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The standard is winning championships. Big East or NCAA. Thats the standard our coach has built. Anything less is an unsuccessful season.
Haha they’re coming into a lions den. hope the XL has the guys backs tomorrow nightI'm nervous about playing Nova tomorrow.
Houston would be a tough game the way UConn handles the ball and pressure. I'm still hopeful of getting to the second weekend but the team needs to get it together.It's the difference between facing Auburn/Duke/Alabama/Florida vs facing Tenn/Houston/Purdue/Texas A&M. Neither group is enticing, but if firing on all cylinders, we could take out a couple in that 2nd group.
Eh, have to be fair. Go look at Calhoun's run and tell me how many of the teams after his NC's made a dent. Most of them went kerplunk. Dude is a HOF coach.The standard is winning championships. Big East or NCAA. Thats the standard our coach has built. Anything less is an unsuccessful season.
why do they eat their whistles?And two games we lost bc of refs who decided to swallow whistles. Very odd that we lost both of them but we have some very good wins. They care about who you can beat.
If only 3 NBE teams in the dance - UConn has a ton of hard work in front of them vs what Creighton has and UConn better not lose to NovaThe Big East is down to 2 teams in the Top 25 with UConn and Creighton both dropping out. At this point I can't even try to predict how those games will go for UConn.
UConn has Nova, @SJU, Gtown, @PC, Marquette, SHU
Creighton has Gtown, DePaul, @Xavier, @SHU, Butler
Marquette, St. John's, Georgetown, and Seton Hall are all top 50 teams in forcing turnovers. Marquette and St. John's are both top 15.Houston would be a tough game the way UConn handles the ball and pressure. I'm still hopeful of getting to the second weekend but the team needs to get it together.
Completely agree as to hoping to at least do as well as prior back-to-back championship defenders. As to the last sentence, you have to figure that Alex is ready to wake up. Samson has at least been around, but he has been what he’s been and hasn’t really been the problem. I think we all feel like Hass can and should wake up, hopefully he can get physically right for the post season. It is good that we have at least some championship pedigree still on the team to wake up.Get to the 2nd round. That's as far as Duke got when defending their B2B, and Florida didn't even make the tournament.
Still think this team can get to the 2nd weekend. A lot of it is matchups. A lot of it is how they finish the season. This kind of loss wakes you up, or finishes you.
Right that is all that we an expect.Make the tourney
Thank you for your service and your interest in UConn basketball.Only three times since the NCAA Men's tournament expanded to 64 teams (1985) has the defending champion failed to qualify for the subsequent tourney:
1987 - Louisville
1989 - Kansas (on probation; otherwise would have qualified based on their record)
2009 - North Carolina
40 years; only two defenders have not qualified based on their season's body of work. Will we make it a trifecta?
No. And it's not even close to being a concern. And without even fact checking the rest I know this isn't true because Florida didn't make the NCAA tournament following their back to back championships in 2006 and 2007Only three times since the NCAA Men's tournament expanded to 64 teams (1985) has the defending champion failed to qualify for the subsequent tourney:
1987 - Louisville
1989 - Kansas (on probation; otherwise would have qualified based on their record)
2009 - North Carolina
40 years; only two defenders have not qualified based on their season's body of work. Will we make it a trifecta?