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Per Andy Katz on Twitter:

Big East schedule released today. Jim Calhoun has to sit first 3 games. Don't expect games against elite. Apparently just computer chance.
 
So those first 3 games are USF, St. John's & Seton Hall. The haters are gonna be out in full force soon, claiming how JC paid the Big East officials for those easy first 3.
 
ddminct said:
Substitute DePaul for St John's
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I wish. I saw the schedule (no link yet) and the first 3 games are USF away, St. John's @ XL Center, and Seton Hall away.
 
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Here's the schedule:
11/2 - AIC @ Gampel (exhibition)
11/6 - CW Post @ XL Center (exhibition)
11/11 - Columbia @ Gampel
11/14 - Wagner @ Gampel
11/17 - Maine @ XL
11/20 - Coppin State @ XL
11/24 - 11/26 - BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS

12/3 - Arkansas @ XL
12/8 - Harvard @ Gampel
12/18 - Holy Cross @ XL
12/22 - Fairfield @ XL
12/28 - at USF
12/31 - St. John's @ XL

1/3 - at Seton Hall
1/7 - at Rutgers
1/9 - WVU @ XL
1/14 - at Notre Dame
1/18 - Cincinnati @ Gampel
1/21 - at Tennessee
1/29 - Notre Dame @ XL

2/1 - at Georgetown
2/4 - Seton Hall @ XL
2/6 - at Louisville
2/11 - at Syracuse
2/15 - Depaul @ Gampel
2/18 - Marquette @ XL
2/20 - at Villanova
2/25 - Syracuse @ Gampel (ESPN GAMEDAY)
2/28 - at Providence

3/3 - Pittsburgh @ Gampel
3/6-3/10 - BIG EAST TOURNAMENT
 
The schedule is sadly easy for the team we have. I can't really see them being worse that 25-5 going into the BET (and really, they should be 27-3 IMO).
 
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I LOVE that we're playing Cuse, Cinci, and Pitt at Gampel.

@ Louisville and @ Cuse in a 5 day span is going to be tough.
 
St. John's has the makings of being a good team this season. It's no pushover.

The schedule was created before the additions of DeAndre and Andre. Boatright for Kemba might not have been enough to make JC confident in playing a tougher schedule. I'm happy with it. Only Alex is an upperclassman. There are seven, maybe eight freshman and sophomores that will play key roles this season and they will have to learn to develop without the security of one of the best college players to lead a team ever.
 
People claiming our team is a shoe-in for the NCAA title game and predicting we go 30-0 to start the season is scaring me.

I much prefer the low expectations and pleasant surprises of last season. :p
 
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tykurez said:
People claiming our team is a shoe-in for the NCAA title game and predicting we go 30-0 to start the season is scaring me.

I much prefer the low expectations and pleasant surprises of last season. :p
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I'll help you out! I don't expect this team to go much over .500 and won't even make the NIT's.:cool:
 
tzznandrew said:
The schedule is sadly easy for the team we have. I can't really see them being worse that 25-5 going into the BET (and really, they should be 27-3 IMO).
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I agree, that is one lousy home slate.
 
Certainly not 30-0. If the team is as good as expected, it is difficult to come up with 5 pre-BET losses.

It feels like they should go undefeated in their OOC. Where do they get losses?

FSU in the Battle for Atlantis?
Arkansas at home?
@ Tennessee?

There will certainly be WTF losses, but most of the teams (save UL and SU) that I would be worried about are only at home. ND, GTown, Nova are road games that will be tough, but if the team is as good as advertised, they should win some combination of 2-3 of the above road games.

25-5, if everyone is healthy feels reasonable. It assumes losses at UL, SU, and two of ND, GTown, and Nova, as well as one unexpected loss (maybe a home loss to UL or SU, or maybe our bi-annual loss to PC). It puts them at 13-5 in the BE.

I think that expecting anything above 27-3 is unreasonable.

Let me also say that I say these now, excited, expecting certain strides and health for the players. Obviously we should be prepared for some of those things to change and some games that seemed winnable may change for one reason (their poor play) or another (unexpected success from what was thought to be a weaker team).
 
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tzznandrew said:
Certainly not 30-0. If the team is as good as expected, it is difficult to come up with 5 pre-BET losses.

It feels like they should go undefeated in their OOC. Where do they get losses?

FSU in the Battle for Atlantis?
Arkansas at home?
@ Tennessee?

There will certainly be WTF losses, but most of the teams (save UL and SU) that I would be worried about are at home. ND, GTown, Nova are road games that will be tough, but if the team is as good as advertised, they should win some combination of 2-3 of the above road games.

25-5, if everyone is healthy feels reasonable. It assumes losses at UL, SU, and two of ND, GTown, and Nova, as well as one unexpected loss (maybe a home loss to UL or SU, or maybe our bi-annual loss to PC). It puts them at 13-5 in the BE.

I think that anything above 27-3 is unreasonable.

Let me also say that I say these now, excited, expecting certain strides and health for the players. Obviously we should be prepared for some of those things to change and some games that seemed winnable may change for one reason (their poor play) or another (unexpected success from what was thought to be a weaker team).
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I don't want to be "that guy" or the "realist balloon knot" ... but I don't think the loss of Kemba can be understated. I think those predictions are wonderful and cheery, but I just can't buy into anything yet. He was THE leader ... one of the best leaders this storied establishment has ever seen.

Don't get me wrong, I love all of our players. There's talent coming out of our noses right now ... but there's that "intangible" aspect I think we're still uncertain on. The team will need to establish a leader and establish it early. Hopefully it's Shabazz, because I think he's the guy for the role ... but I don't think we'll know until the season starts.

The silver lining, we'll still have the ultimate leader in Calhoun and the fresh, tough leadership of Kevin Ollie. I want to be as optimistic as you are, but there's a part of me that finds it difficult given we'll be playing with 1 upperclassman (!!!)
 
I'd rather lose in the regular season then the NCAA tourney
 
UConn4ever said:
11am game at Notre Dame think thats right or a typo?
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UConn’s game at Notre Dame on Jan. 14, which will be televised by espn2, will start at 11 a.m. in order to avoid bumping heads with NFL playoff games.
 
There will be a freak blizzard in late October. Gampel and XL Center will be used for "storm relief by the National Guard" for five months for no apparent reason. UConn will be forced to play all their games on the road and will go 9-21. Coach Calhoun will sue the State of Connecticut, and when his lawyer demands legal fees, he'll say "not a dime back".
 
The schedule is up on the uconnhuskies.com site. Looks like another New Years Eve evening game, against a Big East School no less. I hate that.
 
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beerfan said:
The schedule is up on the uconnhuskies.com site. Looks like another New Years Eve evening game, against a Big East School no less. I hate that.
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If we had to play on New Years Eve, I'd rather have St. John's @ XL than playing Pitt @ Pitt.
 
On a more realistic note, I think this season is highly unpredictable. We've got some very talented freshmen in Daniels, Boatright, and Drummond, plus Shabazz, Roscoe Smith, and Jeremy Lamb returning. But it's still a young team. Our only seniors are our two walk-ons (and I could have sworn Bailey was a senior last year, but the roster says he's a senior now). Anyway, if the young players manage to play as a unit without Kemba holding them together like he did last year, we could repeat as national champs. If they can't, we'd be looking at an NIT bid. I don't think we're CBI bad mind you in any case (but frankly, we wouldn't make the CBI anyway since they like to invite mid-majors and they would not invite us even if we were available). But I think it's critical to see if this team can play as a unit despite inexperience. The first few games will show us. I don't think the first game they might lose even in a doomsday scenario is UCF at Atlantis (although they should beat CoC if they play them) but if they are playing poorly against Columbia and Maine and those guys and only winning because the opposition is terrible, then I think we're in trouble. If we beat them by 40+ points, we should be in business when we play the big boys. That being said, it's a young team, and we will have one or two off nights where we lose to a team we shouldn't lose to. I'm guessing Harvard in Atlantis could be one of those. Or possibly Harvard @ Gampel, but that's less likely, and even lesser likely if we play them at Atlantis first. Another possibility is the home date with West Virginia on January 9th, which might be a trap game if we look ahead to the crucial showdown in South Bend. The game at Providence is right before we host Pitt for our final game of the season. I could see a scenario where they get into a mentality like "If we beat Pitt, we win the conference, assuming we beat Providence first" and of course, they just take the victory over the Friars as a given and it turns out not to be. So I don't know how this team will perform this year. We'll know after a few games.
 
Arkansas is very dangerous this year with Mike Anderson and what I consider a GREAT incoming recruiting class. Arkansas could be a nice sleeper in the NCAA's this year. @ Louisville 2/6 (I think that's the date) will be the first game UConn plays as a road dog. Vegas will probably put the line @ Louisville -41/2.
tzznandrew said:
Certainly not 30-0. If the team is as good as expected, it is difficult to come up with 5 pre-BET losses.

It feels like they should go undefeated in their OOC. Where do they get losses?

FSU in the Battle for Atlantis?
Arkansas at home?
@ Tennessee?

There will certainly be WTF losses, but most of the teams (save UL and SU) that I would be worried about are only at home. ND, GTown, Nova are road games that will be tough, but if the team is as good as advertised, they should win some combination of 2-3 of the above road games.

25-5, if everyone is healthy feels reasonable. It assumes losses at UL, SU, and two of ND, GTown, and Nova, as well as one unexpected loss (maybe a home loss to UL or SU, or maybe our bi-annual loss to PC). It puts them at 13-5 in the BE.

I think that expecting anything above 27-3 is unreasonable.

Let me also say that I say these now, excited, expecting certain strides and health for the players. Obviously we should be prepared for some of those things to change and some games that seemed winnable may change for one reason (their poor play) or another (unexpected success from what was thought to be a weaker team).
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HooperScooper said:
UConn’s game at Notre Dame on Jan. 14, which will be televised by espn2, will start at 11 a.m. in order to avoid bumping heads with NFL playoff games.
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That makes sense I didnt even think of that
 
On a more realistic note, I think this season is highly unpredictable. We've got some very talented freshmen in Daniels, Boatright, and Drummond, plus Shabazz, Roscoe Smith, and Jeremy Lamb returning. But it's still a young team. Our only seniors are our two walk-ons (and I could have sworn Bailey was a senior last year, but the roster says he's a senior now). Anyway, if the young players manage to play as a unit without Kemba holding them together like he did last year, we could repeat as national champs. If they can't, we'd be looking at an NIT bid. I don't think we're CBI bad mind you in any case (but frankly, we wouldn't make the CBI anyway since they like to invite mid-majors and they would not invite us even if we were available). But I think it's critical to see if this team can play as a unit despite inexperience. The first few games will show us. I don't think the first game they might lose even in a doomsday scenario is UCF at Atlantis (although they should beat CoC if they play them) but if they are playing poorly against Columbia and Maine and those guys and only winning because the opposition is terrible, then I think we're in trouble. If we beat them by 40+ points, we should be in business when we play the big boys. That being said, it's a young team, and we will have one or two off nights where we lose to a team we shouldn't lose to. I'm guessing Harvard in Atlantis could be one of those. Or possibly Harvard @ Gampel, but that's less likely, and even lesser likely if we play them at Atlantis first. Another possibility is the home date with West Virginia on January 9th, which might be a trap game if we look ahead to the crucial showdown in South Bend. The game at Providence is right before we host Pitt for our final game of the season. I could see a scenario where they get into a mentality like "If we beat Pitt, we win the conference, assuming we beat Providence first" and of course, they just take the victory over the Friars as a given and it turns out not to be. So I don't know how this team will perform this year. We'll know after a few games.​
UConn Class of 2014, currently on medical leave. I run a blog chronicling every UConn game I go to at Gregory's Gallery of UConn Games. It is currently on hiatus due to my medical issues though.

GO HUSKIES!
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What?
 
Gregory Koch said:
But I think it's critical to see if this team can play as a unit despite inexperience. The first few games will show us. I don't think the first game they might lose even in a doomsday scenario is UCF at Atlantis (although they should beat CoC if they play them) but if they are playing poorly against Columbia and Maine and those guys and only winning because the opposition is terrible, then I think we're in trouble. If we beat them by 40+ points, we should be in business when we play the big boys..
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Inexperience? I don't know if you remember but we are pretty much returning the entire team. Granted, we lose the best player to ever don a Husky uniform, but the addition of Boatright, Daniels & Drummond plus the freshmen to sophomore transition should be able to make up a decent portion of what Kemba gave to this team. I do agree with you that Kemba's leadership could be sorely missed, but I am banking on the captains being more than adequate this year. Kemba didn't only win us a National Championship, but he instilled the leadership and the values of hard work onto his teammates, and I believe that torch will be carried by Oriakhi, Shabazz and the returning team.

Last year, we struggled a few times with teams that we should have crushed, and we turned out just fine. The point of the easy early schedule, IMO, is to fine tune the line-up and get all the kinks out in time for the Big East schedule. Wouldn't be surprised if we do struggle with a couple of those early games, but we shouldn't be in danger of losing any of them.
 
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looks like the season starts in mid-January. The BE will humble us once again for those thinking undefeated. The good thing about the schedule is that it allows time for the Kemba adjustment.
 
It really is hard to know how a team that depended so much on one player will react without that player. This team has four players who played significant minutes returning. Two other players played a significant role for this team.

Four other players who should be significant for the team haven't played one college minute. I wouldn't say the team is inexperienced. But it is young.

So who knows for sure how this team responds. I love Shabazz. Some of the best team offense was when Shabazz was the 1 g and Kemba was the off guard. I expect Shabazz to have a great career. I'm excited to see him run the offense this season and be the primary 1g. But there is no proof until the season starts if he will be as effective without Kemba in the lineup.
 
I like the fact that there are 14 games on national TV and none on ESPNU
 
The home schedule pretty much sucks, except for the fact we have Syracuse and Pitt at Gampel.

Seriously our only OOC BCS home game is Arkansas? I know we don't pick who we play in the Big East/SEC Challenge, but come on, nobody else out there would want to play the National champs in a last minute made for tv game?
 
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tykurez said:
People claiming our team is a shoe-in for the NCAA title game and predicting we go 30-0 to start the season is scaring me.

I much prefer the low expectations and pleasant surprises of last season. :p
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Forget it. How many games are there where UConn won't be favored? Maybe four? They will be favored in their 1st 16 games minimum. This team needs to win and develop. Not that easy, I wouldn't think.
 
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