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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4956405, member: 71"] [B]1999[/B] - It never occurred to me (save a panic attack against Gonzaga) that we wouldn't win that year. It was imperative as the possibility existed that we would never again be in that good of a position to close the deal. We had to win that one. [B]2004[/B] - We had to win that one because a) once again we clearly had the best team and b) multiple titles moved us into a higher category historically. [B]2011[/B] - I always viewed this as the [B][I]redemption tour [/I][/B]as during the roughly eighteen months from when Mich St beat us in Detroit and the start of practice in 2010, everyone in the sport was trying to put dirt on our grave. We showed the world we were still UConn and we (in more than a small way) redeemed the disater of 2006. [B]2014[/B] - I called this the [B][I]payback tour[/I][/B] and we settled a number of scores in that run. In the elite eight we paid Michigan St back for 2009 in Detroit (at least we sealed the deal in our year). In the national semifinal, we paid Florida back for 1994 ( again, unlike them, we finished the job). For good measure, we settled with St Joe's for a tournament loss when they mattered and we didn't, with Iowa St for being so irritating (and beatinig us) in 2012 and Villanova for both secretly conspiring to leave us stuck with what became the AAC and for joiniing in the vote that kept us out of what would have been our last Big East Tournament. Finally, we for a second time we kept a trophy out of Calipari 's slimy hands. [B]2023[/B] - With this one, we told the world "[B]We're Back![/B]". We've moved up another level historically and, to the dismay of so many, we are in position to continue to cause damage for the forseeable future. [ATTACH type="full"]99142[/ATTACH] [B]2024[/B] - This one is very important to me. We will have only UCLA and Kentucky ahead of us in total trophies after this. We will have caught UNC and passed Duke and Indiana. We also will have by far the brightest near future of any school in the country. I view this as analogous to when the Vanderbilts and Morgans built the Met. The [I]old money[/I] snobs wouldn't let the [I]nouveau riche[/I] become members of their opera house, so they built a far better one and forced the snobs to beg for membership once it became obvious which was the real quality opera house. Let them claim that their accomplishments from a twelve school tournament, form one bid per league, etc. have value. We'll continue to dominate and eventually they'll have to face the truth. [/QUOTE]

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