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[QUOTE="Palatine, post: 4788778, member: 974"]
Stalling with 17 minutes left was weird. I have never seen another coach try to stall out a game with 17 minutes to go. No sane coach would have played it the same way.

And the stall was awful.  They never got up a shot and BCU ran off 8 straight points. Rowe invented this stall where a player would dribble into the right hand corner of the forecourt. It was basically dribbling into a trap. Then the guy would hand off to another Husky who would dribble back to the center of the court near the center jump circle who would hand off to another Husky who would dribble back into the right hand corner. Repeat.

The was no way to attack the basket from this stall. BCU just overloaded the right side of the court and took the ball away. By the time Rowe abandoned the stall, his team had lost all momentum and was in a dogfight. I had seen this stall before during the year. It make no sense. His team was killing BCU until Rowe killed his own team.

Rowe turned into a great ambassador and fund raiser for UConn basketball. He had a great NCAA run a few years later. Nice that they gave him a memorial. But his coaching in the NIT was indefensible.
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