Duke has the best recruiting class in the country. Nova brings back 3 starters(4 with Moore), a top 10 recruit, and other talented players. It’s really not that difficult to understand.
Ok. So if UConn loses its best players this year and brings in a top 3 recruiting class (as we have) we will be top 10?
A couple of NCAA tournament wins would go a long way toward showing voters that UConn is legit. When you don't win any tourney games for years, it's easy for voters to consider the team irrelevant.
No, because our best recruit in that class would be tied for 4th at best in Dukes current recruiting class. Go look at how ridiculous their class is.
If you exclude Duke's top 3 recruits (#1, #2, and #4), their remaining class coming in is still better than our "top 3 class" next year.
It’s an absurd class. They clearly belong in the top 10 on talent alone. If we had these kids, we’d be crying top 5.
Still, recruit rankings are wildly inaccurate predictions. So it’s still nonsense, if we’re honest. Duke isn’t winning a NC next year. No chance. They don’t have the experience to pull it off.
They won it in 2015 with 5 freshmen, 1 soph, 1 junior, and 1 senior in their rotation (started 3 freshmen).
Which is hilarious since he keeps questioning some of Hurley's comments on Twitter via Borges, which made me think he was quite skeptical of the Huskies of this season
PC didn’t play you last year? Jesus Christ, when did the 4 time NC’s become such whiners? Oh that’s right, just before the BE rescued your butts from almost sure oblivion. That’s when it’s started and it hasn’t let up since. You want the Big East again? Take it. Otherwise? Sit and twist.
Hmmm. The last time Providence made the Final Four was in 1987.
IIRC, it was UConn who declined to play on the one available make-up date because Hurley thought it was too close to our other, previously scheduled games.
Thanks. It sounds like there was confusion then about how they calculated the dates and when they started and stopped counting, so I gather the post of yours that you quoted was correcting that initial reporting that Hurley thought it was too close. In any event, I guess you just confirmed that neither side ducked the rematch
Yeah it's a UConn Twitter thing, everyone knows PC didn't actually duck us but it needles the fambase nonetheless so it's become a thing to still joke about it
From what I recall the coaches had no say with the make ups. It was all handled by the conference and there were specific rules set up (days between games, etc.) to determine if dates worked. Unfortunately there was no date that worked within those parameters.
There were questions initially about how the days were counted, and there was a report that one date was possible but that Hurley thought it was too close to our other games. As the @navery12 vault confirmed, it was later clarified that there was no available date under the rules.
As an occasional participant in the shenanigans at issue, I can say, speaking only for myself, that is it pure trolling. My only intentions when I make a reference to PC ducking games are to 1.) get the goats of the Friars fans who may read it and b.) bring a grin to the face of any UConn fan who appreciates such trolling.
Oh I get the joke. I guess it was cringey to me when I thought Hurley had declined the make-up date; now I understand it's pure trolling.
Cringey and insecure? UConn fans? LOL
