Post Game Thread - Thank You, Alex, Tarris, and Malachi

[navery12]

Unbelievable season. Tough end but they didn't quit and no reason to not be so proud of this team

 

[visitor123]

Obviously no one wanted to be THAT FAN to say it, but were we winning every Championship Game we played in?

Well now that's done with, let's win the next one.

 

[Drfla]

It didn’t feel like an even game. I don’t ever blame the officiating for losses but this seemed lopsided. It was a wonderful season regardless of this loss. Thank you Huskies for the ride.

That 5 point swing really hurt. Not sure about the foul discrepancy, but I will note that every 50/50 call went Michigan’s way. One or two of them our way and the story could have been different.

 

[housekeys]

We outplayed them.

Not sure we did that, but we were definitely handcuffed by the officiating. Congratulations to Michigan, but this game was ANYTHING but dominant. They "outlasted" UConn, tonight. That's it.

 

[jbdphi]

Can’t shoot 31% from the field and say you got robbed but I will say that kid Cadeau made me want to vomit with all his flopping.

The rest of that Michigan team deserved the win. Kudos to our guys - played with heart all tourney long. Best of luck to AK and TR in your professional careers.

Cadeau just named MVP - puke puke puke.

 

[ctbro1999]

Dang so this is what losing a national title game feels like. Gotta say it sucks.

 

[JungleLobo]

Great game, Malachi!

 

[Dibbie]

Guess I don’t know ball as I didn’t think Cadeau was gonna be an issue

 

[BFieldHusky]

We made a Final 4, knocked off Michigan St, Duke and Illinois and gave the champion and best team a game while playing our B game. Great season.

 

[TRest]

Michigan being a team of all transfers winning the title is a sign of what’s coming. Game is gone. Very proud of our boys though.

Yeah can’t say I love that it was successful. Kentucky tried the same thing and opposite results, so who knows.

 

[AdamaNation]

We had absolutely every opportunity to win this one. Michigan was a wagon, and man we gave them one heck of a battle.

What a season. Can’t wait for November already.

Well we slowed the unbeatable wolverines and stopped them from even hitting 70 points!!!! They didn’t even match our 23 run if wind by double figures!! We showed well.

 

[JwittersPAC]

Great season... Michigan was the better team today. Disappointing, but still had a chance despite not playing their best game of the season, against a team, who was generally the best team in the nation all year.

Michigan did not play their best game either. It was a hard fought game. Nothing to be ashamed of. UConn is just a great coached team. Almost pulled off the upset.

 

[REB1094]

Not the ending we wanted. We executed the game plan really well and gave ourselves the chances we needed. Just did not make the winning plays, and Michigan did. Congratulations to Michigan, they had an amazing year

THANK YOU ALEX KARABAN and TARRIS REED. It has been a pleasure watching them play the last few weeks and especially Karaban for all of his contributions in CT for 4 years. He went out on his shield tonight

Honestly, I was feeling really low on this team from mid February to mid March. Convinced myself there was a 50% chance they’d get bounced by UCLA. But then..

Tarris dominated Furman. Karaban dominated UCLA. Both of them dominated MSU. We got one of the greatest games in program history against Duke with Braylon’s game winner. Solo found his swagger against Illinois. Ross and Mali stepped up all throughout the tournament. I had the most fun watching UConn basketball in the last few weeks since 2024

So thank you UConn. Let’s go Huskies!

 

[blkknight1]

team did everything they set out to do in the game despite having missed the starting back court for half of it. They fought and scrapped and did the UConn nation proud.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Our 1v1 offensive weaknesses really showed tonight. I hate to look forward to next season because I am going to deathly miss these guys, but we absolutely need a guard who can get in the lane consistently. That isn’t Solo’s game and Silas didn’t show it a ton either. We need a big athletic guard.

Silas’ offense was just sapped by the injury. That was much more his game at UGA and I expect year 2 we’ll see a guy that is more assertive in getting his own shot. But yeah, the staff is going to have to find guys that can go get their own offense because it ain’t on this roster unfortunately. They did amazing job to pull what they can out of this group.

 

[nomar]

Dang so this is what losing a national title game feels like. Gotta say it sucks.

 

[Leebo]

There's another universe where Reed dunks that breakaway steal and Karaban makes that last three, and it wasn't ours today, but we did get a peek into it during this run.

 

[homunculus]

Thank you team. Thank you Alex. Thank you Coach Hurley and company. That was a great season. We fought our rear ends off and made them work. Can’t wait to see what we do next.

 

[Excalibur]

If anything, this game should end any conversation of this UM team being in the same universe as our 24 team.

 

[UKemba15]

Our game plan beat theirs, the shots just didn’t fall. Absolutely ZERO quit in this team, and I love the bejesus out of them.

Alex Karaban…my captain…thank you.

 

[Peacefrog]

Never gave up and lost to a better team. A couple key turning points that if they went the other way, things could have been different. Great season, thanks guys.

 

[SaeHusky]

So proud of this team. Thank you Alex. Thsnk you Tarris. Proud to be a Husky

 

[uconngb]

NO WIN ever made more proud than I am tonight. I’ve never, ever in any sports competition seen a bigger screw job. Michigan won for one reason and one reason only.

 

[Icehawk]

Damn. I've got thoughts but in the end, I love our team and coach. GO HUSKIES!

Remember if you're down tonight - we beat Duke, and that always feels good.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Can’t shoot 31% from the field and say you got robbed but I will say that kid Cadeau made me want to vomit with all his flopping.

Truly one of the worst players in CBB to watch. It’s embarrassing. He needs to be better than that. Every play is just foul baiting.

 

[Excalibur]

There's another universe where Reed dunks that breakaway steal and Karaban makes that last three, and it wasn't ours today, but we did get a peek into it during this run.

Reed just couldn’t quite track it down. We get a hoop there and it is heart in throat time for Michigan.

 

[Ripper32]

Team is definitely a greater sum than it's parts. More talented teams got blown out by UM. It was preparation, tenacity and will.

 

[tuvent08]

Yeah can’t say I love that it was successful. Kentucky tried the same thing and opposite results, so who knows.

It’s a very tricky model to pull off. May just did a great job of it. I actually think ours is much more sustainable.

 

[JMick]

Not sure we did that, but we were definitely handcuffed by the officiating. Congratulations to Michigan, but this game was ANYTHING but dominant. They "outlasted" UConn, tonight. That's it.

Half of our starting lineup was minute restricted due to BS calls, we lost every 50/50 ball and didn't even get possession on an obvious tie up and had multiple "turnovers" where we were blatantly hit on the arm. If we get 25% of those calls in our favor we win. We outplayed them.

 

[Offhegoes]

Fought like warriors. Thanks for a great season. Proud to be a husky.