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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2057764, member: 37"] The only delight I'm going to get is knowing one of them has to lose. And that is a distant second if it were possible that both could lose. All kidding aside I don't care who wins or loses because there is no value for UConn. Any gain by a Cuse victory is offset by Cuse competing for a bubble position. We had a decent rivalry with Syracuse in the OBE. It would have been a great rivalry but Syracuse fans were stuck in the nostalgia of the early BE when they, Nova, St. Johns and Georgetown were the aristocrats of the league. Those fans struggled acknowledging UConn became more successful than Syracuse the past two decades. It's on record that Duke wanted UConn in the ACC over Louisville. So that mitigates some of the animosity I bear towards the relative unfairness Dukie V provided that program relative to other successful programs. If any alumnus or fan promoted their school the way Dukie V promoted Duke the NCAA would have considered it a violation. That free publicity had to help Duke and coach K with recruiting. If someone can see the future and tell me that a Cuse victory gets them in to the NCAA, that UConn will win the AACT and all this leads to the NCAA scheduling a play in game between UConn and Syracuse, I would pull for Cuse to win. Outside of that scenario I don't care. [/QUOTE]