Marquette Post Game Thread

[Deepster]

wow.

Determination.
Demoralization.
Devastation
Domination.
Destruction.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I believe that was pretty much an A game. The team could have shot it a little better from 3 but both our offense and defense played at a very elite level. No one in the country could have beaten us yesterday. Some here think to play our A game we can't miss a shot or let the other team score. Considering this was an in-conference game against the #4 team in the country I don't know if we could have played any better.

No. But I think we can easily argue (considering how well we shoot in out better performances) that Spencer shooting slightly better than he did yesterday and both Castle and Karaban shooting considerably better than they did would occur during our A game.

 

[GlastonTim]

Did anyone see at the end of warm-ups just before the start of the game? Marquette at their side of the court and UConn at the other. Except for Spencer. He launched a deep 3 over all of the Marquette players on their side of the court into their basket.
I love him. He's such a pr_ck!

Not a p r I c k move by Cam. Always has to make the last basket after warmups. Does it every game.

 

[Deleted at users request]

Don’t get me wrong, this is a great team. I think 2004 was better and last year‘s team and 1999 were comparable. I think this team learned from the losses last year, and Seton Hall quickly reminded them what was needed. So balanced. That’s the key really.

I don’t think the sport is the way it was back then though. There just aren’t many great teams and there’s so much more parity. So a team like this can dominate. 2004 team had six NBA players on it and none of them were Anderson, Denham Brown or Taliek.

That sport being down really is the thing too. Marquette is the #4 team in the country and they really don’t seem that talented for being the #4 team in the country.

Hurley has done an amazing job building such a talented roster still while maneuvering through the current conditions of today’s sport. We are head and shoulders above everyone else in the country with answers for everything.

Do think that’s the one thing holding me back from calling this our best ever. The lack of another actually great team for us to take down like 99 and 04 did Duke and other big time conference rivals.

 

[Khal Drogo]

Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches
RANKHEAD COACHSCHOOLSALARY (2022-23)
1 John CalipariKentucky $8.5 million
2 Bill SelfKansas $6 million
3 Tom IzzoMichigan St. $5.7 million
4 Rick BarnesTennessee $5.5 million
5 Bruce PearlAuburn $5.5 million
6 Tony BennettVirginia $4.8 million
7 Brad UnderwoodIllinois $4.6 million
9 Mick CroninUCLA $4.1 million
9 Eric MusselmanArkansas $4.1 million
9 Buzz WilliamsTexas A&M $4.1 million
12 Dana AltmanOregon $4 million
13 Tommy LloydArizona $4 million
14 Kevin WillardMaryland $3.9 million

Maybe we just give him Avery Point instead of Cash

 

[Hunt for 7]

That sport being down really is the thing too. Marquette is the #4 team in the country and they really don’t seem that talented for being the #4 team in the country.

Hurley has done an amazing job building such a talented roster still while maneuvering through the current conditions of today’s sport. We are head and shoulders above everyone else in the country with answers for everything.

Do think that’s the one thing holding me back from calling this our best ever. The lack of another actually great team for us to take down like 99 and 04 did Duke and other big time conference rivals.

Not sure it is all about talent. There was an article today that the NBA is thinking about getting rid of the GLeague Ignite because there is no reason now with NIL. But back to talent although this may well be our best “team” I think we should be able to agree that we have had more talented teams. What team had four first round picks. I forget but I know Boone and Armstrong were part of the group. Point being it is not talent that makes this team great. It is that they actually play basketball the way it is supposed to be played. Marquette has plenty of talent made no difference. When a team plays this connected they win and win a lot.

 

[WrenchFan69]

That was awesome but my favorite play was likely when Stewart volleyball spiked Cam Jones's shot leading to Castle hitting a corner 3

 

[Steve UConn72]

Jack in the Bean S. stuff. Loved watching it, get out of my way and they did!

My recollection is a time Donny M. scored, looked at the under-the-basket camera, pointed in that direction, smiled, stuck his tongue out and shook his head rapidly as the tongue flopped side to side. Am I mis-remembering?

 

[HailUConn]

No, I don't want Seth jumping on our bandwagon

We're best when he's picking against us

Exactly, have never seen a bigger flip flopper than him!

 

[Bonamassa]

Not a p r I c k move by Cam. Always has to make the last basket after warmups. Does it every game.

Over the opposing team on their side of the court? Loved it!

 

[jostar1]

Mr. XL has a question for you;

How do you like me now? The team was awesome. The coaching was awesome and the fans were awesome

That was fun

PS: Both buildings have a purpose

 

[superjohn]

Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches
RANKHEAD COACHSCHOOLSALARY (2022-23)
1 John CalipariKentucky $8.5 million
2 Bill SelfKansas $6 million
3 Tom IzzoMichigan St. $5.7 million
4 Rick BarnesTennessee $5.5 million
5 Bruce PearlAuburn $5.5 million
6 Tony BennettVirginia $4.8 million
7 Brad UnderwoodIllinois $4.6 million
9 Mick CroninUCLA $4.1 million
9 Eric MusselmanArkansas $4.1 million
9 Buzz WilliamsTexas A&M $4.1 million
12 Dana AltmanOregon $4 million
13 Tommy LloydArizona $4 million
14 Kevin WillardMaryland $3.9 million

This isn't even close to accurate. Hurley makes $5.35 million per year plus addition performance based money.

 

[Deleted at users request]

Not sure it is all about talent. There was an article today that the NBA is thinking about getting rid of the GLeague Ignite because there is no reason now with NIL. But back to talent although this may well be our best “team” I think we should be able to agree that we have had more talented teams. What team had four first round picks. I forget but I know Boone and Armstrong were part of the group. Point being it is not talent that makes this team great. It is that they actually play basketball the way it is supposed to be played. Marquette has plenty of talent made no difference. When a team plays this connected they win and win a lot.

G League Ignite has been a failure in general and doesn’t actually develop good habits for those guys. They just spend the season losing. I’m happy to NBA is getting rid of it because it doesn’t help those guys. The sport is for sure going to be pretty hype next year with Flagg at Duke. It’ll bring a lot of attention back to college basketball. Rutgers may be an interesting watch as well.

College Basketball needs Diaper Dandies to be a thing again if it wants to get any relevance back. Casuals tune in and media companies promote it because they want to see the future stars of tomorrow.

As far as our talent, I t’s definitely our style of play that adds into it as well that makes us so dominant. Clingan is pretty much a cheat code out there for Hurley’s defense. We haven’t heard any complaining about how there’s layup lines to the rim since he’s been back. He has a case for being our most talented big ever.

Cam might be our best transfer pick up ever to go with it.

 

[AllHusky]

Did anyone see at the end of warm-ups just before the start of the game? Marquette at their side of the court and UConn at the other. Except for Spencer. He launched a deep 3 over all of the Marquette players on their side of the court into their basket.
I love him. He's such a pr_ck!

yes, that was great. elbowed my son and said Cam is such an A Hole, love it!!

 

[mussels]

I don’t think the sport is the way it was back then though. There just aren’t many great teams and there’s so much more parity. So a team like this can dominate. 2004 team had six NBA players on it and none of them were Anderson, Denham Brown or Taliek.

Agree on the parity. With the new transfer rules, great players that were part of deep benches, can now transfer for more playing time elsewhere. The very top teams get a little weaker and the next tier gets stronger.

No number one seeds got past the sweet sixteen last year.

 

[housekeys]

I believe that was pretty much an A game. The team could have shot it a little better from 3 but both our offense and defense played at a very elite level. No one in the country could have beaten us yesterday. Some here think to play our A game we can't miss a shot or let the other team score. Considering this was an in-conference game against the #4 team in the country I don't know if we could have played any better.

To quote another poster, @Kitaman:

Castle and AK combined 3 baskets in blowing out the number 4 team in the Nation.
This stat alone confirms this was not our A game. How scary is that?

Jokingly aside, Andrew Hurley did not get playing time in a 28 point blowout. Apostolos did not hit a 3. This could not have been our A game. Close? Yes.

 

[Palatine]

G League Ignite has been a failure in general and doesn’t actually develop good habits for those guys. They just spend the season losing. I’m happy to NBA is getting rid of it because it doesn’t help those guys. The sport is for sure going to be pretty hype next year with Flagg at Duke. It’ll bring a lot of attention back to college basketball. Rutgers may be an interesting watch as well.

College Basketball needs Diaper Dandies to be a thing again if it wants to get any relevance back. Casuals tune in and media companies promote it because they want to see the future stars of tomorrow.

As far as our talent, I t’s definitely our style of play that adds into it as well that makes us so dominant. Clingan is pretty much a cheat code out there for Hurley’s defense. We haven’t heard any complaining about how there’s layup lines to the rim since he’s been back. He has a case for being our most talented big ever.

Cam might be our best transfer pick up ever to go with it.

People forget that Newton came to us from the portal.

 

[Deleted at users request]

People forget that Newton came to us from the portal.

Personally, Cam > Newton but it’s close and don’t mind people seeing it the other way too.

Cam might have a 50 40 90 season though. Unreal consistency and efficiency.

 

[superjohn]

Agree on the parity. With the new transfer rules, great players that were part of deep benches, can now transfer for more playing time elsewhere. The very top teams get a little weaker and the next tier gets stronger.

No number one seeds got past the sweet sixteen last year.

It makes the top teams stronger. We have the best backcourt in the country because of two 5th year player transfers in Newton and Cam.

 

[tower1]

I believe that was pretty much an A game. The team could have shot it a little better from 3 but both our offense and defense played at a very elite level. No one in the country could have beaten us yesterday. Some here think to play our A game we can't miss a shot or let the other team score. Considering this was an in-conference game against the #4 team in the country I don't know if we could have played any better.

This was not our "A" game, that the problem ! We had two of our best players have an awful shooting game. That is scary !!

 

[AllHusky]

Personally, Cam > Newton but it’s close and don’t mind people seeing it the other way too.

Cam might have a 50 40 90 season though. Unreal consistency and efficiency.

Newtons Law led us to Championship, Cam, not yet.

 

[willie99]

Here are CT's highest-paid state employees

These are the highest-paid state of Connecticut employees. The data was obtained from the Office of the State Comptroller and website of the University of Connecticut.

www.hartfordbusiness.com

Table with 5 columns and 20 rows.

		Name	Title/Position	Total Compensation 2023	Salary and Wages 2023	Other Compensation 2023
1		Daniel Hurley	Head coach, men's basketball	$5,218,990	$5,218,990	$0
2		Geno Auriemma	Head coach, women's basketball	$3,218,407	$3,218,407
3		James L. Mora	Head coach, football	$1,705,936	$1,705,936
4		Hao Feng	Associate professor of dermatology; Director of laser surgery and cosmetic dermatology	$1,681,959	$1,681,959
5		Isaac Moss	Chair, dept. of orthopedic surgery; Prof. of orthopedic surgery; Co-dir., Comprehensive Spine Center; Dir., UConn spine surgery fellowship	$1,571,246	$1,571,246
6		Maritza I. Perez	Professor of dermatology	$1,246,865	$1,246,865
7		Hardeep Singh	Assistant professor of orthopedic surgery	$1,055,204	$1,055,204
8		Chittoor Sai Sudhakar	Former professor & chief, division of cardiothoracic surgery	$1,005,272	$1,005,272
9		Ketan Bulsara	Prof. & chief, division of neurosurgery; Program dir., neurosurgery residency; Dir., operating room quality	$961,938	$961,938
10		Hilary Onyiuke	Prof. of surgery and orthopedic surgery, Co-dir., Comprehensive Spine Center	$947,292	$944,367	$2,925
11		David P. Benedict	Director of athletics	$914,379	$914,379	$0

 

[OceanDoggie]

This isn't even close to accurate. Hurley makes $5.35 million per year plus addition performance based money.

Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches: Top Salaries for Coaches

Bill Self and John Calipari are among the highest-paid college basketball coaches. Read more to find out who else is near the top.

sports.betmgm.com

Article is from this month. Looks like they used last year's numbers. Ironically, it actually states this in my post.

 

[HooperScooper]

“The only matchup of the day between top-five opponents wound up being one of the biggest snoozers of the weekend. No. 1 UConn stuffed No. 4 Marquette in a locker and threw away the keys early in what amounted to a 40-minute celebration for Huskies fans. UConn won 81-53, which marked the largest margin of victory ever in a top-five conference matchup since the beginning of the AP Top 25 poll (which, by the way, celebrated its 75th anniversary earlier this year). Woof. It wasn't even a bad loss for Marquette. It was just an old-fashioned butt whooping from UConn. There is no doubt about where the best team in college basketball resides: it is in Storrs, Connecticut. -- Kyle Boone”

College basketball scores, winners and losers: Auburn, Wisconsin go down hours after earning early NCAA seeds

Funny because Kyle Boone was the only one of the five CBS Sports analysts that picked Marquette to win the game.

College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions for Kentucky vs. Auburn and more Top 25 games on Saturday

Our experts have picks for all of Saturday's big games

www.cbssports.com

 

[Improviser]

Personally, Cam > Newton but it’s close and don’t mind people seeing it the other way too.

Cam might have a 50 40 90 season though. Unreal consistency and efficiency.

Rare even in NBA history.

A 50-40-90 season has only been achieved 14 times by nine different NBA players. Those players are Larry Bird (x2), Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash (x4), Stephen Curry, Malcolm Brogdon, Kyrie Irving, and most recently Kevin Durant, who did it both last season and in 2012-13.Nov 28, 2023

 

[EZPass]

Clingans dunk and camera point is iconic. Its up there with Donyells dunk and shout. Could someone please clip that.

 

[freescooter]

Agree on the parity. With the new transfer rules, great players that were part of deep benches, can now transfer for more playing time elsewhere. The very top teams get a little weaker and the next tier gets stronger.

No number one seeds got past the sweet sixteen last year.

I also think we are seeing the impact of multiple transfers. This team has 3 starters and the first 2 key subs who played together last year, including a 5th year senior point guard. So there is a lot of continuity there. And I heard someone talking about the transition from high school to college saying for most guys now, with you are playing against 23-24 year old men you are going to be overmatched unless You are extremely elite.

 

[dennismenace]

Why are Gillespie, Kolek, and Cam hated and or arse holes?

I get it with some of the Duke guys because they're Duke guys.

I can definitely see Cam pissing fans of other teams off because he never backs down/trash talks and he's so good but that also describes Andre Jackson and I never heard our fans calling him our arse hole and a balloon knot.

I think I can answer about Gillespie. Everything thing about his game was very good to excellent. What really bothered me was the passes he got on offensive fouls driving his shoulders ridiculously hard into opponents on backdowns. I eventually came to get over this because the guy was just taking what the refs gave him. He wasn't even like the dirty tricks guy (? forgot his name, tripped people etc.) on Duke. I now look back on Gillespie as not only a very good player but a smart one. As far as Cam trash talking as long as he is able to back it up what the heck. I prefer the cold-blooded assassin type of player (like Castle) but they do what they have to do to win.

 

[Fore!]

Diarra changed the game completely. When he came in and castle went out that's when we went on the run. His high energy D threw Marquette off their offensive game. Kolek had a hard time shaking Diarra who is just a pest. Then Sampson who doesn't have the clingan size but is a much more athletic made their center go away from his game.

Couldn’t agree more.

 

[JungleLobo]

Here are CT's highest-paid state employees

These are the highest-paid state of Connecticut employees. The data was obtained from the Office of the State Comptroller and website of the University of Connecticut.

www.hartfordbusiness.com

Table with 5 columns and 20 rows.

		Name	Title/Position	Total Compensation 2023	Salary and Wages 2023	Other Compensation 2023
1		Daniel Hurley	Head coach, men's basketball	$5,218,990	$5,218,990	$0
2		Geno Auriemma	Head coach, women's basketball	$3,218,407	$3,218,407
3		James L. Mora	Head coach, football	$1,705,936	$1,705,936
4		Hao Feng	Associate professor of dermatology; Director of laser surgery and cosmetic dermatology	$1,681,959	$1,681,959
5		Isaac Moss	Chair, dept. of orthopedic surgery; Prof. of orthopedic surgery; Co-dir., Comprehensive Spine Center; Dir., UConn spine surgery fellowship	$1,571,246	$1,571,246
6		Maritza I. Perez	Professor of dermatology	$1,246,865	$1,246,865
7		Hardeep Singh	Assistant professor of orthopedic surgery	$1,055,204	$1,055,204
8		Chittoor Sai Sudhakar	Former professor & chief, division of cardiothoracic surgery	$1,005,272	$1,005,272
9		Ketan Bulsara	Prof. & chief, division of neurosurgery; Program dir., neurosurgery residency; Dir., operating room quality	$961,938	$961,938
10		Hilary Onyiuke	Prof. of surgery and orthopedic surgery, Co-dir., Comprehensive Spine Center	$947,292	$944,367	$2,925
11		David P. Benedict	Director of athletics	$914,379	$914,379	$0

Big fan of those skin doctors.

Bet they could get a better record coaching football than Mora