutes but we had control the entire game. They say Musselman knows how to attack weaknesses really well. What does that say about our team?

Give Hurley more than Cooley. This tournament appearance has brought us all the way back. Lunardi has us projected as the 1 overall in his 2024 bracket (stupid I know). The brands back, we were picked to the final 4 by every ESPN analyst and we have somehow exceed expectations in these three games. I believe…. but most importantly the guys believe…. LETTSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[BugsyCT]

Great all-around effort. Got careless for stretches after we built the huge lead but we controlled the game from start to finish.

We’re back in the Elite 8!

 

[tuvent08]

That was a 40 minute Randy Marsh meme.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Wow. I’m more relieved than anything that I shouldn’t have to suffer through an entire offseason of Hurley can’t coach threads.

I've been waiting years for the BY MCBB room to become a baseball chat. I'm pumped

 

[Dutch Boyd]

My mojo is working

 

[Chin Diesel]

 

[nomar]

Alabama ‘04 vibes. That was fugging sick!!!

 

[Ha Who]

that was about as dominant as I've ever seen us. wow.

hows the arkansas board doing?

Board I went to was quite complementary

 

[WhereistheDove?]

This team was unbelievably disciplined on defense today, especially in the first half. Kansas was undisciplined on close outs and played them too tight on the perimeter, which allowed drives and fouls for Arkansas (without any real defensive stopper in the middle). UConn went in to this daring Arkansas to shoot from the perimeter and not closing out too hard/biting on the pump fakes and it worked to perfection.

A perfect game plan and excellent execution. Arkansas is a fundamentally very flawed team offensively and Hurley exposed that.

 

[Dutch Boyd]

 

[UConn990411]

Van gundy spot on with “Hurley reinventing their d”. The adaption to the help man made the difference. GREAT job by Hurley,

Hurley’s teams with a few days to prepare are so, so tough to play against. They had a tremendous game plan tonight that neutralized all of Arkansas’ defensive strengths.

 

[upstater]

Good stuff. I think a key to this season was Hurley reconceiving the offense. Instead of going inside in to Sanogo, we started to drive more, Andre, Newton, Karaban and Jordan, all 4 of them started taking it to the hole. That gave us more space to shoot 3s, more dumpoffs downlow to Sanogo.

 

[jorge34]

Another example of how awful the Big East officiating really was this year.

They play so much better when not bogged down by the terrible big East refs

 

[Jaker]

Fantastic game, still need to turn the ball over less and clean up some of the "bonehead" moments.

 

[Fan1978]

Hawkins is the key for us. When his 3 point shot is on and he gets aggressive by going to the basket, then we are almost unbeatable.

He was 3 for 9

 

[HuskyHawk]

The next game is the most important game in UConn’s season, and UConn is not even playing in it.

What? Who cares? Neither team is a particular problem