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OT: East #2

Marat said:
If you just said most titles in ncaa modern era when expanded to 64 teams, then UCLA's 10 titles would not be included.
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And only 2 included since 1975 when expanded to 32
 
UCLA had great players but they got to play a West Final on campus for crying out loud.
 
businesslawyer said:
A lot riding on it for Hurley? Because if we don’t do well he will only have one two of the last four championships? I think not. You may be disappointed by this season but a 27-4 year does not make a coach have a lot riding on the post season. I know UConn fans have trouble with this concept, but 27-4 years and top ten rankings do not grow on trees.
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A lot riding on the tournament for Hurley, he's gotta "prove his recruiting chops," it's lunacy. It's like the two rings are complete flukes and on the flip side the regular season May had with Michigan proved he's for real.
 
superjohn said:
10th in the country as a 5 seed is crazy.
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It really isn't. I'm not sure what seed people expected them to get, their non conference was a disaster and the whole body of work is evaluated. Everyone talked about it last fall. Their 3rd best win is at Villanova. Their 4th best win is Baylor on a neutral site, and they're not even in the tournament.
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
A lot riding on the tournament for Hurley, he's gotta "prove his recruiting chops," it's lunacy. It's like the two rings are complete flukes and on the flip side the regular season May had with Michigan proved he's for real.
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Saying the two rings don't count for much is what the deepest online UConn haters say. That if not for Clingan we'd be nothing, all that. Pretty telling when a poster here starts sounding like that
 
superjohn said:
Elezaj and Paunovic were brought in as practice players. Jacob Ross was brought in because he wants to play here and be with his brother. He's a practice player we may hope to develop for the future so he has a role as an upperclassman. Millender was basically brought in as a practice player, he was only going to get any time if something disastrous happened and we lost both point guards to injury and lost another player with guard skills to injury. Koroma was brought in as a stop gap if we had injuries to the frontcourt and he got some minutes early in the season when we were injured. There was most likely some expectation that Furphy could earn some minutes but his body needs to get better and he needs to adjust to the speed and physicality of elite D1 basketball.
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Furphy had an ankle injury so he kinda lost out on earning any 2nd level minutes…cam attitude but next year should be better
 
Inyatkin said:
Saying the two rings don't count for much is what the deepest online UConn haters say. That if not for Clingan we'd be nothing, all that. Pretty telling when a poster here starts sounding like that
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If it wasn't for good players teams wouldn't be good is among the dumber of the hot takes we see around here. Right up there with "if [good shooter] didn't make a bunch of shots we would have lost." I have yet to hear anyone suggest that Mara makes Michigan's success a fluke.
 
2 looks good on us...
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BigErnMcCracken said:
If it wasn't for good players teams wouldn't be good is among the dumber of the hot takes we see around here. Right up there with "if [good shooter] didn't make a bunch of shots we would have lost." I have yet to hear anyone suggest that Mara makes Michigan's success a fluke.
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We know full well that most times the teams with the best players (I'm defining them as the one and dones) more often than not flame out in the tourney. I've been picking against Freshman for many years and winning.
 
media reporting on college athletes' injuries remains weird. either he had a calf strain or he didn't, nobody who did have one is 100% 2 days later.

 
superjohn said:
29-5 currently but I get your point.

I do think our record is a bit inflated compared to past UConn seasons because this is probably the weakest Big East since I've been watching basketball but we did schedule great out of conference and we did win those games minus the Arizona loss without two starters.
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I was giving the regular season record, as a counterpoint to saying he had a lot riding on the post season. And yes, the Big East was down this year, and in other seasons the same quality ball might have produced fewer wins, but we went 17-3. We won a national championship in 11 in a much tougher Big East, but we finished 9th in the conference that year. We had an exceptional regular season, period.
 
bendm said:
And only 2 included since 1975 when expanded to 32
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To me, the modern era started when NC State beat UCLA in the national semi-finals in double OT. Which roughly coincided with the expansion from 25 to 32, and allowing more than one team from a conference into the tourney.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
People in this board were predicting he'd start. 😄
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Enough people post on this board that you could find someone who says anything. Just like an unlimited amount of monkeys typing on an unlimited amount of computers over an infinite period of time will one day reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare.

There were almost none predicting Furphy would start this year. But I did see him play this summer in the FIBA tournament, and I still expect him to be a meaningful contributor before he’s done.
 
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