UConn may play NC State on Dec. 5th at Mohegan; Florida game in doubt

[bendm]

then why did you compare cincy to depaul in the first place? thats what started all of this and they arent substitutes....and my point was even if they were substitutes depaul will be the better program in the future.

obviously we'd rather play cincy than a cupcake. thanks captain obvious. likewise we should rather play any p5 in our recruiting footprint over a midmajor aac program. even rutgers and BC would attract more exposure and they have the "old BE" connection too if that's your thing

 

[Jbirdp5]

I wouldn’t hate playing cinci but I don’t think anyone will feel a loss if we don’t. Without mick around the rivalry wasn’t going to as strong anymore anyway in my opinion.

 

[Waquoit]

I think we will be good enough to win our way in no matter the schedule. And probably be peaking late.

 

[billybud]

NC State is picked preseason #8 in the ACC...they were hurt by losing top 50 Josh Hall to entering draft as well as Funderburke...and they have questions at Point Guard.

Point play might be their weak point.

 

[superjohn]

You're the one who brought it up. It's not relevant because Depaul is in our conference and Cinci is not. I would've rather seen us play most other teams in the country instead of the AAC teams we had to play the past 6-7 years. Now that we're in the Big East we will play a bunch of teams people want to see us play and we have a choice of trying to setup matches with teams from all over the country to fill our schedule. I would much rather see us play teams like Maryland, Syracuse, Michigan State etc. than I would Cincinnati.

So no, you wanting to play Cinci over DePaul and St. John's isn't at all relevant to the discussion. I don't see why you can't understand this.

 

[uconnbill]

Temple, Cuse, Pitt, and Cincinnati would be it. I would rather play a Duke, NC or Kansas than any other old AAC team

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Mohegan was smart to make itself the first real bubble for college basketball.

 

[Fishy]

I don’t see much reason to play Cincinnati.

We’re going to play a home and home with Xavier and you want to head back to Cincinnati for a non-con?

Why?

Because we played a bunch of 54-50 games there?

 

[navery12]

 

[BoukofJames]

does this mean we will play Florida in 2021?

 

[youseethat]

Just random but would anyone have interest in retaining an ongoing AAC "rivalry"? Maybe Memphis or Cincy?

I always enjoyed keeping old BE foes as part of the OOC schedule.

As a Cincy resident, I’d selfishly love to see UC on the OOC schedule for a drivable game.

As a UConn fan, would rather they play in recruiting hot beds & continue to grow / strength brand for younger generations in those regions - first team that comes to mind (for me at least) is Maryland for DMV, but that’s not the question....to answer your question, I would prefer to move on, but between the two, bring on UC

 

[MDHuskFan]

I really want to see how Cinci is going forward a few years before committing to playing them. If we’re doing former teams associated with the BE, I’d much rather play Syracuse, WVU, Pitt & Louisville over Cincy

 

[glastonbury50]

People forget that we never really ran the aac like we should have. It also wasn't all bad I have some good memories from that conference. The natty year and Jalen' shot in 2016. Not to mention some epic battles with smu.

 

[Dooooooomed]

Yup, give me either of the Backyard Brawlers over any AAC team.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Worthless personal opinion: I loved our years against Cincy. I remember some great and tense games.

 

[glastonbury50]

Worthless personal opinion: I loved our years against Cincy. I remember some great and tense games.

This year when we beat Cincy at home and made cumberland whiff at the end was buzzing. I loved hating cincinnati.

 

[gtcam]

I don't mind playing Cinci and I'd be careful about downplaying DePaul
At this point I am just hoping UConn is actually going to be playing someone in 30 days- bring on The Sisters of the Poor- I just want to see UConn mens hoops
Its been a while since waiting to get out of the XL parking garage after beating Memphis

 

[Improviser]

I really want to see how Cinci is going forward a few years before committing to playing them. If we’re doing former teams associated with the BE, I’d much rather play Syracuse, WVU, Pitt & Louisville over Cincy

No opinion on playing Cinci, but Louisville and WVU were always tough games against consistently tough programs. As I remember, Louisville basically dominated us especially during the Montrez Harrell era, and WVU was a bear on the road, though I think we beat them at Morgantown when they had Pitznogel. Still WVU was always a physical game.

Syracuse and Pitt I don't really care about. Why bother to try to deal with the Syracuse unique zone for one game, and unless Pitt is back, why play them? Rather play Louisville or WVU.

 

[superjohn]

Geezus, you're thick. If you brought up being more excited to play Cincinnati over Sacred Heart it would be relevant and make total sense, you being more excited to play Cincinnati over DePaul or St. John's is totally irrelevant and makes no sense in this thread. I tried to explain it to you several times but you still don't get it...moving along.

 

[CallMeBruce]

4 H/H between mens and women's so probably two H/H each, although they should just give all 4 to the men we need a lot more help scheduling quality OOC

What? First of all, calling the AAC "quality OOC" in MBB or WBB seems like a stretch, but beyond that, there's far less need for MBB to schedule up OOC when they're in one of the best leagues. BE WBB is decent, but it's nothing like BE MBB.