Two new games announced for next season.

[Steelerone]

The reason why we are not playing Notre Dame 2 times during the regular season plus the Big East tournament (3 games right there) is because Notre Dame is not in our conference anymore. The same can be said about Louisville.

Notre Dame is not in our conference because their football team is a national powerhouse and Uconns football program is not even close.

Check the records. Geno wanted and offered to extend the series but both schools chose not to. And since when does playing in one conference prohibit a team from playing a team in another conference.

 

[DemonDeac22]

I understand where you're coming from but I respectfully disagree. There is an advantage of having a soft conference schedule. It allows the coaches to experiment with numerous line-up iterations, gives several of the end of the bench players more and valuable playing time than if we played in a conference where more games went to the wire, and in turn this allows us to sit our starters more.

The result of the latter, I believe, is we were pretty well rested going into the final two weeks of the NCAA tournament and we're able to out hustle the opposition in every game.

True, unless your team is plagued by injuries as UConn was from 2021 through 2024. Last year was our first year in a while to have that luxury.

 

[1974yankees]

Check the records. Geno wanted and offered to extend the series but both schools chose not to. And since when does playing in one conference prohibit a team from playing a team in another conference.

Notre Dame was in our conference for years so we automatically played them twice during the regular season and once again in the conference tournament.

That's the point.

 

[cabbie191]

True, unless your team is plagued by injuries as UConn was from 2021 through 2024. Last year was our first year in a while to have that luxury.

What you say is accurate but leaves me wondering this: With all those injuries and as short-handed as we were, what might have our record been had we been playing in either the SEC or Big Ten?

On one hand, I could see a much worse win/loss record.

But since I would never underestimate the resilience and sheer gutsiness of the women Geno and the rest of the staff recruit, I could as easily conclude that playing in a more powerful conference might not have changed the win/loss outcome that much.

 

[Steelerone]

Notre Dame was in our conference for years so we automatically played them twice during the regular season and once again in the conference tournament.

That's the point.

Do you even follow what I'm saying? Of course, we played them in the old Big East but when things blew up and Uconn moved to the AAC they attempted to schedule Notre Dame and Notre Dame declined. That's the point.

 

[1974yankees]

Do you even follow what I'm saying? Of course, we played them in the old Big East but when things blew up and Uconn moved to the AAC they attempted to schedule Notre Dame and Notre Dame declined. That's the point.

I am following what you are saying. But what I am saying is that there are only so many out of conference games a school can schedule.

You just have this belief that Notre Dame didn't want to schedule games against Uconn because they were " afraid to lose"..... Give me a break.

As much as I detest Notre Dame, nobody is gonna convince me that they "refused" to play us because they didnt want to lose.

Same goes for any other team...

In the case of Tennessee not playing us for years...Well that was all about the Maya Moore situation and Pat....But I guarantee it wasn't about Pat being afraid to lose.

 

[HopJim]

Surprised that many posters completely ignore the fact that these are 18–20-year-old college students, most of which will never play pro basketball. Too many coaching conspiracy theories about what the coaches, TV execs, or other "suits" want. Perhaps some, like Geno and Dawn, want to give them time to study, take tests, and generally be college students.