Yeah, that's what I said. My point was that AZ has two top ten kids, one that started slow. Another on the bench that is top 25. Those type of kids tend to have a lot of room for growth, like a Mullins does.
Just looked at Michigan schedule, seems they had a bit of trouble with Wake Forest and TCU. Looks like they get to play some pretty good teams the rest of the year. Question, if so good how many loses do you see, if any, for the rest of the regular season. Hard for a team in decent conference to lose less than 3 or 4, will they do better than that? Not a big fan of Massey on some of their stats but Massey has Michigan with 6.63 expected losses rest of year (has UConn 4.69 and Michigan State 6.25).
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Anyone doing that is about 10 years too late
Michigan has what is one of the two contestants for player of the year, and a fringe lottery pick. It then also has a first round rim protecting center. And a lot of talented and large "role" players after that. They have a McD AA coming off the bench, a former McD AA at PG. I've seen their PF mocked in the second round. SG is a big kid that shoots 40% from three.
Michigan is undefeated (10-0) with two wins over teams also in the Top 25 And 1 -- but the Wolverines won't play another currently ranked team until they meet Nebraska on Jan. 27. Arizona is undefeated (9-0) with three wins over teams also in the Top 25 And 1 -- but the Wildcats won't play another currently ranked team until they meet BYU on Jan. 26. Obviously, neither sentence guarantees anything because this is college basketball and goofy stuff happens in college basketball all of the time. But what those sentences at least suggest is that these two obvious title-contenders could keep zeros in the loss column and remain No. 1 and No. 2, in some order, in most human rankings deep into January.
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Michigan is tough. Could they run UConn out of the arena? Yes, Would they? highly unlikely. I dont see, right now, UConn running Michigan out of the arena but I do see them winning,
Starting to think he is a Michigan Manchurian candidate that was just activated
Speaking of odds, those are great odds to get in on with UConn. Slightly lower than start of the year, but not by much (I believe they were +1200 to start the year?). Whatever the debate is with Michigan, I’ll take UConn, Arizona, or Duke at those odds over Michigan at +475
I'd take us on those odds too. I don't think you can underestimate the coaching & system factor. Our team this year is good enough to impose it, and teams simply don't see it anywhere else. It's not all that different than StM, simply with much better talent. The UF tourney game last year was a good example. That Florida team was so much better than last year's UConn team, yet the system almost won us that game (should have if we simply shot it mediocre).
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it's just funny that you are compelled to advocate so vigorously for a team other than UConn on the boneyard. i havent seen anything like it in my 7 years here (shoutout @HuskyHawk.) yes this is a UConn message board so yes most are wearing blue tinted goggles whether they admit it or not. but why take it upon yourself to beat them all into submission? are you going to keep this up until the final four? you deserve a break it seems exhausting.
Lipscomb is not very good this year either.....
Yeah, I posted it in the Butler postgame thread.
