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Coleman Hawkins and Illinois Needed One More Half

Travelman6 said:
If they played one more time. So easy to say anything when IF is involved and no possible way to prove or disprove it.

Maybe they'd be within 15 rather than 25. Though their second half was much worse than the first after they had time to adjust so maybe not.

Then again if the b10 would just do the right thing and add UConn this could be settled on the court rather than useless hearsay we're all partaking in...
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If UConn became an AAU member, then we would be in the B10 by now. The B10 might have selected us instead of Rutgers (who is a member).
 
Bboy Lace said:
If UConn became an AAU member, then we would be in the B10 by now. The B10 might have selected us instead of Rutgers (who is a member).
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You just can’t become a member. You need to be invited. Just like joining a P4 conference.
 
uconnfan68 said:
You just can’t become a member. You need to be invited. Just like joining a P4 conference.
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That's s given. But a prerequisite for that conference is being an AAU member. Which we've talked about becoming for years but have yet to meet the requirements.
 
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Bboy Lace said:
That's s given. But a prerequisite for that conference is being an AAU member. Which we've talked about becoming for years but have yet to meet the requirements.
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Again, you need to be invited.
 
When provided with objective talent appraisals this delusional player pulled out of one of the weakest NBA drafts in recent memory.
 
uconnbill said:
certain conferences and schools don't feel that way about UConn even after winning two Championships. That is a fact from some ACC, SEC, and Big Ten schools.
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Big Ten schools think that? Did you mean Big 12? There isn't a single Big Ten school with even a bad argument. At least KU can make a bad argument.
 
This is a dumb comment for sure but can we stop with the "no one gives us any respect" narrative?

It's simply not true. We've dominated college basketball for the last two years. Our coach is one of, if not the biggest, star in the sport right now. We have more championships than Duke and Kansas and are tied with UNC. They may not like us but they damn sure respect us. No one with a brain is still arguing that UConn is a paper tiger.

If anything, propagating that narrative only continues to make our fanbase look small time and insecure.
 
They lost by 25. The only times Illinois beat a team by 26+ in a half last year were:
  • 7-25 Valparaiso (30)
  • Almost 8-23 Missouri (25) so I’ll give it to them
Probably would have been a better idea to just take the high road here, because that’s a pretty goofy quote lol

He said they had him at the 5 for an offensive advantage, but I’m not sure giving the guy who shot 2-10 (1-7 from three) MORE shots was the answer

UConn was a buzz saw and Illinois got caught off guard. The 30-0 run was less than 10 minutes of game time, and it was over after that
 
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Huskyforlife said:
The only comment that rubbed me the wrong way was the stuff about making Clingan a top 5 pick. That’s one way of saying he dominated you.
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I actually didn't mind that after I digested it a second. He says it with a smirk. I agree that it is an acknowledgment of how much Donovan dominated that game.

One thing that stuck in my mind about this interview is how he threw the game plan, and the coaching staff, under the bus. It reminded me just how good our culture is at Connecticut.
 
If the tournament had us playing these teams in a best of 3 or best of 5 scenario I'd have mortgaged my house to bet on uconn winning it all.
 
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Yeah, if they had played another half against us we would have beat them by 60 points. They played us even for the first 15 minutes and then we completely throttled them once we figured out how they were defending us.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Can’t believe Kansas State gave this guy 2 mil. 12 ppg player and clearly a dumbo.
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1. They didn't. Some outside third party may have. Schools don't pay NIL.
2. In a league where they already had to try to be better than KU, Baylor and Iowa State, they added Houston and now Arizona. The desperation is legit.
 
their game plan was pretty atrocious but they would still have lost by 25
 
navery12 said:
He's wrong, but I also wouldn't expect him to say anything different. If any of our players were saying they'd lose a game a second time we'd be killing them. Hell, if any of our fans said that we'd be killing them
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I mean normally a good teammate and player wouldn’t say the team didn’t run enough plays for himself or say that he was standing open in the corner the whole game but never got the ball. Even if thats true, you don’t say it publicly. Just goes to show what kind of person Hawkins is. And I’m not just basing that off this one interview, there have been others where he has come off as selfish, immature and not a team player.
 
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Coleman Hawkins is delusional, about his team and his skills. In a 7 game series, Uconn beats Illinois 4-1, maybe a sweep. If Coleman was all that he thinks he is, Castle would have shut him down and made him a complete non-factor. Easy to imagine after the snuff job SC & AK did on Terrance Shannon, who is much the Hawkins.
 
TroyHall98 said:
If they could have come up with a better game plan, they would have. They had nothing that day and would have nothing if they played us again.
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The only game plan they would have beaten us with was if they could play 7 on 5.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Coleman Hawkins is delusional, about his team and his skills. In a 7 game series, Uconn beats Illinois 4-1, maybe a sweep. If Coleman was all that he thinks he is, Castle would have shut him down and made him a complete non-factor. Easy to imagine after the snuff job SC & AK did on Terrance Shannon, who is much the Hawkins.
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If we played them 10 times we win 10 times. Big 10 was trash as always
 
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