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Jaydumo20 said:
The best part about stew and ross, and the reason the staff loves them so much- they are very talented- top program- players and great kids. With the increasing minutes sure to come we will start to get closer to their ceiling. Love those 2 dudes
We win #7 on their backs
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They are both low ceiling guys I'm afraid. At this point, getting D and a little offense each game is all I can hope for. Hurley blamed himself for Stewarts recent regression, not instilling confidence in him during his struggles. I agree they are great kids.
 
Siv said:
Winning percentage against next highest seed
after we beat them we lose that tiebreaker
Our loss is Creighton their’s is Providence
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The caveat here is that assuming the favorites win (a big assumption) Providence and Creighton are tied so we would both be 3-1 against that group
 
Blown away by the W. Expected a one or two point victory-But not that display. Boards/Bench/Defense did the job. Willard and Nova media are gonna say they didn't hit their three pointers. Why? UConn D was in their grill.

Hurley saying they need to win out the rest of their games was genius. Let's start stacking wins heading into BET.

Bench guys woke up and delivered. Ross is gaining confidence at crunch time. Huge W.BTW-Nova is a Tournament team.
 
Hurley and staff are going to have to figure out a way to alleviate some of the pressure on Silas. We simply can't have another game against St. John's from him where he's turning it over like crazy.
 
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Umami Zen said:
Blown away by the W. Expected a one or two point victory-But not that display. Boards/Bench/Defense did the job. Willard and Nova media are gonna say they didn't hit their three pointers. Why? UConn D was in their grill.

Hurley saying they need to win out the rest of their games was genius. Let's start stacking wins heading into BET.

Bench guys woke up and delivered. Ross is gaining confidence at crunch time. Huge W
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Yeah this wasn't a game where they missed a bunch of open threes. Our perimeter defense was excellent and forced end of shot clock low % shots. The caveat here is the last three minutes showed we are still a ways away on the penetration side of things. We can't pretend that it's solved just because Villanova missed/didn't execute the scout.
 
22 points from the bench. Last time we got over 20 points from the bench was when we beat Creighton by 27.

If the bench gives us 15 pts consistently, we will be a F4 team.
 
Donyell 360 said:
They are both low ceiling guys I'm afraid. At this point, getting D and a little offense each game is all I can hope for. Hurley blamed himself for Stewarts recent regression, not instilling confidence in him during his struggles. I agree they are great kids.
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I couldnt disagree more. Jayden Ross especially has like 50% more upside than we've seen. He will be the guy that gets put on any team's best scoring wing and he should be. He flustered so many 3 pt shots tonite that slowed the game down and allowed us to build the lead. When he is out there we go on runs. What other player was +16 tonight?
Plus, he is a 40% 3 pt shooter.
The staff has been crowing about his massive upside for a long time. Its mental with him. Its impossible to deny his physical gifts.
 
I think that we can look back at the game where Hurley had to bring the starters back in because the bench was surrendering a huge lead as the moment he and the bench players lost confidence. It seems that he realized that he needs those guys. Reibe has been getting more minutes and has resembled the guy that played so well when tarris was hurt. Ross and Stewart have to be more aggressive on offense tonight Stewart was. Smith still drives me crazy with the over dribbling when guys are cutting and open though, he did make a couple of hustle plays tonight and was a nice relief valve when nova pressed and we needed a second guy to bring the ball up.

I believe that tonight was the first time since the first creighton game that the starters have gone to the bench and the lead was maintained or increased by the second unit.
 
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bendm said:
Wouldn’t we both get a share of the regular season title? I thought the tiebreakers were for BET seeding. Could swear we’ve shared a regular season title before.
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Yeah tiebreakers are just for seeding
 
Gutter King said:
Yeah this wasn't a game where they missed a bunch of open threes. Our perimeter defense was excellent and forced end of shot clock low % shots. The caveat here is the last three minutes showed we are still a ways away on the penetration side of things. We can't pretend that it's solved just because Villanova missed/didn't execute the scout.
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Progress. Haven't played D with intention/purpose/help D in awhile. Agree with you. Our perimeter D was excellent. St J throws a different spin at us. But we have to protect our home court(s) vs St J and SH. That time of year.
 
Also really liked the play we got from the Silas, Malachi, Mullins, AK and Reibe line.

Having two ball handlers and only one of Mullins/Solo helps out our offesnive spacing ironically. Think Hurley is going to stagger Mullins and Solo a lot more moving forward.
 
HailUConn said:
this is probably the most complete game in the sense that everyone contributed.

We are solid at 5 with the big chicken next year!
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If he learns to recover faster, what difference with Reed. Three straights rolls to the basket for an easy layup after Reibe came in. That’s a concern.
 
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No way AK would miss this game...after losing by 2 last year at nova when he missed 2 free throws with 3 seconds to go...

1/18/22 66-67 @ Seton Hall
12/1/23 65-69 @ Kansas
12/20/24 60-75 @ Seton Hall
1/8/25 66-68 @ Villanova
2/15/25 68-69 @ Seton Hall

12/2/25 61-56 @ Kansas
1/13/26 69-64 @ Seton Hall
2/21/26 73-63 @ Villanova
 

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superjohn said:
Hurley and staff are going to have to figure out a way to alleviate some of the pressure on Silas. We simply can't have another game against St. John's from him where he's turning it over like crazy.
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I agree. There were times where Ball and Mullins helped him. I wish we would attack when breaking pressure. We are so determined to run our sets we miss out on easier baskets.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
I couldnt disagree more. Jayden Ross especially has like 50% more upside than we've seen. He will be the guy that gets put on any team's best scoring wing and he should be. He flustered so many 3 pt shots tonite that slowed the game down and allowed us to build the lead. When he is out there we go on runs. What other player was +16 tonight?
Plus, he is a 40% 3 pt shooter.
The staff has been crowing about his massive upside for a long time. Its mental with him. Its impossible to deny his physical gifts.
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Ross definitely has potential to be a 3&D guy, maybe like AJAX, but not a star. He has no handle. He can't dribble by anyone.
 
Foul trouble plagued Mullins. Might have been a bit of a blessing though. Allowed Ross and stewart to get more run.
 
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