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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3974090, member: 181"] While the beloved casual Chief reader might imagine that the response above rebuts what I previously wrote, I offer that I of course remember the various multi-year H-H series and such that you have referenced. I also know when they occurred in Jim Calhoun's UConn basketball time line. The first mid-January high major OOC game was not scheduled in the first 3 (or even 4) years of the Calhoun Era. In fact, not until the third season after 1990's Dream Season was a mid-January game against #12 Florida State show up. That was JC's 6th season. There was no comparable game in Donyell Marshall's final season. The following year, #7 Kansas crushed UConn in a mid-season game. Calhoun's 8th season at UConn, after decent success at Northeastern. Let's leave it there. I maintain that it's a tendency toward unsustainable overreach that fails you more than anything else; it dilutes the value you sometimes otherwise add. [/QUOTE]