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Way Too Early Top 25 (2021-2022)

Get a Job said:
Ideal? You can't imagine a scenario that would be better than getting a 6-seed?
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not within the realm of reasonable expectations for next season. conservatively, i think we'll finish 3rd in a stronger BE and be a top 20-25 team all year. i'd rather be a 6 than a 5. not acceptable to you?
 
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bendm said:
not within the realm of reasonable expectations for next season. conservatively, i think we'll finish 3rd in a stronger BE and be a top 20-25 team all year. i'd rather be a 6 than a 5. not acceptable to you?
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Just quibbling about your use of "ideal." In my opinion, it would be ideal if we were the number one one overall seed. I'd also rather be a 2- or 3-seed. So, for me, a 6-seed would be far from ideal. I agree, though, that 6 is better than 4 or 5.
 
Get a Job said:
Just quibbling about your use of "ideal." In my opinion, it would be ideal if we were the number one one overall seed. I'd also rather be a 2- or 3-seed. So, for me, a 6-seed would be far from ideal. I agree, though, that 6 is better than 4 or 5.
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and water is wet. thanks for quibbling
 
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Big questions for UConn I think are who scores besides Sanogo?
Will Akok return from a terrible injury
Who plays in the back court.
 
Akok is a big question mark as far as I'm concerned - it seems to have been a suitable amount of time for him to be considered 100% so now it's time to give him that PT and let him perform. Does Polley start at the 3 with Akok playing some minutes there? Does AJ start at the 3 with Polley and Akok being the first 2 off the bench? I can't wai tto see how this shakes out.

The back court is a question mark as well - RJ and Gaff together? RJ and AJ together? I don't know what the right answer is. I think Gaff quietly had a splendid 2nd half last year. AJ gets the highlight and the RTs but Gaff settles the floor. Can he and RJ function together? To be determined.

Thankfully the frontcourt is set in stone with Whaley & Sanogo as the anchors.

Agree with the poster above - who scores??? Cole, Whaley, and Sanogo? If we want to be #2 in the Big East we're going to need someone else to break into that scoring column consistently outside of those 3.
 
Not a lot of love for the New Big East from Goodman. Villanova at 2 but they’d be at 2 if they played in the NESCAC. Then us at 22.
 
M.S.G. said:
Akok is a big question mark as far as I'm concerned - it seems to have been a suitable amount of time for him to be considered 100% so now it's time to give him that PT and let him perform. Does Polley start at the 3 with Akok playing some minutes there? Does AJ start at the 3 with Polley and Akok being the first 2 off the bench? I can't wai tto see how this shakes out.

The back court is a question mark as well - RJ and Gaff together? RJ and AJ together? I don't know what the right answer is. I think Gaff quietly had a splendid 2nd half last year. AJ gets the highlight and the RTs but Gaff settles the floor. Can he and RJ function together? To be determined.

Thankfully the frontcourt is set in stone with Whaley & Sanogo as the anchors.

Agree with the poster above - who scores??? Cole, Whaley, and Sanogo? If we want to be #2 in the Big East we're going to need someone else to break into that scoring column consistently outside of those 3.
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Agree with all of this but you can’t play Jackson at the 3. That is a position where you need points. Can’t play him at the 2 either. Same reason. And we desperately need scoring from the back court. I think Sanogo might be dominant inside. But in the current game you can’t really win built that way. You’ll find yourself falling behind by a point on every possession.
 
freescooter said:
Agree with all of this but you can’t play Jackson at the 3. That is a position where you need points. Can’t play him at the 2 either. Same reason.
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there isn't a position you want to punt points at. you can play aj at the 3 if you have 2 of polley/akok/whaley/johnson at the 4 and 5.

but akok is not a 3
 
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CashewCrew said:
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So this isn't the most important thing in the world but since there is one team all by itself given the 8x3 grid, if you were going to make one logo larger than the others, doesn't it make more sense to do that with #1 at the top than #25 at the bottom? Just saying.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
I love the Bonnies, but no way they are a better team than Auburn or Texas.
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it’s May. The free agency period isn’t even over yet. Louisville and Arizona are still trying to renegotiate contracts to get cap room. I bet you could get 100-1 that none of these will be the Top 25 come selection Sunday
 
Jbirdp5 said:
I think it’s ok to refer to it as the big East now you can drop the word new.....
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You are probably too young to remember the Big East. UConn-Syracuse. UConn-Pitt, those games shook the rafters wherever they were played. Multiple Final Four Teams in multiple years. One time back in the early years the Big East missed having all four by an overtime loss in the Elite Eight. Ended up with 3. And in the early 2000s 3 different Big East Teams won titles. 6 different teams went to the Final Four. Four times there were multiple teams from the Big East in the Final Four.

The current group is the New Coke of Basketball Leagues. Same name, same label, but the contents are not as good as the original. Hence I’ll call it the New Big East. I’m hoping it will eventually be put out of its misery as New Coke was. As long as we survive.
 
freescooter said:
You are probably too young to remember the Big East. UConn-Syracuse. UConn-Pitt, those games shook the rafters wherever they were played. Multiple Final Four Teams in multiple years. One time back in the early years the Big East missed having all four by an overtime loss in the Elite Eight. Ended up with 3. And in the early 2000s 3 different Big East Teams won titles. 6 different teams went to the Final Four. Four times there were multiple teams from the Big East in the Final Four.

The current group is the New Coke of Basketball Leagues. Same name, same label, but the contents are not as good as the original. Hence I’ll call it the New Big East. I’m hoping it will eventually be put out of its misery as New Coke was. As long as we survive.
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I love and miss those days as well. However we don’t need the distinction anymore, the league is the big East. We all know it’s different, but it’s not new anymore.
 
Jbirdp5 said:
I love and miss those days as well. However we don’t need the distinction anymore, the league is the big East. We all know it’s different, but it’s not new anymore.
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It's not worth answering. He's a lost cause who will yell at people to get off his lawn until he dies.
 
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I just love it when he calls it ZBE and not the same.

It’s only missing 2 original members (Cuse and BC). And of those two I would only want Cuse back. Teams added on later like Pitt, Louisville, WVU, and BC aren’t that good anymore. So really no loss.
 
gampelcrazies said:
I just love it when he calls it ZBE and not the same.

It’s only missing 2 original members (Cuse and BC). And of those two I would only want Cuse back. Teams added on later like Pitt, Louisville, WVU, and BC aren’t that good anymore. So really no loss.
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Okay Louisville and WVU are good though
 
BoukofJames said:
No one outside of esoteric corners of the internet calls it “New Big East”
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Well regardless of who calls it what, it is in fact a new conference. Whenever we win the Big East tournament, we'll get an auto bid to the NCAA tournament that was created for this conference, not the auto bid we got the other 7 times we won the Big East tournament.
 
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