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I'm always thinking worst case scenario, yet last night the rational side of my head was talking me down. Their guards were nothing, Spencer seem to do whatever he wanted. Edey was gassed 8 minutes in. Even worst case scenario me couldn't conjure up how they could fight back.
 
I wasn't nervous at that point. Typically I pace around my living room for big games; I stood for a few minutes during the electric start from both teams but I was still pretty calm. I was sitting on my couch for most of the tournament, it was very odd to feel so calm and confident but when you've seen the same movie over and over again you start to trust your instincts on how it will end. Same as the Illinois game, same as the Alabama game.

Once I saw Edey tire out in the first half I knew Purdue was done. I didn't expect him to be gassed that quickly.
 
B1GEast said:
When Clingan and Johnson both had 4 fouls and there was about 7 minutes to go and the lead was 7 or 9?

I felt a lot of anxiety.

Hurley is a genius for going small with Karaban, who got fouled so many times and no whistle blown.

I thought Hurley might go with Stewart, but he needed Karaban's offensive potential.

The refs did everything they could on jump balls to give possession to Purdue. It was obvious
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I respect exactly what you said in your last line about the refs .... what the hell is that about the refs in both the UConn womens loss and these men's game? Everyone should love the Huskies or at least respect them and treat them as such ....
 
I wasn't really nervous at all, and it's funny, because I'm a worrier. (Hey, I grew up a Red Sox fan, what can I say), but I was extremely confident. Edey was gassed and could only score by bulling through Karaban and the team kept scoring. As soon as I saw that Hurley and the team was sticking to "let the big guy get his, but shut down the 3-pt line", I knew they would be fine.
Purdue has an efficient offense, but they aren't explosive as in putting up big numbers and short amounts of time, and they hadn't faced the pressure of Castle, Newton, Diarra and Spencer before last night.
 
EricLA said:
I wasn't comfortable until it was about 4 minutes left with the double digit lead. I was doing quick math "even if we don't score any more and Purdue does, if we take 30 seconds off the shot clock"... blah blah.

I kept waiting for Purdue to make a run - obviously they were going to ride Edey as far as they could. He got them far. But we had too much talent at all other positions (1-4) and they could not overcome that.

Like some said, it was great seeing Karaban battle Edey. I thought Edey fouled Karaban on almost every offensive possession. None of it was called.

All's well that ends well. But I was still nervous till the 2 minute mark. Only then did I start celebrating.
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Love the stats at the end of your post, showing all the years UConn has won one {or two) championships and if that isn't the most amazing show of dominance in the history of college basketball??????
 
Buzzyboy said:
Love the stats at the end of your post, showing all the years UConn has won one {or two) championships and if that isn't the most amazing show of dominance in the history of college basketball??????
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thank you. obviously i need to update mine but when i try, i get a message that the "signature is too long", so i need to get a mod to fix it...
 
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I must admit the past 2 NCAA runs have been drama free, but kind of felt a bit void of some adrenaline that went thru previous runs. I guess that's good too!
 
The edibles kicked in by that time so I was quite relaxed and had not a single worry.
 
Going into the stadium it looked like we UConn fans were out numbered 10 to 1. The Purdue fans were loud and excited. We UConn fans seemed reserved. By the middle of the second half the rolls had turned, we were loud and excited and they were quite and seemed to accept their teams fate. So I would say a lot of us at the game very confident and not nervous.
 
I was shook last year and shook this year. Kept having flashbacks of Duke vs MD 99 and hoping catastrophe was avoided. In the afterglow, it was fruitless to worry. We cruised. What a beautiful run. And it ain't over yet...
 
If you read my post on Sunday after watching Purdue on Saturday.
Their Big‘s baskets didn’t break NCS
it was his kicks out to the. wide open three point Shooter . With Clingan just harassing him in single coverage he was 13-25 on two pointers by they only managed 1 three on a broken plays He could’ve scored 40 and it didn’t matter.
Even with our bigs sitting our lead was safe because they were exhausted and couldn’t get stops . Our motion and guard size is difficult to get stops even when fresh .
Zero 3 ‘s + No stops and they’re done.
I wasn’t 100% but I was pretty sure we had it at the half . I ran into some UConn fans in the corridor and we fist bumped an we both said we have this .
 
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I was nervous a few months ago when Clingan looked like he'd be another jumbo, injury prone big man. This tournament was light work.
 
I was extra focused during the Alabama game because they were hitting crazy shots and there was a chance we would run out of time for a reversion to the mean of their shooting.

Illinois is the only team UConn faced the whole tournament that I think matched up reasonably well with UConn, but then 30-0 happened and that was that.

Edey played out of his mind for the game to be as close as it was. I was not worried at any point last night.
 
The Bama game made me very nervous because of Nate Oats history with Hurley and Alabamas athletes and 3 pt shooting.

The Pudue game I was nervous during the day just because of the history at stake going for back to back championships knowing historical teams have come up short. I had a few negative thoughts in my mind thinking that I would be devasted to see these guys come short.

I ate a burrito around 5 knowing I wasn’t going to eat the rest of the day, and my nerves went away. Picked up a 24 pack of Miller light and then decided that maybe I shouldn’t have a Miller Lite since I didnt drink one during a game in March, so I figured don’t mess with the mojo. You find out mojo is just a myth or maybe this team was just to damn good mojo or no mojo.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
Ellie Kemper Nerd GIF by The Office
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2023 Mojo called and want their meme back.
 
I wasn’t nervous before or during last nights game. They did exactly what I thought they’d do only I had a 17 pt win instead of a 15 pt win.

Before the game I was nervous about Illinois.
During the game I was nervous about Alabama.

5-6 minutes into the second half of both games erased those nerves.
 
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I was nervous until Edey got tired at 23-23. You could see that even though he was borderline dominant, he was working harder than usual because of Donovan. He was gassed, they subbed him out, and immediately we went inside to DC for a three point play. Purdue knew they couldn’t sub him and we were able to suffocate them. I knew we had a couple of small runs in us that would push it to 10+ and then we would cruise.
 
B1GEast said:
When Clingan and Johnson both had 4 fouls and there was about 7 minutes to go and the lead was 7 or 9?

I felt a lot of anxiety.

Hurley is a genius for going small with Karaban, who got fouled so many times and no whistle blown.

I thought Hurley might go with Stewart, but he needed Karaban's offensive potential.

The refs did everything they could on jump balls to give possession to Purdue. It was obvious
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That was the only time I was even slightly concerned in the game, but didn't last long.

Even in the first half when they were keeping it close, I wasn't worried. Especially once I saw Edey shooting free throws for the first time and he was sweating and breathing hard. Knew we had them at that point, was just a matter of time.
 
I wasn't nervous about the game at all but all afternoon/evening yesterday (until tipoff) I was loaded with nervous energy.

It took a bit longer than I would have liked to get a little separation in the first half but by halftime, with a lead while not playing our best I knew "we've seen this before, we know what happens" and to script, our defense kept getting better and we started to pull away.

I will admit that I was quite apprehensive once Johnson picked up his fifth but that dissipated once I saw we were going to play small instead of hoping Clingan could remain on the floor until the end. That we did it by choice was a huge psychological edge over if we did it because we also lost DC and I was confident we could trade baskets with them even if we couldn't stop them.
 
JungleLobo said:
Singare was ready to get out there and hack the big Maple down
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I was surprised that he didn’t come in and Danny let Karaban take on Edey. It definitely worked out fine though because Edey was somewhat useless on defense against our small lineup. He got most of his 2 point shots, but we were basically playing 5v4 on the other end, and trading baskets wasn’t going to get them back in.
 
I'll have to download my fitbit data from last night, during the first half i was fairly certain it was going to try and dial 911 my heart rate was so high. By the 15 minute mark of the second half or so I felt a certain sense of calm cover me, marveling at how well executed the game plan was. But yeah I reckon the nerves were more 'what was at stake and how important this dub was' as opposed to 'oh no, oh no, oh no the world is crumbling apart' kind of nerves.
 
B1GEast said:
When Clingan and Johnson both had 4 fouls and there was about 7 minutes to go and the lead was 7 or 9?

I felt a lot of anxiety.

Hurley is a genius for going small with Karaban, who got fouled so many times and no whistle blown.

I thought Hurley might go with Stewart, but he needed Karaban's offensive potential.

The refs did everything they could on jump balls to give possession to Purdue. It was obvious
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Honestly not at all. I had no doubt we`d beat Purdue. Since last year.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
I wasn't nervous about the game at all but all afternoon/evening yesterday (until tipoff) I was loaded with nervous energy.

It took a bit longer than I would have liked to get a little separation in the first half but by halftime, with a lead while not playing our best I knew "we've seen this before, we know what happens" and to script, our defense kept getting better and we started to pull away.

I will admit that I was quite apprehensive once Johnson picked up his fifth but that dissipated once I saw we were going to play small instead of hoping Clingan could remain on the floor until the end. That we did it by choice was a huge psychological edge over if we did it because we also lost DC and I was confident we could trade baskets with them even if we couldn't stop them.
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If you weren’t nervous, why did you keep saying we were doomed?
 
Lefty2one said:
Once I saw Edey tire out in the first half I knew Purdue was done. I didn't expect him to be gassed that quickly
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The announcers were blaming the fact that he played the full 40 minutes in the previous game. Hell, our guys wouldn't be wound out in that situation. They've been through a zillion Hurley practices that can't help but condition them to go until you're exhausted. Then go some more.
 
Cautiously optimistic throughout the second half. I saw Edey getting tired in the first half, and I was thinking to myself “we got him” after he airballed a free throw and let Steph Castle beat him to 2 offensive rebounds in the paint

But still nervous the entire way. I guess I’m still traumatized from the 2021 and 2022 teams that could lose a 15 point lead in 3 minutes. But in hindsight, that game was over with…6 minutes left?
 
upstater said:
I was very nervous mainly because of the 1st 10 minutes of the game, which I thought were played at a super high level by both teams.

Made me think that it was going to be a death match. That nervousness lasted until 3/4s of the way into the game. Maybe around the 7 minute mark of the 2nd half
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I agree. First 10 mins were nerve racking. Felt pretty good with the 6 pt lead at the half and then felt super-confident with the Tristen 3 to get us to 39-30 and stayed good the rest of the way except when we had the 43-35 lead and Purdue came back to 43-41 I believe
 
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