I love seeing Edey prove the doubters wrong. It's great for the sport to realize big men who play like big men are hugely important. It makes our domination of Purdue all the more impressive too.
I'd like to add to our Final Four totals too, but every time we make one lately we add a title, too. That's not a bad thing
Omar
Its like falling in love with the woman of your dreams and you get to be the best man at her wedding.
Same. Realistically we could be at 9. 1990 and 2006 were there for the taking. UCLA, UNC and Maryland we just ran into better teams. It’s all about matchups and how the bracket unfolds. The beauty about history is that it doesn’t stop. We have the best coach and I see many more in our future.
Whoa! We wouldn't even have Hurley if not for Jim Calhoun setting the standard and culture of winning at UConn. Tiny Storrs in one of the smallest states in the Union isn't exactly where one would think to find the Basketball Capital of the World, which got put on the map by coach Jim Calhoun.
We went over to Ybor City on the off day of the FF in 1999 and they had really nice quality Final Four polos for each of the teams at an outdoor market. I gladly bought a UConn one. What a great long weekend. 77-74!
Of course, but I was referring to just making our first trip to the final four. If Tate only could keep that ball inbounds it changes history or Christian misses that shot.
Of course UNLV probably destroys us, but you never know. I take my chances with Calhoun any day of the week.
Maybe you're too young to remember that a great many UConn fans in the mid nineties wanted to replace JC with a different coach because they didn't think he could get us to a final four. It only took six years for the luster of the Dream Season to wear off. Once a goal is reached a new goal is strived for.
Maybe some people are too young to remember but in 90s the goal / dream was to just make a final four. We ended up winning the championship the first time we made it to final four, but just making the final four was a monumental event for UConn, which would have been celebrated even if we didn’t win the championship.
I don't know if it was a great many but they did exist (including a couple of gentlemen some 20 years older than me who sat behind me in the civic center.
I wouldn't change a thing about UConn Basketball just for the fear of the butterfly affect and how it could negatively affect UConn in the later years they won titles.
You’d take a Final Four over the New Big East Championship? Really? Don’t you know the NBE is played at MSG? I’ve hear UConn fans say they would take (New) Big East Championship over the NCAA title because it is “harder”. And at MSG. If somebody searched hard enough there are probably post to that effect here somewhere, too.
I question your commitment.
To me that is the statement and direct result of coaching demands and expectations 24/7.
You can't knock a team for celebrating a huge achievement. If uconn never won a title before and made it to the final four, I'm sure everyone on this board would be thrilled to see that final four Banner going up. Part of growth is celebrating small achievements and Purdue should celebrate every moment of that run they had last year even though they fell short.
Purdue fans and many media pundits spent the season arguing that their b10 "body of work" should have them ranked ahead of us. I'm glad we got them in the final and I don't feel at all bad for laughing at their "we're #2" banner. Yes it's an accomplishment for most schools, and was for us at one time, but the fact that we can scoff at it is what sets us apart.
I love that UConn now has 6 titles! Amazing! I’m perfectly happy with that and the chance for more to come. There’s no reason to ridicule other programs unless there has been a real slight by someone who actually matters. Their banner is deserved.
