UConn vs. Xavier through 30 minutes | The Boneyard

UConn vs. Xavier through 30 minutes

Matrim55

Matrim55

Joined
Feb 10, 2013
Messages
6,413
Reaction Score
62,102
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
 
Hurley has assembled an absolute force. Clingan looked fantastic and Tristen Newton simply gets it done. Hassan with some great moments including taking a charge, Castle a Man, 3s for the end of the bench guys. Countless great alums at the game including Emeka, as fine of a person as you will ever encounter. Fantastic day to be a UConn fan.
 
Matrim55 said:
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
Expand ...
Can’t agree more. Besides being the most lopsided BE win since 2006, I don’t ever remember UConn clearing the bench with over 12 minutes left against a team with the caliber of Xavier.
 
.-.
Matrim55 said:
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
Expand ...
The only ones that really pop out to me are UConn destroying #6 Oklahoma in 2004 and UConn destroying the Zags in the Elite 8 last year. In terms of just destroying a team from the opening tip in every facet of the game today takes the cake.

This team is ridiculously great when healthy, I don't know how you even gameplan for them. The Big East has the best coaches and I don't think they know what to do with us.
 
Matrim55 said:
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
Expand ...
It was sort of like that Virginia game in the 1993-1994 season where an unranked UConn team with Donyell, Doron, Ray went into 12 Virginia in late November and mauled them 77-36.

Except basically Xavier could not stop us. We could have had 120.
 
tzznandrew said:
It was sort of like that Virginia game in the 1993-1994 season where an unranked UConn team with Donyell, Doron, Ray went into 12 Virginia in late November and mauled them 77-36.

Except basically Xavier could not stop us. We could have had 120.
Expand ...
I guessed the score in the chat…..I guess my memory isn’t quite dead yet, that’s the score I remembered!
 
.-.
uconngb said:
I guessed the score in the chat…..I guess my memory isn’t quite dead yet, that’s the score I remembered!
Expand ...
I didn't remember the score, but I remember that game because it was among the first my dad let me watch with him when I was young. I just always think of it as a paradigmatic beat-down.

The OU game was mentioned above, which is another great example—and that OU team was ranked 6 when we did that. As was the UNC game two years before. But none of those games had quite the combination of suffocating defense and unstoppable offense against a Top 50ish team.
 
Matrim55 said:
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
Expand ...

It was almost surreal watching live. They had 7 points and my nephew and sister in law went to go to the bathroom and get pulled pork sandwiches. Not a lie, they came back to our seats bitching abut the lines and Xavier still had 7 points.
 
Matrim55 said:
42-point lead
31-48 (64.6%) FG
12-19 (63.2%) 3FG
23 assists to 8 turnovers
32-20 rebounding advantage
11 combined steals & blocks
12 turnovers forced
14-47 (29.8%) FG allowed
12 personal fouls committed

Xavier's a decent team -- 34th in Kempom.

I've been watching UConn basketball for 40 years. This is as dominant a 30 minutes as I can remember us ever having. Ever.
Expand ...
I was going to come on and say that I felt this was the most complete performance I’ve ever witnessed against a quality opponent.
 
tzznandrew said:
It was sort of like that Virginia game in the 1993-1994 season where an unranked UConn team with Donyell, Doron, Ray went into 12 Virginia in late November and mauled them 77-36.

Except basically Xavier could not stop us. We could have had 120.
Expand ...
That is the first game I immediately thought of while watching this game. The funny thing about that game is I was in college at the time and was on TV blackout because I was taping the game to watch when I got home at 11 PM. However, I went into a convenience store and heard the score, and I was depressed all the way home, thinking it was Virginia who had the giant lead. Then I started watching a game and realized UConn was firing on all cylinders that night.
 
Huskybass said:
Hurley has assembled an absolute force. Clingan looked fantastic and Tristen Newton simply gets it done. Hassan with some great moments including taking a charge, Castle a Man, 3s for the end of the bench guys. Countless great alums at the game including Emeka, as fine of a person as you will ever encounter. Fantastic day to be a UConn fan.
Expand ...
Quite a contrast from the yesterday’s sideshow in Providence.
 
.-.
superjohn said:
The only ones that really pop out to me are UConn destroying #6 Oklahoma in 2004 and UConn destroying the Zags in the Elite 8 last year. In terms of just destroying a team from the opening tip in every facet of the game today takes the cake.

This team is ridiculously great when healthy, I don't know how you even gameplan for them. The Big East has the best coaches and I don't think they know what to do with us.
Expand ...

Not same caliber of teams but Chattanooga in 09' first round of NCAA tournament
 
Didn't we get out to a 29-2 lead on DePaul last year?

Yes, I know, it's DePaul, and it wasn't the whole game, but still.
 
formerlurker said:
It was almost surreal watching live. They had 7 points and my nephew and sister in law went to go to the bathroom and get pulled pork sandwiches. Not a lie, they came back to our seats bitching abut the lines and Xavier still had 7 points.
Expand ...


IMG_9729.jpg



IMG_9730.jpg


That's a whole lot of clock time that doesn't include stoppages or TV timeouts. It felt like forever and XL crowd loved every minute.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Didn't we get out to a 29-2 lead on DePaul last year?

Yes, I know, it's DePaul, and it wasn't the whole game, but still.
Expand ...
Yes, they did. It was 51-19 at the half. But you're right, it was DePaul so it doesn't count as much.
 
.-.
SilentDog said:
Spencer and Karaban two of our best offensive players don’t score in double digits and we still score 99. How do you game plan for that type of flexibility?
Expand ...
This is the scary part and just how unselfish we are. Can took like 4 shots all game. Not even sure he took a 3. Had like 4 dimes and 5 boards . Our best shooters didn’t even shoot any sort of volume. Anywhere. That’s another 30pts left off the board. What do you do??
 
Here’s what I think makes this team invincible in March/April:
Castle plays better and better every time he takes the court, yet it feels like he isn’t anywhere near his ceiling as a college player. How good will he be, say, after his team has gone on a deep run and probably won the Big East Tournament at MSG?!
 
This may have been the first game this year with a fully healthy, no minute restriction game UConn has played this year.

The team is an offensive juggernaut with a great playbook. Only way the offense can be better is if Newton gets his 3PT% up to 35-37% from 32% and Castle shows he is at least 33% from three. Castle is actually pretty close in BE play at 5/18.

Defensively with Clingan and Castle in the lineup fully healthy, that has to be terrifying for other teams.

I wouldn't want to be other teams knowing that today may only be the start of UConn's growth as a full team this season.
 
What I love about this team is they almost always make the extra pass, which is a throwback in a way to the 90's and 2000's time
 
.-.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,619
Messages
4,585,983
Members
10,497
Latest member
Orlando Fos


Top Bottom