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Monmouth-UConn: King Rice sends message about entitlement to young team
Having already lost to Seton Hall and Virginia, Monmouth now travels to XL Center to take on a UConn team that is not in a good place at the moment.
The Huskies were blown out by Michigan State and Arkansas at the Phil Knight Invitational over Thanksgiving weekend, then came home to face Columbia on Wednesday. UConn was down 11 at halftime, as many as 15 in the second half, and needed overtime to survive by two.
Now comes Monmouth. The name is synonymous recently with high-major upsets, but this particular team is not.
"Virginia, Seton Hall, that's high-major basketball," Rice said. "Those are teams that are ranked. I know we knocked some people off a couple of years ago, but you shouldn't think you're just going in their building and knocking them off.
"All this stuff is helping us get better for later. I told them we are not going to UConn just to see their building. We are going there, we have to start believing we can go in there and knock people off. We're going to work on that confidence the next couple days."
Having already lost to Seton Hall and Virginia, Monmouth now travels to XL Center to take on a UConn team that is not in a good place at the moment.
The Huskies were blown out by Michigan State and Arkansas at the Phil Knight Invitational over Thanksgiving weekend, then came home to face Columbia on Wednesday. UConn was down 11 at halftime, as many as 15 in the second half, and needed overtime to survive by two.
Now comes Monmouth. The name is synonymous recently with high-major upsets, but this particular team is not.
"Virginia, Seton Hall, that's high-major basketball," Rice said. "Those are teams that are ranked. I know we knocked some people off a couple of years ago, but you shouldn't think you're just going in their building and knocking them off.
"All this stuff is helping us get better for later. I told them we are not going to UConn just to see their building. We are going there, we have to start believing we can go in there and knock people off. We're going to work on that confidence the next couple days."