I'm going to flip the script here. My take is you remember and are more influenced by a loss than a win, here's why. If you win a big game like tonight, you tend to relax just a bit because you just beat an "elite" top 5 team, and you figure you can do it again when the time comes. Also, THAT game is not going to stay with you. It's one of many wins this year. You're looking forward, not backward.
A loss does just the opposite. You don't forget a loss of this nature. You're going to work twice as hard to fix the things you did or didn't do so that you CAN win next time. You're not going to take THAT team for granted as you may have had you beat them.
I'm not saying this was the case, but it may have been: How concerned do you think Notre Dame was in 2013 when they beat UConn 3 times going in to the final weekend of the tournament? Do you think they were as concerned as they would have been had they lost those 3 games?
Who do you think prepared harder for that final game? Them or us? We all know what happened that 4th and final time they played for the national championship.
A win tonight will boost their morale and ego (it will also warm the hearts of UConn Nation). It will let the world know that THIS UConn team is good, and must be taken seriously (and deserves their #1 ranking), now and come March. Let me be clear................
I'm hoping for a resounding UConn victory tonight!!! A loss will humble them, drop them in the rankings (not they they care about that), let them know they're not not invincible, and they're not were they need or want to be right now. Win or lose, this game will show them the type of teams they will see in the tournament after the 3rd game.
I know there will be some that won't agree, and that's fine.
What kind of debate forum would this be if we all agreed all the time?
