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Message: [QUOTE="Dugway, post: 5170365, member: 13446"] You are absolutely correct. The BY crowd has it's expectations. Valid or not, fan's do have their expectations! By in large it appears that the expectations are that we should score more points. By simply watching the thread(s) where we all predict the upcoming score for the next game, we see that the average guess is that UConn will score 82 points against our Big East opponents. Some folks will have a guess in the 90's, some guess in the 70's, however the average is that we will score about 82. That is the expectation! From a defensive perspective, the BY crowd's expectations are that our opponent will score about 50. Some guess as low as the mid-30's, most are in the high 40's or low to mid-50's, and it all math's out that we expect to give up about 50 against the Big East. Margin of victory, based upon an exception of 82 for UConn and 50 for our opponent, is a 32-point win. That seems to be where most BY fan's expectations are. That is what people guess, UConn will beat our Big East opponents, regardless of which team that is, by about 32 points. On Jan. 5th we beat Villanova by a score of 83 to 52, more or less right at expectations and the Post Game thread had virtually everyone praising that effort. We are winning most of our games by 26 to 27 points. We've not once been tested in the Big East; I doubt that will occur this season at all! So, if we win by 27 what really is the difference between that MOV, and a 32-point MOV? To get that extra five point MOV, do we risk having one of our key players get hurt late in the game? Does it say to the opposing BE coach, we here at UConn are going to do everything in our power to run up the score on you? Because 32 is so much better than a lowly 27-point blowout? The flip side to 'the BY has over expectations on offense', is our actual scoring inconsistencies. I think this is scary to the BY faithful! The Villanova game, when we scored 83 and received high praises in the comments; our scores by quarter were 23, 20, 23, 17. We at the BY loved it! Other games however we have a score by quarter more typical of yesterdays: 25, [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]11[/COLOR][/B], 18, 17. Another example was the 26-point margin of victory on Dec. 29th against Providence: 28, 17, [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]11[/COLOR][/B], [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]11[/COLOR][/B]! Yes, [B]we won by 26[/B], and yet still the comments were nasty. I think the concern folks have with eleven-point quarters, is that if a Big East caliber opponent is capable of holding us to only 11-points, is it not possible that a supremely talented defensive team could also hold us to that same 11-point quarter? And possible they do it two, three or even four times in a game? Is it possible that we will run into some supremely talented defensive team during the tournament? If the tables are flipped, and UConn is held to scoring 51 or 52, will we lose that game? It certainly is not going to happen during Big East play. But if it happens during the tournament, are we, or are we not going to be going home without the twelfth championship? I think this is what scares many BY fans and why they lash out when they see an 11-pt result in a second quarter against St. John's. [/QUOTE]

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