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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 3343476, member: 10"] O.K. I take this with a grain of salt but it's just nice that someone noticed that the Huskies seem to be on an upward trajectory. It's been a while since UConn has been relevant on the national scene it's just nice to be finally noticed. Onward and upward! [SIZE=6][B]MONDAY’S OVERREACTIONS[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]1. UCONN IS BACK, BABY[/B][/SIZE] This week felt like a turning point for the UConn program under Dan Hurley. And not just because they got James GOATKnight, I mean Bouknight, back from his early season suspension. The Huskies bounced back from an ugly home loss to St. Joseph’s by beating then-No. 15 Florida at home. Then, in a letdown spot against a solid Buffalo team, they put together a fairly easy win before taking Xavier to double-overtime and smacking around Miami like they were still mad at Jim Larranaga [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcV13jffIQE']for 2006[/URL]. Bouknight was awesome. Josh Carlton more than held his own. Akok Akok blocked everything. Tyler Polley and Brendan Adams hit big shots. The guy that didn’t play well was Alterique Gilbert, but even that mattered. Hurley ripped into criticism of him in a press conference, putting himself on the line for a player that, to be frank, missed a couple of big shots in the Xavier loss. Hurley told me in October that the most difficult part of this job has been teaching these kids, who lost so much with the previous coaching regime, to expect and demand winning. He had to change the culture, and the first signs of change appeared this weekend. [URL unfurl="true"]https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2019/11/25/mondays-overreactions-vernon-carey-baylor-and-uconn-is-back/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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