How excited should we be getting with everything starting to look familiar.?

[Kitaman]

This team looked distinctly different last night. I think they found the 'March' light switch.

This stat is 2023 and 2024 Championship level. I am seeing ghosts.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Whenever a top-25ish team goes on a run this late in the season, their fanbase deserves to get excited.

Let’s embrace this!

 

[StllH8L8ner]

It’s high noon on my sundial.

 

[DRBackup]

And I can't help but think they'll benefit immensely from getting out of conference, much like '23

 

[Inyatkin]

Going to be a downer here. We've had some up-and-down seasons that led to late-season runs where we looked like we'd finally turned a corner in, to name a few years, 2000, 2005 and 2012. None of those worked out, for different reasons.

Hoping this is different.

 

[Scot-e]

DOOMED!!!

 

[Scrutineer]

It's easy to succumb to such positive thinking about past late season glory........I did last night.

As the game night played out I thought about how we hadn't played the day before and the early struggles probably reflected that, as did the fact Villanova died in the last five minutes of the game........probably due to a short bench and playing the late game the day before, plus we were at full strength.

I believe if we beat Creighton the only thing keeping us off the 7 or even the 6 line is the Committees' history of underrating the Big East in spite of the league winning 7 National Championships in the last 25 years. Sure, they'll find some metric to justify it but it's becoming like the practice of medicine where the "art of medicine" is being lost to corporate formulas.

 

[BGesus4]

I mean I wouldn’t say beating a team that is not making the tournament and was up a good chunk of the game felt familiar to the past two years but I’ll take that kind of optimism any day over the “our back to back champion coach doesn’t know what he’s doing” crowd

 

[blkknight1]

Take it one game at a time. It’s a one game season essentially this team has improved yes but it still has flaws that can be exploited.

 

[AdamaNation]

This team looked distinctly different last night. I think they found the 'March' light switch.

This stat is 2023 and 2024 Championship level. I am seeing ghosts.


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Yes. That killer instinct has been seen once this year. Last night. And they liked the taste of it. That 10-0 run stat is legit. Whoever had more in a game wins.

 

[Tenspro2002]

It’s high noon on my sundial.

Putting the "bone" in Boneyard.

And...that's enough internet for today.

 

[Tenspro2002]

And I can't help but think they'll benefit immensely from getting out of conference, much like '23

The thing is, 14-6 in conference was actually pretty good, with the exception of a few stinkers. Swept by St. John's (and should have won at least one of those games), a few close/fluky losses.

Overall, our 9 losses are by 2, 1, 18, 2, 5, 4, 6, 1, 14. (To be fair we also have a handful of close wins.)

Our two blowout losses were: 1) 3rd game in Maui, and we just fell apart late; 2) at a #2/3 seed.

We've pretty much always shown up against decent to good teams.

But overall I agree that getting out of the Big East (and its officials) will help. If we can get through the first round, everything else is house money and we're dangerous.

 

[businesslawyer]

Going to be a downer here. We've had some up-and-down seasons that led to late-season runs where we looked like we'd finally turned a corner in, to name a few years, 2000, 2005 and 2012. None of those worked out, for different reasons.

Hoping this is different.

I’m really, really, really confused by this post. In 2000 we lost when El Amin got hurt in the tournament. And while I don’t remember the end of the ‘05 regular season, we absolutely never turned any corner ever in ‘12. We never beat a good team that year. Not once.

 

[superjohn]

Going to be a downer here. We've had some up-and-down seasons that led to late-season runs where we looked like we'd finally turned a corner in, to name a few years, 2000, 2005 and 2012. None of those worked out, for different reasons.

Hoping this is different.

2012 never looked like they turned the corner. They didn't have it all season.

 

[cwh20]

I’m looking at the projected 7 and 8 seeds. Lunardi’s as of 6 PM Thursday and Palm’s as of Thursday morning. Louisville, Missouri, Illinois and UCLA all won. KS lost to Arizona. These all factor into if UConn can move up or not.

UConn has to keep winning. The Villanova win probably didn’t move the needle a lot for UConn. Creighton will help and then if the Huskies can win the BE tournament that would be a big boost. Preferably over St z John’s. The others on the seeding line near us are in conferences with better metrics. UConn would have benefited far more if those teams lost early. The further those others go in their own tournaments the less they get nicked when and if they finally lose.

So UConn is playing some of their best basketball of the year but it may not be enough to get them off the 8 line. I think it would probably be enough if they win the BE tourney though. Once again the teams on the 7 line results are going to matter a lot. Then its up to UConn to keep playing well and beat whoever they come up against in the NCAAs

 

[UCLJ0211]

Let’s get Liam hitting shots again and we have something

 

[Palatine]

Every game is a lifetime.

 

[NCHusky91]

‘05 they finished the regular season strong and then threw up a stinker against ‘Cuse in the BET semis. Then as a 2 seed played like garbage in Worcester, barely beating UCF, then losing to 10 seed NC State and Julius Hodge in round two. Of course that was so long ago BC was the 1 seed in the BET (w Dudley).

 

[Inyatkin]

I’m really, really, really confused by this post. In 2000 we lost when El Amin got hurt in the tournament. And while I don’t remember the end of the ‘05 regular season, we absolutely never turned any corner ever in ‘12. We never beat a good team that year. Not once.

2012 never looked like they turned the corner. They didn't have it all season.

"Really, really confused" is a bit of an overstatement, maybe? I said it happened for various reasons. El-Amin getting hurt was one of those reasons.

We looked like world-beaters to close the '05 season. The postseason was a total letdown.

In 2012, it was the Big East tournament. When we beat West Virginia, there was a lot of "They're doing it again!" talk. It didn't last.

 

[UCFan1513]

I will be excited if they beat Creighton and (presumably) St. John's and get to the 6/7 line

 

[BFieldHusky]

‘05 they finished the regular season strong and then threw up a stinker against ‘Cuse in the BET semis. Then as a 2 seed played like garbage in Worcester, barely beating UCF, then losing to 10 seed NC State and Julius Hodge in round two. Of course that was so long ago BC was the 1 seed in the BET (w Dudley).

Sorry didn't see this! Good recap.

 

[Deepster]

 

[REB1094]

When we’re on, we look like a really good team (like the last 10 minutes last night). A team that could pick off a top seed

When we’re off, we look like a really bad team (like the first 30 minutes last night). A team that could lose handily to a 9 seed

We’ve looked really good for most of the last 2.5 weeks, but I’m not sure which team to expect on a game to game basis

Tonight is a game between a team that played 2OT last night and a team that played 12 hours ago. I don’t think we’ll see either at their best today, but it’d be nice to see us build on the momentum from yesterday’s second half

And then we flip a coin and see what happens!

 

[Excalibur]

The team has the same flaws it's always had. It's playing some of its best basketball of the season at the right time, but I have no expectations.

 

[ec33]

Let’s get Liam hitting shots again and we have something

And Solo.