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Message: [QUOTE="Rb335, post: 3829259, member: 2685"] First, I believe the big east is an improvement from the AAC, but it is not substantially better. With the exception of DePaul, it is going to be 18 games every year that should be relatively easy for the huskies. Last year, our team beat up on AAC teams and lost all major games. Our best wins were Tennessee and DePaul, very similar to this year. And both Tennessee wins weren’t overly convincing. We’ve lost our two best players from last year, and replaced them with Bueckers and Westbrook. So I’m not sure where the merit in uconn being a top 5 team or vastly improved comes from? I think we are ranked more on program reputation than anything else. So far this year we’ve had two close games against top 15-20 caliber teams. Does that mean that we are approximately a 15-20th ranked team? That’s hard to judge because we have so many games that give us relatively meaningless data points. Example, ONO was off to a really great start this year. This board was praising that she finally put it together. But so far this year, she is averaging 16ppg against unranked opponents, and 8 ppg in 3 games against our ranked opponents, none of whom are top 10. So has she figured it out, or is she still able to only play well against weak conference teams? I think we can all agree that there is a lot to learn from the Arkansas game. Imagine uconn in the SEC, having to also play Kentucky, South Carolina, Miss St, and aTm on top of any non conference schedule! We’d surely have a few losses every year, but would learn so much and be tested. It all comes back to having so many unchallenging big east games. You can get away with it when you are head and shoulders above everyone talent wise. But when you have a team merely in the mix, you need the tough games to really learn. It shouldn’t have to all come in the non conference schedule. [/QUOTE]

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