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I like the matchup. Arkansas has a ton of talent with at least 3 NBA players on the team in Anthony Black, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Smith. Ricky Council is their leading scorer and Davis is having a big tournament scoring the ball. The team is incredibly athletic but really young with a lot of one on one scoring, using their athleticism for pull-ups and attacking the rim. They don't shoot it well at all from three.

Jordan Walsh is like Jackson with his athleticism and defense. He doesn't have any of the passing Jackson does but he's even longer and maybe even a better defender. He'll be on Hawkins.

Those 5 players I mentioned are in that 6'3-6'7 range. Once again they'll have no answer for Sanogo and Clingan, their big guys are the Mitchell twins who our bigs should feast on.
 
superjohn said:
I like the matchup. Arkansas has a ton of talent with at least 3 NBA players on the team in Anthony Black, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Smith. Ricky Council is their leading scorer and Davis is having a big tournament scoring the ball. The team is incredibly athletic but really young with a lot of one on one scoring, using their athleticism for pull-ups and attacking the rim. They don't shoot it well at all from three.

Jordan Walsh is like Jackson with his athleticism and defense. He doesn't have any of the passing Jackson does but he's even longer and maybe even a better defender. He'll be on Hawkins.

Those 5 players I mentioned are in that 6'3-6'7 range. Once again they'll have no answer for Sanogo and Clingan, their big guys are the Mitchell twins who our bigs should feast on.
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Jordon walsh is not half the defender jackson is. He is long and robotic. I have seen most of their games. Uconn should handle arkansas easily. Very poor 3 point shooting and sloppy unforced turnovers. Very good matchup for uconn
 
auror said:
They're the rare team with guards as big as ours.

Thankfully they cant shoot, so we should be able to just out-efficient them like Alabama did twice.

Clingan will be indispensable in this game guarding the paint.
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We can’t foul on drives. This team is a 4x better St. John’s. They are going to try and kill us going to hole.
 
superjohn said:
I like the matchup. Arkansas has a ton of talent with at least 3 NBA players on the team in Anthony Black, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Smith. Ricky Council is their leading scorer and Davis is having a big tournament scoring the ball. The team is incredibly athletic but really young with a lot of one on one scoring, using their athleticism for pull-ups and attacking the rim. They don't shoot it well at all from three.

Jordan Walsh is like Jackson with his athleticism and defense. He doesn't have any of the passing Jackson does but he's even longer and maybe even a better defender. He'll be on Hawkins.

Those 5 players I mentioned are in that 6'3-6'7 range. Once again they'll have no answer for Sanogo and Clingan, their big guys are the Mitchell twins who our bigs should feast on.
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In about a half of the mock drafts Council is predicted to be drafted in the 1st round as well.

With all you said, I still like UConn’s matchup- a similar amount of talent between the two teams but UConn older, deeper, & take better shots.
 
Fan1978 said:
Jordon walsh is not half the defender jackson is. He is long and robotic. I have seen most of their games. Uconn should handle arkansas easily. Very poor 3 point shooting and sloppy unforced turnovers. Very good matchup for uconn
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They've cut down on TOs in the NCAAs, which is a big reason why they've won these two.
 
Revenge game. We’ve come full circle.
 

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Purple Stein said:
I would be surprised if we don’t run some zone in this game.
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I agree. Not against running some man, but I think a 2-3 zone needs to be part of the game plan. They are young and could get very frustrated if they are hitting shots again a packed in zone.
 
Just play Shell Man - we shouldn't extend our defense too far out like we did tonight against a team this athletic. If we do it will open lanes for them to get to the rim and we will rack up the fouls
 
Their message board is an interesting bunch. Say UConn has good defense but lacks offense Also have Arkansas ranked 3 of the remaining 16. UConn’s was 12 on there list.
 
superjohn said:
I like the matchup. Arkansas has a ton of talent with at least 3 NBA players on the team in Anthony Black, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Smith. Ricky Council is their leading scorer and Davis is having a big tournament scoring the ball. The team is incredibly athletic but really young with a lot of one on one scoring, using their athleticism for pull-ups and attacking the rim. They don't shoot it well at all from three.

Jordan Walsh is like Jackson with his athleticism and defense. He doesn't have any of the passing Jackson does but he's even longer and maybe even a better defender. He'll be on Hawkins.

Those 5 players I mentioned are in that 6'3-6'7 range. Once again they'll have no answer for Sanogo and Clingan, their big guys are the Mitchell twins who our bigs should feast on.
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I've watched Arkansas quite a bit this year. If UConn plays well, they're going to beat Arkansas. If you can defend (defense includes getting the rebound and holding them to one shot), they're not going to make a lot of jumpshots.
 
superjohn said:
I like the matchup. Arkansas has a ton of talent with at least 3 NBA players on the team in Anthony Black, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Smith. Ricky Council is their leading scorer and Davis is having a big tournament scoring the ball. The team is incredibly athletic but really young with a lot of one on one scoring, using their athleticism for pull-ups and attacking the rim. They don't shoot it well at all from three.

Jordan Walsh is like Jackson with his athleticism and defense. He doesn't have any of the passing Jackson does but he's even longer and maybe even a better defender. He'll be on Hawkins.

Those 5 players I mentioned are in that 6'3-6'7 range. Once again they'll have no answer for Sanogo and Clingan, their big guys are the Mitchell twins who our bigs should feast on.
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Problem is they are a team that drives the ball well which is our weakness. Hopefully like others said we play zone more or have Clingan in a lot to help thwart the drives.
 
Old blue said:
You re not kidding. I've yet to see a board with so much bad MOJO. This is just a same.View attachment 85371
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Spoken like an SEC fan that doesn’t want college basketball.

Simple reality is that there isn‘t anybody who can stop Sanogo and Hawkins is waking up and remembering who he is. Joey has found his stroke and Newton will bury you if you play off him. Arkansas has seen a team as good as UConn twice, Alabama.
 
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