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Message: [QUOTE="ninety-nine, post: 4871075, member: 5497"] I also think it's important for UConn to have a dominant regular season (for a change) and win the Big East title, hopefully outright. I'd like to see us finish at least 17-3 with no worse than a split against Marquette, which with UConn being 10-1 right now (with upcoming games against DePaul and G'town) is not a pipe dream. This hearkens back to some of the seasons we put together in the 1990's and 2000's. Obviously I love the national championships and they're the top priority, and if we somehow stumbled and finished 15-5 with Marquette ahead of us, only to win another NC (or at least reach the Final Four), the season would clearly not be a failure. That's ridiculous. But in terms of goals for this team, a true success would be to show consistent dominance throughout the year, not lose to a Xavier-type bubble team in the BET, and then reach the Final Four (hopefully hoisting NC #6). That's who this program wants to be and can be. An Elite Eight loss might be okay only if we played well, but lost to a loaded team playing its A-game. (Or if we were dealing with a key injury.) But then I think we'd have to have won the regular season title and the BET as well. The standards are very high again, especially with so much realignment chaos happening. We have to seem indispensable as a brand to CBB. [/QUOTE]