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[QUOTE="EricLA, post: 4482065, member: 26"]
Yeah people made a bit about the Creighton coaches comments - the announcers said something like "Flannery said NOW is the time to get UCONN, and he thinks he has the team to do it". Didn't hear anything about how they "expected" to win.

But they did have all upperclassmen starting, and I think all 5, or 4 out of 5, returning starters from last season. They made the sweet 16 and should feel confident.

Also, I watched the game on replay. For sure our 3-point defense was a focus, but they had a good number of wide open shots. If they had made even just 5 more, for 15 points (would have put them below their season average but at 28%), our 25 point victory is suddenly only a win by 10 points.

I guess my point is, they should feel confident. they shot an abysmal 10% from 3, and it's not necessarily because of our defense. Just a bad shooting night. Having said that, had they made a bunch more 3's and the lead was 10 going into Q4, maybe we play differently or maybe we do different things. When the lead is that big for that long, game time adjustments are different.
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