Hoopfeed: Huskies continue streak of MLK Day blowouts

[DishNSwish]

Note to ESPN: maybe you want to try a different formula for the women’s basketball game you broadcast nationally on Martin Luther King Day.

http://www.hoopfeed.com/content/201...rsus-acc-with-86-35-defeat-of-north-carolina/

 

[VAUConnFan]

The blowout was disappointing. UConn will never lose to a team that does not bring it. And will blow away a team that comes in half-steppin.

If the game is going to grow, some compellingly competitive "water-cooler" contests are necessary.

 

[ThisJustIn]

If we could figure out how to identify "water cooler" games a year in advance, that would help. (Not to mention convincing schools that there should be a home-and-home involved)

 

[Sonny44]

Note to ESPN: maybe you want to try a different formula for the women’s basketball game you broadcast nationally on Martin Luther King Day.

http://www.hoopfeed.com/content/2012/01/17/huskies-continue-streak-of-mlk-day-blowouts-versus-acc-with-86-35-defeat-of-north-carolina/[/quote]

You're gonna get us uninvited.

 

[VAUConnFan]

If we could figure out how to identify "water cooler" games a year in advance, that would help. (Not to mention convincing schools that there should be a home-and-home involved)

Very true.

How long will it be before WCBB finds impact players lower than the first 15 rated high schoolers? Until then, it will take at least four lean recruiting years for UConn to come back to the pack.
What will it take the break the UConn mystique? UCLA's mystique was broken with a combination of factors; Coach Wooden's retirement, a broadening of the tournament field, changing social attitudes and the resultant widening of the talent pool. Even then, UCLA had some very, very good teams in the years after Coach Wooden's retirement. But, they were not invincible.

 

[alexrgct]

Very true.

How long will it be before WCBB finds impact players lower than the first 15 rated high schoolers? Until then, it will take at least four lean recruiting years for UConn to come back to the pack.
What will it take the break the UConn mystique? UCLA's mystique was broken with a combination of factors; Coach Wooden's retirement, a broadening of the tournament field, changing social attitudes and the resultant widening of the talent pool. Even then, UCLA had some very, very good teams in the years after Coach Wooden's retirement. But, they were not invincible.

Geno and CD are golden, and I just don't see UConn going anywhere for too long as long as they're both coaching and recruiting. But Geno is a unique animal, and we're going to see how unique he is when he retires. UConn should be able to get a fine coach to replace him, and I expect the program to remain strong, but not consistently dominant like UConn's been from 1993-94 until the present. Not too many people are wired to be as obsessed with the details as Geno. There's a reason he hasn't lost two games in a row since the 1992-93 season and has coached four of the six undefeated teams in the NCAA era of WCBB.

I think the broadening of the talent pool in WBB is going to be gradual and generational. In time, there will be more Courtney Vandersloots and Angel McCaughtrys, but progress along those lines is going to seem glacial in real time.

 

[DishNSwish]

As Geno has said in the past, it's not up to him to slip back to the back, it's up to the pack to catch up with him!