One more national championship to pass Duke.

[Palatine]

Imagine the cognitive dissonance that will cause in the college basketball universe.

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

As it stands, we've equaled them in a shorter time span than it took them. We'd have to win 50 more to get the press that they get, but all reasonable CBB fans know who the best team is now...and it really isn't close anymore.

Only ESPN, and certain talking heads are holding on to their old love affair with dook

 

[Leebo]

The last 2 championships for UConn came as a shock to everyone else in the country. Duke's championships came as a 1 or 2 seed in seasons where they were constantly talked about as championship contenders.

To some people, the Duke type seasons are more "legitimate." They were expected to win and then they won.

With UConn, people will tend to chalk it up to flukiness of the tournament if they want to still worship Duke.

 

[August_West]

Eh, I'm convinced at this point that we are the red headed step child of CBB, we could have 8 titles and the national media and respective schools fans would still somehow makes us sound inferior to Duke, Kansas, UNC , etc......

I'm fine with that. People can keep hating on us and we can just keep driving em crazy by winning the gold.

 

[caw]

The last 2 championships for UConn came as a shock to everyone else in the country. Duke's championships came as a 1 or 2 seed in seasons where they were constantly talked about as championship contenders.

To some people, the Duke type seasons are more "legitimate." They were expected to win and then they won.

With UConn, people will tend to chalk it up to flukiness of the tournament if they want to still worship Duke.

Isn't it odd how UConn has (by some peoples estimation) 3 fluky NCs and those same people would probably be hard pressed to name another fluky NC.

Cuse is the closest in the past 15 years and few consider them fluky bc you know, Melo.

Maybe UConn really is just underrated many years.

 

[sdhusky]

Isn't it odd how UConn has (by some peoples estimation) 3 fluky NCs and those same people would probably be hard pressed to name another fluky NC.

Cuse is the closest in the past 15 years and few consider them fluky bc you know, Melo.

Maybe UConn really is just underrated many years.

UCONN has had plenty of "championship calibre" teams that lost in the elite 8 (or earlier) that could have easily won it all.

Ray Allen's game against UCLA. Donyell against FL. Chris Smith against Duke.

 

[CallMeBruce]

UCONN has had plenty of "championship calibre" teams that lost in the elite 8 (or earlier) that could have easily won it all.

Ray Allen's game against UCLA. Donyell against FL. Chris Smith against Duke.

UConn spent most of the 90s having championship-caliber teams that, for one reason or another, didn't get as far as I wanted. In a single-elimination tournament, the best team doesn't always win. I think if that '96 team were in the field this year, they'd have gone undefeated while Ray scored 30/game.

 

[noeynox]

UCONN has had plenty of "championship calibre" teams that lost in the elite 8 (or earlier) that could have easily won it all.

Ray Allen's game against UCLA. Donyell against FL. Chris Smith against Duke.

The team that lost to Erica Dampier and Mississippi State? I thought that was our most talented team ever.

 

[B1GEast]

The team that lost to Erica Dampier and Mississippi State? I thought that was our most talented team ever.

ray's last year, remember that game, for some reason we didn't press until late in the game, tough loss

 

[Kitaman]

I know we are winning them at a record pace, but guys we all know it ain't easy. We can look at each of our Championships and pick one or two times that we were 'fortunate'. Missed late shot, or some other bounce that went our way. Not calling it luck at all but fortunes in our favor.

Just saying even if we are stuck on 4 for some time we still have a lot of Championships considering its Men's basketball, making it the greatest to be a Husky fan!

 

[ASweet3781]

Kind of amazing considering the seemingly increasingly insane amount of media hype they continue to get, but Duke has been to only 1 Final Four this decade. In 2010. That's Syracuse territory.

 

[sdhusky]

Kind of amazing considering the seemingly increasingly insane amount of media hype they continue to get, but Duke has been to only 1 Final Four this decade. In 2010. That's Syracuse territory.

Or UCONN in the 90's

 

[Gurleyman]

ray's last year, remember that game, for some reason we didn't press until late in the game, tough loss

Ricky was out - Doron was forced to pretty much play 40 with a nagging injury of his own. We couldn't force tempo (and Rudy couldn't stick with their little two guard around screens).

 

[J-dog]

The last 2 championships for UConn came as a shock to everyone else in the country. Duke's championships came as a 1 or 2 seed in seasons where they were constantly talked about as championship contenders.

To some people, the Duke type seasons are more "legitimate." They were expected to win and then they won.

With UConn, people will tend to chalk it up to flukiness of the tournament if they want to still worship Duke.

I might buy one flukey championship but when you have a similar run a few short years later, it throws the whole theory out the window…

Now every time UCONN wins a couple of tourney games in a a row, people will start to think about another special run. No other team will garner this type of reaction because no other team can point to 2 championships of this nature in such a short timeframe.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Imagine the cognitive dissonance that will cause in the college basketball universe.

To many, the world will stop spinning. Or the world will become round to those Flat Earthers.

 

[UConn990411]

UConn had the best player in the country in both 2011 and 2014, as well as top three defenses both years. More often than not, that's a winning formula in basketball.

The media and opposing fans can duckk off about those championships being fluky.

 

[UConnfan8]

I am so surprised that Duke gets the level of respect vs. the level of respect we get when they won their first national title a whopping EIGHT YEARS before us. 1991.

 

[Adios]

All that matters is respect amongst people who matter, such as recruits. We have that.

 

[CAHUSKY]

I am so surprised that Duke gets the level of respect vs. the level of respect we get when they won their first national title a whopping EIGHT YEARS before us. 1991.

I hate duke as much as the next guy but they've been to 15 final fours (3 times as many as Uconn) and 10 national title games. TEN. no matter how you slice it that's pretty awesome.

 

[Scoe]

I hate duke as much as the next guy but they've been to 15 final fours (3 times as many as Uconn) and 10 national title games. TEN. no matter how you slice it that's pretty awesome.

True, but witnessing Uconn beating Duke twice in the FF is pretty awesome as well .

 

[CAHUSKY]

True, but witnessing Uconn beating Duke twice in the FF is pretty awesome as well .

True, but that wasn't the question. The question was why Duke gets respect. 15 final fours and 10 championship games over 35 years is the answer

 

[otp85]

There's no denying the accomplishments of Duke or Coach K; they get respect because, as many have said already, they've earned it. Does espn take it a bit far sometimes? Yeah.

At the end of the day though we took down Duke twice at the height of the dominance and now kentucky twice in what has been the era of calipari's hype machine. So satisfying that all disrespect becomes laughable. They can keep epsn and dick vitale; who cares, we feed off of it

 

[Kitaman]

True, but that wasn't the question. The question was why Duke gets respect. 15 final fours and 10 championship games over 35 years is the answer

You are not supposed to remove your rose glasses in threads like these. Furthermore interjecting sound logic is forbidden. It like a 'thread stopper'.

It makes you sound like an objective and insightful fan and not a fanatic. Please try and refrain yourself (or wait till the very end of the thread) as other fanatics will need to post, and I don't know why, about dook's unworthiness.

 

[dogfan96]

A lot of those years, the committee pretty much penciled them into the FF. Like 2010, they got the easiest bracket even though they weren't the #1 overall seed. Dook

 

[Palatine]

I hate duke as much as the next guy but they've been to 15 final fours (3 times as many as Uconn) and 10 national title games. TEN. no matter how you slice it that's pretty awesome.

If Dick Vitale recruited for UConn, like he does every game for Duke, JC would have ten NCs.