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Lunardi Bracketology - July 29

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Apparently, no rest for Bracketology (as Duke is the new No. 1 overall)

UConn's Adama Sanogo leaving for the NBA and Kyle Filipowski returning to Duke bumped the defending champion Huskies out of the No. 1 overall spot.
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10 seed in the Midwest. Would potentially face off with Kansas in round 2

Rest of the BEast

Nova 1
Creighton 3
UConn 10
Seton Hall 11
Marquette 11

Personally I still think we are being underseeded. I think we will end up on the 4-6 seed line
 
aburks41 said:
www.espn.com

Apparently, no rest for Bracketology (as Duke is the new No. 1 overall)

UConn's Adama Sanogo leaving for the NBA and Kyle Filipowski returning to Duke bumped the defending champion Huskies out of the No. 1 overall spot.
www.espn.com

10 seed in the Midwest. Would potentially face off with Kansas in round 2

Rest of the BEast

Nova 1
Creighton 3
UConn 10
Seton Hall 11
Marquette 11

Personally I still think we are being underseeded. I think we will end up on the 4-6 seed line
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Still doomed though.
 
I think 6-8 this year is reasonable and probable. 21-32th in the country ranking wise in theory. We probably are more talented than that but will have to pay the toll of starting the year viewed as a 10 seed and having a whole roster of kids that have truly never been good so crunch time will be interesting. I think we overachieve on all the projections but underachieve based on talent this year. We will have a punchers chance against anyone all year though. 2021-2022 is going to be insane if we can make any kind of BE or NCAA run this year. very excited!
 
According to many here UConn will be competing for the NBE title yet we are a 10 seed?? Head bang
I think if UConn makes it to the dance above a play-in status I will be thrilled just to be a participant.
But we need a season first..............................
 
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Our seeding, and I expect an at large bid, will be determined by our last 5 games and the NBE tourney. Win 4 out of last 5 and play tough in the semifinal and we could end up a 4. That's the least of what I expect. Early departure from the tourney then, yep a 10. Just my gut feelings
 
PChoops said:
What is "NBE" league has been around for 6 yrs now.
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What would you like it to be called, BE2? It’s a completely different conference, just because you bought the name and records to trick casual fans into thinking it’s the same conference doesn’t mean it is. Whenever we are lucky enough to win the conference tournament, we’ll get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament that we’ve never gotten before. Because the NCAA created that bid for you guys and your new conference.
 
KSC94 said:
I find it hard to believe the 2nd/3rd best team in the Big East would be a 10 seed honestly
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Yea I’d imagine 10 being the floor for this team. I think 6 seed is very reasonable with a healthy Akok
 
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7774 said:
What would you like it to be called, BE2? It’s a completely different conference, just because you bought the name and records to trick casual fans into thinking it’s the same conference doesn’t mean it is. Whenever we are lucky enough to win the conference tournament, we’ll get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament that we’ve never gotten before. Because the NCAA created that bid for you guys and your new conference.
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It's as similar to it's original conference as any other major conference.
 
UofCT2009 said:
Chill. We were not even a bubble team last season and we lost our best player. 10-seed would be unbelievable in 2021.
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I love Vital, but Bouknight was our best player. He is a legit lottery pick, All-American player. Add in AJax, Cole, Javonte Brown Ferguson, Springs, and Sanogo and this team has 1000x the talent we had last year
 
I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, because I like the speculation and looking ahead to the upcoming season as much as anyone, but is there anything more pointless than the off season Lunardi Bracketology? The bracketology he does in November and December is worthless, never mind the bracketology he makes up three months before the season even starts.
 
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aburks41 said:
I love Vital, but Bouknight was our best player. He is a legit lottery pick, All-American player. Add in AJax, Cole, Javonte Brown Ferguson, Springs, and Sanogo and this team has 1000x the talent we had last year
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I’m concerned that we are relying too much on unproven freshman. Bouknight had several disappearing acts last year, usually in the first half of games. I’m hesitant to call this team more talented until they actually play and win while doing that consistently. The loss of Vital will be felt
 
aburks41 said:
I love Vital, but Bouknight was our best player. He is a legit lottery pick, All-American player. Add in AJax, Cole, Javonte Brown Ferguson, Springs, and Sanogo and this team has 1000x the talent we had last year
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Vital was our best player, that's indisputable. If you want to argue Bouknight was the most talented/most potential then I'd agree with that.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Vital was our best player, that's indisputable. If you want to argue Bouknight was the most talented/most potential then I'd agree with that.
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Exactly. Vital was by far our best player and most productive player and now he's gone. We have a team full of freshman and sophomores, we have zero post season experience on the roster, zero NCAA tournament minutes played, and if you combine the records of all of our returning players it would be sub 500. (I think)

It is not realistic to go from NIT hopeful to a top 25 team after losing your best player. Can it be done? Let's hope!
 
UofCT2009 said:
Exactly. Vital was by far our best player and most productive player and now he's gone. We have a team full of freshman and sophomores, we have zero post season experience on the roster, zero NCAA tournament minutes played, and if you combine the records of all of our returning players it would be sub 500. (I think)

It is not realistic to go from NIT hopeful to a top 25 team after losing your best player. Can it be done? Let's hope!
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By seasons end I would not have called Vital best player “by far”. It was a 2 headed monster. Vital was more experienced. But when we needed a bucket we went to Bouk. See the Cincy game. Secondly, we weren’t an NIT “hopeful”. We finished 19-12 with a legit shot to win the conference tourney. We were at the least going to be a high seed favorite in the NIT. Teams go from NIT to top 25 every year.
 
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AntG168 said:
By seasons end I would not have called Vital best player “by far”. It was a 2 headed monster. Vital was more experienced. But when we needed a bucket we went to Bouk. See the Cincy game. Secondly, we weren’t an NIT “hopeful”. We finished 19-12 with a legit shot to win the conference tourney. We were at the least going to be a high seed favorite in the NIT. Teams go from NIT to top 25 every year.
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I can't believe it only took four months for UConn fans to forget about Vital. SMH
 
UofCT2009 said:
I can't believe it only took four months for UConn fans to forget about Vital. SMH
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Forget about vital? I vouched for Vital when 3/4 of the board was calling him a punk. It’s not a knock on Vital. He was the leader, the soul, and the captain but he wasn’t “by far” the best player by seasons end. He and Bouk were a two headed monster. How on earth you see that as a knock against Vital is beyond me
 
UofCT2009 said:
CV led UConn in mins, points, rebounds, steals, PER, free throw %, and probably a lot more advanced stats I don’t feel like looking up. You’re wrong. I’m right.
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Sure. If you watched a game and came away thinking CV was “far better” than Bouk there’s nothing I can say. At the end of the day they were both fantastic. And we don’t finish they eat we did if one was absent. I am and have been the biggest CV fan on this board since he’s been here. He’s a legend. The End
 
Bouknight will replace vitals production, the difference is the monumental shift in talent level. Being a 10 seed would be very disappointing, it would likely mean something unexpected went wrong.
 
UofCT2009 said:
CV led UConn in mins, points, rebounds, steals, PER, free throw %, and probably a lot more advanced stats I don’t feel like looking up. You’re wrong. I’m right.
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He's saying by the end of the season Bouknight was right there with CV in terms of importance to the team. You used season long stats to refute that, which doesn't disprove his point. He's not wrong, and your points don't have to be mutually exclusive. You can say CV was far and away the best player when looking at the entire season, while still acknowledging by the end of the year Bouknight was right there with him.
 
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