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Message: [QUOTE="tcf15, post: 2440092, member: 208"] We're getting recognition now, just not the good kind. [URL='https://www.fanragsports.com/rothstein-files-10-observations-from-litmus-test-week/'][B][SIZE=6]Rothstein[/SIZE][/B][/URL] [INDENT][I]UConn is straddling a fence. There is no in between with this program. The Huskies are either going to regain the form they showed under Jim Calhoun and in 2014 under Kevin Ollie, or they’re going to go completely in the opposite direction. Sunday’s 35-point loss against Arkansas in the PK80 was not a promising sign. The Razorbacks are a quality team that should play in the NCAA Tournament, but this writer has never seen a UConn team beaten so soundly from tip to finish in all his years watching and covering college basketball. Arkansas’ lead reached 40 late in the second half, and at one point, sent a walk-on into the game. That type of stuff just isn’t supposed to happen against UConn. The Huskies started the weekend off with a promising win against Oregon, but back-to-back double-figure losses raises some serious questions about just how relevant nationally this team can be this season. UConn has no interior offensive presence and still has to navigate a brutal non-conference schedule before dealing with an augmented quality of league play in the American. The Huskies still have to face Syracuse at Madison Square Garden and travel to both Arizona and Auburn before beginning conference play on Dec. 30 against Wichita State.[/I][/INDENT] [B][SIZE=6][URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/pk80-notebook-grades-takeaways-on-all-16-teams-from-college-basketballs-mega-event/']CBS Sports[/URL][/SIZE][/B] [INDENT][I]Grade: C-minus ... The Huskies have the longest flight back home, made all the worse by the team's abysmal 102-67 loss to Arkansas on Sunday. Kevin Ollie's team started well with a 71-63 victory against Oregon on Thursday, but a 20-point loss to Michigan State (with a season-low 57 points) turned the worm in the wrong way for the Huskies. (Plus, Oregon went 1-2 and nearly lost to DePaul.) Ollie has got talent and the team is healthy. But they haven't come together yet. They don't look like a group that's comfortable on the floor for a full game. A lot of the offense that was run was easily stymied by Michigan State and Arkansas, two groups that have coaches who specialize in neutralizing with defense. There's a lot left to figure out here.[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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