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Demolish the XL center

While I agree more Gampel games would be nice, the XL center was not the problem tonight.
 
Don't blame the arena for this lackluster pathetic performance

That's like blaming cars for automobile accidents

At least there was a bar and a decent restaurant for us to drown our sorrows
 
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osully said:
There was an argument 10 rows below me by people complaining about two guys directly in front of them standing at the end of the second half. One of the complainers sucker punched one of the guys standing in the face and then ran off. I should add that it was a soft ass punch, but still.

Lifetime ban for anyone complaining about people standing at the end of a close game.
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kemba said:
Outside of the sucker punch happened in my section too. 2 rows in front of us the guys stood up (at times many in the rest of the arena were as well) guys behind them complained and told them to sit down. Happened twice, 2nd time led to a big argument, with the guys in front of them yelling at them to get into the game for once. Crowd was bad. The way we played in the first half didn't make it easy, but it was not a pumped up crowd heading into the game
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Old lady at the game in the bar who has the first come first served seats took her hearing aids out and showed me to tell me I was to loud for her...

But at least she was into the game and was standing and clapping most of the second half!

I wish someone would try to tell me to sit down or to not be loud during a close game, it wouldn't be pretty!
 
CTBasketball said:
Don’t blame the building on that loss. Bad take! Great teams win wherever, whenever. We aren’t a great team yet.
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Thank you finally some sanity. Creighton and Providence don’t seem to mind playing in Hartford. Creighton didn’t really play all that well either. These are just lame excuses. UConn didn’t perform irrespective of where the game was played.
 
CTBasketball said:
Don’t blame the building on that loss. Bad take! Great teams win wherever, whenever. We aren’t a great team yet.
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Dan Hurley says in post presser they don't play well at XL basically. He said " need to find a way to play better when we come in here. "

Seems like he thinks playing at XL is a factor in loss. Not a great mindset for a team with half home games at a place they don't consider favorable to them.
 
When Perno was coach we use to complain we played all our Big East games at the Civic Center which took away our Old Field House advantage
When we became good our biggest most memorable wins were in Hartford .
Now were blaming the the building again
we’ve come full circle.
 
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Was at the game. Fan support was pathetic. Atmosphere resembled that of a morgue. And that was even before the team started playing bad. Just a disappointing performance from all in the building.

If this was a Tuesday game at Creighton, the place would have been packed to the rafters and rocking. Just sayin.
 
Name one other major basketball brand that splits home games between venues. College sports should be played on campus if there is a facility on campus. Duke has an Old and small gym, can you imagine if they decided to play half their games in Raleigh.
 
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skisafari said:
Texas vs Texas tech. That is a home
Court advantage. Place is nuts.
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You understand that game had been marked in the calendar for a year now after Chris Beard left Texas Tech to become the Longhorns head coach. Every tech fan wanted to give him and the Longhorns hell and never let him forget about leaving there
 
It’s amazing to me how many are not getting this. UConn doesn’t have a home court advantage with Hartford unless it’s sold out. Teams are not uncomfortable coming into a place that has a 5,000 empty seats. If you don’t get that then you don’t get college basketball.

CTBasketball said:
Villanova.
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They are only playing 3 games this year at Wells Fargo Center. All being on the weekend. They would never play Creighton on a Tuesday night in downtown.
 
gampelcrazies said:
They are only playing 3 games this year at Wells Fargo Center. All being on the weekend. They would never play Creighton on a Tuesday night in downtown.
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Only because of the tournament being hosted there this year (so they can potentially play there). They absolutely would play this game at the big gym otherwise. Stop.
 
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gampelcrazies said:
It’s amazing to me how many are not getting this. UConn doesn’t have a home court advantage with Hartford unless it’s sold out. Teams are not uncomfortable coming into a place that has a 5,000 empty seats. If you don’t get that then you don’t get college basketball.


They are only playing 3 games this year at Wells Fargo Center. All being on the weekend. They would never play Creighton on a Tuesday night in downtown.
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That's only so they can play there in the NCAA tournament. Next year will be back to normal.
 
Here’s the bottom line…

Yes, we absolutely should be able to beat a team like Creighton in Storrs, Hartford, Omaha, NYC or in China. The venue shouldn’t matter.

BUT the numbers don’t lie. We shoot worse in the XL center.

The weekday attendance is terrible.

Why are we purposely nuking our home court advantage (do we win this game in Gampel? Idk but we score more than 55 points for sure) to sell a few more potential tickets? Not to mention it’s embarrassing to see all those empty seats and 15 students in the student section on TV.

Don’t blame Covid, we packed Gampel for an 8:30 tip vs bottom feeder Georgetown on Thursday.

Yes we can’t blame the arena for the loss per se, but we also can’t hide from the fact the building does this team no home court favors.
 
methodology said:
You understand that game had been marked in the calendar for a year now after Chris Beard left Texas Tech to become the Longhorns head coach. Every tech fan wanted to give him and the Longhorns hell and never let him forget about leaving there
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45:07 says hello. Or whatever the made up math Hurley came up with to "motivate" the team to finish strong after the meltdown against Creighton in BET last season and the first round NCAAT dud.

Hurley had this game marked for 10 months.
 
McLovin said:
PC and Creighton beat us and failed to crack 60 points.
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What does this mean? Creighton shot 10% better than us and 13% better on 3s. Has zero to do with the arena. Sometimes I wish we would play all games at Gampel so this idiocy would be apparent.
 
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