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Our Next Tight Game

Big East is always a meat grinder. Nova, Xavier, Providence & Creighton won't be easy sledding. On the other hand, this is the best team we've had in years, so we'll see.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Who is on the record for UConn running the table?

There are some bad teams at the bottom of the league. Georgetown is bad. Depaul plays decent team ball but has no talent. Seton Hall looks pretty bad this year. After that, it is a lot of OK teams. UConn should win most of those games but I don't know if UConn is good enough, or those other teams bad enough, for UConn to run the table. Someone will get hot, or cold, and a game that should be a 12 point win turns into a battle. That is why they play the games.
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I think 29-2 is a plausible regular season record.
 
Our Big East opponent fans will be trash talking and pumped when they host us, until the tip off.
 
Going undefeated in the league is probably an unreasonable expectation. 17-3 is my hope, although I wouldn't be surprised if we go 18-2. We're probably the best team in the country, I don't think it's crazy to have high expectations.
 
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jibsey said:
Is there that much difference in a 1 or 2 seed? Of course we’ve seen 2’s go down plenty.
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Possibly. Not many plausible 1 Seeds in the Northeast, so if we are a 2 and some Southern or Midwestern team is the 1 in the East, I could see the committee being hesitant to put us at MSG where we'd have a home advantage. Being on the 1 line makes the East much more likely imo
 
Based on our non- BE success this year and KenPom/NET ratings.. We now have a target on our backs and are the game that all BE teams have circled on their schedules.. Beating us is a signature win for building their Tournament resumes.

No nights off for us.
 
Malamute said:
Would put this team together with UConn 1999. UConn and Duke only number 1 teams that year I believe. 99 was deep with killer instinct.
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And they couldn't win every reg season game. Sure injuries did play a big part for 1 of those 2 losses. Still .....
 
Malamute said:
Would put this team together with UConn 1999. UConn and Duke only number 1 teams that year I believe. 99 was deep with killer instinct.
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I agree with Malamute. There is a mentality on this team that is very special.
 
I honestly don’t see it with Butler. Gonna go with Xavier. But we’re doomed.
 
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Lors of ways to lose games to good Big East teams. We could have a super off shooting night, another team could get hot. Probably my number one concern in this environment is losing a bunch of studs to being sick. Our guys are banging on each other all day long in the gym, probably hanging out all day night long together. RSV, flu, COVID and the squirts could pose a challenge.
 
jibsey said:
OK. Butler, Georgetown, Nova, Xavier, Providence, Creighton and Marquette. First, do we lose to any of these teams? Second, which ones are closely competitive games? As lackluster as many of them have been, we will be their game of the year with our ranking and some of them are very likely to get better, right? Off nights can happen.
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Ourselves. Just keep playing as a team and we’ll win, start playing for the name on the back of your jersey and not the one in front and we’ll lose. Stay together, win together.
 
Other than GTown, and you shouldn’t even count them out completely, many games could be tight. Well, maybe you can with GTown. They’re just awful.
But we aren’t going to be laser focused every game. We’re going to have some off nights. Just ask the Cowboys, Titans, and Vikings today about tight games that shouldn’t have been.
 
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FourRings said:
Other than GTown, and you shouldn’t even count them out completely, many games could be tight. Well, maybe you can with GTown. They’re just awful.
But we aren’t going to be laser focused every game. We’re going to have some off nights. Just ask the Cowboys, Titans, and Vikings today about tight games that shouldn’t have been.
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Lions Vikings wasn't a tight game. The Lions handled them easily and were favored in Vegas.
 
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superjohn said:
Lions Vikings wasn't a tight game. The Lions handled them easily and were favored in Vegas.
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Ya the Vikings are banged up and the Lions are really coming on strong. I didn’t see the odds on the game but still a let down for the Vikings. But my point is that the season is long and anything can happen. We ain’t running the table.
 
bendm said:
Did I miss the anointment ceremony? What crown?
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The crown of being the biggest opportunity remaining for every team in the conference. It’s absolutely a crown. There’s a big fat target on our back. You can ignore it if you want. But we’re about to get everyone’s best shot
 
AntG168 said:
The crown of being the biggest opportunity remaining for every team in the conference. It’s absolutely a crown. There’s a big fat target on our back. You can ignore it if you want. But we’re about to get everyone’s best shot
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It’s a target on our backs not a crown. You only get one of those from winning the BE or a Natty
 
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MTBingNinja said:
Ourselves. Just keep playing as a team and we’ll win, start playing for the name on the back of your jersey and not the one in front and we’ll lose.
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You know why I'm not worried about that one bit? Because Hawkins is all in with team ball and if your star is all in, the rest will follow.
 
bendm said:
It’s a target on our backs not a crown. You only get one of those from winning the BE or a Natty
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You’re playing word games. You get my point
 
Waquoit said:
You know why I'm not worried about that one bit? Because Hawkins is all in with team ball and if your star is all in, the rest will follow.
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Love it. I can’t envision them playing anything less than a team game. I haven’t seen one of those guys playing selfishly. Sanogo may not pass out the ball all the time when he’s getting double or triple teamed at times but he’s learning to pass out more and more. Sanogo is still getting comfortable with doing that, but when he’s not I don’t see him doing that with malicious selfish intent.
 
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At this point, I’m worried we will have so few close games we may get shook by a tight one in the tournament

But I mean where else can you look besides Creighton
 
If this team loses @Xavier I’m never going to a UConn game again lol. I’m 0-11 and starting to think I jinx the team. It seemed like they lost every year when playing the Bearcats other than years I wasn’t able to be there. I’ve even traveled to away games at Memphis and Ohio State. This will be my first game since pre-Covid days and I’ll be cheering loud so I’m hoping to break this streak!
 
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