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Define a successful season

What would you consider a successful season from here on out? (Pick up to 3)

  • National Championship or bust

    Votes: 83 28.7%

  • Big East Regular Season Title

    Votes: 142 49.1%

  • Big East Tourney Title

    Votes: 109 37.7%

  • Elite Eight

    Votes: 58 20.1%

  • Final Four

    Votes: 150 51.9%

  • Sweet Sixteen

    Votes: 14 4.8%

  • Solid Showing in BET (make it to Championship game)

    Votes: 26 9.0%
  • Total voters
    289
Making the Elite Eight or further (or possibly Sweet Sixteen - I'm on the fence there) in the dance > BET champs > BE reg season IMHO.

Not making the 2nd weekend is a disappointing season.
 
It’s been a successful season already..any team can lose in the tournament.. you have a bad shooting day.. the other team shoots lights out.. I’ve enjoyed this season so much, and when it ends it ends… nothing is going to take away from the great year we are having
 
I'm getting a bit of a 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates vibe. We pretty much know we're losing at least 4 of the 5 starters, and maybe all 5 after this year. We're looking at a couple of years w/o realistic NC chances after this. So for me, it's NC6, although I suppose I could be talked into a FF loss vs a top 3 seed (as long as it's not Purdue or Duke).
 
storrsroars said:
I'm getting a bit of a 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates vibe. We pretty much know we're losing at least 4 of the 5 starters, and maybe all 5 after this year. We're looking at a couple of years w/o realistic NC chances after this. So for me, it's NC6, although I suppose I could be talked into a FF loss vs a top 3 seed (as long as it's not Purdue or Duke).
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SR,

I think you've been in Pittsburgh far too long.

If our season ends the way the Pirates 1992 season did, blowing a series they had won, it will absolutely not be a success.

I want to expand on my earlier post (that a WTF season ending loss is the only path to failure). The way I see it, there is very little out there that can lead to a season ending loss for us. Success for us can only be one of a very small number of possible outcomes.
 
Huskybass said:
Ordinarily I would agree with you, but this team is far too skilled and deep to not win another National Championship. Failure is the wrong word, but I fully expect this team to win another title as long as they remain healthy. They are that good.
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scared season 3 GIF
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I'm far from a national title or bust fan, but I find it hard to imagine that winning the Big East title with this group and failing to make 2nd weekend would look like anything but a failure.
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Absolutely.

One question that I believe needs to be posed:

If this season ends like last season, one of the top few teams in the conference regular season but not outright regular season champs, knocked off by a missed last second shot for the win in the BE semifinals and a dominant run through the NCAA's to cut down the nets. Is there any way that this could be framed as less than an exceptionally successful season?
 
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storrsroars said:
We're looking at a couple of years w/o realistic NC chances after this.
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I get what you're saying but I don't really see how you can say that with NIL and the portal now and with this staff (might be the last year they're all together) and program.

That being said we have the best team in the country and I think if healthy this has the chance to be our best team ever so I will be disappointed if we don't win it all. 2005-2006 didn't feel like a success despite having a gaudy record and winning the Big East regular season and I like this team a lot more than that one.
 
businesslawyer said:
I will keep saying what I am saying. Healthy, we are the best team in the country. Not winning your conference regular season title with the best team in the country is failing. However, once the Dance starts the best team normally does not win. We are 10-1 in Final Four games. That is an absurd stat, and while I’d love to win it all crap is some day going to happen.

Win the Big East regular season and get to the Sweet Sixteen or Elite Eight and it’s been a very successful season. Beyond that — just because we’ll want more with all our being doesn’t mean we haven’t already been succcessful.
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This rationale take is an affront to those of us that choose to ignore the reality of college basketball tournaments.

We reserve the right to scream, cry like two year olds having a tantrum, and deride and destroy any reasonable discourse that supports historical evidence of events if our spoiled and arrogant expectations are not met. Attempting to preempt our inalienable rights of emotional immaturity is the most egregious of those affronts.

You sir must relinquish your membership in the “Spoiled and Arrogant” UConn Irrational Fan Club. Return your “Spoiled and Arrogant” tee shirt(s) and/or sweatshirt(s) at once.

We will sentence you at tournament time with the objective you must post demands that nothing short of a National Championship will suffice. You will be required to confront any poster offering a rational counterpoint with an emotional tirade refuting that position. Your Yale legal persona must be replaced with the persona of the Yale Drama School. Nothing short of your best impersonation of Meryl Streep will be accepted.

With Kind regards,
Delores Umbridge
Hogwarts Headmistress
 
If we make the Final Four it will be one of the greatest seasons in the history of the program.

That would be true even if we don't win the BE or the BET.

If we win the BE and the BET and don't make the Final Four, it will be a nice season, a good season. Nothing wrong with adding another Sweet Sixteen. But if that's all we do it will be somewhat of a disappointment.
 
UConn won so many league titles they have become a yawn . The Big East/ or Conference tournament is important to a team on the bubble or for better seeding .
Only certain Conference tournaments are memorable 1990 our first , 2011 with its 5-5 in the old Big East or 2016 in the AAC . . Winning the AAC tournament in 2020 would have been a special way to go out for Vital.
Or winning the Big East tournament in 2021 or 2022 would have helped with seeding .
But as we proved last year those things are unimportant.to a great team whose seeding is going 1-4 .
Case in point
What do you remember about 2009
1, Going to the FF and playing MSU
2. Not winning either the BE tourney or the regular season .
When viewing past seasons frankly I had to be reminded of most teams regular season or conference tournament success .
For this team it’s a FF or bust winning the regular season might be significant since we haven’t done it in this league.
1. It’s in AZ
2. It may be my last opportunity if I could get there .
 
The Clingan foul trouble problem could bite us. Without that, we really should be a final four team. Anything can happen in a single elimination tournament but we have so many answers
 
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Why in heavens name would anyone vote for winning the Big East tournament? I’ve never understood why it matters. It is in so many respects a meaningless prize. Win the regular season and it pretty much guarantees a 1 seed. In the NBE Tournament I’d consider using bench guys to get them ready in case we need them. Ask basketball fans across the country who won the NBE tournament last year and you’ll get blank stares ( or more likely folks scrambling for their phones to google it). Ask won won the national championship and they will know. Ask Seton Hall if they would trade their 2016 title for a national championship. Of all the events out there, the NBE championship is about as meaningful as the 2K Classic. Nice to win but really, unless you are a bubble team or worse, who cares? For UConn it is kind of like an NFL team that has locked up home field for the playoffs with a couple of games left. You might think of sitting guys who have had some injury issues like Clingan so the don’t get hurt in a meaningless game and cost you when the important ones occur.

i guess I come down on the side of those who say I really want another National Championship, but a deep run would be ok so long as it wasn’t a George Mason style loss. As bl says the “best” team doesn’t always win in a 1-done tournament. I tend to think that there are a bunch of really good teams who could beat each other at any given time. Would anybody be surprised if we played UNC or Kansas and had the opposite outcome from earlier?
 
Before the start of the season, considering the fire power we lost, I would have said sweet 16 would be a success. Now - championship or bust, this team is incredible and getting better.
 
UCLJ0211 said:
20-2, 10-1 in the BE so far and #1 in the country- it’s obviously been an incredibly successful season to this point. Before the season started, I believe we had a thread about what would make for a successful season. I think it’s a good time to revisit that now and ask, how would you define a successful season the rest of the way?

For me it would be a BE Regular Season title, a strong showing in the BET (maybe make it to Saturday night) and at least a Final Four appearance in the tourney. Another title would be great but I wouldn’t consider the season a failure if it didn’t happen. What say you?
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jibsey said:
We've already had a successful season.
To me a Final Four appearance does one better and is more valuable than a BE season or tourney title.
Now a super successful season is #6.
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We are missing close on some big recruits right now. National champ and current #1, who wants to join the best program either late 2024 or 25 or reclass. Perhaps a duke commit changes mind?
 
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Kenny11 said:
The Clingan foul trouble problem could bite us. Without that, we really should be a final four team. Anything can happen in a single elimination tournament but we have so many answers
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Well we're 8-0 in high major games without Clingan or where he had foul trouble, including 4 games away from home against possible tournament teams. So I'm not so worried about it. .
Rocktheworld said:
If we wind up healthy as a 1 or 2 seed in the East, I feel like anything but a final four is a bit of a disappointment
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In this scenario I will be personally disappointed by the result, but I won't consider the season itself a disappointment.
 
Rocktheworld said:
If we wind up healthy as a 1 or 2 seed in the East, I feel like anything but a final four is a bit of a disappointment
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So much is contingent. I think usually an E8 run is a success—ideally a FF, but so much is random. But when the bracket breaks like it did in 2006, and E8 is a failure.

If they're a 1 in Brooklyn-Boston...it's a major disappointment to not make the Final Four.
 
Coach Hurley was just given the Hoopy Award for Songwriter of the Year by Jay Wright during halftime of the Purdue/Wisconsin game. I'd say that's a successful season.
 
tzznandrew said:
So much is contingent. I think usually an E8 run is a success—ideally a FF, but so much is random. But when the bracket breaks like it did in 2006, and E8 is a failure.

If they're a 1 in Brooklyn-Boston...it's a major disappointment to not make the Final Four.
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Completely agree. There is always randomness but we will own Brooklyn and Boston. I know I’ll be feeling like “man…” if we don’t make it through. We’re so talented, so deep, can win in so many ways… and knowing that we may have a dip when Newton Clingan and Castle all leave
 
RichCTBB said:
Coach Hurley was just given the Hoopy Award for Songwriter of the Year by Jay Wright during halftime of the Purdue/Wisconsin game. I'd say that's a successful season.
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What a weird, cringy segment.
 
RichCTBB said:
Coach Hurley was just given the Hoopy Award for Songwriter of the Year by Jay Wright during halftime of the Purdue/Wisconsin game. I'd say that's a successful season.
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Castle was not nominated for 'best new artist" (freshman)
 
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I can't imagine being a fan of this program, and this team, and not thinking National Championship. This doesn't mean if we lose at some point in the tournament that I won't get over it quickly, but I will be sad for a short time.
 
This season has been pure joy so far. I would be excited with a Big East regular season and tourney championship, along with a trip to the F4. We won the title last year so we should be realistic with our expectation’s because it’s almost impossible to repeat.
I’m hoping for another shining moment.
 
Mr. French said:
One or the other, but not both, would leave me a sliver disappointed…so I’d answer both would be a definite success.
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Anything less than 3 titles this year will leave me disappointed and wondering what if, but I think it should still be viewed as a success after the initial disappointment over how it ends wears off
 
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