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Kind of cocky to anoint yourself the “Basketball Capital of the World”.

It’s another thing to back it up and winning both the men’s and women’s championships in the same season for the third decade in a row. 👀
 
Inyatkin said:
Did anyone see PTI on Monday? Tony seemed to have never seen Alex Karaban’s name before. The guy has won two titles! I know college basketball is a little more niche than the NFL or whatever, but you talk about sports for a living. This isn’t lacrosse
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That jives with him being the product of DC area sports talk radio. I’m guessing if you turned on one of the local shows this week they’d be focused on what third string quarterback the Commanders should sign (Or re-sign? Who cares). They spend 95% on the Commanders, 4.9% on the Capitals, and everything else gets squeezed into the remaining 0.1% if/when they somehow get bored with the first two. Unlistenable.
 
This is a bit off topic. As far as branding is concerned, the Yankees in my observations are #1 by a large margin. Living in Mexico i see people with yankee hats frequently. Being worn by people who know nothing about US baseball. Their merchandise permeates the most obscure places in the world.
 
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MexicoHusky said:
This is a bit off topic. As far as branding is concerned, the Yankees in my observations are #1 by a large margin. Living in Mexico i see people with yankee hats frequently. Being worn by people who know nothing about US baseball. Their merchandise permiates the most obscure places in the world.
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That’s because a Yankee hat is a “New York” hat. It’s bigger than the Yankees.
 
BFieldHusky said:
I saw Duke fans complaining about the officiating. Talk about a fan base they has no self awareness. Cam Boozer literally elbowed and ran over Mullins, with no call, and they got 2 points out of it. If not for the miracle play at the end, that could have been the difference in the game. And you want to complain about the officiating?
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EVERY fan base thinks the officials were against them when they lose. Some even when they win.
 
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The guys on Barstool Sports are talking about how unfathomable UConn's championship karma has been, with one guy bringing up how we were 9 1/2-point underdogs against Duke in 1999 when the run started, and how ridiculous it is that we won that game, nevermind beating Duke a few days ago. Never do they consider that UConn has been prematurely counted out or generally underrated a ton of times, with 1999 being a prime example, just because people have been conditioned to ignore/underrate them and treat them like an interloper once the regionals start, save for maybe 2024 when they were inevitable.

Somehow, they're sick of us winning, and yet don't take us that seriously at the same time.
 
CL82 said:
Danny is one of those guys that if he's your coach, you love him and if he's anyone else's, you hate them. Cam is the same as a player.
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We would’ve despised both of them if they were our opponents. As it is, we have a Hurley as our head coach, Mike Nardi as an assistant, and Carl Spacklers kid on the staff. Things are still surreal
For me.
 
Mr. French said:
It is interesting. Duke message boards complaining about refs and playing 8 on 5, Cuse boards rooting for Duke over UConn strictly based on hatred levels, dogs and cats living together!
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I haven't seen any of that on the Duke basketball report. That's a very well run site. You know where you see people whining about refs? The Boneyard. It's embarrassing.
 
Does Duke have anyone with a $50 pint glass? I doubt it!

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ninety-nine said:
The guys on Barstool Sports are talking about how unfathomable UConn's championship karma has been, with one guy bringing up how we were 9 1/2-point underdogs against Duke in 1999 when the run started
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I legit think he 99 team would win like 7/10 from that Duke team. I believe we had best player on the court in Rip, the best defender in Ricky, and the guy with biggest testiculos in KEA. Thats a solid blueprint for winning most games.
 
boog204 said:
I legit think he 99 team would win like 7/10 from that Duke team. I believe we had best player on the court in Rip, the best defender in Ricky, and the guy with biggest testiculos in KEA. Thats a solid blueprint for winning most games.
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The front line of Voskuhl and Freeman with Souley and Edmund Saunders off the bench would absolutely eliminate Boozer.
 
temery said:
I haven't seen any of that on the Duke basketball report. That's a very well run site. You know where you see people whining about refs? The Boneyard. It's embarrassing.
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Leebo said:
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I read 100 replies and everyone I saw was thanking the players, coaches and the team for a great season. If one got by the mods, I guess that's on them. But as a whole, their fan base was exactly what a fan base should be - supportive of their team, even after a loss.

UConn hadn't lost at halftime, but the number of people who were trashing players and the team and the coach was pretty disgusting in the chat room.

Apples to apples, their fan base and the website Duke Basketball Report is so much better than what I see here from UConn fans when the team loses.

Granted, they're likely all doctors self-medicating after the loss, but they were pretty classy, all things considered.
 
The game thread has plenty more complaining about the refs as well, folks saying it should have been a tech on Hurley, Millender, etc, not just the one thing.
 
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I’m biased obviously but the Hurley hate has gotten so ridiculous over the past few years. I find its always butt hurt Purdue fans leading the charge too LOL
 
huskdogs said:
I’m biased obviously but the Hurley hate has gotten so ridiculous over the past few years. I find its always butt hurt Purdue fans leading the charge too LOL
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I was on record, I knew Purdue wouldn't get it done. Not walking the walk is what Purdue does. But no one is better at acting like you've been there before than Purdue Fan. Even though they've never been there before.
 
boog204 said:
I legit think he 99 team would win like 7/10 from that Duke team. I believe we had best player on the court in Rip, the best defender in Ricky, and the guy with biggest testiculos in KEA. Thats a solid blueprint for winning most games.
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I've been saying this from the day before that championship game. They got a ton of hype because they ran through the ACC (which was not as good as prior seasons) that year.

We were more talented, faster and deeper. Our biggest advantage was that they never would have considered any of the three a possibility prior too seeing it in the game, which would have been too late for them.

We defended them better than they thought anyone could and when we needed a score we had the two best options on the floor (Rip, KEA). That game was in no way, shape or form an upset.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I've been saying this from the day before that championship game. They got a ton of hype because they ran through the ACC (which was not as good as prior seasons) that year.

We were more talented, faster and deeper. Our biggest advantage was that they never would have considered any of the three a possibility prior too seeing it in the game, which would have been too late for them.

We defended them better than they thought anyone could and when we needed a score we had the two best options on the floor (Rip, KEA). That game was in no way, shape or form an upset.
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Yep, our fans knew we had more than a chance. I remember walking out of MSG after the BET championship and fans were yelling "We Want Duke!" .
 
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St. John’s fans convinced themselves that they won that game for us by “wearing out Duke”. I guess they thought we had a cakewalk versus Michigan State.
 
Deepster said:
The front line of Voskuhl and Freeman with Souley and Edmund Saunders off the bench would absolutely eliminate Boozer.
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I was talking 99 UConn vs 99 Duke. The idea that team was better than ours and it was flukey we won is BS.

And on your point, Boozer would get destroyed against that front line.
 
Why do you care what other teams fans or sports talk shows think? You’ll never get that time back.
Let the results be your microphone. Hurley is despised by many…who cares. Have we forgotten the hate of JC?
 
Richmondhsky said:
Why do you care what other teams fans or sports talk shows think? You’ll never get that time back.
Let the results be your microphone. Hurley is despised by many…who cares. Have we forgotten the hate of JC?
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At their peak who was more hated? Jim or Danny? Gotta be Danny. Curious what others think
 
huskdogs said:
At their peak who was more hated? Jim or Danny? Gotta be Danny. Curious what others think
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I think it's been memory holed, but the vitriol toward our program from like 2006 to the end of Calhoun's tenure and beyond was intense. Some of it self-inflicted, some not -- laptops, Nate Miles, the APR mess -- but it was no joke.

It really felt like we were being punished for winning two titles and barging into a place we weren't supposed to be.
 
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