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Race for 1 Seed (2/5)

uconngb said:
This. People getting their panties in a bunch over NOTHING. Can you all please just let the games play out??? It will save you all a lot of worthless consternation.
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Tenspro2002 said:
Going 20-2 in the Big East doesn't mean that much this year. If the rankings are any indication, P5 teams with tougher schedules may surpass us even with comparable or more losses.
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We will see what happens. The Big 12/Big Ten contenders for the 1 seed have brutal schedules to end the season.
 
Storrs South said:
Arizona has frankly had a similar slate to UConn to this point in terms of opponent difficulty in conference so will be interesting to see how they do when the heat gets turned up starting Monday
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Let's see how Arizona fairs from 2/9 to 3/2: @ Kansas, vs Texas Tech, vs BYU, @ Houston, @ Baylor, vs Kansas then vs Iowa State. That is 6 of 7 ranked teams, if they go 7-0 they are #1 seed.
 
Anything can happen in three weeks, but as long as we take care of business and things don't get too chaotic across the CBB world, the best outcomes for us would be:

UM over Duke
Illinois over UM
KU over AZ (at least 1x)
Anyone else over AZ for 2 losses
AZ over ISU

If this combination happens, we should have a shot at overall #1. If a few of these things happen, we should be guaranteed a #1. Again, as long as we take care of business
 
Lafayette said:
Let's see how Arizona fairs from 2/9 to 3/2: @ Kansas, vs Texas Tech, vs BYU, @ Houston, @ Baylor, vs Kansas then vs Iowa State. That is 6 of 7 ranked teams, if they go 7-0 they are #1 seed.
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That is loaded. If thy go 5-2, with losses to say Kansas and Houston…they are still a #1 I would think.
 
uconn_jack said:
Anything can happen in three weeks, but as long as we take care of business and things don't get too chaotic across the CBB world, the best outcomes for us would be:

UM over Duke
Illinois over UM
KU over AZ (at least 1x)
Anyone else over AZ for 2 losses
AZ over ISU

If this combination happens, we should have a shot at overall #1. If a few of these things happen, we should be guaranteed a #1. Again, as long as we take care of business
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I would like to see at least the first two on your list happen, and hopefully the first 3. Would also add I would like to see UNC beat Duke tomorrow. I just want to be seeded in the East for our fans, anything that helps make that happen is what I'm primarily pulling for.
 
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Zonas upcoming games all Q1:
Q1 Away (13) 11 Kansas 02/09/26
Q1 Home (20) 13 Texas Tech 02/14/26
Q1 Home (19) 16 BYU 02/18/26
Q1 Away (6) 8 Houston 02/21/26
Q1 Away (47) Baylor 02/24/26
Q1 Home (13) 11 Kansas 02/28/26
Q1 Home (5) 7 Iowa St. 03/02/26
Q1 Away (71) Colorado 03/07/26
 
Need Kansas to run the table. They can’t deal with that pressure
 
Like others said, a lot can still change. As @bendm posted, Arizona has most of the tough conference games coming up. But it also doesn't matter. This is not a year when we are going to see 2-3 #1 seeds in the final four. Maybe one of them will get through. There's just a whole lot of relative parity.
 
Lafayette said:
Need Houston to win on 2/21 along with us.
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Curious Why we would root for Houston? Zona prob locked into the west #1 whereas we’re competing with Houston/ISU, Duke, UM for a remaining 1 seed.
 
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bendm said:
Curious Why we would root for Houston? Zona prob locked into the west #1 whereas we’re competing with Houston/ISU, Duke, UM for a remaining 1 seed.
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Zona has a lot more tough games ahead so could be a 3 loss team when said and done. I want Houston in that game so it becomes harder to get Houston in the South.
 
When does the NCAA release the top 16 seeds prelim list? I feel like it’s usually around this time
 
MJKI said:
When does the NCAA release the top 16 seeds prelim list? I feel like it’s usually around this time
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A list we were famously not on in 2023
 
Lafayette said:
Zona has a lot more tough games ahead so could be a 3 loss team when said and done. I want Houston in that game so it becomes harder to get Houston in the South.
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I still don’t follow. If Houston beats Zona then that increases their chance of being the 1 in the south. I know we don’t really want to be in the south but if we have to we’d rather be the 1 with Houston as the 2 than the 2 with Houston as the 1.

Unless you’re saying there’s a chance that we get the 1 seed in the South and Houston gets the 1 seed in the west with Zona as the 2 seed?? I had not considered that possibility.
 
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bendm said:
I still don’t follow. If Houston beats Zona then that increases their chance of being the 1 in the south. I know we don’t really want to be in the south but if we have to we’d rather be the 1 with Houston as the 2 than the 2 with Houston as the 1.

Unless you’re saying there’s a chance that Houston could be the 1 seed in the west with Zona as the 2 seed??
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Is there really much difference 2v1 other than playing #4?
 
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NJHusky said:
Is there really much difference 2v1 other than playing #4?
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Are you saying teams don’t care about being a 1 seed? That’s news to me. Generally I consider playing the 8 and the 4 versus the 7 and the 3 to be a big difference usually. But this year I might prefer to be the 2 in the East than the 1 in the South if Houston is the 2
 
I’d much rather be a 2 in the East vs a 1 in the South if the 2 is Houston anyways. Road game against a team that plays into our weaknesses.

Unless we get the 1 seed in the East, of course.
 
There aren’t really any teams that particularly scare me (including Arizona). If we shoot it well and don’t have a -20 free throw differential we’re going to win and advance. We’ve already shown we are better than many of the top 15 teams. I don’t really care if we’re a 1, 2 or 3 seed. If we start rolling like 2023/24 we’re not gonna lose. I still don’t know if this team has “it” yet, but damn we do have a lot of pieces to the puzzle.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
There aren’t really any teams that particularly scare me (including Arizona). If we shoot it well and don’t have a -20 free throw differential we’re going to win and advance. We’ve already shown we are better than many of the top 15 teams. I don’t really care if we’re a 1, 2 or 3 seed. If we start rolling like 2023/24 we’re not gonna lose. I still don’t know if this team has “it” yet, but damn we do have a lot of pieces to the puzzle.
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There are no unbeatable taems this year, no. There are poor matchups though. There are no teams like the F4 last year, which would simply overpower us.

Right now everyone is seeing AZ & UM as the final. We'll see how good these two teams are over the next month. They pass the eye test, pass the metrics test and both have a number of NBA profiles in their starting 5.
 
RuffRuff said:
There are no unbeatable taems this year, no. There are poor matchups though. There are no teams like the F4 last year, which would simply overpower us.

Right now everyone is seeing AZ & UM as the final. We'll see how good these two teams are over the next month. They pass the eye test, pass the metrics test and both have a number of NBA profiles in their starting 5.
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Come on now. We played against the team that won it all, and we didn't get "simply overpowered." We're also better this year than last year.

You say some weird stuff.
 
Inyatkin said:
Come on now. We played against the team that won it all, and we didn't get "simply overpowered." We're also better this year than last year.

You say some weird stuff.
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If we played that UF team with our team last year 9 more times, UF would win all 9 and likely decidedly. We were up by 1 over a meh Oklahoma team with 4 minutes to go the game prior. So would that Oklahoma team give those F4 teams a run? That Uconn team wasn't good. We were owned by Creighton a week prior. As flukey as Oklahoma played us close was as flukey we played Florida close.
 
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RuffRuff said:
If we played that UF team with our team last year 9 more times, UF would win all 9 and likely decidedly. We were up by 1 over a meh Oklahoma team with 4 minutes to go the game prior. So would that Oklahoma team give those F4 teams a run? That Uconn team wasn't good. We were owned by Creighton a week prior. As flukey as Oklahoma played us close was as flukey we played Florida close.
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lol if we played them 9 more times and Florida played the way they played in that game the other 9 times we’d probably win most all of them. Our best shooters bricked wide open 3s the whole game and we still almost won.
 
Inyatkin said:
Come on now. We played against the team that won it all, and we didn't get "simply overpowered." We're also better this year than last year.

You say some weird stuff.
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He’s never going to give a favorable or UConn leaning view. Like ever. I’ve just excepted who he is lol
 
RuffRuff said:
If we played that UF team with our team last year 9 more times, UF would win all 9 and likely decidedly. We were up by 1 over a meh Oklahoma team with 4 minutes to go the game prior. So would that Oklahoma team give those F4 teams a run? That Uconn team wasn't good. We were owned by Creighton a week prior. As flukey as Oklahoma played us close was as flukey we played Florida close.
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You have some awful takes, but this one may take the cake. Did you actually watch the game last year?

Like @7774 said, we shot 28% from 3. Meanwhile Florida shot 47% from deep. If Solo doesn't turn the ball up 3 late, I think we win that game. UConn played their B/B- game and almost won.
 
BFieldHusky said:
It's not even about that anymore. His takes have just became plain stupid.
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Well that tracks. When you only have negative/contrarian views on the dominant program of the last 3-4 years, then your views are inherently stupid.
 
RuffRuff said:
If we played that UF team with our team last year 9 more times, UF would win all 9 and likely decidedly. We were up by 1 over a meh Oklahoma team with 4 minutes to go the game prior. So would that Oklahoma team give those F4 teams a run? That Uconn team wasn't good. We were owned by Creighton a week prior. As flukey as Oklahoma played us close was as flukey we played Florida close.
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Your worst take in weeks. Congrats
 
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