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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 4185883, member: 2962"] All ranked teams are not created equal, which makes that an extremely lazy point of comparison by the writer along with being a miniscule sample size, but I'll play off that for simplicity's sake. And this is, again, very back-of-the-napkin math so apologies for anything I missed/calculated wrong. Given where the program was at from 2016-2019, none of these were anywhere close to expected wins (except maaaaybe the '20 Houston game at Gampel given our trajectory at the end of that season) and none of the games listed were ones UConn honestly had a puncher's chance in until 2019-20. The two Gampel wins were in 2019-20 against No. 15 Florida and No. 21 Houston. I actually see two Gampel losses to ranked Cincinnati teams during this stretch -- 2016-17 to No. 18 Cincy and 2017-18 when the Bearcats were ranked No. 8. Ranked teams UConn has played at the XL Center since 2016-17: 2016-17 25-4 No. 17 SMU vs. 14-14 UConn. UConn lost 69-61 2017-18 No. 8 Wichita State vs. 7-6 UConn. UConn lost 72-62 18-1 No. 1 VIllanova vs. 10-9 UConn. UConn lost 81-61 2018-19 24-1 No. 9 Houston vs. 13-12 UConn. UConn lost 71-63 2019-20 15-1 No. 23 Wichita State vs. 10-6 UConn. UConn lost 89-86 in double-OT If you feel like going back five more years to when UConn had a much more representative team and games against ranked opponents were much more likely a fair fight and indictive of any performance difference, you'd find any real evidence based on this point evaporates rather quickly. 2015-16: XL -- 1-0. SMU was only ranked home game of season 2014-15: Gampel -- 1-1. Loss to No. 7 Texas. Win over No. 21 SMU 2013-14: XL -- 2-0. Beat No. 20 Memphis in OT and No. 11 Cincinnati Gampel: 1-1 Beat No. 15 Florida (Bazz shot game), lost to No. 18 Louisville AT&T Stadium: 2-0. Beat Florida and Kentucky. Cut down nets. 2012-13: XL -- 1-1. Beat No. 6 Syracuse. Lost to No. 1 Louisville Gampel -- 0-1. Lost to No. 7 GTown in double-OT 2011-12: XL -- 0-1. Lost to No. 12 Marquette Gampel -- 1-1. Beat No. 25 Harvard. Lost to No. 2 Syracuse. Total: XL -- 4-2. Gampel -- 3-4. [/QUOTE]

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