Sour grapes alert

[1999GoodSon]

In an effort for eyeballs, someone who knows little says winning 13 basketball games consecutively is impossible, and cements his negligible knowledge by using the word statistically. Is this is first tournament?

 

[willie99]

This just in from the Boiler Up braintrust over at H&N on SB Nation: "I see that UConn has won 7 straight leading into the tourney. Not only is it improbable that they can win 6 more in a row, it’s statistically impossible. They needed to lose in their conference tourney to have a chance. Place your bets against the Huskies now!"

I hadn't realized UConn has never won its conference tournament and gone on to win the NCAA tournament, nor have we ever won 13 games in a row. (And certainly not this season.) The important things you learn from your big brothers of the Big 10!

Tell the clowns that to win a National Title in basketball, you can't be a Big 10 member. Seems like they're oblivious to reality

 

[willie99]

We won BE tourney in 99 and won a natty.

And 2004
And 2011

 

[nomar]

And 2004
And 2011

But other than those 3 times????????????

 

[Waquoit]

But other than those 3 times????????????

What have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[willie99]

And 2004
And 2011

And I'm pretty sure Nova just did it two times as well

 

[ninety-nine]

And I'm pretty sure Nova just did it two times as well

Just so you know (as well as other posters who have listed UConn's BET-NCAA double-dip championship years), I am fully aware that it's pretty common for programs to do that, and that UConn has done it three times. I've been a fan/alum for over 40 years and remember much of it clearly. I'm beginning to suspect that everyone didn't pick up on the feigned ignorance-type sarcasm in my response to the Purdue poster who labeled a UConn title as "statistically impossible" due to our BET win.

In fact, it's possible the Purdue posters were just saying obviously inaccurate things like that because that's how they do mojo on their board.