CBS- Shabazz Napier's return makes UConn a likely NCAA tourney team
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I think we are all on crack today for one day. We can come down over the weekend. These are just good times right now (after last year for sure).
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I think you are wildly under rating Niels and Shabazz's NCAAT experience.
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That 1st sentence must be written in jest. By the way, if 25% of the top 2 seeds didn't make the Sweet 16 (I'm not going to check your work), that means that 75% did. The law of averages does not work in your favor here.
We certainly have an idea. They lose one player with significant minutes (Evans) off a 20-10 team that had nothing to play for but themselves. They gain size up front, and aside from the incoming freshman, they gain experience. They beat 3 ranked opponents, and lost to another (#7 Gtown) in 2OT without any front court of which to speak highly.
You forgot a few teams. Namely 2009 UNC, 1999, 2004, and 2006 UConn, 1990-93 Duke, 2003 Cuse. This is just off the top of my head. I don't have the time nor inclination to research it further. It's 5:30 on a Friday and I have better things to do.
Again, I'm not new to college basketball and I'm not young (well maybe comparatively), and I also never said Final 4 or bust. I said the National Championship should be the goal. If we're betting with your life, I'm all in baby.
This doesn't mean anything. Its a gut feeling. UConn will get to the Sweet 16 in 2013. There is very little doubt in my mind. Whether they win that game is a different story and yes, I consider the Thursday-Friday rounds the weekend.Being ultra-conservative about your prediction, doesn't make you right or smarter. It just makes you ultra-conservative in your prediction.
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This is why many outside of New England made fun of Connecticut for throwing a parade for the Whalers when they merely won a playoff series. In homage to HFD, it's small-time mentality. 1990 may have been the start of UConn being included in the national discussion, but I've personally long since stopped referring to it as the "Dream Season." 1999 took care of that for me...
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Well, guy, it's the unforeseen that usually gets you.
Putting to the side the understandable overrating that's going on around here today - someone said Nolan showed NBA caliber ability down the stretch - I don't see how anyone who has ever watched the NCAA tournament could say the second weekend is a "given."
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This notion Goodman is promoting is inane. UConn was a notable Team in 2012-2013. The conversation about Ollie's coaching talent was a big topic. This Team beat Michigan State & Syracuse when they were highly promoted. In a BE whereby a handful of Teams were contenders (and one was the Champ), Goodman is just pissing on us for fun.
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Didn't find anything to really complain about, but the last line... "Now with Napier back in the fold, there's no reason to believe the Huskies won't be back in the NCAA tournament next season." was kind of like saying "Newsflash - water is wet"...
Someone else also correctly pointed out they were a NCAA team this past year. He might have gotten a bit more mileage if he'd said "There's no reason to believe the Huskies won't be able to make a run at the final 4"... Not predicting a final 4 for them, but they will have the talent to compete for it...
By the way I also disagree with is characterization that no one outside Connecticut talked about UCONN last year. Certainly the Ollie situation, and finally announcement in December that he was officially going to succeed JC, was newsworthy. As was the fact that the team played some fantastic games and had a great effort all year. I'd go so far as to say more people nationally talked about UCONN than they did Seton Hall, Providence, Depaul and USF combined...
Someone else also correctly pointed out they were a NCAA team this past year. He might have gotten a bit more mileage if he'd said "There's no reason to believe the Huskies won't be able to make a run at the final 4"... Not predicting a final 4 for them, but they will have the talent to compete for it...
By the way I also disagree with is characterization that no one outside Connecticut talked about UCONN last year. Certainly the Ollie situation, and finally announcement in December that he was officially going to succeed JC, was newsworthy. As was the fact that the team played some fantastic games and had a great effort all year. I'd go so far as to say more people nationally talked about UCONN than they did Seton Hall, Providence, Depaul and USF combined...
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The negativity on the board has reached a baffling level. That is my prediction. That is my expectation. My name is on it. I'll be happy to watch next year to see if they can achieve it...Guy.
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Tournament experience in general probably isn't incredibly important, and I agree, the fact that our senior PG, who is also our best player, has won a national championship and endured more battles in his three year career than most players do in four, is hugely critical. Let's be cautious, though - it isn't as if this team is coming off an elite eight appearance (though who knows how far they would have advanced had they been eligible and healthy last season) or even a tournament appearance. Winning just one tournament game would be uncharted water for 80% of the starting lineup (I'm not counting Wolf since he didn't play in 2011). And that isn't to say I don't think this team is going to be very good, because I do think they'll compete for a championship.
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That 1st sentence must be written in jest. By the way, if 25% of the top 2 seeds didn't make the Sweet 16 (I'm not going to check your work), that means that 75% did. The law of averages does not work in your favor here.
We certainly have an idea. They lose one player with significant minutes (Evans) off a 20-10 team that had nothing to play for but themselves. They gain size up front, and aside from the incoming freshman, they gain experience. They beat 3 ranked opponents, and lost to another (#7 Gtown) in 2OT without any front court of which to speak highly.
You forgot a few teams. Namely 2009 UNC, 1999, 2004, and 2006 UConn, 1990-93 Duke, 2003 Cuse. This is just off the top of my head. I don't have the time nor inclination to research it further. It's 5:30 on a Friday and I have better things to do.
Again, I'm not new to college basketball and I'm not young (well maybe comparatively), and I also never said Final 4 or bust. I said the National Championship should be the goal. If we're betting with your life, I'm all in baby.
Being ultra-conservative about your prediction, doesn't make you right or smarter. It just makes you ultra-conservative in your prediction.
I have no issue with anybody predicting big things for this team. I have high expectations myself. I just found it odd that you would have so surprised by an exit in the first weekend when even the favorites only advance that far 75% of the time.
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It's not negativity to say it's not a "given" that they'll make the Sweet 16, just like it's not a prediction to say "it's a given that they'll make the Sweet Sixteen" - it's an opinion. If your prediction is that they'll make the Sweet 16, then great, mine is too. But that's not the same thing. Not sure what it is about that that eludes you.
Are you talking about Providence?
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is nolan no longer on the team... thought he made some decent strides at the end of last season as well and gave some valuable minutes.
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Why would you think he's no longer on the team?
Ollie just tweeted about him yesterday.
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Congrats go out 2 Phil Nolan, Named Student- Athlete of the Month.. Very proud of you Philly!! TEAM US..
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This team was hardly a bubble team. They would have been in regardless of how they fared in the the big east tournament...looking back I'd say they would have made atleast the quarterfinals. The goal this year is a NC and FF, with this team both those are very realistic. But the S16 is not a given. You'd be a fool to believe that. ALOT of great teams don't make it out of the first weekend.
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Gotta get in the last word, huh? Thanks for piling on. This conversation ended on Friday. Good day, Sir.
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The internet ends?
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I agree about the tournament. If we weren't ineligible, we would have made the tournament this year EASILY! Not even close and with everyone coming back, how is it we won't be considerably better???????????????
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There were national TV announcers that talked about how criminal it was that last year's men's team wasn't tournament eligible because they recognized how good a "TEAM" they were citing teams that we had beaten and mentioning that Georgetown game that a number of writers thought we should have won. I don't think going into the season that a lot of writers would be surprised if we were playing in a regional final for a trip to the Final Four. We are going to be that good, baring some horrific injuries.
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I don't think any Kevin Ollie team (just like a Calhoun team) would ever presume that the Sweet 16 is automatic and not be prepared to walk on that court and play whoever their opponent is with great intensity. That's why I can't imagine them losing on that first weekend with this team of talented upperclassmen.
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