Ten most disappointing teams this season

[HooperScooper]

Surprised UConn made this list considering they finished strong and did make the NCAA Tournament. Maybe they had really high expectations for this team and it didn't come close to realizing those.

Is Kevin Collie KO's evil cousin?

Connecticut (25–11, 11–7 AAC)

UConn missed the NCAA tournament in 2014–15—just one year after winning the national championship—but the program appeared poised for a deep tournament run this season. It returned a high-scoring backcourt in guards Daniel Hamilton and Rodney Purvis and added a hyped point guard signee in Jalen Adams. Plus, Seton Hall transfer guard Sterling Gibbs arrived with tons of potential. But a 9–10 record against top-100 teams had UConn on the bubble before it won the AAC tournament title. Coach Kevin Collie ‘s squad eventually earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA tourney, but it had no business flirting with disaster on Selection Sunday in the first place.

Ten most disappointing teams this season, SI.com

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Scorching take from Tennspro about the future of the program in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2

 

[ctchamps]

Scorching take from Tennspro about the future of the program in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2

Article never would have needed to be written if we had a decent coach for the bigs.

 

[aceboon]

"high-scoring backcourt"...

 

[polycom]

I always look on keyboard to see if the keys are next to each other or did the person not know how to spell the word. This is the latter.

 

[rip7774]

I am a glass empty kinda guy but i figured we were a top 15 team this year with Gibbs coming in and giving us a steady, scoring point and the maturation of DHam into a typically Husky star as a soph (+ lots of experience in Brimah/Nolan/Facey/Miller inside)Neither happened, esp the DHam part shooting 38% obviously.

I thought it was a very disappointing regular season with a nice finish that was a lot of fun (especially since I was at the AAC tourney!). These years we don't have enough ballhandlers are always really tough on me as a guard fan! Definitely count it as a disappointment with so much experience, but you can't go far without enough handlers and a star who lacks confidence. Can't wait for Rique/Jalen next year with a third recruit (Vital?/or 5th year guy?)

 

[Waquoit]

How can this year be considered anything else but disappointing? All those crappy losses. We let Temple steal the regular season. We never got it together, a nice run in Orlando notwithstanding.

 

[jibsey]

Disappointing reg season that led to a bad matchup in Round 2. We were SI 12 preseason. I love to backup my team but there isn't much to be argued here except for the part about Lassie.

 

[ctchamps]

How can this year be considered anything else but disappointing? All those crappy losses. We let Temple steal the regular season. We never got it together, a nice run in Orlando notwithstanding.

Agree. The team never gelled. It had the parts but they couldn't put it together. It happens.

 

[Dogdeacon]

I always look on keyboard to see if the keys are next to each other or did the person not know how to spell the word. This is the latter.

The editors removed a bad joke that UConn performed less like a Husky and more like a Collie, so the writer put it the intentional misspelling in to show the editor who is boss.

Just a dumb click-bait article though, Michigan State had a disappointing game not a disappointing season. I'm surprised they didn't put UNC on there since they were supposed to be a consensus #1 and be more dominate during the season (sarcasm).

 

[champs99and04]

Not sure how a team like Texas winds up on this list. If anything, given the unexpected loss of Ridley, they outperformed expectations.

Michigan State is also an odd choice when teams like Maryland and Cal were on the board.

 

[willie99]

I was disappointed, save for about 8 days

 

[SubbaBub]

This was a Sweet 16 level team. Win three more regular season games and we'd be looking at a 5/6 seed, avoid Kansas and have a good chance to make it. Disappointment, yes. Top Ten in the nation, not even close.

 

[nomar]

Article never would have needed to be written if we had a decent coach for the bigs.

Quite frankly, and I was just telling this to Coach Miller the other day, we need to replace our gymnastics coach with the Mountain from Game of Thrones and replace the first night intergender scrimmage with all-male intrasquad MMA fights.

 

[Inyatkin]

Can't understand how Maryland isn't No. 1. That was supposed to be a legit title contender.

 

[amory]

I agree. This year's season was disappointing.

 

[rip7774]

Can't understand how Maryland isn't No. 1. That was supposed to be a legit title contender.

They were right up there. It's crazy how they had like 0 players a few years ago to a loaded roster. UA $$???

 

[businesslawyer]

The regular season was disappointing. If we played as well in the regular season as we did in the post-season, we would have had a better seed and might very well have made the Sweet 16. But we didn't. Team took a long time to gel, and neither AB being out for 6 weeks nor Hamilton going through a stretch where he couldn't throw the ball into the ocean from a pier helped.