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Eric K said:
I recall being there. At the Civic Center. First game I remember as a kid. They hung with Kansas. Roy Williams in his heyday. Late 96/early 97 with Rip/Voskuhl/Freeman all as Freshman.
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Think Rash had a good game didn’t he?
 
Any competitive recruit would look at the Big East schedule, and UConn’s loaded nonconference schedule and embrace it as they know on that night the bright lights will be shining. Great decision Coach!
 
It just keeps getting better and better
 
milards said:
Wasn’t the game at Kansas on Super Bowl Sunday? I remember being so pumped for the day and we got absolutely annihilated.
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I believe it was the off week between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl.

We played them in a double header (women's team destroy the lady Jayhawks) at Kemper in KC. The return was two seasons later in Hartford and yes, that was the first game after Kirk and Ricky were suspended (Kirk for the season).
 
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I guess with all the money I save by losing my prior season tickets, I can go to more away games?
 
BrysonDeMan said:
how hard was it to get a ticket?
i'm thinking early x-mas present
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It wasn't hard for me because my friend Jeff got the tickets. He said all his usual season ticket holder sources would not sell him tickets for that game. So he paid quite a bit. UConn had never played at AFH though, so I think this one might be slightly less sought after.

I will say that some other law school friends stayed at The Oread on campus and that was the right move. We met him there, UConn had an event in the bar and there was a lot of mingling before and after. Downtown Lawrence would be good as well.
 
milards said:
Wasn’t the game at Kansas on Super Bowl Sunday? I remember being so pumped for the day and we got absolutely annihilated.
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No. It was a Saturday. I remember because of some setup I was helping with for a big event that night. Listened to it for a while then said I'll watch it at home tomorrow. Bad game.
 
Lafayette said:
I recall a Kansas H&H back in the 90s.... our home was at HCC or Gampel (forgot which) and we had Rip maybe was a freshman but held our own vs #1 Kansas for a half while the ladies demolished Kansas away.
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In Hartford on CBS. Rip’s arrival on the national stage. There was a lot of positive vibes leaving the civic center after that game.
 
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StllH8L8ner said:
Stop AD Dave, I can only get so erect!

What a schedule!
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I know what you mean. Looking at this non-conference schedule below gave me quite the afternoon wood especially with the BYU game being here in Boston where I live.


N-BYU (Nov 15, Boston)
H-Arizona (Nov 19)
N-Illinois (Nov 28, NYC)
At Kansas (Dec 2)
N-Florida (Dec 9, NYC)
H-Texas (Dec 12)

Question to anyone here: I know UConn has had some seasons with good non-conference schedules, which included MTEs, but have they had any season in their history that comes close to 2025-2026?
 
my2cents said:
Why wouldn't this start at UConn since we just played them in Kansas?
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Because UConn needed a road game after Illinois nixed the home and home and pushed to play at MSG.
 
Bill Self and Dan Hurley have not played scared when it comes to scheduling; it only makes sense the two of them found common ground to meet the next two seasons. For Hurley, he's built up one of the best and most challenging nonconference slates you'll find in college hoops for 2025-26. Connecticut also has BYU (No. 3), Florida (No. 6), Arizona (No. 11), Texas (No. 23) and Illinois (No. 24) before burrowing into a 20-game Big East campaign. It's one of the strongest, if not the strongest, non-con schedules in program history.

www.cbssports.com

UConn, Kansas agree to home-and-home series beginning in 2025; Jayhawks will host first game this December

The Jayhawks and Huskies are responsible for three of the four most recent national championships
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
 
It's a bit of a bummer that this game is on a Tuesday. Will probably make travel a little harder for UConn fans.
 
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hi - football fan mostly, but also casual bball fan. so, pardon my ignorance in advance:

this OOC schedule looks like an absolute death sentence, at first glance.
coming out of the tournament last year where we derailed our season, I wouldn't have thought an OOC would look like this.
Can someone help me understand the full benefits of setting this up?
besides high ratings, of course.
it is an exciting list of names, but it just seems like a lot of risk of the season going off the rails, before Big East play.

thoughts?
 
Gurleyman said:
That was the first game after Ricky Moore and Kirk King were suspended. We played Rip at point guard and he had 24 points and 8 assists. If I remember right, we jumped out to a big lead (maybe 22-7 or so) and crowd was going bonkers, but once Kansas fought back in it, we didn’t have enough big game moxie. Yet. A couple years later, we were well-moxied.
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Great memories of being in a group of fans giving the business to Roy on his way into the tunnel for halftime.
 
Jetskies said:
hi - football fan mostly, but also casual bball fan. so, pardon my ignorance in advance:

this OOC schedule looks like an absolute death sentence, at first glance.
coming out of the tournament last year where we derailed our season, I wouldn't have thought an OOC would look like this.
Can someone help me understand the full benefits of setting this up?
besides high ratings, of course.
it is an exciting list of names, but it just seems like a lot of risk of the season going off the rails, before Big East play.

thoughts?
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It’s because we won’t automatically qualify for postseason by beating Eastern Connecticut State 6 times
 
Jetskies said:
hi - football fan mostly, but also casual bball fan. so, pardon my ignorance in advance:

this OOC schedule looks like an absolute death sentence, at first glance.
coming out of the tournament last year where we derailed our season, I wouldn't have thought an OOC would look like this.
Can someone help me understand the full benefits of setting this up?
besides high ratings, of course.
it is an exciting list of names, but it just seems like a lot of risk of the season going off the rails, before Big East play.

thoughts?
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Because the Big East is weak. It's not enough to put us in the top seed discussion. Have to schedule aggressively OOC to fill the gaps and bump our metrics.

If you think it's bad, KU plus UConn, Duke, UNC, NC State, Mizzou and a loaded Players Era tournament in Vegas and then plays a Big XII schedule that is much harder then our Big East schedule.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I believe it was the off week between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl.

We played them in a double header (women's team destroy the lady Jayhawks) at Kemper in KC. The return was two seasons later in Hartford and yes, that was the first game after Kirk and Ricky were suspended (Kirk for the season).
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Yeah, Kirk King got the death penalty but I wonder what illegal benefits SEC football players were receiving at that time...we'll never know.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Because the Big East is weak. It's not enough to put us in the top seed discussion. Have to schedule aggressively OOC to fill the gaps and bump our metrics.

If you think it's bad, KU plus UConn, Duke, UNC, NC State, Mizzou and a loaded Players Era tournament in Vegas and then plays a Big XII schedule that is much harder then our Big East schedule.
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There’s also almost zero downside to playing these games. Benedict was talking about the schedule on Jared’s podcast the other day; these games are ideal for the metrics, even if we lose. Losing to Memphis, Dayton and Colorado in Maui did us no favors last year, but a loss to Kansas on the road or a BYU or Florida on a neutral site won’t kill us.

Also, why not load up OOC? It’s fun, and we shouldn’t be afraid to schedule hard. It sure didn’t hurt us in 23 or 24 :)
 
HuskyHawk said:
Because the Big East is weak. It's not enough to put us in the top seed discussion. Have to schedule aggressively OOC to fill the gaps and bump our metrics.

If you think it's bad, KU plus UConn, Duke, UNC, NC State, Mizzou and a loaded Players Era tournament in Vegas and then plays a Big XII schedule that is much harder then our Big East schedule.
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Nonsense.

UConn was the #1 overall seed in 2023-2024. Duke was just the #1 overall seed coming out of the ACC which is garbage. They played 4 ranked teams the entire regular season.
 
superjohn said:
Nonsense.

UConn was the #1 overall seed in 2023-2024. Duke was just the #1 overall seed coming out of the ACC which is garbage. They played 4 ranked teams the entire regular season.
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Just win baby!
 
Jetskies said:
hi - football fan mostly, but also casual bball fan. so, pardon my ignorance in advance:

this OOC schedule looks like an absolute death sentence, at first glance.
coming out of the tournament last year where we derailed our season, I wouldn't have thought an OOC would look like this.
Can someone help me understand the full benefits of setting this up?
besides high ratings, of course.
it is an exciting list of names, but it just seems like a lot of risk of the season going off the rails, before Big East play.

thoughts?
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The tournament “derailed our season”? You do realize we lost to National Champion Florida by two, the same margin as runner-up Houston.
 
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Proof that Connecticut had superior home brew & pizza in 1929.

Bud: Angelina can do you think I ehh, can have a some nice home brew?
Angelina: Mister you drink. You're gonna get sick. Let me bring you some good. Would you like something to eat? My momma is making pizza in the kitchen. Would you like some pizza?
Bud: What is pizza?
Angelina: You don't know what pizza is? Where are you from?
Bud: From Kansas.
Angelina: Kansas? Where is that?
Bud:

Better pizzza, IPA & hoop. What else is there?
 
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