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UConn -2 v. Maryland

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Man, I gotta study up on MD. I don't tnink this is a cakewalk at all and we need to be ready to smack it down and not stop.
 
Maryland were swept by Penn State, lost to Indiana, and Northwestern but beat Purdue, Illinois, and Michigan State twice
 
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I’m taking the under. Posted in another thread that we are the worst team in the field in transition eFG% defense, Maryland has one of the highest 3pt attempt rate, Maryland is worst offensive rebounding team in the field and we are second best in non-transition eFG% defense. Our game plan should be to ply a slow pace, muck it up on the defensive end & get defensive board. If this goes over 130 that’s not good for us. If we keep Maryland below 60 points we should win.
 
HeGotGame said:
VCU - Oregon (-5)
Virginia Tech - Florida (PK)
Clemson - Rutgers (-2)
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I think you have Oregon and VCU reversed.

Inpicked both Rutgers and VT to win. I think -2/3 is about right for our game. That said if we play well I think we can blow them out. We can also lose. That’s just the nature of the team, and theirs as well it seems.
 
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McLovin said:
I’m taking the under. Posted in another thread that we are the worst team in the field in transition eFG% defense, Maryland has one of the highest 3pt attempt rate, Maryland is worst offensive rebounding team in the field and we are second best in non-transition eFG% defense. Our game plan should be to ply a slow pace, muck it up on the defensive end & get defensive board. If this goes over 130 that’s not good for us. If we keep Maryland below 60 points we should win.
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Completely disagree. We nearly scored 100 points in two of our last 3. If they are a bad offensive rebounding team than we need to grab boards and push the pace relentlessly. There are few teams with our athleticism and depth. UConn loses slow rock fights. That’s how we played without Bouk and Jackson. That’s ugly UConn.

It’s one of the reasons I think we can surprise people. This team is nothing like what it was.
 
McLovin said:
I’m taking the under. Posted in another thread that we are the worst team in the field in transition eFG% defense, Maryland has one of the highest 3pt attempt rate, Maryland is worst offensive rebounding team in the field and we are second best in non-transition eFG% defense. Our game plan should be to ply a slow pace, muck it up on the defensive end & get defensive board. If this goes over 130 that’s not good for us. If we keep Maryland below 60 points we should win.
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It sickens me that anyone can see this team, roster, and results and suggest we play slow.
 
@HuskyHawk & @Giddyup5 , you're entitled to your opinions but our 3 best wins this year how many points did we allow? USC 58 points, @ Georgetown 57 points, @ Seton Hall 58 points.

Our losses this year, how many points did we allow? 76, 74, 74, 80, 70, 68, 59

We need to limit Maryland's possessions, they shoot a ton of 3s. They also are a good defensive team. We have to keep them under 60 if we want to win. In the 60s we have a shot. Over 70 and it's not good. The less possessions Maryland has = less shots we have to make. Making shots is not our strength. Defense is our strength.

Defense wins in March. Always has, always will.

Edit: My prediction... UConn 64, Maryland 56
 
bendm said:
no that's correct. oregon the most heavily favored of the 7 seeds
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It looked like he had VCU as the favorite because they are listed first. All the other 7 seeds were first. Agree Oregon is the biggest favorite.
 
McLovin said:
@HuskyHawk & @Giddyup5 , you're entitled to your opinions but our 3 best wins this year how many points did we allow? USC 58 points, @ Georgetown 57 points, @ Seton Hall 58 points.

Our losses this year, how many points did we allow? 76, 74, 74, 80, 70, 68, 59

We need to limit Maryland's possessions, they shoot a ton of 3s. They also are a good defensive team. We have to keep them under 60 if we want to win. In the 60s we have a shot. Over 70 and it's not good. The less possessions Maryland has = less shots we have to make. Making shots is not our strength. Defense is our strength.

Defense wins in March. Always has, always will.
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How many of those games featured Bouknight, Jackson and Cole once he learned how to score? We lose slow games to teams that shoot 3s well. St. John’s, Creighton all three times, Nova.

With our full team since Bouk came back, we scored 70+ in every win except Seton Hall, which was 69. In our recent wins counting backwards: 94, 98, 69, 80, 70, 73, 80. In our losses we scored 56, 60, 59.

Interesting note, Martin lead us in scoring 4 times and we won all 4. Cole lead us in scoring 4 times and we lost 3 of those. Nothing more than an indication that if Cole is our main guy it’s because others aren’t getting it done.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
How many of those games featured Bouknight, Jackson and Cole once he learned how to score? We lose slow games to teams that shoot 3s well. St. John’s, Creighton all three times, Nova.

With our full team since Bouk came back, we scored 70+ in every win except Seton Hall, which was 69. In our recent wins counting backwards: 94, 98, 69, 80, 70, 73, 80. In our losses we scored 56, 60, 59.

Interesting note, Martin lead us in scoring 4 times and we won all 4. Cole lead us in scoring 4 times and we lost 3 of those. Nothing more than an indication that if Cole is our main guy it’s because others aren’t getting it done.
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Literally every win I mentioned featured all 3 of them.

Our losses against good teams that can score (Creighton and Nova) had all 3 playing in 3 of 4.

Not suggesting we shouldn’t try to score points. If we can score 100 that would be great. But we have proven we don’t win games when we have to rely on our offense. We have proven we can win with our defense.

If we play a fast pace and Maryland is hitting their 3s we are going to have to score a bunch to keep up. Show me 1 game this year where we have proven we can get into a track meet AND win. This team isn’t built for high scoring, high pace games.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It looked like he had VCU as the favorite because they are listed first. All the other 7 seeds were first. Agree Oregon is the biggest favorite.
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dont think the order matters, just who the (-) comes after
 
Saturday can't get here fast enough. This already feels like a long week.
When the team wins, they usually not only cover the spread but by a margin. I feel like UConn will bounce back nicely after the last game.
 
FatHank said:
Man, I gotta study up on MD. I don't tnink this is a cakewalk at all and we need to be ready to smack it down and not stop.
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Far from a cake walk. We can win but need to make shots. Shooting 30% will get us ran out of the building fast
 
HuskyHawk said:
Completely disagree. We nearly scored 100 points in two of our last 3. If they are a bad offensive rebounding team than we need to grab boards and push the pace relentlessly. There are few teams with our athleticism and depth. UConn loses slow rock fights. That’s how we played without Bouk and Jackson. That’s ugly UConn.

It’s one of the reasons I think we can surprise people. This team is nothing like what it was.
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I agree. Depth and athleticism are definite strengths of ours. We give up both of those advantages when we play crawl ball.
 
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