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How Does UConn's Season End?

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navery12 said:
I'm also on Akron right now, Troy is the team I think has the best chance at winning 2 games of the 12/13's. Santa Clara/VCU/USF I like as 10/11's which feel less like upsets and more evenly matched teams

Have to dive a little deeper on how the matchups look for High Point and Hawaii. I liked them pre bracket but Arkansas and Wisconsin both have very good lead guards and are trending up to a 4/5 unlike the usual 4/5's fading that get upset
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These sound good but I get this funny feeling less of these turn out than we think.
 
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BugsyCT said:
The '95 Elite 8 game is the only all-time matchup.
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I'll never forget that tournament, well at least that round and the one prior.

There was only one team that I felt could beat us, and it was that UCLA team that played our style, but did so better. Well in the Round of 32, the Bruins were down 1 with like 4.5 seconds left and Tyus Edey received the inbound in the back court near the baseline and raced down the floor and hit the winning layup...yes end-to-end in like 4.5 seconds to propel them into the Elite 8.

If Missouri held on, UConn would have likely made their first Final-4 and possible first National Championship. Ray Allen had a great tournament and game, but UCLA was simply too talented and scored in transition better than us.

Would be nice to finally have some payback.
 
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DogMania said:
I'll never forget that tournament, well at least that round and the one prior.

There was only one team that I felt could beat us, and it was that UCLA team that played our style, but did so better. Well in the Sweet 16, the Bruins were down 1 with like 4.5 seconds left and Tyus Edey received the inbound in the back court near the baseline and raced down the floor and hit the winning layup...yes end-to-end in like 4.5 seconds to propel them into the Elite 8.

If Miss State held on, UConn would have likely made their first Final-4 and possible first National Championship. Ray Allen had a great tournament and game, but UCLA was simply too talented and scored in transition better than us.

Would be nice to finally have some payback.
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The Tyus Edney layup was in the 2nd round vs Missouri, but I get what you are saying.
 
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I think this has set up nicely for us. An extra day of rest for Silas, good travel situation to Philly. I feel like no one is talking about us. Like no one. Everyone is focusing on a potential St. Johns/Duke matchup. People are picking teams like Purdue and Houston to win the tournament. I feel like a little bit of pressure may be off us.

We have a potential 7/10 matchup with a banged up team from the West Coast vs a team that limped into the tournament.

When you are the 2 seed, you hope the 3 is a good match up for you, and you hope the 1 seed has a tough draw. I respect Izzo and Michigan St, but they don't scare me. I would argue Duke has a tougher draw that us. They could face a game v.s. a TCU team that beat Iowa St, and should have beaten Michigan and Kansas at the Phog. Then a Sweet 16 game against Kansas, who is a total wild card in this tournament, or a St. John's team who actually matchups well with Duke (if the officiating isn't too too tight).
 
I don't get the consternation about St. John's being in our region. We're on opposite sides and both St. John's and us wanted East regional. The committee helped us two, they didn't punish us.

Only 1 of us can get to the final four, but the odds of both reaching the elite 8 is quite low, so it doesn't even matter.
 
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St John’s as a 5 seed is interesting in what it says about their style of basketball. Their seeding did not improve despite beating a top 6 team by 20 in a conference championship game. The Committee clearly does not see their style of play translating to the national tournament.
 
As to our draw, I like it. None of Furman, UCF, or Michigan State force turnovers. UCLA does a little bit, but they're coming West to East to play UCF with their best player very banged up and their next best player coming back from injury, and then would have to prep for our offense on short turn-around. They've also been way better at home than on their road trips this season.

Mich St would be toughest obviously, since they're pretty good, have longer prep time in S16, and scouted us/watched film on the resulting game once already this season (though we didn't have Reed or Mullins for that game). But also they just lost their opening game of their conference tournament to UCLA, which is not usually a good sign of a good tournament team. They've been in a lot of competitive games, but most of their best wins this season were at home.
 
TroyHall98 said:
St John’s as a 5 seed is interesting in what it says about their style of basketball. Their seeding did not improve despite beating a top 6 team by 20 in a conference championship game. The Committee clearly does not see their style of play translating to the national tournament.
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18 of 68 seeds is not a slight
 
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