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Is Az our toughest game this year?

bendm said:
@NJHusky who doesn’t know the question

Are you asking us to guess what the toughest game will be going into, ie based on who’s the best team and where we play them, or are you asking what will be our toughest game after the fact, which would be kinda pointless imo
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I guess I should have said toughest game prospectively not retrospectively to clarify any ambiguity, but I thought it was a pretty simple question…but this is the BY. LOL
 
superjohn said:
We'll play some away games which will be tougher.
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Once again….so….

I guess you are really concerned about Butler and seton hall this year since you refuse to answer with any specifics but still want to be in every thread. It really was a very simple question
 
NJHusky said:
Once again….so….

I guess you are really concerned about Butler and seton hall this year since you refuse to answer with any specifics but still want to be in every thread. It really was a very simple question
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The season just started so I'll have to see more from the opponents and of course there will be more injuries because that's what typically happens. We've lost 4 games at home the past three seasons and lost 12 road games the past three seasons. Without factoring in injuries and with barely seeing the opponents play I'll say the away games at St. John's, Creighton, and Kansas will be tougher games.
 
As I tried to tell people after the Kansas - UNC game, Kansas is better than some of you think. UNC was just very underrated. They play MSU Thursday. Assuming Peterson is back KU will be very tough in Lawrence. I'm not sold on Florida yet. But it's all too early to be sure with any team. Our OOC is a gauntlet.

 
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HuskyHawk said:
As I tried to tell people after the Kansas - UNC game, Kansas is better than some of you think. UNC was just very underrated. They play MSU Thursday. Assuming Peterson is back KU will be very tough in Lawrence. I'm not sold on Florida yet. But it's all too early to be sure with any team. Our OOC is a gauntlet.

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They lost by double digits on a neutral venue. Don't really understand this take.
 
HuskyHawk said:
As I tried to tell people after the Kansas - UNC game, Kansas is better than some of you think. UNC was just very underrated. They play MSU Thursday. Assuming Peterson is back KU will be very tough in Lawrence. I'm not sold on Florida yet. But it's all too early to be sure with any team. Our OOC is a gauntlet.

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I’m sure the Kansas board would be very interested to hear that you think Kansas is better than some people think!
 
auror said:
They lost by double digits on a neutral venue. Don't really understand this take.
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Without their best player, and were down 3 with two minutes to play.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Without their best player
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Well that's the point. I'm saying without DP they aren't good. Duke could've named the number within reason. They were playing at 3/4 effort. They got serious a couple times and went on big runs.
 
auror said:
Well that's the point. I'm saying without DP they aren't good. Duke could've named the number within reason. They were playing at 3/4 effort. They got serious a couple times and went on big runs.
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If you believe that you didn't watch it. Duke was not at 3/4 effort, that's absurd. It was close until the very end and with DP KU wins it, against what is supposed to be a top 5 team (I think Carolina is better). As Torres said (not me) the rest of that team is better than people think. Tiller has been very impressive as has Council.

The thread is about toughest game. The only real choices are BYU in Boston, Illinois or Florida at MSG or Kansas on the road. Given our advantage either truly at home (Arizona, Texas) and at both neutral sites, KU in Lawrence could well be our toughest game.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The thread is about toughest game. The only real choices are BYU in Boston, Illinois or Florida at MSG or Kansas on the road. Given our advantage either truly at home (Arizona, Texas) and at both neutral sites, KU in Lawrence could well be our toughest game.
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How are those the only real choices?
 
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superjohn said:
How are those the only real choices?
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If a home game is your toughest game you have problems. I suppose St. Johns on the road also qualifies as an option.
 
HuskyHawk said:
If a home game is your toughest game you have problems. I suppose St. Johns on the road also qualifies as an option.
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I understand this sentiment, but UConn also lost 2 home games in 2022-2023 and still won the National Championship. Games can be difficult even with home games. That year they lost inexplicably to St. Johns and then to a Xavier team who seemed to just match-up good with UConn for whatever reason. I think AZ is a really good team that can and will present match-up difficulties. Doesn't mean UConn can't or won't win, but this should be a very close game. Plus, UConn is still without Mullins, and Hurley's comments suggest he will be a real difference maker once he is fully integrated.
 
Some BE may be our toughest, but these coming up will be our toughest and most "valuable". The game at Creighton won't have nearly as much meaning in terms of our seeding.

AZ may be our toughest competition, but it's Storrs. That Illiniois game is going to be tough, they are good, it's in NYC where they'll have a ton of fans and you know Brad is going to be posting the 30-0 revenge tour in advance.
 
sdglast said:
I understand this sentiment, but UConn also lost 2 home games in 2022-2023 and still won the National Championship. Games can be difficult even with home games. That year they lost inexplicably to St. Johns and then to a Xavier team who seemed to just match-up good with UConn for whatever reason. I think AZ is a really good team that can and will present match-up difficulties. Doesn't mean UConn can't or won't win, but this should be a very close game. Plus, UConn is still without Mullins, and Hurley's comments suggest he will be a real difference maker once he is fully integrated.
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I'm not suggesting we'll always win at home. Those games were tough because UConn underperformed in those games, same with Seton Hall on the road. I understood the question to be the objectively hardest game (on paper) for UConn to win given an expected level of performance by UConn. I think that's either BYU, Illinois, Kansas or St. Johns on the road. If you factor in Mullins, might change things, I'm ignoring that and just looking at the opponent and location.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Him and Navery in a steel cage match, we need to see it!
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Navery would blister him with numbers, while STJ would assault him with his maniacal encyclopedia fact checks. Battle of the will. Would easily go 12 rounds.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I'm not suggesting we'll always win at home. Those games were tough because UConn underperformed in those games, same with Seton Hall on the road. I understood the question to be the objectively hardest game (on paper) for UConn to win given an expected level of performance by UConn. I think that's either BYU, Illinois, Kansas or St. Johns on the road. If you factor in Mullins, might change things, I'm ignoring that and just looking at the opponent and location.
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That was a logical well reasoned response to my initial question...thank you... but it obviously has no place on the BY based on the SJ/Bend banter yesterday..😉
 
Marat said:
Now that Reed is out, it will be tough.
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That's what I was about to say. I don't know which game will be the toughest of this season, but this game against Arizona just got much tougher without Tarris.
 
gsmooth said:
That's what I was about to say. I don't know which game will be the toughest of this season, but this game against Arizona just got much tougher without Tarris.
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I have been asking the board on his status this whole week, because he was off after the fall against BYU. The line should swing hard in the other direction at this point because a roster or Reibe and Koroma is a massive step down. This feels uphill now.
 
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HooperScooper said:
Add Frenchie and Fishy and make it a tag team match.
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Of those guys, I find navery just to give out reasonable basketball takes so I’d gladly be on his team vs the 2 other
 
Huge trouble without Tarris. Hate to say moral victories in play tonight, they’re too big and will kill us on the boards. What awful news better not be out too long we will see how short we are in the 5.
 
Maybe we get a star game from Demary., I could see him looking like Newton vs Kansas.
 
Goes without saying, but huge game for Reibe. He needs to rebound, no excuses. Rest of the team needs to help him down there as well. We can still do this.
 
NJHusky said:
I haven’t seen them play but they already beat UCLA and Florida.

I know Illinois is ranked too and we have St. John’s, but the scouting report makes Az seem like a pretty complete team
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Realized watching them tonight that they are a very good team, definitely top 10, top 5ish but their achilles heal is they arent a good 3 point shooting team. They will be in big trouble when they face a team that can block shots and rebounds. If their guards cant score in the paint they will struggle.
 
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