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nelsonmuntz said:
Good if true, because it guarantees UConn admittance to the ACC. But it is total fantasy. So there is that.
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Does it though? Syracuse fans still listing every other school possible (besides UCONN) to replace departing schools. You would think at this point they would appreciate that a renewed rivalry could help their dying basketball program.
 
Bongo Fury said:
Cuse is too good for UConn. When they think BE rivalry, they think Georgetown from the 80s
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Sadly although this was meant to be funny it is quite accurate.

A lot of fans from other successful programs want to deny UConn is one of the preeminent bb programs. It’s because it comes at their expense.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
16-1 in national championship games between the men and women in just the last 28 years. How many other schools can match that?
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Better question: how many conferences can match that? And the answer to that question is none.

Basketball Championships since 1995 (total for each conference's current membership):
UConn – 16
SEC – 14
ACC – 11 (incl. 1 vacated)
Big 12 – 6
Big 10 – 4
Pac-whatever – 3
other Big East – 2

If you go by the conference each school belonged to in the year they won each title, then it's even more lopsided than this.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
16-1 in national championship games between the men and women in just the last 28 years. How many other schools can match that?
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The women are a national brand. At least that’s my experience living in South Carolina and North Carolina.

After this last NC there has been significantly more respect for the men’s program. Sustained excellence and that hurdle will be overcome.
 
ctchamps said:
The women are a national brand. At least that’s my experience living in South Carolina and North Carolina.

After this last NC there has been significantly more respect for the men’s program. Sustained excellence and that hurdle will be overcome.
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Lol, at five national championships the men are not a national brand?
 
Waquoit said:
International
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Truth. I was just out of the country a few weeks ago and when someone saw my Connecticut gear the first thing they said was don't the women win the basketball national championship every year? They were completely unaware that the men just won a national championship.
 
CL82 said:
Lol, at five national championships the men are not a national brand?
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Prior to five when I talked about UConn bb in the Carolinas the southerners pivoted right to the women’s program. Hasn’t happened since five. I’ve been in this region since 2006.
 
Part of what you're all saying is that despite the level of excellence and number of championships UConn has not received its requisite degree of publicity and enough fealty from the media voices that matter. (it's like pulling teeth to have us called a Blue Blood even though no one can touch our 5 Men's titles in 25 years.) That's essentially what Yormark is referencing when he speaks of College basketball as a sleeping giant financially. He's all about "promotion". UConn is currently undervalued and under appreciated. But it won't be on his watch.
 

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