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RuffRuff said:
I'll take winner of Marquette (revenge) and Gtown sans Lewis winner and Hodge-less Nova vs Prov & Hall
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Actually the only team I think we'll run out of the gym is Marquette. I know this UConn team. I also know that if they get to the sweet 16 they'll go to indy
 
Ben Gold airballs a putback layup, Xavier hits a go ahead fast break layup with 75 seconds left. Was he fouled or did he just choke? Super impactful sequence

Nigel James misses 1 of 2 FTs, Tre Carroll hits a nice shot to go up 3 and then blocks James on the other end

X hangs on. Really fun game!

I may be overreacting. But Nigel James should be on the preseason BE POY short list next year
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
Not gonna lie. Happy Marquette is gone.
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Everyone was looking at it from a revenge point of view, and I get it. My concern was we would fail to knock Marquette out early, and then, their confidence would continue to rise.

One of our biggest weaknesses is their biggest strength (creating turnovers). I would rather face a team in Xavier where we just match up better.
 
Just stay focused those two games from the regular season are meaningless this is a new season.

Play your game. Xavier still can’t defend worth a damn. Just play solid d especially that 3 pt line and should win.
 
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REB1094 said:
Ben Gold airballs a putback layup, Xavier hits a go ahead fast break layup with 75 seconds left. Was he fouled or did he just choke? Super impactful sequence

Nigel James misses 1 of 2 FTs, Tre Carroll hits a nice shot to go up 3 and then blocks James on the other end

X hangs on. Really fun game!

I may be overreacting. But Nigel James should be on the preseason BE POY short list next year
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James will be up there. Demary will be up there.

I'm sure Marquette fans aren't going to miss Ben Gold.
 
Hurley in the Fanta interview sounds like the guy who tried to catch the Bartman foul ball but luckily whiffed:
"But I didnt touch the ball. I never touched the ball. Glad I never touched the ball"
 
Marquette ruined my mini parlay but otherwise I'm fine with playing X - I am not too worried about either team but James is a good player.
 
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No opinion of Marquette losing. In spite of the loss last week:

A) No point in putting such emotional weight on “revenge” with such a bad team. Not worth our time and shouldn’t have lost to begin with

B) Wasn’t worried about them anyways. It took an uncharacteristically awful shooting night for us to have ever lost to them. That is the only way we could’ve possibly lost that game, even with all our other issues.

Anyways, no point in being negative, we got Xavier up next!
 
superjohn said:
Good lord, it sounds like some of you were scared to play Marquette again.
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I think the chances of our guys coming out flat and too over-confident against X is more likely.

That loss to Marquette should sting and take that possibility away.

But I'm not too worried about either one, knock on wood.
 
superjohn said:
Good lord, it sounds like some of you were scared to play Marquette again.
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Yeah that's what it sounded like to me as well. Me? No, I wanted Marquette. Oh well. Now I want UConn to bring it against the X-Men.
 
FightOnCT said:
No opinion of Marquette losing. In spite of the loss last week:

A) No point in putting such emotional weight on “revenge” with such a bad team. Not worth our time and shouldn’t have lost to begin with

B) Wasn’t worried about them anyways. It took an uncharacteristically awful shooting night for us to have ever lost to them. That is the only way we could’ve possibly lost that game, even with all our other issues.

Anyways, no point in being negative, we got Xavier up next!
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More importantly UConn's players should have the attitude of your post.

Your point A applies to Creighton as well. The chances of UConn playing them in the BET final is so slim and Creighton is a bad team so no point in putting emotional weight on a revenge game against them.
 
I never understood the critique of Fanta or Donnie. I mean, i roll my eyes everytime a BYer gives Dan Hurley coaching tips, but I give them the benefit of the doubt because its possible they have played or coached at a college level. But announcing??? What does anybody here know about what it takes to call a game? One thing I'm sure of, whether you can coach a game (which you probably cant), I am 100% positive nobody on this board could call a game for more than 30 seconds without sounding like a babbling amateur..

Do y'all have to be experts on everything???
 
RuffRuff said:
That's some take. AJ Storr, huh?

We need to find a Nigel James. How did we let that kid out of our backyard? Dawg, elite athlete.
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Plus he played with the Ross brothers so he must have bloomed big time over the past six months or our coaches had blinders on. Has to be his size that deterred them.
 
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Scrutineer said:
Plus he played with the Ross brothers so he must have bloomed big time over the past six months or our coaches had blinders on. Has to be his size that deterred them.
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Kid gets into the lane at will and finishes so strong. Special kinda player.
 
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