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Does the revenge tour continue?

We’re playing great as of late.

Biggest improvements have been our three point shooting and individual defense.

We need to be careful with foul trouble. Specifically Cole, Jackson, and Sanogo.

Nembhard is out. No excuses.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Does the revenge tour continue?

We’re playing great as of late.

Biggest improvements have been our three point shooting and individual defense.

We need to be careful with foul trouble. Specifically Cole, Jackson, and Sanogo.

Nembhard is out. No excuses.
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Without Nembhard I like our chances.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
Even on the road and, nominally, a Q1 game, this is one that a team with top 4 seed and Sweet 16 aspirations simply has to win.
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Agreed. This team has had our number. We get this win and close out with a win in senior night we should be ready for bully-ball in the postseason
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Agreed. This team has had our number. We get this win and close out with a win in senior night we should be ready for bully-ball in the postseason
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If we do that we will have one of the longest win streaks of all high major teams heading into the post season. Hottest team in the country?
 
UcannUconn said:
They’re coming off a loss, at home, senior night. It’s going to be tough.
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^^^bingo - should still win, but this should be close. Be surprised if the spread was more than a few points in our direction
 
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The one thing they haven't done much of is win in a fired up, away game. Not many chances to prove that yet though. They need to be able to win in a loud environment that isn't 90% in their favor. I don't know how crazy the fans will be but I hope they are loud and I'd love a crowd quieting win.
 
There’s a very good chance we play them again in the tournament. If we win, I think most likely they’ll end as a 6 seed and it’ll be in the 3 vs 6 matchup. If we lose Wednesday instead, it’ll be a 4 vs 5 seed in the tournament. So overall game Wednesday, may not have a huge affect on seeding in the tournament for us, but obviously we’ll want to beat the team we’ll be playing again in the Tourney.

All this is assuming Marquette and Seton Hall win against St John’s and Creighton respectively. Those are gonna be close games, especially Seton Hall at Creighton, which will have huge seeding implications between a bye and a 6 seed, so I expect a very good game. Will be fun to watch, but will certainly be rooting for Hall there, definitely want to play Creighton as opposed to Seton Hall or Marquette.
 
UcannUconn said:
They’re coming off a loss, at home, senior night. It’s going to be tough.
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Do they even have any seniors?? I thought their entire team was freshman and sophomores
 
aburks41 said:
Do they even have any seniors?? I thought their entire team was freshman and sophomores
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Hawkins and AOC. Hawkins is like 25 years old lol
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Ryan Hawkins in this case
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I know, I was confused because I've looked at his stats before and only saw 1 year for his career. so I thought he was a freshman. I didn't realize he was a D2 transfer
 
I want this game even more than I wanted the Nova game.

Creighton irks me a ton and has had our number. And we haven't been world beaters on the road. we have a couple decent ones but I want more. It just feels like there are two mountains to climb here the Creighton curse, and a really solid road win to add to the Marquette one.
 
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Missing their starting PG (i.e., the circle the wagons effect), a road game in a really tough arena/rabid fanbase, senior night, and coming off of that bad PC loss. This game scares the hell out of me.

Oh- and apparently SMU gave them our number...
 
The X factor for Creighton has been McDermott. I am hoping to see Dan Hurley change some things up. Show them a few wrinkles. They will have a very focused game plan designed for UConn like last time.
 
It'll be interesting to see where the line ends up.

We were -10.5 vs. Creighton, which was laughably inflated and we never came close to covering.

Figure that result would bump it down a few points. Going on the road instead of home is about a 6-point swing.

But they've lost Nembhart and got blown out at Providence, while we're rolling.

I think it'll be something like UConn -5. Not sure which side I'd want to be on.
 
feel bad for creighton. think w.o nembard they lose their last 3 games of the season, falling all the way from the #3 seed to #6 in the matter of 2 weeks, setting up a second round matchup with us. idk if they even make the big dance if that's how it plays out.

1 PC
2 Nova
3 UConn
4 MU
5 Hall
6 Creighton
 
bendm said:
feel bad for creighton. think w.o nembard they lose their last 3 games of the season, falling all the way from the #3 seed to #6 in the matter of 2 weeks, setting up a second round matchup with us. idk if they even make the big dance if that's how it plays out.

1 PC
2 Nova
3 UConn
4 MU
5 Hall
6 Creighton
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IF that happens (and that's a big "if" (see what I did there?)), that could be very good for UConn. If they lose all those games, it could be an indication that they really just can't compete without Nembhard, and it could give us an "easy" opponent in the quarterfinal.

Of course, they'll probably lose all those games, but figure out how to play without Nembhard just in time to knock us out of the BET :-(
 
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