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Question? Are we better than the 13 points Elon lost by? Because if we are we have a decent shot.
 
8893 said:
History has shown time and again that the law of transitive property has little-to-no application in sports, especially not college basketball.
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Although! College football rankings beg to differ!
 
scrappy2.0 said:
Nope--we just have to be consistent. We have a senior PG who needs to lay down the law against the freshmen PG. This is a great chance for Boat to go against a "1st round pick". This gives a lot of Uconn players chances to step up. Texas has a VERY good team and we simply blew the game--gave it away. Anyone predicting a Uconn team being blown out this year will be wrong.
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Texas reminds me of Louisville last year. A team that UConn just has a match-up issue with. Duke is winnable, just was last year's run against Michigan St, Florida, and Kentucky were winnable (at least to KO, the team and UConn nation if not ESPN) if UConn brings it's A game. I think the key will be to keep UConn's big s out of early foul trouble against Okafor. I would almost prefer to see Nolan in early, keep the game within reach, and the 3 quick fouls he picks-up in the first 10 minutes hopefully make the refs happy enough so that they treat Brimah fairly.

Oh, and UConn is DOOMED!
 
CTBasketball said:
Although! College football rankings beg to differ!
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Good point. I suppose it also matters to some extent in CBB rankings, to the extent that it figures into SOS and RPI. To be more precise, what I should have said is that it has little-to-no predictive value in terms of the outcome of any particular game.
 
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Sometimes refs seem to call things tight early and then let them play. That's why I would not like Brimah on Okafor for the first half of the first half. I admit, I'm grasping here but WTH.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
Texas reminds me of Louisville last year. A team that UConn just has a match-up issue with. Duke is winnable, just was last year's run against Michigan St, Florida, and Kentucky were winnable (at least to KO, the team and UConn nation if not ESPN) if UConn brings it's A game. I think the key will be to keep UConn's big s out of early foul trouble against Okafor. I would almost prefer to see Nolan in early, keep the game within reach, and the 3 quick fouls he picks-up in the first 10 minutes hopefully make the refs happy enough so that they treat Brimah fairly.
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The big diff here is that last year's wins came on the back of a yearlong trial by fire. The team had taken some beatings over the course of the year and finally came together at the right time. This year's team is far from gelling at this point; they haven't yet adjusted to big losses in personnel, and new pieces are still getting their flow back. Both of those factors have been further compounded by injuries.

It will be very tough to win this game. Not impossible, but very tough. Win or lose, it will be interesting to see how UCONN plays.
 
Greathusky said:
Well yeah we were 9 1/2 point underdogs in 1999. You could count the analysts on one hand who gave us a shot.
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The 1999 UConn team was worlds better than this year's squad. It has nothing to do with how much better Duke is than we are this year.
 
WeAreUCONN said:
we just lost to yale and gave up 80 pts to coppin state ( I dont know wtf that state even is )
and you seriously think we can beat Duke?

I love Uconn but there is no chance of us beating duke.
we have no 1 that can rebound
brimah isn't strong enough to deal with duke down low
we turn the ball over like crazy
we shoot the 3 terribly
to even compete with duke, we need Brimah and Boat on the floor at all times.
as soon as either 1 goes to the bench it's gonna be a horror show.
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No self-respecting UConn fan should ever feel this way...

Has our history ever shown you that any team can beat any other team? All it takes is getting things to click for one game... and if you don't sometimes expect UConn to play down to inferior competition year after year, you havent been paying attention to the early season games throughout your fandom

Bottom line, this is a total clown point of view to have for a Husky fan. I'm fine with other teams' fans thinking this way, but they don't have the history we do
 
Kembacity said:
No self-respecting UConn fan should ever feel this way...

Has our history ever shown you that any team can beat any other team? All it takes is getting things to click for one game... and if you don't sometimes expect UConn to play down to inferior competition year after year, you havent been paying attention to the early season games throughout your fandom

Bottom line, this is a total clown point of view to have for a Husky fan. I'm fine with other teams' fans thinking this way, but they don't have the history we do
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Well said!
 
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Feed the bigs like I have been saying. Unleash Amida to cause havoc on Duke. Boat locking Tyus Jones in the half court, and playing off the ball as a 2 guard focusing on scoring and locking Jones down. D-Ham continuing to play as our point forward, and our perimeter defense on the 3-point shooters. We have a quickness and speed advantage that we need to take advantage of against Duke.
 
huskymagic said:
Feed the bigs like I have been saying. Unleash Amida to cause havoc on Duke. Boat locking Tyus Jones in the half court, and playing off the ball as a 2 guard focusing on scoring and locking Jones down. D-Ham continuing to play as our point forward, and our perimeter defense on the 3-point shooters. We have a quickness and speed advantage that we need to take advantage of against Duke.
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The issue with UConn isn't can they win? It's will they have the will to win? Will UConn take it upon themselves to take it personally to rebound and box out Duke or will we get the lazy UConn team that refuses to close out on 3 point shooters.... It remains to be seen.
 
I expect us to show up and win. I dont even see this as an upset. We had two losses we shouldve won--now its our turn to take 1 back. I expect high intensity starting the game with press and traps and taking the ball inside to draw fouls on their bigs.
 
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My gutt says throw a zone on them to keep the ball out of Okafor's hands. My brain says that I've never seen us run a good zone d this year.
 
polycom said:
The issue with UConn isn't can they win? It's will they have the will to win? Will UConn take it upon themselves to take it personally to rebound and box out Duke or will we get the lazy UConn team that refuses to close out on 3 point shooters.... It remains to be seen.
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Depending on the defense we play and assuming there will be some double downs on Okafor (like Brand in 99) they will get open looks from 3. Choose your poison at times but you're right, they need to close in on the 3's much more often than Coppin game. Then again the CSU game saw many open 3's off of TO's. Ultimately for UConn they will need to keep the TO's in the 10 or under range to compete because they aren't a good transition defensive team and need to keep Duke in the half court game. As Fishy said this need to be a 50 pt / 60 pt brawl!
 
OkaForPrez said:
My game plan:

Protect Amida and play him off Okafor early, let Okafor get his. If AB tries to guard JO in the post early he's out of the game by the under 16 timeout.

Limit possessions, pressure on the ball when it crosses mid court.
Establish Hamilton early, he needs to have a hello world performance for us to be in it.
Play more Tsam then Sam I Am, defense first, attack the rim.
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Less Tsam more Sam Jr. We are going to have to put points up because we are not going to be able shut down Duke. At least with Sam Jr. we have the chance to score from outside otherwise Duke will just pack it in Tsam's drives will be negated. If Sam Jr. is missing we have no choice with Tsam.
 
intlzncster said:
The big diff here is that last year's wins came on the back of a yearlong trial by fire. The team had taken some beatings over the course of the year and finally came together at the right time. This year's team is far from gelling at this point; they haven't yet adjusted to big losses in personnel, and new pieces are still getting their flow back. Both of those factors have been further compounded by injuries.

It will be very tough to win this game. Not impossible, but very tough. Win or lose, it will be interesting to see how UCONN plays.
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What history has shown us is that Duke always starts out strong and does not get much better. Uconn usually starts off disorganized and gets much better. I would actually like to see us play Duke in an early round of the NCAA tournament. I am sure that Krzyzewski would be worried about that match up. Now, not so much.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport.../coachs-corner-duke-mike-krzyzewski/20272441/
 
visine in their pregame meal might help...
 
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A lot of pent up frustration is going to be unleashed tonight. This team is better than it has show so far. I think our guys are going to be on a mission to show that.
 
CL82 said:
A lot of pent up frustration is going to be unleashed tonight. This team is better than it has show so far. I think our guys are going to be on a mission to show that.
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I hope they save something for tomorrow night.
 
CL82 said:
A lot of pent up frustration is going to be unleashed tonight. This team is better than it has show so far. I think our guys are going to be on a mission to show that.
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I hope they do nothing but get a good nights sleep tonight
 
Danzz said:
Less Tsam more Sam Jr. We are going to have to put points up because we are not going to be able shut down Duke. At least with Sam Jr. we have the chance to score from outside otherwise Duke will just pack it in Tsam's drives will be negated. If Sam Jr. is missing we have no choice with Tsam.
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My premise is hope we can bloody the game up with Tsam on the defensive end and get enough scoring out of D Ham and Boat and hopefully a reasonable amount of production out of Amida.

I think Amida can be successful against a high major big like Okafor, he just needs to see 1 or 2 of his early moves go through the hoop.
 
Two elite teams playing? Peeked at the dook boards and there is perhaps one uconn thread among the two. On this board there's more than 10. Just saying....
 
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