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Is UConns top 5 vs UCLA top 5 as lopsided as Reddit makes it seem?

"UCLA wins 45 of 50"??

 
Onto UCLA. Keys to the Game: Turnovers, Rebounding, 3% shooting.

Turnovers: We kept ours under that magic number of 12 I described. Between that, and the huge rounding edge we had, we took almost 20 more shots than Furman. UCLA turned UCF over 17 times. We can't give up points in transition. Make UCLA play against our set defense. They struggled yesterday when their game was in the half court.

Rebounding: This is our big edge in the game. UCLA gave up 25 offensive rebounds to UCF, and were out rebounded 12. They were outrebounded by double digits against Purdue and Michigan St previously. We need to go to the glass and force them to deal with Tarris.

3% Shooting: Based on the night Reed had, and it being an area of weakness for UCLA, I expect Cronin to send double teams at him, as well as packing the paint. He is going to try and make Alex, Solo, and Mullins beat them.
 
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My only advice is guard the mouthbreather extra closely.
 
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Question for trivia/stats folks: has there ever been an NCAA tournament matchup featuring two teams with more combined titles? I guess it’s pretty simple.. has UCLA played Kentucky in the tourney recently?
 
mbt0512 said:
Question for trivia/stats folks: has there ever been an NCAA tournament matchup featuring two teams with more combined titles? I guess it’s pretty simple.. has UCLA played Kentucky in the tourney recently?
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‘75, ‘98 and ‘17 in the tournament.

Kentucky had 2 less in 98 and UCLA had 1 less in 75.
 
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IndyLives said:
Tomorrow will be payback for the 1995 E8 loss. It was a great game. Calhoun's team definitely had the talent to win a Title that year.
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One team had Tyus Edney, the other did not.
 
superjohn said:
Cronin is entertaining with his antics and it's been well documented here. He's also a really good coach who will gameplan to take Tarris out of the game. The other guys will simply need to make open shots for us to win.
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Am I crazy or should UCLA be doing what we did with Edey and just let Tarris feast while locking down the others? Solo and Braylon have no confidence right now, so in my mind you try to lock them down and make it hell for them. You don't want to risk getting them confident if they can hit a few open shots off Tarris double teams.
 
That Guy said:
Am I crazy or should UCLA be doing what we did with Edey and just let Tarris feast while locking down the others? Solo and Braylon have no confidence right now, so in my mind you try to lock them down and make it hell for them. You don't want to risk getting them confident if they can hit a few open shots off Tarris double teams.
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Their star big is questionable like Silas. They will really be hurting against Tarris if he is out.
 
That Guy said:
Am I crazy or should UCLA be doing what we did with Edey and just let Tarris feast while locking down the others? Solo and Braylon have no confidence right now, so in my mind you try to lock them down and make it hell for them. You don't want to risk getting them confident if they can hit a few open shots off Tarris double teams.
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Just my opinion here but no. The Purdue team actually did a fantastic job of scoring and hitting open shots when Edey was doubled. UConn won by not doubling. UConn right now is struggling from distance (non-Karaban) and so doubling might be a very good idea.

The other issue was that Purdue had zero off ball movement. They did some good high ball screens and had great passing off the post double but they had little to no off ball screening or cutting. UConn does.
 
IndyLives said:
Tomorrow will be payback for the 1995 E8 loss. It was a great game. Calhoun's team definitely had the talent to win a Title that year.
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I remember that game well. Toby Bailey went off and had the game of his college career.
 
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I remember that March 25, 1995 game well … I was at my own wedding reception! There was an extra room downstairs at the Coast Guard Academy Officer’s club full of UConn fans watching the game. Wife has been salty about us watching it for the past 30 years, but finally had a laugh this am.
 
UConn77 said:
I remember that game well. Toby Bailey went off and had the game of his college career.
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Ray was so good that game, I think he had 36 or something like that. But we gave up 102 points. Was a great game….
 
caw said:
Just my opinion here but no. The Purdue team actually did a fantastic job of scoring and hitting open shots when Edey was doubled. UConn won by not doubling. UConn right now is struggling from distance (non-Karaban) and so doubling might be a very good idea.

The other issue was that Purdue had zero off ball movement. They did some good high ball screens and had great passing off the post double but they had little to no off ball screening or cutting. UConn does.
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I think this will likely be their game plan. They can’t leave Karaban alone on the perimeter but if Solo’s or Mullins’ man moves to guard Reed the play is to kick to them and have them half drive for a mid range jumper. Basketball analytics would obviously disagree, but the two of them can’t hit the broad side of a barn from 3 right now but sink every mid range jumper.
 
Palatine said:
Our failure to get back on defense lost that game. The offense played well enough to win. But we gave up a thousand transition baskets
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Set aside Edney’s 10 assists, fouling out Ollie and going 10-10 from the FT line, said pace was dictated by Merrick through his floor general. Ultimately Edney was a little too small for the NBA, but damn was he great college PG.
 
3/22/90, 36 years ago today vs Clemson. The pass & the shot. I was at Brendan Byrne compliments of my cousin's UCLA student tickets. Lets hope for the same results today. UConn W, UCLA L!
 
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