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Does UConn Make the Tournament

Does UConn make the tournament?

  • Yes

    Votes: 257 71.8%

  • No

    Votes: 101 28.2%
  • Total voters
    358
Ratso said:
i love the supreme confidence..but you gotta be practical

i seriously thought the 16/17? a loaded team with dham, purvis, adams, the transfers would go far...


this team is gonna live or die on bouknight. the neymar of the big east
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15-16

that was a really good squad just ran into Perry Ellis and his children
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
15-16

that was a really good squad just ran into Perry Ellis and his kids
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nice. i ended up going the nova parade on broad street. short walk from my home.
the big east payback meant something but weird watching another team celebrate.
 
www.espn.com

Jay Bilas ranks the 68 best college basketball teams in the country right now

Teams have played enough games for Jay Bilas to determine where they stand and, more importantly, where they are headed as the "NCAA Tournament Bubble Event" creeps closer.
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14. USC
52. UConn
The Huskies have lost three of their past four but remain the Big East's mystery team: How will they look when star James Bouknight returns from the elbow injury that has knocked him out of the team's past six games? Whenever Bouknight comes back, Dan Hurley will need Tyrese Martin and R.J. Cole to continue sharing the scoring load. Both Martin and Cole have posted double figures in scoring in the team's past five games.
 
ucawn said:
Ha yea you NEED to win a game against a top 4 team in the conference without your best player lol. Gimme a break. Everyone knows we’re a different team with Bouknight, and people know we were a top 25 team with him. The supporting cast is improving.
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They are not an ncaa team.
 
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We’re playing without our leader and lottery pick, we aren’t good enough to win these games without him.
 
CTBasketball said:
We’re playing without our leader and lottery pick, we aren’t good enough to win these games without him.
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This is a .500 team we’re playing. This season is about to get ugly
 
If we go 4 wins in 4 days Or Bouk comes back Sat and we string some wins

We are officially off the Bubble on the wrong side at the moment.
 
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Probably 5-10 spots away from a play in game after that performance
 
I still say it depends on Bouknight and Akok coming back or not. If you had asked me at the beginning of the season if this was an NCAA team with no Bouknight or Akok I’d have said no way. If Bouknight comes back next game and they win like 4 or 5 games in a row then it changes.
 
Vuce said:
I still say it depends on Bouknight and Akok coming back or not. If you had asked me at the beginning of the season if this was an NCAA team with no Bouknight or Akok I’d have said no way. If Bouknight comes back next game and they win like 4 or 5 games in a row then it changes.
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Bouknight is currently counting money, no more games
 
I don’t get why people are surprised. We don’t have our potential All-American shooting guard.

Our offense will look ugly. None of the players on our roster has the potential to step up and be the guy - this was bound to happen once Bouk got hurt.
 
CTBasketball said:
I don’t get why people are surprised. We don’t have our potential All-American shooting guard.

Our offense will look ugly. None of the players on our roster has the potential to step up and be the guy - this was bound to happen once Bouk got hurt.
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1. Bouknight isn’t injured

2. rest of roster can’t win games
 
CTBasketball said:
I don’t get why people are surprised. We don’t have our potential All-American shooting guard.

Our offense will look ugly. None of the players on our roster has the potential to step up and be the guy - this was bound to happen once Bouk got hurt.
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I'm not terribly surprised, even with Bouk we're a borderline Tourney team it appears, w/o him we're DePaul.
 
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rcarj said:
1. Bouknight isn’t injured

2. rest of roster can’t win games
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1. Bouknight isn’t playing because he got injured - we all know this.
2. That’s the reality of relying on Polley, Whaley, Cole, and Adams. They went unrecruited for a reason. They will have some nice moments, but they are who they are.
 
rcarj said:
Bouknight is currently counting money, no more games
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Ok so if we were starting from scratch and this season was beginning without a top 10 player in the country and also no Akok (rumor was he was further along and that we’d see him in January), no one would be saying this was an NCAA Tournament team. So we are down two starters one of whom is a player of the year candidate.
 
Team needs to find energy and a leader. Vital led last year, Bouk to start this year. Everyone just complacent in their roles and getting ran over.
 
CTBasketball said:
1. Bouknight isn’t playing because he got injured - we all know this.
2. That’s the reality of relying on Polley, Whaley, Cole, and Adams. They went unrecruited for a reason. They will have some nice moments, but they are who they are.
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1. You really think that?
2. Agree the rest of the roster can’t win
 
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NIT , unless we win the BE tournament or win 7 out of 8 remaining games and get to the tournament final.

Not such an easy task with these 2 options.

If overall losing record, no NIT.
 
Vuce said:
Ok so if we were starting from scratch and this season was beginning without a top 10 player in the country and also no Akok (rumor was he was further along and that we’d see him in January), no one would be saying this was an NCAA Tournament team. So we are down two starters one of whom is a player of the year candidate.
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I just don’t really believe that injury would keep a guy out for this time. I get that it’s a good decision for future money. No knock on that, just think it will hurt future recruits when this team dory’s the win another game. Just don’t see a win coming up
 
Improviser said:
NIT , unless we win the BE tournament or win 7 out of 8 remaining games and get to the tournament final.

Not such an easy task with these 2 options.

If overall losing record, no NIT.
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If we win 7 of 8 we’d be 12-2 with Bouknight. Selection committee weighs injuries.
 
rcarj said:
I just don’t really believe that injury would keep a guy out for this time. I get that it’s a good decision for future money. No knock on that, just think it will hurt future recruits when this team dory’s the win another game. Just don’t see a win coming up
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It won’t hurt recruiting. The guys coming in next year can call create their own shot. Still optimistic about that
 
Ratso said:
i love the supreme confidence..but you gotta be practical

i seriously thought the 16/17? a loaded team with dham, purvis, adams, the transfers would go far...


this team is gonna live or die on bouknight. the neymar of the big east
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yeah, 15/16 team would thrash this team by 20 with bouknight
 
Are we getting Nova & Xavier home games rescheduled? If we do and we have Bouk then maybe a miracle happens.
 
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