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Message: [QUOTE="nomar, post: 2154581, member: 651"] Thanks to [URL='http://www.uconnhuskygames.com/']www.uconnhuskygames.com[/URL], I was able to watch this game, in which the Huskies famously erased a 25-point deficit. Previously, I recapped UConn's 77-36 win over Virginia from 1993 ([URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/UConn-77-uva-36-1993.77847/']UConn 77 UVA 36 (1993)[/URL]) My bullet point notes: *Some of the UCHG videos are from recordings of replays on ESPN Classic. This one's off someone's crappy VCR. *Ron Perry was rocking some massive peak lapels. *Uconn came in 10-0 (1 of 2 undefeated teams; Clemson was the other). The visiting Huskies were ranked #2 (as were the Lady Huskies, according to Perry). *UConn came in shooting 49%/39% on the season. I miss those days. KO was averaging 12 ppg and shooting over 60% from the field and 80% from the line coming into the game. *Donny Marshall did not play, having been suspended following a scrape with SJU's Charles Minlend. UConn started Knight, King (in for Donny), Allen, Sheffer and Ollie. Fair, Hayward, Rudy Johnson and even Uri Cohen-Mintz got a lot of burn. *This was a bad Pitt team, coached by Ralph Willard. They came in 4-7. Their best player was Jaime Peterson, who started along Orlando Antigua, Chris Gant, Jason Maile, and Andre Aldridge. Chad Varga missed the game. *The Huskies came out of the gate like they'd just been woken up. Sloppy play: turnovers, missed bunnies, Sheffer pulled a Purvis. Coach Ollie would have been all over PG Ollie. UConn had 16 to's in the first half. *They were down 7-2 at the under-16, then 14-2, then 18-4, then after the Huskies cut it to 20-13, Aldridge's back-to-back 3s sparked a 20-2 run, giving Pitt a 40-15 lead with about 4:30 on the clock. *Pitt was using a 1-3-1 and 2-3 zone. UConn missed their first 5 3s. *Ray was quiet offensively in the first half; he did score 8 points and made some nice passes, including a touch pass on a break and an alley-oop to Kirk. *Calhoun left Kirk in with 2 fouls and he picked up his 3rd with 5 minutes left. Back came in Cohen-Mintz, who grabbed a couple big boards but twice traveled when he thought he actually was Donny Marshall rather than his replacement. *Ray started the comeback with his first bucket, then Sheffer converted an and-1 after going coast-to-coast. The Huskies started pressuring Pitt and really turning them over. Pitt had 4 to's in a row without getting a shot off due to some intense half-court trapping. *Pitt led 45-30 at halftime. *Sheffer started the 2nd half with a 3. *Pitt called a TO after the Huskies had cut the lead to 49-39, leading to some product placement for US Air and MCI, both of which of course have gone the way of the real Big East. *UConn methodically chipped away at the lead, cutting it to 55-41, then 57-50, then 57-55, and then started running Pitt out of the building. Ray made a great baseball pass to Doron. Rudy had a couple big offensive boards/put-backs. UConn really got out in transition, even after made baskets and FTs. *UConn took their first lead (63-62) on a Fair 3-pointer with about 8 minutes to go. Then Ray took over. He scored 19 in the second half. *UConn widened the lead to 74-67, then 85-71 -- capping a 70-31 run! If the game had gone on for another 20 minutes, UConn would've won by 30. Pitt was tired and UConn was feeling it. *The Pitt players looked exhausted. They finished with 25 to's and shot 1-11 from 3 in the second half until Antigua hit a meaningless one with 12 seconds left. *In sum, it was less fun to watch than I anticipated, because of how awful the first half was. But now you don't have to. So you're welcome. CONNECTICUT 85 NAME FG 3FG FT R PF TP A MIN K. King 4-7 0-0 0-0 4 4 8 0 13 R. Allen 12-20 2-6 1-4 8 1 27 4 35 T. Knight 5-8 0-0 1-2 7 2 11 0 30 D. Sheffer 5-10 2-5 2-4 4 1 14 3 31 K. Ollie 2-5 0-2 2-2 4 2 6 8 36 N. Willingham 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 R. Johnson 4-6 0-0 3-4 3 3 11 0 18 B. Fair 2-8 1-5 0-0 0 1 5 1 20 E. Hayward 0-0 0-0 2-4 1 1 2 0 5 U. Cohen-Mintz 0-2 0-1 1-2 3 2 1 1 11 TOTALS 34-66 5-19 12-22 37 17 85 17 200 PITTSBURGH 76 NAME FG 3FG FT R PF TP A MIN C. Gant 3-8 0-0 5-8 15 3 11 2 33 O. Antigua 4-12 1-6 0-0 5 4 9 3 30 J. Peterson 6-12 0-0 6-6 13 4 18 1 40 A. Aldridge 2-9 2-9 8-8 5 4 14 4 40 J. Maile 4-10 2-5 1-3 3 4 11 1 29 G. Thomas 2-8 1-6 0-0 1 1 5 1 18 S. Aggelou 2-4 2-4 2-2 0 0 8 1 10 TOTALS 23-63 8-30 22-27 46 20 76 13 200 Halftime Score - Pittsburgh 45, Connecticut 30; Team Rebounds - Connecticut 3, Pittsburgh 4; Turnovers - Connecticut 20, Pittsburgh 25; Technicals - None; Attendance - 6,798; Game Officials - Jody Silvester, Ted Valentine, Joe Mingle. [/QUOTE]

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