From Reddit: Love for the Huskys

[Greathusky]

https://www.reddit.com/user/Grandahl13/
Grandahl13
Kentucky Wildcats
"UConn is the best team in the country and it blows my mind how many people don’t know this. They’re really **** good."

https://www.reddit.com/user/NoVacayAtWork/
NoVacayAtWork
Arizona Wildcats
"Sanogo… wow what fluidity and body control for that frame. NPOY candidate for sure right now"
https://www.reddit.com/user/No-Alarm7224/
No-Alarm7224

"As a UNC fan, I’m jumping on that UCONN bandwagon, what’s not to love?"
https://www.reddit.com/user/BoilerUpIUSucks/
BoilerUpIUSucks
Purdue Boilermakers

"I don't see it happening, since the AP rarely hops teams, but UConn definitely deserves to be #1 in the country. Purdue has had a tougher SOS, but even when UConn has a "bad" game, they still seem to blow out their opponent. They're in a league of their own."


Now my mind is really blown! So many accolades from fans around the country jumping on our bandwagon.

 

[Kitaman]

This can get somewhat uncomfortable. I don't mind the other fans accolades, just not something I like focusing on.

 

[Chuck]

Don’t tell the Butler board. I was surprised to see the lack of acknowledgement of UConn being a good team. Apparently, Sanogo is an unskilled, dirty player that just makes layups because he pushes ever out of the way. Our whole team was fouling, some flagrantly, the whole game.

FYI, I don’t expect opposing fans to bend the knee. I’m all for teams hating us, especially after a loss. But Butler‘s fan base seemed clueless about how they got owned by UConn’s B game. Hopefully 30 plus in Connecticut.

edit: I looked this morning, and it looks like (on the whole) some of their more reasonable posters came out to post. Could’ve been heat of the moment. It’s why I think a chat is better than message board for hot takes during a game.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Don’t tell the Butler board. I was surprised to see the lack of acknowledgement of UConn being a good team. Apparently, Sanogo is an unskilled, dirty player that just makes layups because he pushes ever out of the way. Our whole team was fouling, some flagrantly, the whole game.

FYI, I don’t expect opposing fans to bend the knee. I’m all for teams hating us, especially after a loss. But Butler‘s fan base seemed clueless about how they got owned by UConn’s B game. Hopefully 30 plus in Connecticut.

Oh they’ll all bend the knee by April

 

[Alum1620]

Don’t tell the Butler board. I was surprised to see the lack of acknowledgement of UConn being a good team. Apparently, Sanogo is an unskilled, dirty player that just makes layups because he pushes ever out of the way. Our whole team was fouling, some flagrantly, the whole game.

FYI, I don’t expect opposing fans to bend the knee. I’m all for teams hating us, especially after a loss. But Butler‘s fan base seemed clueless about how they got owned by UConn’s B game. Hopefully 30 plus in Connecticut.

edit: I looked this morning, and it looks like (on the whole) some of their more reasonable posters came out to post. Could’ve been heat of the moment. It’s why I think a chat is better than message board for hot takes during a game.

They had someone on twitter talk about flagrant fouls by him on rebounds and the videos they include was just the basketball play of rebounding.

 

[jibsey]

They complaining about the flagrant? Please. Even if not premeditated it was a flagrant.

 

[david]

there are a few insufferable UConn fans over on Reddit that have never heard the term 'act like you've been there before'.

 

[HuskyFich]

there are a few insufferable UConn fans over on Reddit that have never heard the term 'act like you've been there before'.

Might be futile trying to curb behavior on Reddit…lol

 

[RedStickHusky]

They complaining about the flagrant? Please. Even if not premeditated it was a flagrant.

He face raked a team mate too with that double-handed swipe. The guy shot him a fierce WTF look while Newton was on the ground.

 

[dennismenace]

Don’t tell the Butler board. I was surprised to see the lack of acknowledgement of UConn being a good team. Apparently, Sanogo is an unskilled, dirty player that just makes layups because he pushes ever out of the way. Our whole team was fouling, some flagrantly, the whole game.

FYI, I don’t expect opposing fans to bend the knee. I’m all for teams hating us, especially after a loss. But Butler‘s fan base seemed clueless about how they got owned by UConn’s B game. Hopefully 30 plus in Connecticut.

edit: I looked this morning, and it looks like (on the whole) some of their more reasonable posters came out to post. Could’ve been heat of the moment. It’s why I think a chat is better than message board for hot takes during a game.

They may still have a bad taste in their mouth since we beat them for the NC. That was another game where we held them to under 50 pts (almost under 40!).

UConn Defeats Butler, 53-41, for 3rd National Title | Fox News​

UConn Defeats Butler, 53-41, for 3rd National Title

On a night when the massive arena felt like a dusty old gym, UConn made Butler look like the underdog it really was, winning the national championship Monday night with an old-fashioned, grinding 53-41 beatdown of the Bulldogs.

www.foxnews.com

WebButler's 41 points were 10 points fewer than the worst showing in the shot-clock era in a championship game. (Michigan scored 51 in a loss to Duke in 1992), and the 18.8 percent shooting broke a ...

 

[CL82]

Oh they’ll all bend the knee by April

This made me smile. We are still doomed though.

 

[JCSuperstar]

Speaking of Reddit love, some adventurous soul in /r/Connecticut live blogged his cougar hunting expedition in West Hartford last night and buried within was this gem:

HuskyNation in the wild.

No word on whether or not my man got lucky, will update thread as information becomes available.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

Huskys? Oof.

 

[ihatepants]

Don’t tell the Butler board. I was surprised to see the lack of acknowledgement of UConn being a good team. Apparently, Sanogo is an unskilled, dirty player that just makes layups because he pushes ever out of the way. Our whole team was fouling, some flagrantly, the whole game.

FYI, I don’t expect opposing fans to bend the knee. I’m all for teams hating us, especially after a loss. But Butler‘s fan base seemed clueless about how they got owned by UConn’s B game. Hopefully 30 plus in Connecticut.

edit: I looked this morning, and it looks like (on the whole) some of their more reasonable posters came out to post. Could’ve been heat of the moment. It’s why I think a chat is better than message board for hot takes during a game.

Don't read the rest of BEastBall's posts after this because they do make UConn fans look bad.

 

[August_West]

I love good trash talk, it’s an art form .

Unfortunately we have a pretty healthy segment of fans whose idea of art is a chimp throwing technicolor poop at a wall.

Or from a pro wrestling promo analogy I prefer Ric Flair to Ultimate Warrior.

We have a bunch of little warriors running around twitter and Reddit

 

[tzznandrew]

I love good trash talk, it’s an art form .

Unfortunately we have a pretty healthy segment of fans whose idea of art is a chimp throwing technicolor poop at a wall.

Or from a pro wrestling promo analogy I prefer Ric Flair to Ultimate Warrior.

We have a bunch of little warriors running around twitter and Reddit

It's been a long time since most of our fans have had a good team. There's a whole generation that's essentially a wasteland.

 

[Rocktheworld]

They may still have a bad taste in their mouth since we beat them for the NC. That was another game where we held them to under 50 pts (almost under 40!).

UConn Defeats Butler, 53-41, for 3rd National Title | Fox News​

UConn Defeats Butler, 53-41, for 3rd National Title

On a night when the massive arena felt like a dusty old gym, UConn made Butler look like the underdog it really was, winning the national championship Monday night with an old-fashioned, grinding 53-41 beatdown of the Bulldogs.

www.foxnews.com

WebButler's 41 points were 10 points fewer than the worst showing in the shot-clock era in a championship game. (Michigan scored 51 in a loss to Duke in 1992), and the 18.8 percent shooting broke a ...

I’ll never forget an old high school classmate who went to Butler post, after attending the Duke NC game with the ringer off the rim at the buzzer, “I just witnessed the greatest basketball game ever played” and I cringed.

The fan base really has never been there before. Then add in the fact that we beat them pretty handily in an awful NC game…

 

[XLCenterFan]

I was at Salute the other night and a table next to me cheered their first round of drinks to UConn. Casuals who know that I am a nutcase have been telling me, "holy $#!^...UConn!" Kinda reminds me of the Dream Season the way the whole state is taking notice. This is so fun. Almost makes the end of the Ollie era worth it.

 

[upstater]

I’ll never forget an old high school classmate who went to Butler post, after attending the Duke NC game with the ringer off the rim at the buzzer, “I just witnessed the greatest basketball game ever played” and I cringed.

The fan base really has never been there before. Then add in the fact that we beat them pretty handily in an awful NC game…

I always say UConn gets unfairly blamed for that game.

Our best players all got 2 fouls in the 1st half. We had 4 starters on the bench for the last 6 minutes.

In the second half, we shot 50% until the last minute heave in the final seconds.

We didn't shoot that badly. Our bench shot badly in the 1st half. And the fouls were m'eh

 

[SportsFan88]

Butler’s board are full of haters, Sanogo just gave them 27 and 14 and they are over there saying he is trash LOL

 

[Platt81]

They complaining about the flagrant? Please. Even if not premeditated it was a flagrant.

I honestly could see why they would question it. His teammate stripped the ball low, his hands were coming in to make a play on a ball that was no longer there so it looks worse and more intentional than it was. I was actually surprised they called a flagrant after watching it back.

 

[jibsey]

I honestly could see why they would question it. His teammate stripped the ball low, his hands were coming in to make a play on a ball that was no longer there so it looks worse and more intentional than it was. I was actually surprised they called a flagrant after watching it back.

Stop. It was a hard slap in the face, the guy was flailing his arm and hand down. When you do that it’s on the defender to make sure a face is not in the hand’s path. It’s the face not an arm he hit.

 

[August_West]

I honestly could see why they would question it. His teammate stripped the ball low, his hands were coming in to make a play on a ball that was no longer there so it looks worse and more intentional than it was. I was actually surprised they called a flagrant after watching it back.

It wasn’t intentional, but it doesn’t have to be. Head shots, unintentional or not are a flagrant these days. We will get flagrants this year at some point under same circumstances ( unintentional elbow to head, or whatever)

 

[Waquoit]

It wasn’t intentional, but it doesn’t have to be. Head shots, unintentional or not are a flagrant these days.

Magic 8 Ball says "Not sure". That looked like it could have had some intent to me. The play was over.

 

[Platt81]

It wasn’t intentional, but it doesn’t have to be. Head shots, unintentional or not are a flagrant these days. We will get flagrants this year at some point under same circumstances ( unintentional elbow to head, or whatever)

I 100% agree, my point was as a fan of the team it was called on I could see being dissatisfied with it. I don’t dispute per rule it was a flagrant, but it wasn’t egregious, and everyone saying the play was over are just wrong, there was a clean swipe by the other defender and then the contact. The people being closed minded, and disliking my comment are being just as much homers as the Butler fans they are calling out.