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UConn to host Maine next season

upstater said:
In retrospect though, these were odd fitting parts.

You had transfers, grads coming over for one year, and a guy who evidently knew he was out the door all along. Not exactly harmonious parts. Gibbs never really took the reins that year like he was expected too.
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A better coach would have made this team a lot of fun. Stylistically, this team made a lot of sense. A 6'7 guy with great creativity and passing, 2 guards who were plus spot up shooters, a skilled 4 man who could hit from 16, a rim running shot blocker in the starting lineup. Jalen was a great option of the bench and Facey should have been a better than average bench big. On paper, this looks like an ideal modern offensive team. In reality, yea, not so much.
 
UConn is going to have its hands full dealing with Sergio El Darwich. The ten people in the stands on a snowy night in Bangor call him the “Lebanese Sensation” for a reason!

Now if we could just get Issac Vann to come back from VCU for a night...
 
UofCT2009 said:
False.
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Let me understand you. Someone wrote this: "Them underachieving doesn't have anything to do with the fact they were in the tournament regardless of Jalen's shot."

You responded false.

Let's reverse the proposition: "Them underachieving has something to do with the fact they were in the tournament regardless of Jalen's shot."

Hmmm.... that doesn't make sense.

What is false?
 
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Crank said:
Shonn Miller.
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Very overrated team by the BYer’s
Miller was good but undersized and he tended to disappear against bigger guys with close to equivalent athleticism .Also until Adams matured a bit they had a two playing the one.
That makes it tough to achieve chemistry.
Which was achieved by playing Adams and moving Rodney to the three.
They still won 26 games getting on a AAC roll.
When do you think our next 26 win season will be?
I’d kill for a 26 win season.
That team may of underachieved early but certainly not late in the year.
Chemistry was the big issue but why is that surprising with
2 grad transfers
Plus a Freshman getting all the minutes.
We’ve had much more talented teams that achieved less.
 
TJT said:
Can always count on UConn putting together a powerhouse home OOC schedule.
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Athletic Department following up their attempt to extort money from long time season ticket holders - by putting yet another quality opponent on the floor. If anything can help the "ticket ambassadors" sell the new pricing policy a home game against Maine is just the ticket. :eek::eek:
 
The Maine Black bears went 5-27 last year and finished the season with an NET rank of #335 (out of 353 teams). Their last winning season was back in 2009-10.
 
So we now have:

Charleston Classic (3 of Florida, Xavier, Miami, St Joes, Buffalo, Missouri St, Towson)
@ Villanova
Florida
Maine
(33% chance at Vanderbilt, Missouri, Texas A&M, or Georgia for the AAC/SEC schedule alliance)

Can we please not fill the rest of the schedule with a bunch of Coppin States this year? Give me Yale or Harvard, a decent/good A10 team, another Big East team, and some other big name.
 
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HawkHusky said:
So we now have:

Charleston Classic (3 of Florida, Xavier, Miami, St Joes, Buffalo, Missouri St, Towson)
@ Villanova
Florida
Maine
(33% chance at Vanderbilt, Missouri, Texas A&M, or Georgia for the AAC/SEC schedule alliance)

Can we please not fill the rest of the schedule with a bunch of Coppin States this year? Give me Yale or Harvard, a decent/good A10 team, another Big East team, and some other big name.
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I don't think we're confirmed for the AAC/SEC game, from what Borges said it seemed unlikely
 
1. Yes that team should've been better in the regular season to land a better seed in the tourney.
2. Felt weird/great to see the 20 next to our name
3. Possibly had more dunks in that one game than we had all year this year
4. Miller best posture in the NCAA don't @ me
 
navery12 said:
I don't think we're confirmed for the AAC/SEC game, from what Borges said it seemed unlikely
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That's why I said 33% chance as only 4/12 AAC teams will be chosen. Apparently ESPN is choosing the 4 AAC teams. Since they like their TV ratings I'm not so sure it's as unlikely as Borges suggests.
 
HawkHusky said:
So we now have:

Charleston Classic (3 of Florida, Xavier, Miami, St Joes, Buffalo, Missouri St, Towson)
@ Villanova
Florida
Maine
(33% chance at Vanderbilt, Missouri, Texas A&M, or Georgia for the AAC/SEC schedule alliance)

Can we please not fill the rest of the schedule with a bunch of Coppin States this year? Give me Yale or Harvard, a decent/good A10 team, another Big East team, and some other big name.
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MSG vs B12 school too. I believe we will have one more H/H series (per UConn scheduling board post from July - they were looking for 2 H/Hs only Florida announced since).
 
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TJT said:
The Maine Black bears went 5-27 last year and finished the season with an NET rank of #335 (out of 353 teams). Their last winning season was back in 2009-10.
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Lol. You think last year was bad, you shoulda seen 2017-2018.

Barron has them trending in the right direction and I think we’ll be top 6 in America East this coming year.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
The problem was the underwhelming regular season that put them on the 8/9 line in the NCAAs.
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Are you suggesting we should have deliberately tanked the Cincy game to guarantee a 10 seed or worse?
 
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Will this be an XL Center game or be on campus at Gampel?
 
HawkHusky said:
Ask Rothstein.
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He needs something to do in the off-season.

Today, he tweeted that TCU will play Air Force. Earlier this week it was Virginia Tech-Lehigh and Kentucky-Eastern Kentucky.

I think he needs a certain number of tweets per day or something explodes, like Speed.
 
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