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Probably our worst loss in the Dance

Hoophound said:
This was an awful performance in every way. Bouk wasn’t strong enough to set the tone, we couldn’t make a layup or a 3 and we turned the ball over every time we caught a break.

The 2006 team was always flawed and anyone being honest could see that. I never felt confident in that team.
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30-4 and lost to George Mason. You can find the flaws, and you'd be right to fret over them, but that one was for the history books.
 
Skiblets said:
Shooting percentage. Paper defense. Free throws. Team looked tight. Major disappointment
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You must be young. This is such a bad take. We had teams with so much more expectations lose and it was way worse than this. This was a 50/50 game.
 
UCfor3 said:
You must be young. This is such a bad take. We had teams with so much more expectations lose and it was way worse than this. This was a 50/50 game.
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Yeah. No. I’m old. This was a brutal loss.
 
Gurleyman said:
That one was a bummer - but it was a year in which two projected starters almost died. One never came back and the one who did was a shadow of himself. We did a pretty good job battling to a high seed, but probably didn‘t have enough in the backcourt to get much further (which was a problem in 2006 too).

It was also coming off an NC so it maybe didn’t hurt all that much.
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That year was worse. 5 NBA players on our roster and an all time great Hall of Fame coach AND essentially playing a home game in Worcester, MA. Losing to an NC State team that lost 14 games and was under .500 in the ACC. Horrible loss. Everyone was healthy when we played that game
 
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I remember the 2006 team struggling and playing down to the competition. They managed to be 30-4 but they didn’t get there the way most 30-4 teams do.
 
Skiblets said:
Yeah. No. I’m old. This was a brutal loss.
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You need to recalibrate your expectations then...Or your understanding of our teams weaknesses this year. What happened tonight was one of several somewhat likely outcomes. Im disappointed but not shocked by any means. Did u watch the Nova game? Same thing except Marland shot better from 3.
 
Did anybody else think we heaved up way too many threes and missed them. We couldn’t even hit a free throw for the life of them. They didn’t play like UConn tonight.
 
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Y’all can bring up George Mason. That was tough. This was first round against an inferior foe. Brutal loss
 
Vuce said:
That year was worse. 5 NBA players on our roster and an all time great Hall of Fame coach AND essentially playing a home game in Worcester, MA. Losing to an NC State team that lost 14 games and was under .500 in the ACC. Horrible loss. Everyone was healthy when we played that game
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Rashad Anderson wasn’t healthy. He came back for the postseason after being in the hospital and missing a month or two, but he wasn’t close to himself. I basically shrugged off that year as a “what might have been” if AJ Price and RA didn’t both end up on their death beds. But I didn’t go to Worcester, so I can see it bugging people in attendance to lose that close to home.
 
Durks07 said:
Good point. We were a 7 seed tonight. Much worse than losing to an 11 seed as a 1 seed in the region.
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With your point guard tearing ACL 10 minutes in first half and still taking to OT. Sure.
 
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Gurleyman said:
Rashad Anderson wasn’t healthy. He came back for the postseason after being in the hospital and missing a month or two, but he wasn’t close to himself. I basically shrugged off that year as a “what might have been” if AJ Price and RA didn’t both end up on their death beds. But I didn’t go to Worcester, so I can see it bugging people in attendance to lose that close to home.
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That loss was worse. UConn was a National power. This edition is still on the way back up. Roster was loaded with NBA talent with a Hall of Fame coach losing a home game to a crappy ACC team.
 
Hoophound said:
I remember the 2006 team struggling and playing down to the competition. They managed to be 30-4 but they didn’t get there the way most 30-4 teams do.
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You remember correctly. We showed some grit early in the year winning Maui with freshman point guards. Then MW came back and we got crushed by the Steve Novak train.

At times we looked pretty good in the second half of the season when MW settled in - winning the rematch with Nova convincingly, and a blowout of Seton Hall. But then down the stretch, we went double overtime at home with an NIT team from Notre Dame, trailed in the second half to a 7-24 South Florida team, went down to the wire at home with a sub-.500 Louisville team, lost in the BE quarters in a 1-8 game, trailed by 12 in the second half to 16 seed Albany, barely held on against 8 seed Kentucky, needed the refs help to beat 5 seed UW in overtime (double tech on Brandon Roy) and lost to 11 seed George Mason. We ended the year with 7 or 8 straight blah performances.

At some point, that’s who you are. A pretty blah team living on the edge until you fall off it.
 
August_West said:
With your point guard tearing ACL 10 minutes in first half and still taking to OT.
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We had 4 other first round draft picks playing that game. Losing to a double digit seed mid major was still worse than losing tonight in a game where Vegas made you a 3.5 point favorite.
 
Iowa State 2012 really is the worst - just not competitive and an absolute waste of time watching that game.
 
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can we name a worse first round washout than tonight? This was bad
 
Honestly not surprised we lost, so this is far from the worst for me.
 
swami7774 said:
George Mason ‘06.
Miss. State ‘96.
Florida (“Clank; clank”) ’94
Ia. State ‘12.
Tonight’s disaster.
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It's also important to remember this was a UConn program that had only two national titles. A third one in 7 years would've gone a long way in forcing the blue blood conversation. Very humbling experience.
 
free throws free throws free throws

2011 and 2014 teams won close games because they didn't miss free throws

If this team shot like those teams, that alone makes this a one possession game late

We never really put much game pressure on them
 
i hated that loss to kansas with all tHat talent

payback is a bich with nova
 
Vuce said:
That loss was worse. UConn was a National power. This edition is still on the way back up. Roster was loaded with NBA talent with a Hall of Fame coach losing a home game to a crappy ACC team.
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It was a lot worse loss than today, no doubt. I just don’t rank it highly on the ones I’ve lamented over the years. We were down our projected starting 2 and 3 to life threatening illnesses (the RA who played not being the same, and AJ was going to step into the Ben Gordon 2 guard role from day one). I was personally over that loss about 2 minutes after the game ended. Just one of those years where too many things went wrong. I remember Steve bleeping Blake, the ball getting stuck in the rim at Texas and George bleeping Mason a lot more when i think of the frustrations of that era around the first two titles. But obviously others experience may vary

Iowa State was awful, but so bad that I don’t waste any time thinking about it. Same with Kansas - thought we’d give them a better fight but oh well. Michigan State doesn’t bug me too much - I just wished we stayed solid after Sticks dunk cut it to three instead of allowing a breakaway dunk with a “chicken with heads cut off“ press. We had it down to 3 with a minute left and didn’t give ourselves a chance to keep the pressure on. San Diego I chalked up to the AJ injury and knowing we wouldn’t go very far without him.

Pre-1999 they all sucked and I don’t want to remember any of them ever again.
 
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