Story of the Game: We Won, or Cincy Lost?

[Inyatkin]

We had days worth of posts after the SMU debacle that made it seem like it was only about UConn, giving no credit to the other team -- a pretty good team. It was all how we didn't show up, didn't execute.
Now we do to Cincinnati, also a good team, what SMU did to us, and we don't want to credit ourselves? It's just them having a bad game? Really weird way to look at things.

 

[Adios]

By the way, is there a tendency to downgrade UConn's wins this year?

UConn beat Florida but Florida didn't have Wilbekin and Hill.
UConn beat Florida because they didn't call a travel on Bazz.
UConn squeaked by Indiana, Maryland and BC by 1.
UConn beat Harvard who was missing their two best players.
UConn beat Memphis but the refs gave them that game with a 20 FT differential.
UConn beat Cincy but Cincy had an uncharacteristic game, missing shots.

I've heard analysts say all of these things this year.

Heck, this goes back to the 2011 championship with the win over Butler.

This is why we are in the AAC. We don't get respect, we don't cheat enough and have 24 year old guards (Cincinnati) playing against 18-20 year old kids so we can get super high rankings.

Heck, the women's basketball team won 8 championships because all the teams they beat on the way to 8 championships had really bad games.