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February General CBB Discussion Thread

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UConnTrumbull said:
That, and a bit of nostalgia lol. The thing is, every year is different. There is no guarantee that the 2023 team wins the title this year if we had that exact line up today. I agree with you that there are more title contenders this year than in 2023 and 2024.
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Take a look at the one seeds that year - best overall seed was a team we toasted in November. Then a meh Kansas team with the same kids that kept Self's program back for two years in KJ Adams and DeJuan Harris, along with Gradey Dick and Jalen Wilson.

That was simply a bad field. It happens.
 
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I loved the 2023 team, but let's be honest. They had a pretty easy road in the tournament playing two home games in the first 2 rounds, an 8 seed and a 3 seed, and then two 5s in the Final 4. They took care of business in historic fashion so I will never take anything away, but the best team they played was a 3 seed Gonzaga.
 
BFieldHusky said:
I loved the 2023 team, but let's be honest. They had a pretty easy road in the tournament playing two home games in the first 2 rounds, an 8 seed and a 3 seed, and then two 5s in the Final 4. They took care of business in historic fashion so I will never take anything away, but the best team they played was a 3 seed Gonzaga.
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You can only play the teams that bracket up vs. you.

I hate this argument that people make because if all those other #1, #2, #3 teams were "so good", then they would have just won their damn games and faced us. But they didn't. So don't hold it against us!

(I know this isn't you specifically, just ranting about that tired argument)
 
RuffRuff said:
That result very much sits out there as one of the mysterious variables in the UConn/Hurley's tourney potential. Then you couple it with this early season's undermanned OOC results, and we have this element in play where UConn's coaching/system are hard to prepare for. How meaningful is it? Season has a Jeckyl & Hyde quality to it, who shows up in March?

If you look at that Florida box, some of the non typical stats that stand out: UConn had 14 offensive rebounds against one of the best rebounding teams in the country. We turned them over 12x to our 6, took 14 more shots than them. Those were super atypical stats for each team, not sure how repeatable they'd be.

I'm with you on that StJ's game - I think we know what we have there. That game will be for the BE crown at home, to cement a 1 seed. There is a lot riding on it. It's as good as a tourney game. If we can't show up there, I think it will say a lot about our March hopes.
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It's not really a "mysterious variable".

When things deviate for an team vs what they did "on average" during the year, a good portion of that is because we had a better scout, better preparation, and executed that scout better than the other team.

We were simply a couple made shots away from beating the eventual NC team. We had 9/10 execution of our excellent gameplan. And some of our players played their guts out in their potential last game as a Husky (e.g., Samson) for a team and coaching staff that they were 100% bought in to.
 
DCKembaFan said:
Reibe is solid, but this team would look very different with a Clingan level defender as the backup C
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You could say that about every team ever. Who actually had one besides 2023 UConn? Nater at UCLA?
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
It's not really a "mysterious variable".

When things deviate for an team vs what they did "on average" during the year, a good portion of that is because we had a better scout, better preparation, and executed that scout better than the other team.

We were simply a couple made shots away from beating the eventual NC team. We had 9/10 execution of our excellent gameplan. And some of our players played their guts out in their potential last game as a Husky (e.g., Samson) for a team and coaching staff that they were 100% bought in to.
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Can't deny that - I'm simply saying that between emotions and outliers scenarios, things happen in one game scenarios. You don't have to look much further than our game against Oklahoma, where we were the better team yet it was a one point game with under 4 minutes to go. It goes both ways. Are we saying Oklahoma was a great team? They shot awfully in that game too - 32% for the game.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
That, and a bit of nostalgia lol. The thing is, every year is different. There is no guarantee that the 2023 team wins the title this year if we had that exact line up today. I agree with you that there are more title contenders this year than in 2023 and 2024.
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Nostalgia clouds a lot of views around here.
 
What are we rooting for? Mi to win out? Houston and Dook to lose? Do we want az to win? Lmk how to direct my psychic energy
 
BigTenFan said:
Big game tonight
U of M @ Mackey
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Fascinating game. It would seem UM could annihilate Purdue, but given at Mackey, who knows. UM presents all the things that are issues for Purdue. Purdue has been a bit up and down as well, so a game like this where you can't not get up for it, likely shows what their ceiling is.

As someone wrote, I think we want UM to win out to preserve that last 1. We aren't catching them. It would be fun to have a goliath going into the dance, always make the tourney more interesting.
 
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RuffRuff said:
High D1 programs signing on Assistant coaches with little to no HC experience that bomb? You know that list is long, right? Kyle Neptune, Kim English, Red Autry to kick off the list.
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That win championships
 
navery12 said:
The 23 team had a Block% of 12.7% and a Steal% of 9.2%. The 24 team had a Block% of 14.2% and a Steal% of 9.3%.

This year's team has a Block% of 15.3% and Steal% 10.6%, we are getting more blocks and more steals than both championship teams.
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The Boneyard is no place to try to win discussions with actual facts. It’s like you don’t know us at all any more.
 
Waquoit said:
What did the Boneyard ever do to you?
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I will be at the St Johns game next week- should be fantastic!
Tonight it's all about Mackey- one of the great places on campus to watch hoops
 
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Kolumbo said:
There is Quinnipiac vs Fairfield today

side note. I really don't watch any NBA. No football today so I told my daughter we could watch an NBA game. I check the schedule, the Celtics play at 3:30 and everyone else is this evening. I used to spend many Sunday afternoons watching basketball when I was young. Or maybe it was just that the Celtics were on. It's too bad. I checked the Boneyard pro sports board and surprising there are no NBA threads there either, just one about Wemby, so maybe everyone is kind of off the NBA

this is great, just awful

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It’s difficult to distinguish between a. basketball
player and football running back .

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BigTenFan said:
I will be at the St Johns game next week- should be fantastic!
Tonight it's all about Mackey- one of the great places on campus to watch hoops
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Are you going to be at Mackey tonight?
 
Was hoping UM would underperform tonight because I’m going all in on them covering v Duke.
 
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Hate to sound like ruffruff but….Michigan is an absolute wagon. I really do not see them losing if they play to their ceiling.
 
Michigan may be the 2nd coming of our ‘24 team. If they hit their 3s they won’t lose again
 
Looking at this 1 vs 7 contest, one would have thought it might be a good matchup seeing it's on Purdue's home court, but so far Wolverines are tearing it up.

As much as I don't want to say this, but Michigan's A-Game might be the best in this year's field. But we all know all it takes is a team like Michigan playing their B-Game in the tournament feeling a lot of pressure going up against a hungry lower ranked team that senses blood in the water.
 
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